32 hours no sleep, wanted to have it up before the weekend 
The video I wanted to make for weeks.
8700K OC to 5Ghz, GTX1080Ti at 2042 and DDR4 at 3800@CL15.
Now I only need my damn RTX to arrive lol
Pure benchmarks, playability, recommended settings and results. Scripted. No bullshit
Hope you will find it interesting.
Have a lovely weekend all, I need to get some sleep now lol
its good to know that this is doable. but im also never going to overclock my system into space so it really does not apply to me.
@SweViver Great informative review. IMHO This is pure example how sims should be presented in VR on Pimaxes 
Good find with Nvidia settings btw. Also I have to point out that Kuban map is munch more demanding for our GPU/CPUās. On this DLC I have like 15~20 fps less fps than at BoS or an BoM maps in my Vive.
But in rewards that map gives you mountain terrain with a lots of water areas and amazing visuals. You will not be disappointed if you buy it. Cheers !
@SweViver Great analysis Martin! Really lets people know what to expect with similar HW. Even if they donāt OC as much as you do their results might still be similar since they wonāt be simultaneously recording. Iām a race sim fan so I hope you can do a similar vid for our genre. Iād love to see rF2 (with your 1080ti) but understand most simmers arenāt running that one (though itās arguably the best! 
). It is, I think, the most graphically demanding, though PC2 might be right up there with it in that regard.
But heyā¦ thanks for work!
Be interesting to see changing the general visual settings from Balanced to High or Ultra but keeping the other settings you had the same.
On monitor there is little difference for me. Also, this sim is CPU limited and singe threaded. With AI flying about especially with multi engined aircraft, the CPU thread can be hammered as the AI uses the same flight model as us pilots.
The career is a lot of fun. Also, on the deck will have your frames drop 20fps as you noticed.
Iām planning on running it at a equivalent screen res of 1080p on the 8K as I know my machine will not cope with 1440p As long as I can make stuff out with gauges and other aircraft and ground targets, Iām happy. For me it will be having 1 to 1 scale in flight with a decent FOV with 3D that will do it for me over a huge pretty picture. For now.
Hey thanks so much for the new video.
What surprises me is the low gpu usage (rarely over 70%, never 80+%) even if the fps fall below 80 or 90fps.
In simulators sometimes the GPU has to wait for the CPU
Just as an example of CPU performance gain with i7 8700K (+ Kraken X62) measured with Cinebench R15.038. Even with conservative OC, average cpu quality and below maxed out settings the improvement is noticeable.
i7 8700K standard: 1437 cb
i7 8700K OC 5GHz: 1629cb + 13.36%
Delid and OC 5.1GHz: 1685 cb + 17.25%
Neither of those overclocks is particularly unusual for that hardware, it is literally a case of changing 2 settings and its done.
Over the last few years both motherboard and GPU have taken most of the guess work out of overclocking.
Sure if you want to get competetive you can spend hours tweaking every little setting to get that final few percent, but going from 4.3ghz to 5ghz on an 8700K is a massive improvement but also very very simple.
@SweViver One more thing, even if you mark 4k textures but no copy 4k textures from moders than you will not see postive changes becouse il 2 use 2k skins of planes, roads, trees and buildings. Find some skins and copy them to IL 2 folder. Also you need to set different graphics preset in game, āultraā I guess to lock high res textures in game.
hmm. iām in a situation where my gaming machine is also my work machine/source of income as a sole trader so iām very phobic of overclocking anything. Iām not sure i would ever overclock anything but also not sure how overprotective i am being. have a 4790k with a decent cooler but have never overclocked haha. never overclocked a gpu either. vision of things exploding or bursting into flames
GPUās are a complete no brainer, you absolutely canāt damage a GPU with the very limited amount of overclocking they allow. If you did something really really stupid with a CPU it is possible to damage it, but again if you read one of the manufacturer guides (e.g. Asus usually do a pretty good CPU OC guide) it is very difficult to cause damage to a CPU, even just setting the all cores turbo to the same as single core turbo you should be able to do without messing with any voltages at all.
You can wait for i9-9900K, this one is expected to āoverclockā itself automatically up to 5GHz.
This just in First Core i7-9700K āreviewā hits web , best new feature appears to be soldered lid, so should run a lot cooler when overclcocked comapred to 8700K
Mate it really so simple and safe. Been doing it for years and Iām a clown. If I can do it anyone can
i just ordered a 2080 and i think it is factory overclocked a bit, but iām pretty sure from what others have said i will be cpu bound ,so not sure there would be any point fooling with it further .
a cpu limit on an 8700k @ 5ghz even in situations without AI on the map? never
Thanks Piotr, Im happy to hear that oh I see, interesting. I will definitely buy Kuban and the other DLC but may wait for a sale. Too much expenses lately. Just purchased another VR sim lolā¦
Thanks man
Yeah recording really is taxing the frame rate. I even turned down bitrate (a bit too much i think as it got blocky many times) and used low profile but still around 5-6fps less. And Im not even recording the green screen chroma. Thatās handled externally by the camera, so only game is recorded to PC.
rF2 will be covered as well
Cheers
Thanks again for the informative review. I hope you could catch up on sleep
I havenāt found a scene in any of your reviews where the gpu load would have exceeded 78%. There seems to be a limit on pimax side. How do you see this?