[simpits-tech] FSX computer recomendations?

Mon Apr 26 13:44:03 PDT 2010

I thought you had dual I7 920's in that rig Bill?

BTW. Without a 64 bit operating system you are only using about half of your RAM at best. You know that eh?

R

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: William Segal 
  To: Simulator Cockpit Builder's List 
  Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 2:42 PM
  Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] FSX computer recomendations?

  let me give you some thoughts :and notes 
  My system built 8 months ago 
  I started with a HAF 132 chasis because it has 3 210mm fans and is very cool (quiet,clean)running  $150

  A gold  1100 watt power supply  $279( here we have ENERGY STAR) which means very efficient electric system this PSI can run at 1470 MAX all day(overhead)

  A classified mother board the first out  $500(this was over the top but I wanted the best) .It has never missed a beat usually first time out has issue this has none

  6 gigs corsair dominator GT  2000 speed ram  $350 then 

  i7 2.66 with the overclocking pin now stock, 4.0gigs easily possible $255 

  Dual Evga  285 OC with 2 gigs each total 4 gigs SLI 2.0 bridged both for $1000

  I have had raptors before I don't like them if I wanted to go crazy I would
  go to SCSI 15,000 RPM drives with a Promise caching controller W/256 megs of cache 

  I went with a Seagate Barracuda III 1.5 gigs from Fry's $120 

  A friend put it together for $100

  It runs a tripleheadtogo to run 3 -24inch  LCD monitors at 1680 X1050 converts 3 monitors into 1 big one  5040X1050

  This has not had a gulp or a crash it sometimes runs 15 hours a day perfect. X-Plane is still 32 bit should it go to 64 bit 
  then I have total of 10 gigs .

  I live in Southern California we have high temps and it rarely get below 40F at night daytime ave is 63F year around but
   summers are always 75-85-95-105F still this baby runs like a clock

  Total price total price about $3000  these figures include shipping because California 10% sales tax most item were bought in
   NY city or New Jersey except the power supply and MOBO were bought direct from EVGA .

  note: of all the card suppliers EVGA was the best not only a live person tech support. We needed to know exactly how much
  the video cards drew in power full out. Nvidia won't talk,ATI would not talk AMD the same but a VP at Evga would and told me
  exactly in watts what each card drew maximum. This private information which we got and nobody else would talk about it . 
  That is how I got a 20amp system to run at 20 amps exactly and never have a giitch.

  I found out the, top end at that time, the 295 extreme with prox 1700MEGS although no one ever expressed a maximum 
  requirement  for power we found out 1 card needed 550 watts to run flat out . This new 480 and AMD you need to know
  for sure that information before you buy a power supply unless you buy a 2000 watt PSI or run only 1 card .

  The biggest issue on computers today is under powered PSI 

  After all most a year since we started planning for this system I have to say its been a wonderful experience 

  one last thought

  4 years ago I wanted to build the hottest gamer you could get .Nobody had ever even heard the words SLI no one built
  a Mobo to run more than one. I did 

  The hottest video cards on the planet were Geforce 7800GTX 512megs each the only mobo that would run 2 at once was

  was a SuperMicro a server board .Server boards can be from 13inch X 13 inches to 2 feet X 2feet 

  They need a special case 

  With 2 gigs of ram and Supermicro 750watt server board I ran flight simulator with every feature to the limit at 60FPS over Manhattan

  at control height but it ran hot,Dirty and sounded like a jet engine . I got fed up with it and gave it to Rick Davis Shelburne Nova Scotia 

  because its cold up there and I figured it would run better . I had to break my piggy bank on that one and beg mummy for some more

   money.

  Regards

  William Segal 

  sorry for bad writting I am not college boy 

  On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Sander van der Moolen <sander at vpilot.net> wrote:

    Is FSX CPU dependant like FS9 (and previous) is? Or is it “leaning” more on the GPU?

    Justin, I think if you had upgraded the CPU and/or RAM you would have seen a much greater improvement in framerate.

    I’m going to upgrade my system at the start of the summer and have picked an AMD/ATI combo. I’ve already got a 550W PSU, case and HDD’s.

    AMD Phenom II X4 955 B.E.

    GeIL GV34GB1333C7DC 4GB DDR3 (2x2)

    Gigabyte GA-770TA-UD3 mainboard

    Sapphire Vapor-X HD5770 1GB

    Scythe Katana 3 CPU cooler (may change though)

    Sony AD-7240S cd/dvd burner because the “old” one is beginning to show problems.

    Total price around € 500 which is just under maximum W.A.F.

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    Van: simpits-tech-bounces at simpits.org [mailto:simpits-tech-bounces at simpits.org] Namens Justin Messenger
    Verzonden: woensdag 7 april 2010 19:01
    Aan: Simpits Tech
    Onderwerp: [simpits-tech] FSX computer recomendations?

          At the Jetline website the only computer they have that is shown to run FSX at max settings costs $5.000.00 http://www.jetlinesystems.com/products.html

          I dont seem to be very good at building gaming machines, Such as when I was shocked when my new  $600.00 8800 Ultra video card did little to improve my frame rate in FS9.

          justin

          >It would be worth checking for any FSX specific benchmark testing of
          >each video card setup. I have done some pretty basic testing of nvidia
          >vs ATI, but not very scientific... it would be worth the research time.
          >Our results were quite "interesting", with the results we saw not
          >matching the published benchmark results. In 3d Mark they came out
          >pretty much as published, but in flightsim it was a whole different
          >matter.

          >
          >Just my 2c

          >

          >SeanG (who would love either of those machines.....)

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