Classic British Flight Sim

Just thought I'd share my recent experiences after upgrading my RAM from 4Gb at 800Mhz to 4Gb at 1066Mhz. In general I noticed no improvement in framerates. I do though see quite a significant improvement in the speed of texture rendering - this has had a beneficial affect on photo scenery such as VFR Gen-X and Tileproxy. All in all I think that the investment was worth it. I now have 4Gb of Geil RAM going cheap!

The new RAM is the OCZ 1600Mhz stuff in 2 x 2Gb sticks and on sale at Overclockers at a reduced rate (at least it was). I think though that barring a new processor and a newer graphics card (not going to happen this year!) that pretty much brings to an end any further signficant hardware improvements I can make to my system.

Regards,
Chris

What motherboard are you using? I take it you adjusted the FSB speed to take advantage of your new RAM?

Hi Chris,

I've got a Gigabyte P35-DS3L board. Yes I did with respect to FSB - RAM is running at 1080Mhz with the CPU running at 3.24Ghz. The Gigabyte board, although slated as a budget board when it came out has good overclocking facilities and allows automatic tweeking of the RAM timings so that I've got latency timings of 5-5-5-15; without this setting the RAM was defaulting to 6-7-7-18. Previousely with the 800Mhz RAM I was able to get the CPU running at 3.24Ghz and the RAM running at 900Mhz.

I've been doing quite a bit of reading on overclocking recently and it is far from simple - increasing speed in one area often leads to reduced performance elsewhere unless further measures are taken to create an ideal balance.

Regards,
Chris