I5 8600K or i7 8700K?

Actually, overclocking has little to do with it. Both chips have nearly identical single core performance. The advantages of the i7 has much more to do with the availability of more threads which, while of little value to DCS, has advantages since DCS is not the only thing the PC is doing at any given time.

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Really? Doing what?

Not sure whats doing but I'm seeing alot of activity. I tested My new 2700X recently and at times it goes to 44% usage in DCS. That's the equivalent of 7 cores maxed out and a partial 8th.

Unless you love tinkering I would strongly advise to get the i7 8700K.

 

This might be my personal opinion but overclocking these days has become completely superfluous. With an i7 and a GTX 1070 (or higher) you get a nearly maintenance free system - just add a good industry PSU (Seasonic or Super Flower) and simple efficient cooling (a couple of large fans that dont cost a lot, eg Skythe). Chances are your system will run for a couple years without you even opening the side panel.

 

Whereas with the i5 it's more like people love to tinker and to think they are super smart. You spend 100$ less on a 2nd rate CPU then spend endless time and money to crank it up on 5.0Ghz which is probably not sustainable and causes a ton of crashes.

 

Or in other words, the overclocking path is also possible but you might be entering a world of pain, just to be able to say that you spent 100$ less on the CPU, which no one else gives 1 shit about.

 

So be smart, get the 8700K right away and spend your energy on other things than overclocking.

Got mine running 5Ghz immediately and it has never crashed. Although it did at 5.3Ghz great gains for no effort. Just my opinion :)

cichlidfan,

it really does use up to six cores in a nice fashion.

it is true...and when i see my cpu at 60%, which happened a lot last night on BF, my fps drop to 45-55 for those 3 secs...gpu remained at 98%.

I was playing around with process lasso and didn't really notice much of a difference locking DCS to 3 main cores only? Haven't done any comparisons or anything, only a quick flight while changing settings.

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I'm not sure how much cores DCS is using. They gradually update/reprogram the software for using separate threads. How far can they go? How many cores do we need (today) to run DCS properly?

But we can read by many friends, when they monitor the game that it need more cores that what a single-thread program normally use. And threads can rapidly jump from one core to another, so it can falsify the reading of a low rate monitoring software.

Don't forget, it's still a single thread program base. So, overclocking the CPU is still profitable. The software is always under developement, stay tune. More cores and high speed are better than Hyper-Threading Tech, high speed is as good as more cores. A 6 cores (min) high speed CPU is suitable for today's shopping.

* shopping LoL

Amazon Power Shopping !! only 6cores or more allowed in Amazon's SpeedSHop

Love the new system I built last month! Don't regret getting the 8700K one bit.

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I take profit of this topic to ask if there is something to do with autoexec.cfg to optimize 6-core under DCS ?

Thanks a lot

Unless you love tinkering I would strongly advise to get the i7 8700K.

 

This might be my personal opinion but overclocking these days has become completely superfluous. With an i7 and a GTX 1070 (or higher) you get a nearly maintenance free system - just add a good industry PSU (Seasonic or Super Flower) and simple efficient cooling (a couple of large fans that dont cost a lot, eg Skythe). Chances are your system will run for a couple years without you even opening the side panel.

 

Whereas with the i5 it's more like people love to tinker and to think they are super smart. You spend 100$ less on a 2nd rate CPU then spend endless time and money to crank it up on 5.0Ghz which is probably not sustainable and causes a ton of crashes.

 

Or in other words, the overclocking path is also possible but you might be entering a world of pain, just to be able to say that you spent 100$ less on the CPU, which no one else gives 1 shit about.

 

So be smart, get the 8700K right away and spend your energy on other things than overclocking.

Sounds like you don't know much about overclocking or how to do it properly then :)