What exactly goes into a sim reading again

[:1]I ask because in a few games i noticed someone with an old i5 beating my 4.8 ghz i7 2600k sandy. Does it have anything to do with FPS and graphics card as well as just CPU cycles? Otherwise i have no idea how thats possible.|||ARMYguy|||sim is supposed to utilize separate thread, so GPU should not affect it.
only cpu and memory.
i have 3 years old phenom and never noticed any simspeed drops.
was not monitoring though, so i guess i can only say it never drops below +1
with that rig it should be running 100% smooth. unless you're talking about FA|||I've found the graphics card makes a huge difference.
My home rig is an i7 920, 6GB RAM, Radeon 5850.
It rarely drops in sim speed except on those 4v4 1000 unit cap games.
My GF's pc is a Dual Core E5400? Something like 2.6hz, with 2GB RAM.
The game was unplayable using the onboard graphics.
It was barely more than a slideshow with an old GeForce.
Throw in a radeon 5770 and its playable.
With a borrowed GeForce260 it was quite good.

32bit applications (windows xp) rarely use more than 1GB ram.
Shut down any background process/programs.

I built an i5 system for my teenager. Many games don't seem to utilise the full hyper-threading capabilities of the i7. His higher clock speed i5 with Geforce260 scores higher than my i7. Especially with an SSD drives too.|||thats because onboard chipsets sucks. It doesnt matter for sim, thats all CPU. But, you do need a REASONABLE card to play the game - prehistorical cards arent accepted.|||The "old i5" made me laugh.
That is all, carry on.|||Well Supcom 2 is not very multi threaded, so having many background programs active , should not effekt the simspeed with A Core I7 cpu...
But the problem is Overclocking does not effekt the Simspeed, this is very weird, I Have testet it my self, so that may be your problem, that ur cpu speed maybe 2,6 Ghz and the I5 player is maybe 3,2 or 3,3 ghz. (stock speed)|||FSNSUPCOM|||-Axiom-|||ARMYguy|||I any case how do onboard chipsets actually compare to separate gpus. Would 6 month old integrated graphics be better than a 5 year old graphics card for example?|||-Axiom-|||AngryMacrophage|||AngryMacrophage|||I still havent had to overlock my Q6600 2.4Ghz Quad core. Hell, that thing has been worth my money. Im not even using its maximum potential, and its worked flawlessly for years. My Ati 4850 HD isnt too shabby either.
Tried this game on a friends laptop with a reasonable dual core, but the on board chipset made anything apart from assassins creed impossible to play. Thats because assassins creed apparently supported that chipset. I dont know if supcom 2 supports any on board chipsets, but Im gonna guess it doesnt. Which makes most on board cards useless.|||Nephylim|||Yeah the 3 gb SATAs are fubarred on my Asus p8p67 board, and also my Intel 6gb are as well. Luckily Asus put a Marvell controller for 6gb as well, so im not completely screwed while i wait for my free board to be shipped out. Chip itself is awesome for the price though.|||My Q6600 is still going strong on my off rig.|||The performance boost from my OCed QX6700 was insane, you may think its doin fine til you pop one of these in your rig....