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The link below is an article that absolutely spells it out for system memory, how its interaction with your system and games (FSX..etc) is enacted, and where games are headed...64 Bit. I have read a few documents and articles on this subject, but THIS ONE....can bring anybody up to full speed on why V.A.S. is handled the way it is...and exactly, and truly HOW MUCH is really allocated for FSX and its other 32 bit ilk. It really spells out what we are up against, and WHY...when using FSX, tweaking FSX, and adding a gazillion 3rd party files to enhance it. Again...I recommend this as an FSX user 'must read'! The article has 6 pages, and I hope you don't gloss over any …

Hey, I'm buying a new computer and I am looking at this: CPU: i7 3770 / 3.4GHZ Motherboard: Gigabyte z77-ud3 Graphics card: VGA Nvidia GT650/1Gb Memory: 16GB / 1333 DDRIII HDD: 1TB SATAII power supply: raidmax 700W full Windows 7/64bit Will this run PMDG 737Ngx and pay ware scenery at over 20fps? New to forums so not sure where to post this sorry, any tips are welcome, because I am to the best at computers Thanks

So here's my PC build - it's pretty expensive but I last bought a PC in 2005 and because of its limitations I'm still flying with FS9, so it's time for a change. This is to get the best performance money can (within reason!) buy for FSX and keep me going for the next 8 years! Case COOLERMASTER SILEO 500 QUIET MID TOWER CASE Overclocked CPU Overclocked Intel® Six Core i7-3970X (3.5GHz @ max 4.8GHz) Motherboard ASUS® P9X79 LE: INTEL® SOCKET LG2011 Memory (RAM) 16GB KINGSTON HYPERX BEAST QUAD-DDR3 2400MHz X.M.P (4 x 4GB KIT) Graphics Card 6GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX TITAN - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready Memory - 1st Hard Disk 480GB INTEL® 520 SERIES SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (up…

I just downloaded it from the EVGA site. Has anybody else tried this yet? Suppose to give a 6 percent boost for games listed other (of course...) than FSX. Just a F.Y.I.

Finally....a flight sim that won't see an artificial RAM usage barrier, like FSX! I can't wait....crank up those settings...and no more CTD because of a shortage of 'usable' memory....can't wait! Bring it on, Baby, bring it on.........time for a change..... I don't want my flight sim 'stable' to be a one horse affair...lol! GTX 680, i7-975 cpu, and 12 GB system memory is going to give me a rockin' ole time... MItch'er

Greetings all, I'm very early in the process, but I'm thinking of buying a new PC. The last few I've purchased have been directly from the well known PC companies. I've heard about independent companies who put PCs together for you. Any suggestions as to which of these companies are the best? I'm in the USA, so I would guess it's better to buy from a US-based company. Also, I'm looking for something that will run FSX with a decent to good frame rate. My add-ons are the PMDG planes (NGX, MD11, and eventually the 777). I also use Active Sky for weather. What type of components would you recommend? I'm looking for something that won't break the bank (low $1000s, if …

Fresh out of Intel Developer Forum 2013 (Beijing), we have some good info about Haswell's overclockability via Anandtech. Some highlights: Looks like BClk overclocking is back, and memory frequencies are going to scale up to 2933 from the factory (more with BClk overclocking). Voltage regulators being on the CPU package mean overclockers now only need to adjust 2 voltages when overclocking, logic and DRAM. Should simplify things quite a bit! Max overclocking headroom without using BClk is 8GHz. Yes, 8GHz. Of course this doesn't mean anyone who isn't using LN2 or similar will ever hit that, but maybe there's more headroom for those of us that still use "traditiona…

I have just upgraded my PC by installing (well, actually my son-in-law did it) a new mobo (Asus P8Z77-VLX) with an i7 3770k and 4GB of DDR3 RAM. I have 3 x HDDs, 2 @ 250GB and 1 @ 1TB. As I was going from a 4 year old Gigabyte board with an Intel Q9650 we didn't think Windows would boot up and sure enough it didn't. I wanted Windows to install on one of the 250GB drives, intending to put FSX on the other 250GB drive leaving the 1TB drive for all my data and flightsim downloads and other files. Without Windows 7 being available we couldn't see which of the 250 drives had previously had the Win 7 install. So we took a chance and selected HDD 0 and disconnected …

Have been reading a bit about this,mam running an old i5 3470 Intel not over locked, and 8G of DDR3 ram. Could anybody please tell me what the correct affinity mask setting will be for running the sim? Thanks in advance

BSOD daily with and without fsx running. message Fatal hardware error xxxstop: 000000124 (0x0000000000000000) 0XFFFFFA8008D6F028, 0X00000000BE2000000, X0000000000005110A) I have run check error for all disks and multiple virus scans and internal MEM check was okay 2ssd"s and one 3TB with FSX by itself on one of the SSd's the last blue screen occurred when I ran the internal Driver check, I forget what command it was now but it restarted the PC and it went into a non bootable blue screen but I was able to restore to an earlier time using safe mode so that kind of leads me to believe it could be a driver issue? system 560ti 2500 sandy bridge O/C…

Hello all, I have an i7-975 Extreme CPU. This morning, in re-reading Word Not Allowed's set-up guide, from his blog site, I revisited the issue of running FSX with the CPU set up with HyperThreading enabled within the BIOS, or not. After about 20 different saved flights and situations within FSX, I have (for myself at least) concluded that FSX gives you faster and more consistent FPS's when in HyperThreading mode, than not. In fact, for my system, a more sustained FPS of around 7 FPS, than when HyperThreading is turned off!!! Yes, I used in Job Scheduler, within my FSX.cfg, a setting of 14 for non HyperThreading, and a setting of 84 when having HyperThread…

Hey, me again. I know I7's are probably the best for fsx, but specifically, which model is the best? Let the debate begin. Thanks!

Hello all fellow simmers, First of all, let me say im a newbie in the forums, im no expert what comes to hardware but have some knowledge to tweek fsx etc. Recently I had to format my hard-drives of my current PC and re-install everything from scratch. This has taken a week or so, (and its not completed yet) as I have other things to do than sit in front of my PC 24/7. Now when I have installed FSX and tweeked the cfg etc - im feeling something needs to be done in order to boost my frames a bit. Because of this idea, I thought, maybe Ill give a try at the forums, maybe someone can point me into the right direction. My ultimate plan was to just update some parts of…

Hello Further to my last post, I went ahead and got the 3570k and the Corsair H55 cooler. Last night I overclocked it to 4.5ghz and successfully tested it for stability, no problems it passed the stress test. But when I open up FSX and load up the PMDG 747 at somewhere like Dubai with 100% AI, it is wonderfully smooth at 30fps, no smoothness issues whatsoever but then a few minutes later it always crashes to desktop, and I'm not really sure why. I wondered if it was because I don't have enough RAM, but at 8GB I doubt its not enough RAM. Specs here if they help i5-3570k Oc'd @ 4.5gHZ Corsair Hydro H55 CPU cooler 8GB of DDR3 @ 1333mHZ Intel 330 series 120GB ssd …

Hi every one, The AVSIM hardware guide says that a power supply unit of 850W is a minimum. However, recently power supply units have gone through a price hike. So I want to know if a 650W power supply unit would work fine. Proposed specs are: i7 3770K [email protected] GTX 660 ASRock Z77 Extreme 4 2TB HDD 16GB Ram Thank you Zicheng

Hello, Before we get started, no, I am not planning to run FS on a laptop. I am looking for something for home and business use. Home will be the typical tasks. For work, I do need to use MS Access and ArcGIS desktop. I won't be doing heavy work in Arc but I do need to fire it up from time to time when in front of a client or working from home. The main problem I am having is trying to decide on a processor. I don't have a lot of money to spend - I'm thinking about $1,000. For FS, you need a quad core, oc'd - basically the best you can afford. With laptops the quad core rigs that are small (<15") are very expensive if you want something close to 3GHz. So…

I'm starting to do some research to OC my computer. Specs are in my signature I'm not wanting to do anything too extreme; maybe make my way up to 4.0- 4.4. I'm not the most tech saavy, so the guides that I've been reading seem to be a little overwhelming. I found this one, which has my exact specs and is very easy to follow: http://forum.computerlounge.co.nz/yaf_postst5398_ASUS-P8Z77-V---Pro---Deluxe---Overclocking-Guide-For-Ivy-Bridge.aspx But, this guide doesn't really suggest other programs i should use to monitor temps. I found this guide from one of the threads that is going on right now: http://www.overclock.net/t/910467/the-ultimate-sandy-bridg…

I have an old GTX275 and would like know if upgrade to a GTX660 would make any difference. I have a core i2500K OC to 4.3 ghz. I have just a few add ons including Ultimate Traffic and REX. I do not want to spend ~ $300 and find an increase of only a few FPS. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Hey So after reading Word Not Allowed's hardware and software tweaking guide and applying those, I'm still getting under 5 frames per second on the ground at OMDB with FlyTampas addon, PMDGs 747 and UT2. It now seems my only other option is to upgrade my CPU, as I am aware that FSX is a heavily CPU reliant game. So my main questions are, would it be worth upgrading my stock i5-2500 to a factory unlocked i5 with the intention of overclocking to about 4.6ghz, and which i5 is best? I do not really want to spend the extra money on an i7, as I don't use any programs that need hyperthreading and don't usually have a lot of things open. Right now I was looking at a 3570k, wh…

I have a new install of Windows 8 on an SSD, where I have created a partition on the drive for the OS. I also have a second partition of the SSD that I am using for FSX. I started out with creating equal partitions of 60GB, but now realize that I will be needing more capacity in the FSX partition. I realize I can reduce the size of the partition that the OS resides on (I would use Disk Manager in the OS to do this). But if I also want to increase the FSX partition to use the space freed up by the reduction in the OS partition, how does that work? Would I need to format the newly increased FSX partition- as I assume that would blow away my FSX files that I have alr…

Over the past few weeks / months I have gone dark on the idea of building a new computer, mainly due to being too busy. I have re-awoken the idea and now have decided on my system. I am posting the specs here to see what you guys think, If it can be improved in anyway and so forth... - Case: BitFenix Colossus Full Tower - Power Supply: Corsair GS 600w PSU - CPU: Intel Core i5 3570K 3.40GHz @ 4.40GHz Ivybridge CPU - Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-V LX2 Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - Cooler: Corsair H60 Water Cooler CPU Cooler - RAM: 8GB DDR3 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit - Hard Drive: 500GB HDD - Graphics Card: KFA2 GeForce GTX 660 2048MB GDDR5 - Sound: Realtek 7.…

Hi all, since all of us in this great forum flight FSX and in some point we want to run it on the best specs and with the most realistic add-ons, I will like you to share your experience and your advices on if it´s better to build an own system and overclock it or to buy a ready-one, if you belong to the second choice please include your advice or experience buying systems from the todays most important gaming pc builders: USA: CYBERPOWER, DIGITAL STORMS, AVA DIRECT, IRONSIDE, JETLINE SYSTEMS, ORIGIN UK: WIRED2FIRED, CHILLBLAST. The bold ones are FSX specialist builders. Share your advices!!! Thanks

http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/31064-haswell-e-supports-ddr4 Haswell-E has support for DDR4 & up to 12 or 16 cores.

Hi All, I have been at 4.5ghz for well over a year now, I have a MSI GD55, I52500K ( H100 cooler )and a EVGA 660Ti plus a couple of SSD and 1 HD. system run fine with out any issue, I am using 1.35 volts and temp when running intel burn test max at 77c and when running FSx are at around 55. As I have started to add REX + some Orbx software I would like to try and get near 4.7 or 4.8ghz, I have taken volts up to 1.410 ( I know this is high FSX temp around 69 ) and system will boot at 4.8 and runs fsx ( crashed once out of 5 flight ) but it wont pass the intel burn test, I don't want to go any high than 1.410 with the volts so maybe this is my chips limt.? …

I'm experiencing very bad sound stutters & puses when flying in FSX & other sims like FC2 etc. They last for 1-3 sec & are very severe when landing & you hear the RA call-outs 30, 20, 10....makes smooth landings impossible, but they also are present at altitude. They are worst when flying an heavy addon like PMDG NGX w Fs2crew & Coolsky DC-9. The thing is when I press Q & mute the sound the stutters are gone & everything is smooth. It started 3 weeks ago since then I have done: -an complete computer system reinstall with fresh FSX install. -updated all drivers, added newest Realtek HD Audio driver from their's site. -tried different Nvida …