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Just double checking that the 8700K seems to be the current CPU to get for FSX:SE and other sims? It shows as highest single thread performance on passmark which I'm assuming is still important for stuff like current P3D and XP? I'm still running FSX:SE only but I'm looking to upgrade my 3+ year old 4790K in the next year. When I built the 4790K I was kind of wanting to get a 6+ core CPU for more multi-thread performance for video/photo editing but it seems like the 8700K will satisfy that even though it doesn't score nearly as high as Skylake in the multi-thread benchmarks? Whatever I get would be paired with a new 8GB GTX1070 (my 780 died last weekend) and 16-32GB o…

Have a i7 6700k. Cooling is via a Corsair Hydro H115 Liquid Cooling system. Currently OC at 4.3ghz with HT on and fixed voltage of 1.25. With my settings and background processes running (ASP4, ASCA, vPilot, Simserver for RemoteCDU and an ACARs program) my Temps via CoreTemp are running from 65 to 90 degrees Celsius with it tending to hover around 80. Is this normal? I keep seeing in other forums people with higher clocks running in the 50's for temps. But then again it's not a flight Sim they are running. Long term it can't be good to run around 80 but don't understand why with liquid cooling it's high.

Hey gents. Been out of commission for several years. Got the OK from the wife to get a new PC. My old one is a Dell XPS8500 with a GTX 660ti and an i7-3770. Here's the new rig I just ordered. Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated: CPU: i7-8700K Motherboard: MSI Z370 Gaming M5 Ballistix Sport LT 32GB DDR4 2666 Corsair Hydro Series H100i v2 CPU Cooler Samsung 960 EVO M.2 250GB (For OS) Corsair RMi Series 750 Watt PSU MSI GTX 1080TI Duke OC Corsair Carbide Clear 400C Case I'm planning to use a 3TB HDD for most of my sim stuff. Eventually I'd like to add another M.2 SSD to put it on, but I kinda toppe…

What are your thoughts on an Akasa AK-CC4010HP01 Venom Medusa Universal Socket 120mm PWM 1900rpm High Performance Fan? George

So do you think Volta will give us significantly performance improvement over a 1080Ti? This would be for a normal screen setup, perhaps a 4K tv but definitely not VR.

I recently noticed that my computer seemed to be running hot during demanding P3D situations (no surprise there, right?). In checking temps with Real Temp I found that it was running around high 70s (C) in demanding scenarios with short spikes as high as 83C. (It's a 6700k overclocked to 4.6, using a Z170 OC Formula present for 4.6 that uses 1.3V adaptive voltage -- a bit high but I've never once gotten a BSOD, and temps used to be totally fine, so I haven't had reason to complain...and cooled with a Noctua NH-D15S.) 83C seemed a bit high, and I hadn’t cleaned my computer out in a year, so I did. Not much dust inside, and after closing it back up temps were basi…

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Hi--P3dv4.1 on a 6700k oc'd to 4.6, W7, Nvidia Titan Pascal and 16gb DDR 3200 all on an Asus Maximus Formula VIII board. The video card is also oc'd, with the original fan. Whole rig is about a year old with a large Cooler Master HAF case. The CPU is watercooled by a Corsair H105 horizontally top mounted. About two months ago the Corsair fans became really noisy at high speed and then started rattling, even at idle. CPU Temps at idle are in the low 20's and at high load in P3d run 60-70 degrees, with one core going into the 80's occasionally. I live in Florida and the room is rarely cooler than 80 degrees F. There are three other fans in a push-pull arrangeme…

Hi guys, I think that I MUST change my PSU, previously I've got a MSI Z270 MOBO with a i5 6600K and a GTX 1070, after 2 months I've got big troubles (sound card broken on the MOBO, and now I've big troubles with the 1070) just when I started to OC hte CPU Yesterday I mounted my Z370 and a 8700K but I don't want to have the same issue than before and fried everything, my current PSU is 650W, do you think that is enought for this: I7 8700K @4.7 (but I'll go on 5mhz later) GTX 1080Ti (very soon) 16 GB DDR4 (soon 32) 1SSD and 2 HDD 1 Watercooling for the CPU 2 fans on the box Oculus Rift And if a 750W PSU is a good ch…

Here's an interesting user video from XP11... Same clock speed, different CPU. He had a GTX 1080 for both systems. I'm actually suprised the increase wasn't more. I wonder if the monitor is 60Hz - the 8700K fps don't go much higher than that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADQu_Ryh70A&feature=youtu.be Here's the thread at xplane org https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/135352-test-2600k-45-ghz-vs-8700k-45ghz-xplane-11/&

Not sure how significant batch numbers are these days, now this particular platform, as its based on previous, is quite optimised. But mine is: L734C936 L = Malaysia 7 = 2017 manufactured 34 = Week 34 manufactured C = Lot Number. Wafer ID. 936 = Position on wafer. From what I've read, looks like wafer C chips from weeks in the 30's clock high. Am hoping for the best. I will delid of course so we shall see.

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Hi, I really could use some help figuring out what's wrong with my PC. Lately, mostly but not only when gaming, my monitor goes black and after a few seconds I get a "No signal" message. My PC keeps working and it seems the only problem is the loss of image. I can still hear the sound from the game I'm playing but sometimes there's some "screeching" with the other sounds in the background. Pushing reset (I also learned that doing ctrl+alt+delete+3 times tab+enter shuts down the PC even if I can't see what I'm doing :-D) solves the problem until the next time. I have a four year old EVGA GeForce GTX 770 with the EVGA ACX Cooler. I notice…

Hello, I might be looking in to getting a better PC. I have ok frame rates, (at best 22) and use Ultimate terrain X with Ground environment X for my scenery. My current PC's Specs: Duel Core Laptop Windows 8.1 8GB of RAM Intel i3 5010U I am fed up of getting blurries and have tried lots of tweaking, but all I do is screw up my FSX. Please do not tell me to "read tweaking guides" there useless for me! So I looked into this PC Intel® Core™ i5-7400 ASUS® H110M-R 8GB Corsair VENGEANCE 2133MHz 4GB GEFORCE GTX 1050 Ti 2TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s Genuine Windows 10 Home If I got this, could I run Orbx, PMDG, Aero…

This is a new high end PC. Outside of the I7-7700k running hot it was performing fine. I tried to boot up a few days ago and got this screen - https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=29E8FB6466879FCD&id=29E8FB6466879FCD!704&parId=29E8FB6466879FCD!104&o=OneUp When I put the W10 disc in the drive I got this - https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=29E8FB6466879FCD&id=29E8FB6466879FCD!706&parId=29E8FB6466879FCD!104&o=OneUp The bios doesn't show the 500Gb SSD boot C drive either. What gives?? Bruce

I am running FSX on a Windows 10 (updated from Windows7) desktop PC. I have windows on Drive C, FSX on drive E and scenery on drive F, all drives being standard hard drives. A recent problem with the PC (it wouldn't boot up) was rectified after advice from the PC supplier. They suggested several things and it seemed that removal and replacement of the memory cards is what did the trick. It got me thinking about computer failure - the PC is nearing 4 years old. The thought of re-installing Windows, FSX, planes, scenery utilities etc etc on a new PC fills me with dread, not the least because of the sheer time involvement. SO: Is it feasible to buy say a 1Tera…

Well, my wife surprisingly allowed me to update my computer! Christmas has indeed come early this year. My trusty i5-3570k has been going well for the past 5-6 years, but it's time to say goodbye! Here's the parts I just ordered, arriving tomorrow. A nice Sunday afternoon activity of building the new machine awaits! CPU: i7-8700K (aiming for ~5ghz OC) Cooler: Corsair Hydro H115i Motherboard: ASUS ROG Z370-F RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000mhz (Cl15) GFX: EVGA SC 980 Ti (not new, from my current system) Storage: 2x PCI-E Samsung 960 EVO SSD's [+ existing my existing SSD's.] Power: Corsair RM750X Case: Fra…

I am looking to build a PC just for FSX. I would like to run FSX on maxed out settings with AI, and lots of scenery addons, aircraft addons and weather addons, at a high FPS count and good graphics. I have heard that it is not recommended to buy a prebuilt one, but what about an XForce PC, or Digital Storm, or even one of Jetline Systems PC’s? Below are some links to some PCs I was looking at. For the Jetliner Systems PCs, I was going to get the best option for each one even if it costs over $8000. I Doubt I will be getting a laptop, but I will list the good gaming ones I found anyway. •http://jetlinesystems.com/product/gravity-mini-3/ •http:…

What is better for p3d v4: i5 8600k @5.2 or i7 8700k @5.0? I have an i7 on order but not sure if p3d need the hyperthreading.

Right now I have an I5 4460 pared with a gtx 1060 6 GB. My cpu is little weak in my opinion. Especially in Battlefield 1. So I am going to upgrade. But what cpu is best for p3d. Is the ryzen 1600x a good choice

I'm looking to get a new PC to run P3D v4, would a system like this be good enough to run P3D v4 will a lot of addons such as a range of airports, orbx, PMDG and weather engines? CPU : Intel Core i7 7700K Quad Core Socket 1151 (4.5GHz, 8MB Cache, Hyperthreading, Overclockable) CPU Cooler : Cooler Master MasterLiquid 120 CPU Water Cooler Graphics Card 1 : nVidia GeForce GTX 1070 8GB GDDR5 Graphics Card Memory : 16GB Corsair DDR4 2666MHz C16 Dual Channel Memory Kit (2 x 8GB) Motherboard : Asus Prime Z270-P Motherboard System Drive : Seagate 2TB/8GB Desktop Solid State Hybrid Drive (SSHD) Power Supply : FSP Non-Modular 750W Power Supply (Si…

I am looking to build a PC just for FSX. I would like to run FSX on maxed out settings with AI, and lots of scenery addons, aircraft addons and weather addons, at a high FPS count and good graphics. I have heard that it is not recommended to buy a prebuilt one, but what about an XForce PC, or Digital Storm, or even one of Jetline Systems PC’s? Below are some links to some PCs I was looking at. For the Jetliner Systems PCs, I was going to get the best option for each one even if it costs over $8000. I Doubt I will be getting a laptop, but I will list the good gaming ones I found anyway. •http://jetlinesystems.com/product/gravity-mini-3/ •http:…

Can anyone give any recommendations for a PCIe USB 3.1 card with the 19pin INTERNAL port please? There are many with external ports, but I only need the internal, as my M/B port is goosed:-( So far, I've only actually found two! And one of these I don't know the quality of... (Silverstone brand)

Here's my experience with upgrading my computer. Foreword At first, I was planning to upgrade. I was going to reuse my old case, keep the old video card and save some money. Since my old computer was more than 5 years old, I later thought I should replace the works. I didn't want to destroy one computer to make a new one. What if something goes wrong and I have NO computer? Another realization I had along the way: I have a lot of Add-on's. I have spent hours and days getting my old system 'just right'. There are a huge number of licenses to keep straight. It takes many hours to get all this re-installed and configured. And...tuning and tweaking an over…

Hello all, So I am about to order this new build I think(Merry Christmas to me!!! :)). However, I have been out of the PC Hardware side of things for quite a while now. So, while I know enough to be dangerous with hardware, I'm not the most up to date on things. Can anyone please provide me with any advice? Whether that be incompatible hardware, something I should upgrade or swap out or am I maybe even missing something? Thanks in advance for the help!!! Fractal Design Define R5 Black Silent ATX Midtower Computer Case Item #:N82E16811352048 Return Policy: Extended Holiday Return Policy $99.99 CORSAIR RMx Series RM850X 850W 80 PLUS GOLD Haswel…