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Currently I have an i5 2500k overclocked to 4.8, along with an asus p8p67 le motherboard, 8 gb of ram & a gtx670. Considering jumping onto Haswell with an i7 4770k and an asus sabertooth motherboard to go with it. Would I see much difference/ be worth it? Thanks in advance. Ryan Taylor

Currently I have an i5 2500k overclocked to 4.8, along with an asus p8p67 le motherboard, 8 gb of ram & a gtx670. Considering jumping onto Haswell with an i7 4770k and an asus sabertooth motherboard to go with it. Would I see much difference/ be worth it? Thanks in advance. Ryan Taylor

I've been running FSX off a 500G Barracuda 7200rpm. I have Win7 on a dedicated 60G SSD. Last night, I purchased a 250G SSD for FSX only (will probably install FS9 also). I wanted to wait until the prices drop some more but I was fed up with FSX loading times and having to defrag after each add on, so I decided to buy one. Load times is much better than I expected. After clicking the FSX shortcut icon, it's up and running in 4 seconds! Loading a flight is so much faster too. And not having to defrag ever again is a big plus and will save me a lot of time while I re-install all my add ons. But I also got a very unexpected surprise. I got what seems like a …

Hey all, I have a quick question. I'm going to upgrade my system and a friend of mine came with a suggestion. I could keep my current i7 920 and OC it to 3.5-4 GHz, or buy the i5 4670k and OC it. The GPU will be a Nvidia GTX 770. Which one would be better for FSX (and the upcoming PMDG 777 with high detail airport sceneries) Please tell me what you would do, and why. Thanks! Greetings.

I am looking at a 780 for my PC. I'm sure it will help for most modern games, but what about FSX? Think there is any difference?

Word Not Allowed have made this very good article. I finally understood the VAS problem. http://#####.wordpress.com/fsx-oom-and-addon-vas-usage/ It would be so nice if the were a big cooperation in the community by developers and Microsoft to break the 4 GB VAS seal. :p0310: Now FTX Global is the :Love: fantastic lift for FSX. With to Individual textures... what a creativity we are going to see. But the OOM :t0103: London VFR, UK2000 Heathrow and a big plane that is :p0128: for me impossible. I will try minimise everything but it sure would be nice if the seal could be broken. Jens Michlas CPH Denmark

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/snowdude/saved/27CX Total: $1452.90 My first time building a PC, I have experience with PC's over 10 years as an advanced user but I've never actually put one together from scratch. I live overseas, in Hong Kong. Are there any recommended PC parts suppliers that ship internationally? Comments/ input/suggestions on component choices most welcome. I will be using the PC for Flight Simulator X, running on max settings (1920x1080) with add-ons. I plan on overclocking the CPU to 4.2Ghz+, is the case and cooler good enough? Finally, should I change the thermal paste on the CPU to Coollaboratory? Is there anyplace th…

Hey guys, need a little bit of help here as I have been out of the game for quite sometime now with computers. My current build is currently 5 years old and is running a E8500 Intel Core Duo with 4GB of Ram and a Nvidia 9800 GTX+. The reason I want to upgrade is that newer games can't keep up on this PC and also because I like to flightsim every now and then. I'm looking at a 1500$ budget for my new computer and something that will last me for the next 4 to 5 years as this one did. I have an old creative audigity sound card as well because I have a nice set of Logitech 5.1 speakers so would you suggest I get a new sound card or is onboard sound improved? Also do you …

I just OC'd my box recently and Saturday I was testing it out. I know I did a no no and used stock cooler, but I had another 120 mm fan sitting on top to help push more air. It was only doing 83C with FSX running. The room temperature was 78 to 79F. I put a box fan (24") in front of it to help. Yesterday, I started getting BSOD with page fault in non paged area along with something like 0xc 000050 after doing this tweak http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/58637-improving-fsx-via-windows. It occurs during load of FSX where it gets to about 50% or 270 meg RAM in use. I ran the msched and it came back with no errors. I'm thinking tonight I will try more opti…

Hello After doing some website work, I am keen on buying myself a new/upgraded pc. Any thoughts on the specs below? Intel Core i7 4770K - 3.50GHz Quad Core, Socket 1150, 8MB L3, DMI Bus, 22nm, x64, Intel HT, Intel VT, Intel HD Graphics 4600 @ 350MHz, 3 Year Warranty GIGABYTE G1 Sniper B5: B85 Express Chipset: Socket LGA1150, 2.5GT/s DMI, Supports 4th Generation Core i5, Core i7 LGA 1150 Processors Only Corsair Special Edition Series 600T Silver Mid-Tower Chassis - 4x 5.25" & 6x 3.5"/2.5", Includes 2x 200mm fans with white LEDs, 1x 120mm fan, No PSU GIGABYTE nVidia GeForce GTX760 OC - 2048MB GDDR5, 256-Bit Memory Bus, PCI Express 3.0 Corsair Gamer Series GS600…

Can someone explain the difference between the cpu speeds. For example, the Core i7 4770k vs FX 9370. Intel 4 cores @ 3.5ghz and AMD 8 cores @ 4.4ghz. Looking at a comparison I found on google, I saw the i7 clock speed faster than AMD. How can that be with AMD @ 4.4ghz? Is it marketing or the way the processor's made? Little confusing, since I've never bought AMD before. Also, does flightsim utilize each core (1 or 2 depending on fs9/fsx) at that clock speed? Thanks.

I'm trying to put together a system for fs9 and fsx. I have got some good advice from some people here on were to start. However, building a rig myself for the first time seems overwhelming and confusing. I have been doing alot of research and seem to be getting lost and frustrated. Here is what I'm considering. COOLER MASTER HAF X RC-942-KKN1 Black Steel/ Plastic ATX Full Tower Computer Case 3.4GHz LGA 1150 84W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics BX80646I54670KCOOLER MASTER HAF X RC-942-KKN1 Black Steel/ Plastic ATX Full Tower Computer Case ASUS DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS Black SATA 24X DVD Burner - Bulk - OEM COOLER MASTER R4-MFJR-07FK-R1 200mm MegaFlow 200 Silent F…

good day everyone I have a question I have a laptop and could I run pmdg777 and 747x on in also Ryan Maziarz could you weigh in I know you must be extremely busy. DV6-6C51CA windows 7 premium 64 PROCESSOR INTEL CORE I5-2450M TURBO BOOST TECHNOLGY 2.5 GHZ 4 GB DDR3( SUPPORTS UP TO 16 DDR3) INTERNAL DRIVE 750GB SATA 5400 (RPM) HARD DRIVE 750GB SATA 5400(RPM) GRAPHICS AMD RADEON HD 7690M (1 GB GDDR5 DEDICATED) Michael R Carangelo

I am currently playing FSX on a late 2011 15" Macbook Pro, its a Quad Core i7 2635QM running at 2.2Ghz. Unfortunately it only has an integrated GPU namely the ATI 6750m 512MB. FSX runs reasonably well especially with the default aircraft, having the sliders on medium can give me a solid 30fps. However introducing a payware aircraft (Airbus X Extended), and REX will slow it down to an unplayable slideshow (which is to be expected). I have an old PC that I am thinking about upgrading, new CPU, MB, RAM & PSU. I have a Geforce GTX 460 1GB Graphics card that I am hoping to re-use and I'm thinking about coupling it together with an i5 3570K, New MB and 8GB RAM. Uti…

Saving some pennies for my habit and need some good advise. I can't afford (or can't wait) to change both my CPU (which will mean my Mobo as well) and my GPU, so when looking at my present specs, where would my money be better spent: Go with a new 4770k c/w new Mobo and stay with my 1.5g GTX 580 sc, or go with a new 3g. GTX 780 sc and stay with my 2600k? Thanks,

I built my own computer and upgraded the majority of the parts about 6 months ago. I am using an Intel i5 3570k CPU with Zalman CNPS11X Extreme CPU cooler. I don't know a lot about overclocking but is it recommended for FSX? I am running the majority of North America scenery addons, NGX, etc. I get great FPS now but figured overclocking might up things a bit. Any advice and recommended guides? Thanks for the help.

Hi all, I'm currently in the difficult situation of creating a new rig to run FSX smooth again. This all against a regular price.. Now I have 2 systems in mind, but the trouble is that I'm not really into all the pro and cons anymore, so I would like to have some tips / suggestions on this one. System 1 (price €669 / $887,76) CPU: Intel Core i5 4670 (quad-core, 4th generation Haswell) socket 1150, 4x 3.4GHz, 8MB CPU Cache Level 3 RAM: 16GB DDR3 1600 Transcend HDD: 1000GB SATA3 GPU: NVIDIA GTX650 1GB DDR5 Mobo: Gigabyte GA-B85M-HD3 System 2 (price €655 / $869,18) CPU: Intel Core i7 3770 processor 3th generation, 4x 3.4 GHZ RAM: 8GB DDR3 1333 HDD: …

Hi Team, I need assistance. My C Drive is running low, so i want FSX to take all addons from my External 2 TB HD and FSX Installation to be in the C drive. Please help. Thanks and Regards,

Hello, First and formost, I love flight simulation and FSX. I consider it my favorite hobby and even 7 years after this old software came out its still enjoyable today as it was in 2006! I also consider this post to be a cry for help in bettering my sim quality! I appreciate everyone who wants to help and gladly apreciate it if you do. If your a negative person with a poor attitude and plan on giving non-productive advice than do me a favor and please quit reading this and continue what you were doing before you stumbled upon this topic! If you can relate or have had similar issues I would love to hear about those as well! Sorry for the length of this thread but i felt i…

Suffering slowdowns and various calamitous goings on? Before you start blaming the latest scenery/aircraft/add-on take a look at the embarrassing ramblings of silly old sod! THIS IS THE THREAD This is the salutory bit: :blush:

Hi all in the forum I had a USB headset, which I was able to configure so that plane sounds came from the speakers and Vatsim controller communication was via the headset. These have just died on me, and need to replace them. Does anyone know if the same configuration will work using a wireless headset. Thanks in advance of any replies John Calleja (Armchair pilot)

Hi, My gaming rig is now going to need to share my business computer as the biz computer went south. I know I can install another hard drive and do a dual boot but that requires another win 7 license but maybe this will end up that way. I just don't have the money right now for a new biz computer, at least the one I need to have. It is not that I do not have the room for all of the biz applications that I use, it is the services and stuff that runs on boot that I do not need to deal with when I load up the flight sim. So is there some product that can allow me to auto run the services required for the boot that I need.? This approach is somewhat of a dual boot but re…

Hello, im looking into upgrading my hardware, and while id like to think I know a lot about computers the choice of processors never fails to baffle me. Right now I have 2 processors in mind. - AMD FX-4350 4.20 GHz Quad-Core AM3+ CPU 4MB L3 Cache & Turbo Core Technology - Intel® Core™ i7-3820 Quad Core 3.60 GHz 10MB Intel Smart Cache LGA2011 The AMD looks better with the with the 4.2 GHz, but I know that a higher clock speed doesn't always mean better performance. The AMD is cheaper, but I don't want to sacrifice performance for it if the intel would be better. So which processor would be best for running Fsx? Other specs: 16 GB of Ram Nvidia 660 …

Hey guys, I'm ready to buy a new computer and got some suggestions here on what to look for. My budget is around $1000.00. Never built a computer before, so still deciding if I should do it myself or purchase a built one. Was looking at this computer http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/system/Gamer_Xtreme_1000_SE with win7. Don't know about the liquid cool. All in all, this is kind of the setup I'm looking for. Another member here listed some parts from Newegg as follows: GIGABYTE GV-N760OC-2GD GeForce GTX 760 2GB - $259.99 CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX650 650W - $89.99 G.SKILL Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) - $76.99 ASRock Z87 Extreme…

Hi all looking for a bit of advice before I try any of this currently I have an i7 2700k oc to 4.7ghz but I have never played around with the voltages. I've just been reading a thread about a safe vcore for that cpu is 1.45v currently mine is set at 1.152v so I have plenty of room to go up , but I was wondering if I increase the vcore do I have to change the +12v +5v and +3.3v settings as well currently I have these set at 12.096v 5.0v and 3.328v I have no real idea what these do so advice would be a great help Ideally I would like to increase my oc to 4.9 but not sure on changing the voltages any help would be great Thanks