I am finally planning out my gaming rig.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Tchocky

For most gamers the i7 is simply not something they will ever use. Video-editing, rendering, that kind of stuff is where you want the multi-threading and so on.

It might squeeze out a little, a tiny little bit, more from a sim like FSX that after so many incarnations still did not benefit from GPUs (somtimes I think it were idiots working at Microsoft, that sometimes they have done the same mistakes in the franchise again and again and again and again), but I doubt it is worth the additional cost. With "Prepar3d" it might be better, but I have no solid information to what degree Lockheed Martian have optimised the old FSX code for real multi-CPUs. In principle the sim's potential and performance should go right through the ceiling when it could use 4 cores for sure.

But from own experience I must say that an i5 is really enough to run FSX with PMDGs and voluminous clouds from weather addons and with complex airport sceneries. It works, plain and simple.