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If so, what has been your experience? I know very little about them and was wondering if anyone has had any positive experiences.Thanks,Mark

Folks,Could I get some thoughts on a new processor to buy.I have the option of picking up a machine with an i7 980X (alienware) or should I wait for the new Sandy Bridge CPU's coming out next year ?Thanks,Dinshaw.

Can anyone tell me if they have any comments on the following computer to be utilized at running PMDG products?: Dell - Studio XPS 8100 Desktop / Intel® Core™ i7 Processor / 8GB Memory / 1.5TB Hard DriveJack

Guys.... I am about to build my new system for FSX. I will be new to FSX and have seen lots of post about Nick and Bojote's recommendations.Question: Do I need to follow all those recommendations....if yes which one do I start with...Nick's or Bojote's (*******)?I want to make sure my experience with FSX is both good eye-candy and good performance, as well.Thanks,John

Hi , I am going to be doing an upgrade of my motherboard, CPU , memory and graphics card. I will be keeping my SSD drives, with my install of windows, FSX and my scenery untouched.My question is this: Will my existing installation of windows on the "see" all the new hardware etc ok when I plug the drive in and do all the necessary re adjustments to setting etc, or will I need to re install windows from scratch. And if this is the case, what about my FSX install ( Its on a separate drive to my windows) Any advice appreciatedCheers, Mark

Allright, I think I have my new build hardware finallized, except the drives. It's a dual use home system and for FSX so I would like to setup at least a raid 1 (mirror) for redundancy. Is it possible to have a raid 1 setup (2 drives) for the operating system and program files and just install FSX on a 3rd single non-array velociraptor drive or similar for better speed? Or, would an all in one raid 1+0 with 4 drives work better? Thanks everyone for all of the advice recently!-- edit, I'm not worried if I the FSX drive should fail, because I can just re-install if needed.David

Hi guys ,I am going to build a new system with a I7 950 on a asus rampage iii extreme board , overclock to 4.2 if possible ,gfx480 .What can you guys recommend for the cpu cooling .At this moment i have a system with a q6600 slightly overclocked to 3350 on watercooling , ( d tek fuzion cpu block eheim pump,) ofcourse i can use this watercooling for my new system but allready promised this system to my son .Are there any good air cpu coolers to get the job done for cooling the I7 950 oc to 4.2 ( if possible ) or do you guys recommend going for watercooling ?I hope you can help me , i did a lot of research for cpu coolers but there are so many reviews with different result…

I've tested my new i7-930 and made a quick simple OC to 3.8 ghz (no voltage change). I have a Geforce 250GTS - and my fsx is not perfoming very convising. My old Quadcore 9650 @ 3.0 ghz with a 9600GTX card is actually almost as fast as the new setup.So my question is - could it be the graphics card?Or could it be the OC is done "too simple"Or something else.I use Windows 7 64-bit, 6 gb RAM + Geforce 250GTS.

I'm building a new system shortly, and would want to install my existing copy of Windows XP onto it (although I'll be using the same HD, I figure an OS re-install is necessary with a new mobo).Regarding the MS validation process for XP: has anyone run into issues with this? I understand that maybe the NIC is the most weighted component in the "check-sum" equation, and this will be the same as currently used- in fact it's just a new mobo, CPU and DDR memory at the moment.Thanks for any help- I've also heard the validation process is reset by MS after 120 days- or so I read in PC World a few months ago. Anyone that can validate that?Thanks,Bruce.

Hi,I currently have a Q6600 overclocked to 3.37GHz. Would there be a noticable performance increase in FSX if I upgrade to an i7 and overclock it to 4GHz?Thank you in advance

I have an older Q6600 on a Gigabyte X38T-DQ6 board, 4GB DD3-1600 RAM, running Win 7 / 64 bit with a GTX 460 (1 GB). I had previously mildly overclocked the CPU to 3GHz (333 X 9), and it ran stable. After noticing last night that it seemed to be running slower then before, I looked at BIOS and found that the manual FSB setting was back to "Auto", giving a CPU speed of 2.4 GHz. I tried re-enabling my OC but it always shut down and reset to Auto after trying to boot.I finally tried setting the FSB to manual, but the FSB to default speed (would still yield 2.4 GHz), and it shut down on reboot again, and then started with the Auto setting. Seems it is not happy with the F…

Hi guys,I'm looking for a budget friendly upgrade on my PC. My combination at the moment is E8500 @ 3.9 on ASUS P5QL pro,GTS 250 with 4GB RAM on windows 7.I'm thinking about an I5 760 on new Asus board. Would I see a significant improvent by going this way?I only use FSX.Thanks

Any/All whom may help:I have been using Voice Buddy for 5 months without issue.I then moved FS9 to a slaved drive, cleaned up C:, and then installed FSX onto C:FSX works fine, TrackIR is even working, but Voice Buddy will not load. It acts like it is trying to, then...nothing.So I reinstalled. No joy.So I removed, and reinstalled...twice more.No joy.I have located an log in the VB folder, which reads, at the bottom of the log, "error -2147200966 at line 1706 of file "VoiceKernel.cpp"Voice Buddy closed on: Wed Oct 18 10:14:36 2006"Can anyone help? I can't get a human to help over at EDimensional. Clayton

Hello EveryoneI get this very annoying failure of FSX at times and cannot seem to find what is causing it. Please see the error message that I get below and is nearly always the same.If anyone one could point me in the right direction I would certainly appreciate it.Cheers BarraDescriptionFaulting Application Path: E:\Microsoft Games\fsx.exeProblem signatureProblem Event Name: APPCRASHApplication Name: fsx.exeApplication Version: 10.0.61637.0Application Timestamp: 46fadb14Fault Module Name: SimConnect.dllFault Module Version: 10.0.61637.0Fault Module Timestamp: 46fad5b6Exception Code: c0000005Exception Offset: 00004a5bOS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.768.3Locale ID: 3081Extra …

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I'm looking at getting an i7-950 and the ASUS P6X58 board. Should I get the regular or premium one and what is different between the two? ThanksDavid

Hey,When I am landing to KJFK (or another very busy airport) with LDS 767 or PMDG 747, AI 50-70%. If there is any AI traffic or clouds, Frames go all the way down. Should I get a new CPU like intel i7 950? Or another video card like GTX 480? Right now I have I7 870 that is running at 3.6 Ghz. But I doesn't seem to be enough.Edit: And I use FSX

Greetings! I´m about to leave my old PC and would like to hear your thoughts about these core hardware choices. Do they "play nice" together? I´m also wondering about the CPU and GPU, is the performance of the pricier ones worth the extra cost? Any obvious mistakes in the setup (I´ve left out DVD, cardreader and such)?Does this rig work with general gaming as well as for FSX?Chassi: Cooler Master CM 690 II AdvancedPower: Chieftec Super Series 650W PSU ATX 12V V2.3, 80 Plus, Modular, 1x 6pin+1x 6+2pin PCIe, 6x SATA, 140mm FläktMobo: ASUS P7P55D-E LX, Socket-1156 ATX, P55, DDR3, 2xPCIe(2.0)x16, GbLAN, SATA 6Gb/s, USB 3.0CPU: Intel Core™ i5 Quad Processor i5-760 Quad Core, 2…

Morning,First off, please know I have been out of the tech-loop for a while. Also, I'm not that bright anyway, so please be gentle.My rig: E6700 dual-core on an Asus P5N socket LG775 MB w/ 4GB Corsair DDR2 RAM and an 8800GTS 640 Video card. X-Fi sound card, 650W PSU, all in an Antec 900 case.The question: I have a couple of bucks for an upgrade and am considering a new CPU that will fit my present MB. The 9650 Quad-Core will fit my board and looks to be a much faster CPU than my E6700. This will set me back about $350, not petty cash for me, and given my specs seems to be a good upgrade. And all I have to do is swap CPUs, nothing else.But with all these i7 CPUs, I'm wonde…

Here's a crop from my desktop where two MS Excel files reside. A while back a lot of my files lost their icons and also some files simply would not open with their respective program.Is there anyway to fix this? These two files DO open with Excel but just lost their icons...

I'm building a new PC mainly for FSX, any suggestions would be appreciated: Corsair Memory DDR3 2000MHz 6GB kit of 3x240pin DIMMs Unbuffered 9-9-9-24 1T XMS3 with Classic Heat Spreader, Supports Core i7(S031124) £95.60 Intel CPU Core i7 930 2.8 GHz 8MB LGA1366 45nm BX80601930 (3 Year Manufacturer Warranty)(S028066) £186.56 Gigabyte GeForce GTX 470 1280MB Super Over Clocked GDDR5 PCI-E 2.0 (x16) Dual Link DVI-I mini HDMI Retail Graphics Card(S031651) £203.99 Prolimatech Megahalems CPU Cooler Rev B (Socket 775/1156/1366)(S030338) £35.00 Asus Motherboard Sabertooth X58 Core i7 LGA1366 DDR3 ATX - 5 year manufacturer's warranty(S031943) £133.21 Antec case Nine Hundred Gaming …

Hello fellow simmersI am saving up for a new flightsim pc, and thought about the i7 980x. Do any of you have experience with this processor and FSX? Can FSX take advantage of all 6 cores?Also i remember to have read that FSX doesn´t work well with 2 GPU´s (SLI) is that correct?

My dear Captains(Females and Males):It is official. the number one Anti-FSX Captain has decided to go FSX...Yes, you ready correctly... I'm going for it. And, for this to happen Santa brought me some goodies. I will need to get all your support to make this thing "fly." You guys comming ?So, Here's the arsenal that I just purchased, with which I plan on flying the most complex add-ons on the market...from Airliners to best sceneries. The Sytem Built parts are the following: X2 Western Digital VelociRaptor WD4500HLHX 450GB 10000 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s....Thermaltake Spedo Black Full-T Case w/230mm....ASUS Sabertooth X58 Intel X58 LGA1366 Motherboard....Microsoft W…

I think I'm about to make a switch from Vista x64 to Win7 x64. Mainly based on all the chat about Win7 being better. But why is it?

Hi guys.I have three hard drives on my computer at the moment,but I would like to try a SSD. The three drives run XP 32 ..Vista 64....and Win 7 64. My first question is...can the new SSD drive also run Win 7? When I start my computer at the moment I get a choice of which drive (OS) to boot up,but if I put Win 7 on the new drive what will happen?My second question is do I need to install any OS at all on this drive,and just use it for FSX and add ons? If that's a silly question please forgive me,but I am not too clear on this.Thank you for any help or advice you can give me.All the best.Dennis