Old intel cpu + bms
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Hi. So I have an old intel cpu. 6 generation i7 at 4.0 speed. Is that good enough to play bms at 4K? With nvidia 1080
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@m1tp2king probably fine. take it apart, blow the dust away, apply fresh thermal paste (cpu and gpu – that stuff sometimes dries out after 5 years or so)
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I run a i5 4670K 3.4Ghz, 1070Strix OC, 16gb ram, SSD, 24" 60Hz monitor and “face track” AITrack+OpenTrack with max resolution and graphics. Not a problem.
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is this in sig old enough?
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@Arty Until about a ago, Core I7 920 @ 2.86Gz + Msi Gtx 670. Struggled a bit
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@DaveB yea it should… cough cough…
we said ok to have old HW and as we see BMS is doing a great job to keep our pockets as we want them on that aspect…
But at some point ok… I can’t ask to be able to play BMS on my ZXSpectrum+…
Flight Sims unfortunately need the best you can buy and a bit more… so some things at some point are not enough…
I hope some guys and Mb manufactures will assist on this ReBAR (Resizable BAR) thing that is kinda existing but not available that boosts old VGA’s to a degree that an urgent upgrade on edge cases is not needed…
But for now the way things are on it and from what I read I don’t have the energy and time to go through this pain…this one: https://github.com/xCuri0/ReBarUEFI
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@Arty wow that is crazy … maybe I don’t understand what ResizeBAR is or does … I’m shocked anyone would go to such lengths for it
what will become increasingly problematic for old CPUs is drift in the x64 instruction set … it seems like we’ve recently entered an age where people at MS (and others) aren’t testing on >10 year old PCs.
Intel 4th gen (Haswell) was when AVX2 support was added. I forget which AMD chip added it, but was also near 10 years ago.
https://www.reddit.com/r/WindowsHelp/comments/1abvlpm/calculator_and_photos_app_broken_in_win10/
it’s way too easy to click a button to compile for AVX2… then if nobody on the test team complains… end up breaking a few million PCs
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@Arty said in Old intel cpu + bms:
Flight Sims unfortunately need the best you can buy and a bit more… so some things at some point are not enough…
Not really. If you are happy to play at 1080p, an old CPU and a 1080 would be well up to the task especially for BMS. If you expect 4K 120Hz no-FPS-below-100, then you have to be willing and able to pay to get that performance.
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interesting. I seem to be in the same boat with a lot of other people.
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@Atlas well im not on 4K but in my case the 1080Ti and the 2600K CPU drive those 2.304.000 pixels pretty good.
which personally I find it beet than one 4K… but that;'djust me