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http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-i7-3960x-x79-performance,3026.html Too bad there's no overclock in the review

tryin to squeeze some more juice in my 2600k......using Fatal1ty P67 Mobo. Right now, i'm [email protected] fixed voltage....but it seems my idle temp hovers at 40-45. how do you determine which offset to use to make use of the speed step so that my vcore wont always be at 1.40 and with much lower idle temps? just trial and error?

HiCan anyone tell me whether the Corsair HX 650w will suffice with this system ?Asus P8P67i5 2500kGeforce GTX 560 tiCaviar black 750Gskill Ripjaws 4gb 1600 DDR3CPU cooler Arctic freezer 13DVD R/WWindows 7 64 bit Unsure about overclocking the CPU yet, waiting to see if fsx works great as standard using its boost facility. Also I am looking for a decent case, something like the Antec 900 with 2 fans but would like one with aside viewing panel to see all my lovely components. Don't have a fortune to spend but any advice much appreciated. Paul

I ran Memtest the other day and everything was normal. I have noticed I'm running slighly slower RAM then some people on here. 10600 - CAS 9-9-9-24. I assume that still good?

FS Community. I've been a member of this community for years, but I've been lurking for quite a while now. Simming kind of took a back seat to life and work, but recently I got the bug again, so I built what I planned on being my last PC for the next 10 years or so. Specs are as follows: CPU -- i7 2600K 3.4GHzZalman Performance HeatsinkMobo - Asus Sabertooth P67Coolermaster HAF 932 CaseCoolermaster 850W Power Supply16 Gigs of Crucial DDR 33 Crucial 128 Sata Solid State Drives (1 for OS, 2 Striped Raid 0 for FS and other games)1 WD 1 TB 7200 SATA 3 HD for data and other programs not needing the striped SSDTwo Lite-ON 24X SATA burnerseVGA GeForce GTX570 with 1.25 Gigs VR…

Hi againJust been offered a choice of the above 2 graphics cards. Which is the best for fsx gold ?Also as the i5 2500k sufficient to run the game at a good fps or should I buy an i7 chip?Thanks Paul

Hi,It's me again!I just mounted the noctua NH-D14....I re-attached every cable into it's place...but it fails to boot...There is a yellow LED which tells me that it receives power, I am sure about this because the NH-D14 and GPU start running . I noticed a red LED on the top right corner....This one is the MemOK! ( from what I saw on the manual ). It keeps flashing faster and faster, and then it stops.I tried to take out the ram modules and put them back in but sadly, I have no result..Can Anyone help?( Tell me if I didn't explain myself )Thanks...

Hello everyone! I just signed up here hoping to find some answers for my new pc... I have searched for 1 day all over the internet for possible builds and i am pretty confused from all the opinions and stuff i came across! Anyway, the build i have in mind its something like this: CPU: Core i7 2600K Sandy Bridge @ 3.4 GHz or my other idea was an Intel® Core™ i7-920 Processor @ 2.66 Ghz which is less expensive so...PSU: Nitrox 600WRAM: 4GB DDR3 1333MHZGPU: Nvidia GTX 460 or the Nvidia GTX 560 Ti ( i know that FSX needs more CPU than GPU so i would go for the 460....what you think?)Monitor: LG 19''HDD: 500GB Sata 3 Well as far as i remember this is what i have in mind! My b…

Hi again In my new PC I forgot something. Should I buy a mobo with or without VGA? It makes difference for overcloking an i7-2600k? ASUS P8Z68-V PRO LGA1155 DDR3-32GB SATA3 USB3 GLAN - without VGAASUS P8Z68 DLX LGA1155 DDR3 ST3RD USB3 GBLAN - without VGAASUS P8Z68-M PRO LGA1155 DDR3 ST3RD USB3 GBLAN - with VGA RIght now, I am thinking on the first one. harpsi

Hi, I am putting together my new system and am confused with the corsair H70 fan and pump connections and also the case fans and where to plug them in.The H70 and the H70 fans all have 3 pin connections and the case fans too, but they came with the 3 pin on top of an old type power adapter that I remember from way back, but cant remember what they call them. I remember seeing them for connections to the old hard drives. It doesnt seem like I can use the big connectors as my corsair 750w PS does not have that type nor is there that type of connection on the MB, so I guess I must use the 3 pin connectors on all of my fans. My MB is an ASUS P8Z68-V PRO LGA 1155 and the PS is…

Hello. I have just build my new system and attached a Corsair A70 coolor on the CPU which seems to work pretty good. I have got my i5 2500k overclocked at 4.5 GHz and - despite the computer standing a bit in the warm sun - I get a max temperature of 63°C at 100% CPU load. I am running the cooler with the stock fans with the resistance cable attached, so that they run at 1.600 rpm. 2.000 rpm are simply too loud, sounds like a lawn mower in my room. My questions is, if somebody can recommend a better set of 120mm fans for the coolor - it's possible to mount different fans - which are more efficient but a lot less noisy than the stock ones? On a side note, I am still using m…

I see that Aria (UK) are doing a very good deal on 64Gb SSDs: https://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/Solid+State+Drives/Plextor+M2S+Series+64GB+2.5%22+SATA-III+6GB%2Fs+Solid+State+Hard+Drive+?productId=46259 Is it possible to just 'ghost' my Win7 System drive to an SSD? Thanks

HiHopefully getting to the end of my computer spec for fsx.Looking at buyingBoard : Asus P8P67Chip : intel i5 2500kGraphics : GTX 560iPSU Corsair 650wMemory Gskill Ripjaws 4GB DDR3I don't know what hard drive and dvd player/recorder to get. Do you have to spend a fair bit on these ? I don't want to compromise on the other components.With the memory is it best to go with 1300 or 1600 or does it make little difference ?Any advice gladly appreciated.Thanks Paul

Hi Guys, after a bit of advice. At this point in time I am running @ 4.6 GHz stable using an Offset of -0.035. This gives a core voltage of 1.312V. CIE and speedstep are enabled as is HT. I have noticed when using CPU-Z the core speed and core voltage fluctuate a fair bit when FSX is running. At cruise altitude it seems to settle and the VCore and core speed run at 4600 and 1.312 respectively. The FPS are set to unlimited and also do the same, that is fluctuate. Question :Are these two factors connected and would I be better off manually setting the VCore to 1.31V and disabling CIE and speedstep in the BIOS? Thanks in advance Andrew Dixon

Going to update my No:2 Computer (and make it my No:1 I hope) Out: Intel Q9400 Gigabyte EP45-DS3P Corsair 4GB DDR2 Gigabyte GTX 260 In: Asus P8Z68-V PRO Intel 2500K Corsair 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800(1600), CAS 9-9-9-24, XMP, 1.5V Corsair H100 Cooler MSI 580GTX Anyone see any problems before I order? Aready have the following: 126Mb ssd - boot 256Mb ssd - FSX 300Mb Raptor - Scenery Thermaltake 700W Toughpower PSU SoundBlaste X-Fi Titanium Soundcard Coolermaster Case Thanks in anticipation!

I thought this was an appropriate article given some of the benchmarking that has been done around here in the last few months - especially given the focus on smoothness rather than FPS with FSX. Inside the second: A new look at game benchmarking

Hey guys I've been reading over some of the overclocking sites out there so I can finally get going on that, as it is one of the few things I haven't really tried yet aside from the boost I did with EasyTune with little success. One thing they all make very clear is to have a good quality PSU, because a poor quality PSU has the potential to fail other hardware if it itself can't stand up to the OC. When I bought the parts for my computer, I just bought the cheapest PSU I could find that had the highest wattage. In my case, 750W's. I ignored all bad feedback on the product because I thought they all served one purpose anyway: to turn on the computer and keep it on. This is…

This is a PSU I ran across today in a NewEgg special. I like the way they handle the cables in that you can put in as many as you want instead of having them all bundled together and having to tie the extras off neatly. Or sometimes not so neatly. The thing is I only know of Rosewill from fans. So, any feedback on this unit? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182239 As a last note it also comes in an 800W version. Thanks in advance,Ed

HiWhat do you fsx experts think about this spec before I purchase? I am hoping it will provide graphics on a par or close to this youtube cliphttp://www.youtube.c...0gAeinw&index=2 i5 2500k Either a geforce GTX 560 Ti or sapphire radeon hd 6950 BOARD intel asus p8h67-m pro Not to sure about power supply, help please. 4GB DDR 3 Ram Do I really need Windows 7 64 bit or can I use Windows XP Any comments gladly appreciated. It is really hard to try and source components having no idea how they will perform for this simulator.I have only an asus 20" monitor running at 1400 x 1050 resolution. Thanks Paul

Hi all,Okay so nVidia has released it's latest 280.xx drivers. Over at the PMDG forums, users have reported that the new drivers have caused performance to almost half by installing these new drivers clean. After a little bit of research, it seems that nVidia drivers version 270.61 work best in FSX at the moment. So my advice is to head over to nVidia and download the 270.61 drivers for your card, run the installer, choose custom install. Tick the box for clean/fresh install and revert back to these drivers. Remember, you will have to redo inspector/control panel settings for FSX once you've done this.

http://www.coolaler.com/showthread.php?t=273244 you will have to translate the chinese

Hello Captains, I am finallý upgrading my system to a Sandy Bridge based setup. I had the following items in mind: CPU: i5 2500KMOBO: Asus P8P67 PRO B3RAM: Mushkin 8 GB DDR3-2133 Kit 996996 RedLine SerieHeatsink: Prolimatech Megahalems Rev B with 2 x Coolermaster Blademaster 120mm fan This will go in an Antec P183 case, with an Asus GeForce GTX470 graphics card. Any recomendations? Should I go for a Z68 board, or an i7 2600K? I don't mind paying extra cash if I can get appreciable performance, but I don't like spending money for a marginal performance increase. This rig will run FSX and (almost) nothing more. Thanks in advance, Jorge EDIT: Of course I intend to overclock …

Well as the title suggests, it could be the end for the old PCI slot at the time of IB. Here is where I found it.http://www.guru3d.com/news/intel-z77-motherboard-lineup-for-ivy-bridge-processors-surfaces/Not a real shame. Please post if anyone actually uses a PCI card in their system.

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I see people posting Ram specs such as "G.Skill Ripjaws x 2133 Mhz kit running @ 1600MHz 8-9-8-24." What does that all mean? I have 8 gigs of Ram. That is all I know.