Benchmark

840: It’s not yet time to Upgrade

| Tom Tsui

In the last few months, I’ve been repeatedly wondering if I should upgrade my computer, although the 3-years-old Intel 8-core 11th generation i9-11900K CPU, together with the nVidia RTX3080Ti graphics card and 64GB memory, does give me a stable and satisfying MSFS performance (from 40 something to 70 something fps) in general.

Instead of pondering out of nothing, I recalled the UserBenchmark utility I referenced before.  The followings are the results I got in the past weekend: Continue reading →

416: Find the Pits in Your System

| Tom Tsui

Are you sure you have your system set up properly?   I thought I did until two days ago I found out that my 2133 MHz memory actually had been running at standard 1333 MHz for over a year.
Obviously I somehow missed the configuration the last time when I upgraded the system BIOS.  And too bad I didn’t aware of it at all.

The problem was spotted by a free utility Continue reading →