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I wonder if others are using this CPU and if so is it really that good.http://cgi.ebay.com/REDLINE-2600K-Extreme-Intel-Core-i7-5-0GHz-CPU-/300571835623?pt=CPUs&hash=item45fb7a3ce7They usually have a i5 2500k also which is about $100 less.Any comments would be very welcome. Thank you,regardsRichard.

Sorry people, I know you must get guys asking these questions all the time, but what sort of FSX performance do you think this PC would give?MBrd & CPUASUS P8H61M EVO, INTEL H61, MATX, 1155, 4 D3 1333, HDMI, DVI, IGPU BOOST, USB3 with INTELCORE I5-2500K QUAD CORE,1155, 3.3GHz, SANDY BRIDGE, HD GFX, 5GTS, UNLOCKEDMEMORY KINGSTON 4GB VALUERAM KIT - 2 x 2GB DDR3 1333 (PC3-10600) CL9 2EACH TOTAL OF 8GBCOOLING 2 X AKANSAS LOW NOISE FANSHARD DISK 3.5" SATA2 HDD, 500GB, 64MB CACHE, 7200RPM, WESTERN DIGITAL RAID EDITIONPSU OCZ 600W PSUVIDEO CARD ASUS - GTX460 GRAPHICS PLUS PCIE CARD, 1GB DDR5, DUAL DVI, HDMI, DIRECTCUSOFTWARE WINDOWS 7 PROFESSIONAL 64BITSOUND ONBOARDCD ROM DV…

In the next couple days going to pur chase a new computer. Currently have a I975 oc 4.0ghz 6gigs of ram 580gtx 1,000 watts, for some reason can't get this rig to budge anymore, and I know fsx is all about computer power.So if I could build as perfect a computer just for FSX what would I need, forget what I have now, here are some of my own suggestions:Sandy 2600k overclocked from 4.5 to 5.0What motherboard would you suggest?for ram, do I need 6 gigs or 8 gigs, and what format or recommendations, I know timings are important, and please be specific.video card - going with 580 evga gtxoperating system - windows 7, currently running home premium tower - c oolmasterhalf 932, …

I`m ready to throw my Saitek Yoke and Peddles out the window Finnaly got my PC moved from the kitchen to a desk, set up my yoke and stuff the same as I had on my old system and I`m having all sorts of problems. The yoke peddles and throttle have only seen a month of daylight before my old rig incident. I had it working flawlessly.Tried a test flight tonight and all sorts of strange stuff happening. Toe brakes not working (yes I`ve reveresed the axis), only turning to a point and you can see this in the VC cockpit yoke, can`t release the brakes with the toe brakes. Assinged pitch up and down to one of the rocker switches on the yoke and flaps up/down increments to a throt…

I've got an old machine, a 1.8 GHz Pentium 4. It's been very cranky lately, acting like it's got an overheating problem. I've upgraded from 512M to 2G of RAM. Yesterday, I got a 2.6 GHz processor (used) and put that in, cleaning out the fan cooler and replacing the thermal grease. The machine booted right up, but froze halfway into a game of solitaire after starting Windows XP successfully. Subsequent re-boots were unsuccessful. I configured the BIOS to run the full memory test, which takes a while. After it gets all the way through the memory, it just stops.During the memory test, if I press F2 to go to the BIOS Setup program, the memory test stops and the machine…

Hi all,I've been flightsiming for the last 6 yrs now but always on high street purchased machines. I cant afford to buy a decent off the shelf machine but am in dyer need of a new dedicated FSX machine.I have set a budget of £800 to buy everything i need to build a new tower. I am ready to purchase now but don't know where's best to buy or what to buy for that matter. I was hoping if I said what i wanted to achieve someone with experience would be able to tell me what i needed.I want to run a 3 monitor system with FSX settings on high achieving a good stable frame rate. the machine will be FSX dedicated. Ready to purchase now within the UK (need to buy from UK suppliers /…

Fellow Simmers:I'd love to ask for your help and wisdom in choosing how to add to best add to my flight sim experience....I've got a budget of around $150usd to spend and I'm considering between the following options to add to fsx. Which will likely give me the most SOP type realism I crave and increase what I learn from the overall sim experience?Purchase choice #1: Saitek Pro Flight YokeORPurchase choice #2: TrackIR 5I generally fly heavy iron or twin engine GA such as the Baron 58. Most of the heavy iron flights are with Multi Crew Experience. Will probably be starting the process towards a PPL in the next few years, so everything I put into FSX I want to look at as a …

I seem to remember a very simple program that I used to possess which I could use to change the affinity of multiple processes at once. Anyone familiar with it? I figured this pertained to CPUs enough to warrant a post here.

This is in regards to the results of my FSXMark11 test, but I didn't want to clutter up that thread with discussion.So, looking at similar systems in that thread my new PC seems to be under-performing by a decent margin. I've tried various options, such as hyperthreading on/off, SLI on/off, etc. but the result stays pretty consistently mediocre.My specs are as follows:Intel Core i7 2600K 3.40GHz (@ 4.5)ASUS Sabertooth P678GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600MHz Corsair XMS3 Series 800W Corsair GS2x SLI Dual (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 1.2GB (Running in single-monitor non-SLI mode in FSX)Corsair H70 Liquid CPU CoolerFresh install of Windows 7 and FSX/AccelerationAll-in-all, the system of cour…

Might sound like a dumb question but i'll ask anyway.From what i have read you are supposed to get FSX and your addon scenery/ac all installed and set up and running stable etc. before starting any overclocking. I have now done this and am ready for the overclocking process and yes i have now run my i7 2600K on prime 95 at its stock settings for several hours and done some flying around with no problems.After i get it overclocked to where i want it and everything is tested and stable, do i have to set my rig back to stock settings every time i purchase another addon scenery or ac before installing it?

Hello everyone! Nice to be here on the avsim forums. After several months of reading, researching, and lurking in general I guess ;) I wanted to ask for your collective wisdom on choosing a headset/mic for fsx.I've got a Plantronics 995 wireless, but I'm not thrilled at all with the quality, and am strongly considering going back to a wired headset (though I hate the wires!). Maybe a Sennheiser PC151? or other?I'm not sure if I should be looking at more of a 'gaming' headset, or one targeted towards voice communications.I'll be using it with fsx and multi crew experience mainly. Comfort and audio quality (especially for the mic) are paramount.Not sure if this is the right…

Just finished my new SB build and have a question. When checking my temps at stock frequency and HT dissabled, i am getting idle temps on cores 0, 1 & 3 at 26-32c and on core 2 i am getting 36-37c. I have run both 'CPUID MONITOR' & 'REALTEMP' and as near as darn it, they are identical with the temps. Is this normal or should i be worried?i7-2600k/P8P67PRO/GSKILL-1600 CL8D - 8G(2X4)/NH-D14 clg.

I have been using fsx with hyperthreading turned off and and affinity value of 12 (this value seems to offer me the best performance). I then got the idea whether I could turn hyperthreading on, but tell fsx to use only the last two real cores, as an affinity mask of 12 says (12=1100). So, I decided to use an affinty value of 160 (160=10100000) because this value only uses the last two real cores and non of the virtual cores as an affinity value of 12 also does. Unfortunately, although I seem to be getting the same fps, when I pan around, especially in areas with much autogen, my frames seem to drop to the low teens. With hyperthreading off and affinty mask of 12…

Hi! I've been on the fence to upgrading my pretty new i7 rig for a while, mostly because im such a geek :D I'm still not 100% on upgrading as my current comp is handling fsx pretty good. But lets say I were to upgrade...I'm looking at a i5 2500K and an Asus P8P67 Deluxe B3, both seem to be handling the FSXMARK11 pretty fantastic. Right now I have 3x2GB Mushkin Redline RAM at 1600 6-8-6-24, which I am very satisified with; but if I were to go Sandy Bridge, would 3 sticks work? Or would I have to drop one stick and in that case would 4GB be sufficient for flying complex demanding planes like the PMDG 747X/MD11 in FSX on win7 64? If no on both accounts, what is your advice t…

Hi all,Just built a new system. Being not very computer savy I am learning a ton in the process. A couple questions though.I am on a budget so I bought all the components that I could swing with the cash I had, so I used my video card from my old system (plan to upgrade in the future). It is a NVIDIA GTS 450. Will this GPU bottleneck my system?Secondly, look at the screenshot from CPU-Z, it is only reporting my processor speed at 1648.2 mhz? Is there some sort of power saving feature that is activated that is causing this?Third, I have to wait to purchase a decent cpu cooler to overclock. What could I overclock this cpu with just the stock fan and be ok with temps for now…

Will it mess up my FSX install at all? Does anyone know if there is a way to flash the BIOS from Windows?

Hi Everyone,Been reading up on computer jargon for weeks now so I can go ahead and build a better performing PC for FSX. (I'm a flyer not a geek :He He: ) So from what I have managed to figure out this is what Ive come-up with. Therefore I could do with your advice/guidance on compatability issues before I go ahead and order the items. The rig is purely to run FSX. Case: Lian Li PC-B25FWDProcessor: i7 2600k (1155) Sandybridge (would like to overclock to something around the 4.2G mark)Power Supply: Corsair AX1200 WattMotherboard: ASUS Sabertooth P67 (1155)Heat Sink: Antec 920 HeatsinkMemory: 2x4Gb: Corsair VengenceSDD Drive: 240Gb…

Hi,The misses requested me to dump my dell desktop for a new laptop (less cablage in the living room :-))...Reading through a number of forums I understand that running FSX on a laptop could be tricky, but unfortunately I don't have 2000 € to spare on a top-line Alienware.So for the moment here in Belgium I have 2 rigs on my scope:First,a Comline Pro Gamer (from a local store)17,3" ( 1920 x1080 ) LED I7-2630 (2.0 ~ 2.9GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 6MB L3 cache) nVidia GTX 460 1.5 GB DDR5 8 GB DDR3 500GB 7200RPM@ 1699€ (2403,99 USD)or second,a Dell XPS 1717,3" (1600x900) WLED HDI7-2720QM (2.2 ~ 3.3Ghz)nVidia GT 555M 3GB 6 GB DDR31TB (2x500GB) 7200RPM@ 1354,05€ (1915 USD)So, from what …

hi alli am intending to maybe use a 7" LCD touchscreen for the PMDG FMC, is this possible, is there anything i should look at? this option is cheaper than the VRinsight CDU2 option.will something like this work for the PMDG 747 FMC docked from the main panel to the touchscreen panel?http://alwaysdirect.com.au/portable-8-inch-touchscreen-usb-monitor-pc-mac.html?utm_source=myshopping&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Car+Accessories&utm_term=Portable+8+Inch+Touchscreen+USB+Monitor+PC+MAC+will the 800x600 resolution be ok for the PMDG 747 FMC?

I've finally made the upgrade, and I'm looking forward to trying out FSX on my new machine, which comes tomorrow!It includes a single 120GB SSD, and I'm a bit torn in terms of whether to put FSX on the SSD or just install it on the hard drive. I figure that my OS and apps are going to consume about 50GB, and my current FSX installation is 64GB. I can probably get things down to the essentials (maybe 40GB or so with Orbx scenery?), but that won't give me much future wiggle room on the SSD.I know that an SSD won't contribute to FSX performance at all, but it will help load times. On my current machine, to be honest, the load times are enough of a detriment that sometimes I …

Hello, for 2009 XMAS I got a brand new Dell 1545. (Laptop) And I'm only 13. So I'm not going to get a new one for sometime now. I tried FSX on it for about a year. Didn't know what lag was, Using my PMDG 747. Then I saw a video on FSX. I was amazed that the video was running all smoothly whilst mine was stuttering. So then I looked at my FPS using SHIFT+Z. It was always around 3-7. So then I found out my computer is awful for FSX. I tried everything..I put all settings to minimal still around 7-10FPS. And some online tweeks game booster... Nothing happened. Then I want to try FS9. I tried it and it wasn't really my taste, I was too used to FSX. After some more looking ar…

My ancient P4 abacus is overheating, and its once-blazing 1.8 GHz processor just isn't cutting it anymore. So, it is time.I've got a pretty good idea of what I want-slash-need, but now I've got to select a vendor. I got one good suggestion on another thread, but who else has bought a system recently and can provide feedback, hopefully good but "stay away at all costs" is valuable information, too.Thanks.

OC'ed my i7 950 from 3.07 to 3.81 using 1333Mhz RAM. I can't really push this any higher for this speed.Is is worth getting the 1600Mhz RAM for higher OC or is it not worth the extra £60?

I have been following this instruction guide to overclock my 2500Khttp://www.techreaction.net/2011/01/04/3-step-overclocking-guide-%E2%80%93-sandy-bridge-v0-1beta/2/I have my CPU multiplier up to 46 and the vCore up to 1.35V. Windows starts fine and when I run Prime95 or OCCT I am getting core temps of 59 or 60 C. So far no problem. No BSOD or anything like that so far.The issue is that the core speed when the test are running starts out at 4600 and then drops off after a minute or two to 4100 or 3900 then maybe back up to 4300 but not consistently at 4600. Now I do have the auto throttle down features of the processor enabled but according to the guide above this shoul…

Hi allFinally I will upgrade my system to run FSX.I would like to buy i7-2600k processor and to overclock it to 5 GHz, as well a a GTX580 graphic card. Which type of memory with a minimum of 8 GB ram should I buy? And which cooler or type of refriferation to choose?Better to have a ATA HD or SATA HD and at which speed (rpm)? Thanks.harpsi