[simpits-tech] FSX computer recomendations?

Mon Apr 26 20:37:40 PDT 2010

yea but I flew over Manhattan at the control altitude with all the bells and
whistles mostly at 60FPS in McNeill's T182RT Cessna very happy with the
results
no matter what anyone says Bridged SLI  With dual cards 2 gigs each will
last until the rumored tripleheadtogo runs at 1600X1200 32bit or better
hoping for
Mac;s Cinema 30 inch monitors 2500x1600 WoW!

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Rick Davis <rd at ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:

>  I thought you had dual I7 920's in that rig Bill?
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> BTW. Without a 64 bit operating system you are only using about half of
> your RAM at best. You know that eh?
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> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* William Segal <catalina299 at gmail.com>
> *To:* Simulator Cockpit Builder's List <simpits-tech at simpits.org>
> *Sent:* Monday, April 26, 2010 2:42 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [simpits-tech] FSX computer recomendations?
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> 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
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> 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)
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> 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
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> 6 gigs corsair dominator GT  2000 speed ram  $350 then
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> i7 2.66 with the overclocking pin now stock, 4.0gigs easily possible $255
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> Dual Evga  285 OC with 2 gigs each total 4 gigs SLI 2.0 bridged both for
> $1000
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> 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
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> I went with a Seagate Barracuda III 1.5 gigs from Fry's $120
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> A friend put it together for $100
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> It runs a tripleheadtogo to run 3 -24inch  LCD monitors at 1680 X1050
> converts 3 monitors into 1 big one  5040X1050
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> 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 .
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> 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
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> 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 .
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> 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.
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> 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 .
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> The biggest issue on computers today is under powered PSI
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> After all most a year since we started planning for this system I have to
> say its been a wonderful experience
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> one last thought
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> 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
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> The hottest video cards on the planet were Geforce 7800GTX 512megs each the
> only mobo that would run 2 at once was
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> was a SuperMicro a server board .Server boards can be from 13inch X 13
> inches to 2 feet X 2feet
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> They need a special case
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> With 2 gigs of ram and Supermicro 750watt server board I ran flight
> simulator with every feature to the limit at 60FPS over Manhattan
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> 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
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> 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.
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> Regards
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> William Segal
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> sorry for bad writting I am not college boy
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> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Sander van der Moolen <sander at vpilot.net>wrote:
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>>  Is FSX CPU dependant like FS9 (and previous) is? Or is it “leaning” more
>> on the GPU?
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>> Justin, I think if you had upgraded the CPU and/or RAM you would have seen
>> a much greater improvement in framerate.
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>> 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.
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>> AMD Phenom II X4 955 B.E.
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>> GeIL GV34GB1333C7DC 4GB DDR3 (2x2)
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>> Gigabyte GA-770TA-UD3 mainboard
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>> Sapphire Vapor-X HD5770 1GB
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>> 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?
>>
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>> 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
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>> 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.
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>> justin
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>> >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.
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>> >Just my 2c
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>> >SeanG (who would love either of those machines.....)
>>
>>  <http://www.phantomsim.org/>
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