System Hardware: PC | MOBO | RAM | CPU | HDD | SSD | PSU etc

I currently have i7-950 OC@ 4.3Ghz and GTX 580 and 6GB RAM. But my FSX gets 5-25 FPS on airport that has addons. So I was wondering if I should upgrade my system to Sandy Bridge i7 because I have heard many simmers talked about SB and they seem very happy about it. I would be very happy about some opinion. Thank you. :)

Usng Easy Tune, I boosted my computer up to 4.1 but am now having total system freezes. I OC'd it yesterday and its has now happened 3 times. A couple of times it froze at random while on the internet. It just happened for the third time in the middle of a defrag. The mouse and keyboard are useless and I'm forced to shutdown. All the defrag activity was frozen as well, so its more than just a loss of peripherals. Problems keep adding up for me. Any ideas?

As a Newbie preparing to build my own rig, I fascinated by the sub-cultures of thermal compound application. Seems like there are a lot of ways to apply it, and advocates for the various methods. I wonder if some of the gurus here could give me their perspective. I've got an Asus P8Z68 V Pro MOBO, a Core I5 2500K processor and a Corsair A70 cooler. The compound I've got is Artic Alumina (I realize there are instructions on articsilver's website, but folks seem to have the own ideas) Thanks. Dan Cole

my system specs are : ive got a dualcore Pentium D 820 2.8ghz (@2.92 Ghz)AsRock 4coreDual VSTA motherboardNvidia geforce 8600 GT PCI-express550 watt PSUmain hdd is a 320gb SATA drivewith 2 80gb secondary IDE harddrivesand a crappy DVD drive there is more then enough ventilation, for everything in the tower, the CPU has not been more then 56 degrees C. I think I could overclock my CPU wayyy more then what it is at, Ive heard of ppl having the CPU that I have at 3.3ghz and higher, with no problems with just the stock heatsink. Sombody said that I should increase my Vcore voltage a bit to make the CPU more stable at higher clocks, but I went into my BIOS and there is no way …

I'm curious what everyone in here is running these days in the way of AA. Specifically transparency settings. I've found the absolute best compromise for myself at 8xQ and 4x Sparse Grid Supersampling. I honestly cannot tell a difference with 8x and 16xQ/32x. The 'xS settings tend to hurt frames for me when any heavy clouds are visible, and stutters tend to be prevalent at these settings as well.

When and which CPu will be better than the I5/I7 2600K?

Good day, I am planning to buy a new PC that will be dedicated to FSX. I did a lot of reading and I have decided to go with the following components: Intel I7 2600K CPU (I want to overclock to 4.5 GHz) 16 GIG of RAM DDR3 1 HDD: solid state drive 120G (OS) 2 HHD: SATA Seagate 7200 rpm 64 MG 1Tb (FSX) I already own a GTX 480 and a GTX 8800 (I run 2 monitors on the 8800 and a triplehead2go device + a standalone monitor on the GTX 480,for a total of 6 monitor) I would like some advice on what: Motherboard (I like Asus) Cooling device Case Power supply Do I need cooling for the MoBoI will use Window 7 64 bit ultimate Thanks you f…

Is there a way to test each individual hardware component to see if they are working as they should?

Hi there, First all - apologies that this is just a repeat of tons of other requests. However, I am making the move onto FSX - finally and want a high end system that runs everything, full sliders, tons of addons - basically everything I could ever want in FSX. I have a budget of about £1700-1800 max and i'm considering a wired2fire system. These are my current thoughts: default caseCorsair CX600 600W Power Supply Core i7 2600K 8MB Cache Socket 1155 Titan Fenrir EVO CPU Cooler nVidia GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 (excellent alternative to HD 6970) nVidia GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 (excellent alternative to HD 6970) (i.e. x2) 8GB Corsair DDR3 1600MHz C8 Dual Channe…

I live in Arizona and it is well over 100F all summer long. To make matters worse Im upstairs and it is hot as hell up here even with AC. Should I slow things down a bit to prevent to much heat on the computer? Right Now Im at about 4.0Ghz coming from 4.5Ghz.

Realize the question's been asked before, but I'd like advice for my specific system. I've got a Samsung 64 GB SSD and a 1T WD Black HD. Where would you put: OS, FSX, ADDon aircraft, ADDON scenerey, ASE, UTX, RC, etc? Also, say Santa brings me a 128 SATA III SSD for Xmas to add to the other two, how would my configuration change. And doesn't some of this stuff have to go into the FSX folder-aircraft & scenery? Thanks Dan Cole

Hi i have a run of the mill sta 3 hard drive. And would like to know are there one's that would that would improve my system.

ok heres my hardware setup, I have my processor, and video card overclocked as much as I can without my system becoming unstable. ive got a dualcore Pentium D 820 2.8ghz (@2.94 Ghz)AsRock 4coreDual VSTA2 gigs DDR2 SDRAM@ 333 mhzGeforce 8600 GT (512 mb ram) Overclocked about 10% <--- thats PCI expressa dvd burner3 hdds (two 80 gb, and one 320gb) (main hdd is SATA)and a 550 watt PSU I have the most current drivers for video card. I don't know how to overclock the RAM and was wondering if it would be worthwile to give it a shot. also was wondering what else I can do with this setup to max out its peformance while I save up enough to upgrade. another thing I was looking f…

Hi all,I think I May have gone about this the wrong way, I have just put together my new system:- Zalman K9plus case, MSI GD53 MB, i5-2500k, cooler master hyper 212 plus ,4gb of Corsair pc1600 and a 450w power supply. Installed win7 64bit FSX+ Sp1,Sp2 ,NGX plus airport add-ons. I then overclocked the system to 4.6ghz by changing from x33 to x46 and then upping the volts to 1.285v, this work great in FSX flying NGX with traffic and add on airports at locked 30fps, only about 37-42c ( I was very very happy) but later I started to test my system using Intel burn and is blue screened very time I ran it. I have now had to turn volts up to 1.395v to be able to pass Intel bur…

Looking to replace an aging laptop with a slightly less aging model. What's the difference between C2D and Core Due CPUs?

Before you accuse me of spreading old news, I'm only trying to help some of the new guys with new builds who have been complaining about stutters and may not have seen this before. This may or may not work, I don't know. I will try it when I get home from work. Seems the folks in the Orbx forums have done this with great results. Actually, I suppose anyone could benefit from this. http://ultimatecomputers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3644

Hi all, I have just upgraded my PC with new MB ( MSI P67A GD53 ) plus a i5 2500K and 4gb of pc1600, coolermatser hyper 212 plus and a Zalman Z9 plus, the upgrade went well and I am very happy with the reasults.but I do have one small problem my D-Link DWA-111( wireless network apt ) isn't being pick up by the PC in any of the USB ports. worked fine with old system and still works in my laptop. It dosn't even say new device found, All other hardware that I plug in to the same USB ports work fine. I am currently using a very long RJ45 cable Any help would be great mark

Gentlemen; I my BIOS setting there's HPET (High precision event timer). I've read this is for 64 bit systems... I'm currently running Win7 64bit. Should I enable this bios feature or leave it disabled?

There is a Micro Center about 20 miles from my house. Here's a list of parts I have selected from their website in the last couple days: Cooler Master HAF 932 Full Tower Case $160 ASUS P8Z68-V PRO $210 (will check out bundles with cpu) Intel® Core™ i5 -2500K $180 EVGA GeForce GTX 560 TI $260 Corsair CMPSU-750AX Professional Series Gold AX750 $210 Corsair Hydro Series H100 extreme performance liquid CPU cooler $140 Patriot's Viper Xtreme 8GB (2 x 4GB) PC3-12800 (1600MHz) at 8-9-8-24 timings $85 Samsung 22X DVD+R SATA DVD Burner with Lightscribe Technology $25 Micro Center SandForce SF-1222 64GB SSD Processor $90 (OS) WD 3000HLFS 300GB 10,000 RPM VelociRaptor $150 (FSX) …

Hi. I recently made a thread asking for suggestion to my computer upgrade. I was going to upgrade to a i7 2600K and a Asus p8p67 Deluxe. I have 3 sticks of 2GB Mushkin Redline 1600Mhz CL6 ram, which gives me 3 options, 1: Keep them in flex mode (Dual channel + Single channel), 2: buy a new 2x2GB Kit of the same Ram and run them in 4x2GB, or 3: Buy a new kit of 2x4GB Ram. I've now made the purchase and the CPU, motherboard, and an Intel 320 160Gb SSD is waiting for me in their boxes :) The reason why I'm making this thread is that option 3 is actually cheaper for me, and I get to buy higher clocked 2x4GB ram sticks.I have 2 kits that I'm looking at which are cheaper than a…

I'm thinking about getting a new computer but want one that will handle FSX with all of the below addons and still maintain around 20 fps w/ high settings. List of Addons:- PMDG 747-400- PMDG J4100- PMDG 737NGX- Level D 767-300ER- Flight 1 Super 80- Flight 1 ATR-72/500- Captain Sim 767-300- Captain Sim 727-100- Wilco E-Jets Series- FS Dreamteam Chicago O'hare Airport Scenery- Aerosoft PBY Catalina X- Aerosoft Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport Scenery- VRS FA-18/E Superbug- Mega Scenery Earth Chicago City Pack- FSInn- Wee Tune Beastie from Sky Blue Radio- FS Widgets Network Host- World of AI Traffic Packages (I would be willing to give this one up, because I mostly fly onlin…

Hi, So in prepartion for the NGX I've decided to buy a new computer system. Here in the local PC shop I asked what would be good to run what I want and what I need. The owner offerred me this; Processor: Phenom II X6 1055T 2,8Ghz AM3Motherboard: ASROCK AM3 N68-GE3 UCC+BGA/AM3/4x DDR3Memory: 16GB DDR3/2TBVideocard: Geforce GTS 450 2GBSystem: Windows 7, 64Bit So I expected high frames(25+) almost everywhere I want to fly. Today I started testing, I have UTX Europe installed, PMDG 747 and some airport add-ons. I loaded at Barcelona(Mega AIrport) with the PMDG 747 to see I only get 12 frame rates and sometimes lower. I am very dissapointed and it feels like I've just thrown …

I am in the market to upgrade my current computer. I am upgrading in an effort to run FSX with higher settings. Of the following components (currently installed), which would you upgrade, and what would you suggest for a product? Thank you very much in advance for your suggestions. I greatly appreciate the help!! CPU: AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition Heka 2.8GHz Socket AM3 95W Triple-Core ProcessorCPU Cooler: Cooler Master Intel Core i5 compatible Hyper TX3 Socket 775/1156/AMD 130W 92mm "heatpipe direct contact"HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard DriveMotherboard: ASUS AM3 AMD 770 ATX AMDVideo Card: EVGA 512-P3-1140…

Hello, OK, I don't care what you say, "oh no you shouldn't waste your money on an SSD for SRT", its what I am doing. It will help speed up the overall system performance, I am not looking to really improve FSX. Since I have to go down to PCCG I would like it to be from here if possible.http://www.pccasegear.com/What I am looking at is weather it'll matter getting a SATA II or SATA III for the SRT. Its only really there for caching and SATA II is still pretty quick. However I am also considering selling my RAM and getting these instead of the SSD:http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=16934What would give me more performance boost overal…

I went into the BIOS to disable hyperthreading and came across a surprise. I pulled my MOBO user's manual which clearly shows you how to do it through the Advanced CPU Features Page, but I don't see the option to turn off CPU multi-threading as it illustrates in the manual. As a matter of fact, I only see half of the options the manual says it supports. Beside the CPU multi-threading in the manual there is a little note that states: This item is present only if you install a cpu that supports this feature. uhh ?