Turning off 2,370X cores can improve performance in Microsoft Flight Simulator.
Turning off 2,370X cores can improve performance in Microsoft Flight Simulator.
The idea you're considering is valid. Disabling two cores could indeed improve MSFS performance by allowing more consistent boost usage and potentially reaching higher clock speeds with Auto OC. There should be a setting in the BIOS for "cores per CCX," which you can adjust to around 3+3 if needed.
Unless someone else has already attempted it, you can give it a try and verify for yourself. I’d also experiment with an alternative approach. Keep the system on 8 cores, but disable SMT. The extra threads provide only modest gains compared to two real cores, and even then they’re significant only if your workload is sufficiently thread-intensive. Generally, most games won’t fit that profile (though a few might).