I know... kind of a weird title but hear me out.
I've been building PCs for about 16 years. My PCs are a combination of work, Gaming (Sim Racing and Sim Flying and HTPC/Media Servers). My last Simulator PC was built back in 2007/2008. Its an Asus P6T6 WS Revolution Mobo with an Intel i7 990X CPU overclocked to around 4.1ghtz. Seems to work great but its struggling to run DCS with my EVGA 2080ti and Pimax 8Kx VR Headset. It's been 12 years so I figure I've gotten my money's worth so it's time for an upgrade. I'm collecting the parts for my first custom open water-cooled PC. Is going to run an i9 10900K hopefully overclocked to 5.1. (Silicon Lottery tested it this CPU and says it can run stable at 5.1 on ten cores)
Here is the question.
The base clock for the 10900K is 3.7. Let's say that I overclocked it to 4.1. That would be the same speed that my current 990X is running. If I ran it at that speed and used the same GPU and same 24gig of memory would I see a performance difference and if so why? Is it because the new CPU is able to perform a higher volume of calculations even though those calculations are being run at the same speed?
I'm a big fan of being able to re-use older stuff and not just buying the latest new thing unless you really have to. I'm trying to demonstrate that to my boys with their PC builds too. So we are curious as to what the reality is behind the marketing and the specifications.
I've been building PCs for about 16 years. My PCs are a combination of work, Gaming (Sim Racing and Sim Flying and HTPC/Media Servers). My last Simulator PC was built back in 2007/2008. Its an Asus P6T6 WS Revolution Mobo with an Intel i7 990X CPU overclocked to around 4.1ghtz. Seems to work great but its struggling to run DCS with my EVGA 2080ti and Pimax 8Kx VR Headset. It's been 12 years so I figure I've gotten my money's worth so it's time for an upgrade. I'm collecting the parts for my first custom open water-cooled PC. Is going to run an i9 10900K hopefully overclocked to 5.1. (Silicon Lottery tested it this CPU and says it can run stable at 5.1 on ten cores)
Here is the question.
The base clock for the 10900K is 3.7. Let's say that I overclocked it to 4.1. That would be the same speed that my current 990X is running. If I ran it at that speed and used the same GPU and same 24gig of memory would I see a performance difference and if so why? Is it because the new CPU is able to perform a higher volume of calculations even though those calculations are being run at the same speed?
I'm a big fan of being able to re-use older stuff and not just buying the latest new thing unless you really have to. I'm trying to demonstrate that to my boys with their PC builds too. So we are curious as to what the reality is behind the marketing and the specifications.