by JBaymore » Sat Aug 22, 2009 8:51 pm
olderndirt,
Hum...............
My thoughts....which are not coming from a PC hardware guy at all..... are that while fs9 does not truly support multicore, if you are running a lot of other stuff in the background that you can move to the second coere, that might speed up the sim which you keep on the first core.
If that is true (I am still using a PC with hyperthreading only) then I'd be looking for maybe the fastest clocked dual core you can find... since the sim will only be using a single core of the pair. Likely going quad core will not buy you anything much unless you are running a lot of other stuff too (like for a simpit).
You'll get your best and most accurate advice on this subject down in the "Hardware" section of the SimV forums... so I am going to move this down there. Hopefully someone like NickN will see it and comment.
best,
................john

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