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

Hello all,I am looking at buying a Toshiba Satellite notebook and want to know if I can fly FSX:Acceleration or not. SPECS:Intel® Core™ i32.4GHz4GB RAM-expandable to 8 GB DDR3Mobile Intel® HD graphics64-1696MB (shared)Other option is AMD Turion™ II2.4GHzSame amount of RAMATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250256-1789MB (dynamically allocated shared)Both are running W7 64bitI have heard things about the mobility Radeon HD 4250 not playing FSX the best but have heard nothing on the first computer's specs. These are the only two that are really in my budget so getting something else is really not much of option. If you can find something for $600 or under let me know.Thanks guys.Matt

Which processor will give the best performance in FS2004 : i5-760 (Quad) OR i5-680 (Dual with HT) ?thanksTrevor

Hello, my wife's computer is dead. Last week, it wasn't turning on - no power at all. I just replaced the PSU and it does power up but no beeps and nothing on the monitor. The monitor doesn't even recognize that it is hooked up to anything. I popped in a different video card and got the same result. It really doesn't seem like it is booting at all.This was the first time I ever installed a new PSU - I think I did it right. I wasn't sure about a couple connections but if I had a connector that fit an open plug, I plugged it in;) Yes, I did look at the mobo manual and I think I covered everything. Any ideas what the problem may be? It is an older computer so the mobo or CPU…

I am looking to Buy a New Computer Tomorrow but I have seen mixed reviews on this Video Card. Here are the Specs Of the Computer I want to buy.Intel Core i7 Extreme 965 CPU - 3.2 GHz base speed, turbo to 3.46 GHz; tested at 4.0 GHzIntel Extreme CPU cooler, plus active northbridge coolerIntel Desktop Board DX58SO "Smackover" - full ATX enthusiast motherboard, Socket 1366, triple-channel RAM up to 1866 MHz officially supported, two full PCIe 2.0 x16 slots with SLI and CrossFire support plus a PCIe 2.0 x4 slot that is open-ended capable of hosting a third graphics card, onboard Intel SATA plus third-party eSATA, onboard IEEE-1394 "FireWire", onboard High-Definition Au…

I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on the subject. I was looking at the Evga web page and they are showing 2 variants (actually 3 if include the water cooled version) of the 580 GTX. 1: 580 GTX standard http://www.evga.com/products/moreInfo.asp?pn=015-P3-1580-AR&family=GeForce%20500%20Series%20Family&sw=GPU clock: 772 MhzMem clock: 3900 Mhz2: 580 GTX Superclocked http://www.evga.com/products/moreInfo.asp?pn=015-P3-1582-AR&family=GeForce%20500%20Series%20Family&sw=GPU clock: 797 MhzMemory clock: 4050 MhzLooking at the specs on the Superclocked version, it doesn't seem so much of an increase over the standard version. But as I am no expert on th…

Which is more important for FSX? I'm looking at buying 2x4GB RAM modules for my upcoming Sandy Bridge system and I think I have two choices:1) Buy 2000MHz with CL9 and try to drop CL to 72) Buy 1600MHz with CL7 and overclock towards 2000MHzIt would be nice to know which is more important before I buy anything. If bandwidth is more important, it would probably be better to start with the 2000 MHz ram and try to drop the timings. If latency is more important, then I'll get the CL7 ram and try to increase the bandwidth.Right now, these two sets look pretty good:Corsair XMS3 8GB DDR3 2000 (9-10-9-27)Mushkin Ridgeback 8GB DDR3 1600 (7-8-7-24)

My problem is that I don`t really know much about RAM memory modules.When I got my new I7 computer it had 6 GB`s of some DDR3 RAM with, I think, 1066MHz.I decided to replace them with the recommended Mushkin redskin 1600 RAM.Now that I got it back, I see that they didn`t replace the RAM, but just put the new in there too, so I now have 12 GB of different RAM.Now to the question. Is that a good thing?If not, can I myself, with my almost complete absence of knowledge, just remove the old ones, and put the Mushkin RAM in the correct slots?Or do I have to change something in the bios too, to make it work?If anybody have the knowledge to guide me a little, I would really appre…

Hi I am looking at upgrading my PC, I have sort of decided what h/w except memory, not sure which is good for this mobo?Intel Core i7 950 3.06GHz Socket 1366 8MBAsus P6X58D-E X58 Socket 1366 Corsair 850W TX Series PSUMemory ????898MB XFX 260GTXKeeping some of my other stuff from present PCregardskrishan

Hey guys,Planning to upgrade my PC, and am having difficulty choosing between these 2 options, which do you think is better for FSX? CPU Intel i7 950RAM 6GB kit Team xtreme 1333mhz ddr3MB Asus Rampage 3 formulaorCPU Intel i7 655kRAM 4GB kit G.skill 1333mhz ddr3MB Asus Sabertooth 55iThanks very much Guys!

Hi Folks, Time has come to get a new computer and the one I'm looking at is an HP model with AMD Phenom II X 6 1090T processor and I would install a Nvidia GTX 460. I don't intend to overclock. How well do you think that would run FSX? I fly only in FTX areas (PNW, NRM, Australia) with Ezdok and some (easy on fps) payware aircraft (Carenado C185, T34, C172. A2A Cub etc). No other addons. Thanks Howard

I have just built a new system using the above graphics card, WIN 7 64BIT and find that it is not possible to run two screens as a wide desktop under WIN7. Software message says can still be done on XP. How useless is that?On the 747 the cockpit looks more like a C172 than a 747 with single screen.Kevin Kyle

Hi folks,I haven't been around in a while and have in the past few years become strictly a mac person (laptop, due to my real world job where I'm travelling all the time). I'm in the process of testing/developing some training software that only runs under FSX, and would like to upgrade my old pentium machine from 2003. I'm looking specifically at the "build your own" schemes that ibuypower and cyberpower uses, and comparing them to what's available at newegg.com or tigerdirect.This cyberpower machine piqued my interest:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883229183Tigerdirect has this http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?E…

Hi I am thinking of upgrading my PC,my present system is;GA-EP45-DS4 rev. 1.0E8500 @ 4.1GHzAZalman CNPS10X Extreme4GB Corsair 1066MHz - 8500 2.1 DDR2 2.1(4x 1GB stricks - 2 independent pairs)XFX 898MB 260GTXCorsair HX620 Raptor diskVista 64-bitI want to change to;Asus P6X58D-E X58Corsair 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz Dominator Memory Kit CL8 (8-8-8-24) 1.65VIntel Core i7 950 3.06GHz Socket 1366 8MBNoctua NH-U12P SE2 Corsair HX850WI might change my graphics card later, but will this pairing with CPU overclocked to 4G make a difference that would be really noticable?regardskrishan

Over time tweaking and adjusting I have seen dramatic changes in the performance of FSX. Given all that I was doing I never put together any correlations. Recently I had to re-install FSX. I tried it with the stock FSX.CFG file. and had 40 to 50 FPS. The settings were:Cpu (dual core e4400) overclocked to 2.4ghz from 2.0ghz4gb DDR3 memorynVidia GTX-240 512mbAsRock motherboard (aka mobo)Windows7 32bitFSX:All sliders to right except that no AI traffic of any kind.FPS over rural Northeast USA 40 to 50 fps using Carenado C152 at 80knots in slew mode.I changed cpu speed from 2.4ghz to 2.3ghz and FPS dropped to 15 to 17 - stutter and flashingReturned to 2.4ghz and fps went to 40…

O.K., so Intel is coming out with their latest chip, and we get new mobo's, dedicated ram(?), and we have new videocards, and ssd's are getting better.Is there enough (20%?) performance enhancement to finally make fsx good?I have a q6600(not oc'd), 4gb ram, 9800gtx, and a 300gb velociraptor, and am hoping to get say 30 fps if I get a new system sometime in the next quarter.I was going to upgrade quite some time ago, but life got in the way, so perhaps now is the opportune time if there is such a thing.I am not looking at the fps as much as smoothness say in London or New York. I have both city scenery, and add-on airports, REX, UT2, MD-11, Lvl-D and more, and get quite a…

EDIT- This is about FSX Acceleration.I prefer the ground textures and add-on photo sceneries to having autogen on. I feel I need scenery complexity maxed though, and in NYC I'm getting around 20 fps, which isn't very smooth. In the rain, it dips down to 14 fps. When I turn set scenery complexity to zero, the fps shoot up. What is lacking in my hardware that I can't achieve a smoother frame rate with scenery complexity maxed? My specs: 1680x1050 monitorP35-DS3LQ6600 @3.4Ghz5850 stock clock, dedicated sound card, 500W PSU500GB HDD4GB DDR2, Windows 7 64-bit.

How will this work for FSX and X-Plane? This prices out about 1500. DO I NEED TO OVERCLOCK TO GET VERY GOOD RESULTS??? CAS: CoolerMaster HAF 912 Mid-Tower Gaming Case w/ Adjustable HDD Cage [-57] (Black Color) CD: * Asus BC-08B1LT 8X Blu-Ray Player & DVDRW Combo [+3] (BLACK COLOR) CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-950 3.06 GHz 8M Intel Smart Cache LGA1366 FAN: Asetek 550LC Liquid Cooling System 120MM Radiator & Fan (Advanced Cooling Performance + Extreme Silent at 20dBA) [+18] HDD: 80 GB Intel X25-M 2.5 inch SATA Gaming MLC Solid State Disk [+99] (Single Hard Drive) HDD2: 640GB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM HDD [+69] (Single Hard Drive) MEMORY: 6GB (2GBx3) DDR3/1600MH…

Hi,I am wondering about upgrading my system. Today I use a AMD AM2 X2 with just 3GHz. I am asking you guys where I would get better performance for BOTH FS9.1 and FSX, when I would buy "CPU BOX AMD Phenom II X4 970 3.5GHz Sockel AM3 8MB Cache" for 180€or a"CPU BOX AMD Phenom II X6 1100T 3.3GHz Sockel AM3 9MB Total Cache" for 260€I know both are needing CPU clock speed. FSX is using more than one CPU core, FS9 is not using more than one.So, FS9 would showing better performance with 3.5GHz, FSX would use all 6 cores and would get better?Please dont tell me to change my system to intel. That's just too expensive to go for. I already have a AMD system and would only need to u…

The following are my hardware specs:CPU: AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition Heka 2.8GHz Socket AM3 95W Triple-Core Processor CPU 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 AMD Video Card: EVGA 512-P3-1140-TR GeForce GTS 250 512MB 256-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI SupportPower Supply: COOLMAX 700W ATX 12V V2.3RAM: G.SKILL 4GB (4 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Dual Channel KitMicrosoft W7 64 BitMy question is, using FSX, what type of performance "sh…

HI,I'm planning to upgrade my rig soon and need some advice. First, my system specs right now:Quad 2 Q8400 @ 2.66ghzGeforce GTX280 (1024mb)4gb ramWin7 (64)FSX Sp2I'm flying solely in Australia and have most of the bigger FTX airports. My planes are PMDG JS41, 747 and the LevelD 767. With most detail options disabled I get around 10-14 fps at YMML or YBCS, a little bit less at YBBN. (I also use REX2, UT2, ASE, EZDOK,...)Now, I have around 500-600 € (around $720) to boost these fps-numbers and experience some more details. I guess my GTX280 should be sufficient, but i need to upgrade my processor (motherboard). So I think I will choose a i7, but which one? Maybe you guys co…

Hi,I played around with my BIOS settings. On error I changed the PCIexpress settings to 150MHz, from where it normaly is at 100MHz. After starting my PC with this setting, it beeped and I switched off power. I know this game, I know to clear the CMOS VRAM to set the BIOS back to its manufactory state. I did that. After that I pluged back the power and switched on the power button of the power source unit. I pushed the power button of the PC and NOTHING happend! Now I will check if I still have a spare power source unit and check with it if the one within my pc tower is faulty.My question here, while I check that, is if I could have broken my mainboard by setting the PCIex…

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Hey guys, im new to the avsim forum section but have been a trusted avsim downloader for a few years now :)Iv just bought a custom computer with the following specs:Antec 902AMD PHENOM II X6 1090T (3.20GHz/9MB CACHE/AM3/) - BLACK EDITIONASUS® M4A87TD/USB3: DUAL DDR3,SATA 6.0GB/s, USB 3.08GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 4GB)2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX460 GDDR5 PCI EXPRESS - DirectX® 11600W Quiet 80 PLUS Quad Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan STANDARD AMD CPU COOLERIm hoping to clock the 1090T to 3.8. With my computer build should this be a safe thing to do for my computer?

Hi everyone, Previously, i've been using a Phenom X4 9750 with a Radeon 4650 and 2 Gigs DDR2 of RAM, My FPS would fluctuate from the low 20's to the high 70's. (Though would stay near 30-40 most of the time)My 9750 however got burned and won't work.So Tommorow i'm being shipped a Phenom II X4 920. I was wondering what i might expect in terms of performance with settings set in the medium-ish high setting.

I bought my first gaming PC from Cyberpower several weeks ago and started having memory page faults from the initial startup. After some discussion and troubleshooting with tech support the PC appears to have a bad memory dimm slot which will require a new motherboard. The PC is under warranty and Cyberpower will take care of all costs for repair and shipping. I have had desktop PCs from Gateway, HP and Dell and NEVER had a problem like this! Should I just return the PC and get my money back or have them do the warranty repair?Thanks for your help!Airbus