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Thx a lot again buddy this helped immensely I definitely plan to go for Z87 or atleast a better H87 chipset to get all the new bells and whistles, I am now on ancient AMD770 chipset so I need a good new base with new technology, I also still lurk around the web stores to check i5 deals but I also had a situation at job today(ofcourse the sh*t hits the fan when I plan a new rig lol) so if I take a pay cut it will be PentiumG country but I also found a great deal for 2x4GB DDR3 at 2400MHz that should give about 30GB/s data transfer to the system which might help this new texture-heavy games... It's good to see the lil' PentiumG will be able to be to serve atleast as interim solution if things turn like that so with a good base I can always go for an upgrade later, Intel announced some nice new goodies last week...even unlocked pentiumG's...

I can't thank you enough buddy

Well il2 is not multi-threaded so we can skip that one especially since you don't have it installed although it has pre-recorded tracks making testing easier, LOMAC also had such missions, one would just let it play and observe the fps I don't know if FC has those tracks too? SF2 is going to be a pain because it does not have built-in tools so that will take me some thinking on how to do it, FPS in cockpit is most important IMO

Well if you are really willing to mess with all that it would be absolutely awsome!

Well not so sure the difference can be that bad, check this review: http://www.legitreviews.com/intel-pentium-g3220-processor-review_137016/6 ...and that's the 3220, I plan to go for 3420 which is even a bit faster, on the games they tested the difference was in 0,X% region. But they didn't test SF2 or DCS or IL2 that's why I'm asking you guys because I was wondering if somebody is perhaps running SF2 on such CPU...

Well I've been looking at some choices lately trying to find some better offers, technically I can afford an I5 but I wonder if it's worth 3-4 times the price of PentiumG, considering I don't do anything professionally on my PC, the highest performance demands come from games, so if I5 will give me 5% better framerate I have to ask myself if 5% more fps is worth 3-4 times the price... CPU market is in trouble because INTEL is just too much above the competition so they keep their prices up knowing they can get away with it in the start and when you add to that a gazzilion of taxes they throw at us here in Europe you get to the price point where you are asking the very same questions I ask myself now when buying...

MirageF1 is very heavy, that's why it looks so awsome, could be lack of memory or something that causes the crash because all the textures are 4096x4096 plus Bump maps and damage textures...

Yup those guys are pretty much following my thoughts, I don't know about i3, I can afford it, I could even afford some "lower-grade" I5 but with prices here I wonder if it's worth it...

Happy birthday man, hope you had a good one

I'm bumping this thread because I need some info, what I need to decide is what is better for this game (and IL2, DCS etc.) between two solutions: a) PentiumG 3420 (3,2GHz) s1150 Good points - really cool chip, single core performance goes beyond high end Athlons, it's powerful and extremely power efficient, on top of that it's cheap, very cheap, sub 100$ here Bad points - it's only dual core and no HT either, no OC b) FX-6xxx or Athlon X4 750 Good points - simply more cores, better multi-threading performance, OC possibility Bad points - more expensive, heat management, power demand, more cores but each core is much weaker than Intel cores Ofcourse I'd like I5 or I7 but prices of those here are laughable for example I5 4670k is over 300$ here and since I saw the same CPU on US sites for as low as 190$ I consider 300$ to be a freakin robbery without a gun...heck they even sell the 3570K for about 300$ Here's the link for our US buddies that are perhaps interested: http://www.microcenter.com/product/413251/Core_i5_4670K_34GHz_Socket_LGA_1150_Boxed_Processor Although I'm sure you guys can find it easily and perhaps even better offers... Arrhgh I'm babbling again, the point is this question: Are CPU's with more weaker cores better than CPU's with less but significantly stronger cores for sims, SF2 dominately? Oh and the card it will power is GTX660, non TI, non OC model

32 and so black the light can barely escape

Guys I think SF2 simply favors nVidia cards, I was in the same situation back in 2008 when I got the 2nd best Radeon (it was 4850 back then) on the market but people with mid range nVidia cards were killing my shiny Radeon completely, not in the other games(mostly) but SF2 was almost no competition. It would help if people with nVidia cards would share their experience and post their rigs so we can compare stuff and determine if my suspicions are true... With prices and general performance of the two brands going neck to neck, I think that would be VERY useful for future upgrade planing for all SF2 players on CA...

Good luck man!

So much destruction, deaths and chaos...and for what? Hindsight is a nasty thing, who will remember Kiev in 10 years and ask objectively - what was it for? How are they doing now? We shall see...

The gay "issue" is manufactured....but anyway I was always more of a summer type...

Hmm I hope they have a solid fence around that field, not sure how the the intakes would take a free kick

Well the thing with the tilemap import/export work is that TE can not do it properly on maps that are bigger than standard. I messed around with it today and got it skewed all the time too, then it occurred to me that this map is much bigger than standard maps are...

I'll be able to provide some help now over the weekend

Hmm all this is pretty darn interesting...

I'll just say that IL2 1946 is still for sale: http://store.steampowered.com/app/15320/

Truth be told I'd love if all target objects had their folders like aircraft and ground objects...

Hmmm are you sure IL-10 had the NS-37 variant like IL-2 Type 3M?

Haha interesting but true :))))

Not quite sure about that, the GSh-30 on the Su-25 can also fire DU AP rounds, so while it most certainly is not as effective as GAU-8 which was practically designed for that exact purpose I wouldn't bet it can harm the tanks like the A-10...