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

Hello all, In this land of constant power failures, I have encountered a problem which is puzzling to say the least. A power fail last night just before bedtime so I just turned everything off (power still off) reached for my trusty torch (always at hand) and went to bed. Before I start detailing my woes please let me give you my computer specs 1 PSU 1200watt MB ASRock Z77 Extreme 4 (installed a week ago to replace a power fail blown ASUS Z68) CPU core i7 2600k OC'd to 4.4 and stable since OC, for about 12 months. RAM 32GB (4x8GB) 2666. GPU Gigabyte Aoreos GTX 1080ti 4 x SSD drives 4 x HDD drives OS is Windows …

What do you think of this laptop for FSX-SE? It's just $805. https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-IPS-Level-i5-8300H-GeForce-2666MHz/dp/B07DY11M1F Asus TUF FX504GE-ES72 CPU: i7-8750H (6 cores, 2.2-4.1 Ghz) RAM: 8GB DDR4 Display: 15", 1920x1080 Storage: 256 GB M.2 SSD (yes, too small, but there's a SATA bay avaliable, and I have a SATA SSD lying around). GPU: Geforce GTX 1050Ti My idea is to run FSX-SE with Orbx Global+Vector, no addon airports (just AFCADs), AI, ActiveSky WX, and aircraft such as the Aerosoft Airbus and the iFly 737. Moving into P3D is not an option for me, I was able to get all the FSX addons for not that much. Will it be a good purchase?

Hello you HW gurus out there! I hope you can Still stand one more Is-this-good-system question. Here we go with it... I am going to have a new pc mainly for P3D. I have an offer for a system like this: - Intel Coffee Lake Core i7-9700K, LGA1151, 3.60 GHz - G.Skill 32GB (2 x 16GB) Ripjaws V, DDR4 - GeForce GTX 1660 Ti - Asus PRIME Z390-P - Alpenföhn Ben Nevis Advanced - Samsung 500GB 970 EVO Plus SSD - Seagate 4TB BarraCuda How would you rate this system for P3D? There is a bottle neck in every system. What is it here? And, should I install the OS to SSD and P3D to HDD or both of them to SSD? Is t…

I've got a new (but used) mobo and I formatted my old Win7 drive and installed Win10 x64 After POST there's a blinking hyphen (or underscore I think) in the upper left. It blinks at the very top, then blinks one line down, then back to the top. It usually goes back and forth for about 30-40 seconds. Then the Win10 logo appears with the "thinking" screen then it loads into Win10 where I can enter my login password. Does anyone know why the blinking hyphen thing is present?

My son just bought a mobo (with M2 Storage) and i5 9600k for about $350.00 At first I told him he was crazy, but then I looked at the specs/ performance Crazy...like a fox! anyone else running an i5 9600k with p3d. and if so, thoughts my current proc is a very old and tired i7 2600K TIA, -Braun CPU Mark Relative to Top 10 Common Desktop CPUs As of 27th of August 2019 - Higher results represent better performance Intel Core i7-8700K @ 3.70GHz 15,963 Intel Core i5-9600K @ 3.70GHz 13,534 Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.20GHz 12,031 Intel Core i7-4790K…

Just purchased a used 1080ti. Is there any software to actually 'test' it to see if all is well?

Would I get better cooling by installing a CoolerMaster Hyper 212 over the stock Wraith Prism cooler on my Ryzen 2700X

good morning sir I have a problem,can someone help me ? I purchased a 4Tb usb disk 2.5" ,but when I link to my PC,there is a window say: the HDD is not formatted.What flyle system I do ? Excuse me bad english Andrea

Greetings chaps. I know a young man (his dad works with my daughter) who 's doing a game dev course and needs a PC. Trouble is he has a very tight budget. £700 is the budget. I'm thinking at such a low budget Ryzen 5 might be the way to go. Personally I'm an Intel guy and have no experience of Ryzen. So what do you guys think? what can you come up with for this young lad with a budget of £700? That's just for the tower.

About to invest in hardware upgrades and I’m torn between the i7 9700k and the i9 9990k ... only major difference is the 9900k has 16 threads compared to 8 threads on the 9700k ... but also from reading around I found this - “Mainstream PC games do not benefit from more than eight threads, so at $350 (25% cheaper than the 9900K), the 9700K offers far better value for money to gamers.” so so would it even be worth the extra $100 for something that I don’t even know if P3D would benefit from?

I have a cheap chinese brand "Etekcity" USB3 hub....well it's dead...only 2 years in argh! Thankfully it wasn't too expensive. But I'm looking for a better replacement. Needs to be at least 7 USB3 ports. Anyone have any suggestions?

Hello everyone, The time has come that I really need a new computer. I currently own a laptop with the following specs: i7 6700HQ @ 2,60 to 3,20 GHz Geforce GTX 960m 4gb 8 gb DDR4 RAM I own P3D v4, but just can‘t get it to run smooth. The PMDG 737 gives me 18 FPS combined with Active Sky while the settings are set really low. FSX doesn‘t work well either and is extremely unstable. For this reason I have been stuck with FS2004 for a long while but it‘s limits are really showing, and it‘s becoming more and more difficult to keep a realistic feel to such an old sim. So I am planning to get a new computer to run P3D v4 …

I am sure some or many of you will already be aware of the fairly recently discovered Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities with hardware and software. These have been fixed or patched in Windows 10 and in many BIOS updates for most vendors. However, if you are running an older CPU, basically any CPU before the 8th and 9th series Intel then these fixes have markedly reduced your CPU performance in Windows and also P3D. It is also highly suspect that Intel have 'nerfed' older architectures to make the current generations seem more appealing.. but that is a side issue. There is however an option to disable these performance reducing patches, via a tool created by Gibson…

I was going to do a new build in January but with Ice lake rumors, I decided to hold off. Now Intel is indicating that ice lake desktop chips won't be out until 2020. Some reports saying it could even be mid-2020 before they are out. Opinions on proceeding with new build now? The cycle is continuous but I figure I build now, then do an ice lake in about 2 years from now.

Hey there dudes i would like your opinion on this new config I’m gonna be getting an i5 9600k with a gtx 1660ti and 16 gigs 3200mhz of ram and an ssd as a boot drive can i still get some decent graphics or use orbx addons with this config? I’m working on a tight budget but am willing to upgrade the gpu to a 2070 later on but I’m just askinh if i can get by with this

Hello I am ordering a new PC for use with P3Dv4.5 . To be honest, I really don't know anything about computers and hardware - I just enjoy flight simming. I would be very happy if you could look through the specs of my upcoming PC and voice your opinion. Is there anything I should add or change? Should anything be left out? Specs: Motherboard: Asus TUF Z390 Plus CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-9700KF GPU: Asus GeForce® RTX 2070 8GB GDDR6 Power supply: Corsair TX650M 650W 80plus gold Primary SSD: 2000GB SSD Intel 660P M.2 NVMe Secondary SSD: Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500GB M.2 NVMe SSD RAM: 32GB DDR4-3000 Corsair Vengeance XMP RAM Network: Intel® Wireless-AC…

building a new system - primarily for P3D. Asus rog maximus xi formula is my MB choice. case and fans are all corsair so I'd like to go with corsair ram for the rgb compatibility. I think I am going with the Dominator Platinum RGB. Problem is, I cannot decide what configuration, speed etc. I know I want at least 32GB total. Now, the decisions.... 3000, 3200, 3600..... 2x16, 4x8, 4x16. 4x8 will look the best but I know won't perform as well as 2 x16. 4 x 16 would be best but $$$$$.I currently have 2 x16 3200 in my current system so don't think I would want to go lower than that. Any input?

Hi guys, I have been out of the hardware game for a while because I have had an Ailenware Aurora for about 8 years. It finally gave out today. Just for space reasons, I was looking into gaming laptops. I was wondering if anyone has had any good reviews on these. I have been looking into Origin Laptops, I want something high end that can run P3d V4, high end add ons, Orbx, etc. Suggestions?

So I've been using an i5-2500K since 2011 for all of my flight simming (P3Dv4) and gaming, here is my build: I5-2500K Biostar TZ68A+ motherboard 8GB Gskill Sniper DDR3 1333 memory EVGA GTX970 (2) Western Digital Blue 1TB old fashioned spinning 7200RPM HDD’s (no SSD's!) 650W power supply I'm looking to build a new PC around the new Ryzen 5 3600 CPU, this is what I'm thinking of building: Ryzen 5 3600 MSI MPG X570 GAMING PLUS motherboard G.SKILL Flare X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4 3200 CL14 memory Western Digital 500GB SATA3 SSD Western Digital 2TB SATA3 SSD Cooler Master HAF 912 Case Quick note,…

Hi everyone! I used to be a flight sim maniac for years, but life got in the way and I left it all behind about 6 years ago. A lot has changed in the technology-side-of-things, and luckily also in the money-side-of things for me, which means that I have a healthy budget to get back into the flight sim world. i used to only use FSX, but I've done enough research already to know that Prepar3d is the platform I will be going with now. This is the custom PC that I want to have built for me (here, in the UK), that fits in my budget and I would like to ask for some opinions and advice on it. if it matters - maybe, for the GPU advice - I will be using an Ultra-Wide Cur…

Hello everyone, The last months my pc really struggled with running XP11 and P3D. I have a prety good system, and hoped to get about 30 fps when I built it, but that wasn't the case. I get about 18 to 22 frames per second in XP, and some more in P3D. In XP I am suffering from a lot of stutters, with pretty low fps at cruise, and in P3D I got some crashes because of the Kernel DDL problem, and sometimes the screen flickered. When reinstalling XP I didn't get the 40+ fps like everyone with a system like mine, but a really stuttery 22 fps with vanilla installation at KSEA in a Cessna. I P3d this was way better, but it also feels very unstable. I really didn't know what …

Hi Guys My motherboard is an Asus ROG Maximus IX Hero which does not come with native wifi or Bluetooth, but instead has a separate M.2 slot for adding a card. I’ve been trying (without success) to find out exactly which card I can use in this slot. Asus mark it as M.2 (E key). Now, does this mean M.2 cards with ONLY the E key can be used? Or can I also use the much more common cards with A and E key slots? Before its suggested, I don’t want to use a USB dongle😉

Recently, I’ve invested in some new hardware with the goal of achieving smooth flight with higher settings. I’m happy to report that all my hard work has paid off, with the help of these forums! I started with upgrading my video card to the RTX 2080 (not just for sim I play other games too) I purchased a Corsair liquid cooler H100i Pro. I already had 16gb of Ripjaw memory so I stayed with that. Finally, I purchased the 970 Evo Plus V-Nano 1TB SSD where I loaded Prepar3d and all my addons. I have an i7 8700k and I achieved a stable 5 ghz overclock on it, which took some work. The results are wonderful. Smooth flight with very few stutter…

Hey Guys. Really enjoying my new rig. Spent years on a 2600k rig. Admittedly, I am not really fully utilizing the capability of this new computer as the majority of my simming is FS9. This is for a multitude of factors. Mainly, I already have all the add-ons I want configured the way I want them. Most of the FS9 flying I do is VATSIM airliner flights around the US. With Microsoft's new sim coming soon, I don't see a huge push to dive into P3D right now. Maybe the new MS sim will be a dud, and I will go P3d eventually. I also really enjoy Aerofly FS 2 for screw around VFR type flights. Anyway. Right now I have a limited overclock by definition only. Other…

I'm trying to figure out the RTX 20xx cards....what sort of PSU power connector do I actually need? I've got a Seasonic X750 modular from 2011. Would this support a RTX 20xx card? I can't really seem to get a good answer from anywhere. I see mention of two 8pin connectors.... My current GTX 980 - heck I'm not even sure what that uses LOL So I pulled the RTX 2070 Super "user guide" and it says one 6pin and one 8pin. So I need to be sure my PSU has the ones circled in green, correct? I know I have the 6 pins for sure. atx by ryan b, on Flickr Here is what I've got on my GTX 980 now: Is this a 6+2 pin AND 8pin? (EDIT actually looks …