Moose wrote: ↑29 May 2017, 01:30
It's shameful to say, but as far as overclocking or what my rig is capable of... I have no clue. I'm fairly fresh in the PC realm. Should I look into getting that done?
Now that I look it up it looks like it's a laptop CPU? I didn't realize you were flying on a laptop. That's pretty awesome.
Often laptops aren't great overclocking candidates even if they do have the ability to do so, but I'm seeing a lot of stuff that that processor in particular is pretty good for it. They make a 4.0 GHz overclock sound like a breeze, but I'd look up what people were able to do with your exact laptop before I'd recommend trying it out yourself. If the cooling isn't up to speed you could run in to thermal issues or if the power supply doesn't have extra juice on tap that could be a problem, but it seems the chip itself is good and stable.
And if we were talking something besides DCS I'd probably just leave it be, but DCS is pretty CPU heavy and the lazy Russian coding means it likes single threads at high clock speeds. The Turbo clock of 3.6 GHz isn't terrible, but if you could get to 4.0 GHz or just beyond it could be worthwhile.