Wonder if somebody already tested this?
My laptop’s I7-10750 can clock at 5ghz, but only on single core. but with all 6, it can only go to 4.3ghz
I wonder, if I find a way to disable some cores, if I would get better performance with fewer active cores that are clocked higher
I think you can disable some cores in msconfig, but I never tried this.
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I’m no expert, but in general using my probably misguided understanding, I’d say no.
Kinda depends if you are main-thread limited or not. If the primary thread is limited, reducing cores to speed it up might help the main thread, but you may be adding to the things that core needs to do by eliminating the other cores, so do you really gain anything?
Sounds like a trade off to me, if it can process faster, but has more things to process, do you gain anything?
Watch your per core readout in task manager while running MSFS and see what if anything is maxing out. Also use the dev mode tool to see if you are main-thread or GPU limited.
My Ryzen 7 3700X has a base clock speed of only 3.6GHz 4.4 max. It runs MSFS comfortably but also has 8 cores. But seeing as the main thread is comfortable, that’s what keeps things moving.
In general, if you have a good CPU, the GPU being the limiting factor usually means that no matter what you won’t max out the CPU as long as it’s able to deliver more than the GPU can process. You want more CPU than the GPU needs, but once you go over that limit, you aren’t going to gain anything further.
Edit: Just realized with Intel you might have integrated graphics. Which throws a whole different set of considerations into the mix. Firstly being, you probably have a pretty beefy CPU, but can it serve as both CPU and GPU at an acceptable performance?
Looking at some specs on that processor, that 5.0GHz looks like a boost speed. No matter what you do I doubt it will sustain that speed very long, probably in the order of seconds.
A laptop processor, with integrated graphics, just won’t have the cooling necessary to sustain that speed, it’s more for getting a task out of the way quick before it heats up. That is why the base speeds are so much lower. If it ran as fast as it’s capable of sustained, it would burn itself up in a matter of minutes.
Im mostly limited by main thread.
My laptop has a rtx2070
AFAIK MSFS can utilize up to 6 cores so I wouldn’t disable any cores on your CPU.
Figured as much after seeing multiple Benchmarks.
Bought a new pair of 3000mhz ram that should arrive this week. Hope it’ll help