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

This thread is included as a convenience only and does not constitute endorsement by AVSIM. By de-lidding your CPU you WILL void your warranty and could accidentally damage your processor. AVSIM does not recommend any process or equipment alterations which do not adhere to the original equipment manufacturers specifications or operating procedures. If you follow the de-lidding procedure outlined here, you do so at your own risk. Avsim is not liable for any damage. What's this de-lidding business? De-lidding is a procedure used by overclockers/modders to remove the Integrated Heat Spreader (IHS) from their CPU. It is best accomplished with a bare razor blade or an e…

Coming off of an Ivy Bridge patform, Kaby was a breath of fresh air. The much more organized bios is great and Gigabyte has a nice EZ OC guide that kind-of makes sense. The main feeling is that there is room to move. 5ghz is trivial but may require delidding. Its a process that requires dexterity or you can use one of the new tools. This process will give me about 15C. Like SandyBridge, Kaby is an easy one to OC, possibly the only platform to do 5ghz on air reliably ever. Cheers jja

Hello I am considering installing P3D, ORBX (global & Vector for Europe ) Active sky, PMDG and FSLABS aircraft on my existing SSD drive. I have 91Gb remaining ( I already have FSX-SE installed). I expect that the planned installation will use most of remaining capacity on my SSD drive. Will I experience severe performance issues using P3D if I fill my drive to capacity ? It is probably advisable to by a new SSD but I am trying to avoid havining to re-install everything again Advice and comments welcome Clive Alexander I

Please give advice on this computer for FSX. As my present HP is having difficuty managing all my add-on product I am looking around what the best replacement would be within my budget. I can wait before replacing. The one I have found has the following specs. Intel Core i7-6700 quad core CPU 3.4 GHz, max 4.0GHz Cashe 8MB Memory 16 GB DDR4 (2x8 GB) SSD 256 GB, HD 2 TB. ( ne extra space for a third one) Discrete Video card AMD Radeon R9 390X 8 GB GDDR5 Another new Hp PC has a Nvidia graphic card GeForce GTX 1070 but only has a SSD 128GB & 1TB HD. Questions. Why is NVidia prefered to than Radeon, would I get issues wit…

I have a gigabyte Z97X-SLI with an I7 4790K chip. Currently have 8GB of ram, want to upgrade ram for possible P3D 64 bit and XPlane 11. Anyone with suggestions and speed? Should I go with 16 or 32 and then what speed. Thanks and I am a total rookie with computeres as well.

Apologies for the spelling in the title. Must have been excitement. Hehe. 52% more IPC. They beat their 40% goal! 1800X = $499. Intel = $1000.

Hi everyone, after much research and deliberation I'm about ready to pull the trigger on my upgrade. My planned components are below, I'd love to hear people's thoughts before I go ahead with it: Mobo: GIGABYTE Aorus GA-Z270X-Gaming K5 (rev. 1.0) http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128966&_ga=1.137079472.1061115704.1469585710 CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117726&_ga=1.137079472.1061115704.1469585710 RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) Desktop Memory Model F4-3200C14D-16GVK, Timing 14-14-14-34 http://www.newegg.ca/Prod…

Hi Guys: Trying to update my computer. I have no idea what I'm doing except what I've tried to find here at AVSIM. So, what do you think? Anything under/over kill? Will this run 4K curved monitor or TV? Thanks much! System Configuration:Chassis Model: Special Deal Hot Seller - Digital Storm Velox Exterior Finish: - Standard Factory Finish Trim Accents: - Standard Factory Finish Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K 4.2 GHz (Codename Kaby Lake) (Unlocked CPU) (Quad Core) Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix Z270H GAMING (Intel Z270 Chipset) (Up to 3x PCI-E Devices) System Memory: 64GB DDR4 2666MHz Digital Storm Performance Series Power Supply: 750W EVGA SuperNOVA (750 B1…

I've decided I need to pull the trigger and build myself a new PC that will be used for FSX and P3D exclusively. My system just can't run the complex aircraft with any type of scenery. I know there's a ton of topics here regarding the same thing but I'm only concerned with my build and some of these messages get a little convoluted so I am asking for opinions/advice on the following system. I tried to mirror the Jetline Systems Gravity GT2 the best I could and determined I could build it myself for about $1000 less than retail. I realize this isn't the exact system but would still like some opinions on what I might expect with this rig. Thank you. ASRock Fatal1ty …

Is there an alternative of nvidia inspector for intel graphics? I don;t have a real gpu yet...

Hi! So I want to get this CPU: i3-550 (dual core / four threads, 32nm cpu) I have a mother board socket 939 and LPCIO ITE IT8732 If not, can I get the, X5460 (four cores / four threads, 45nm cpu) if not, X5650 - (six cores / twelve threads, 32nm cpu) IF NOT, E5640 - (four cores / eight threads, 32nm cpu) if not, i am trhowing in the towel, with: E5-2670 - (eight cores / sixteen threads) please help... I have 8gb of ddr3 ram, 1600mhz.

Alright, so when I got my Chrome Book, I thought it had amazing performance, but when I looked at my specs, the processor was a celeron, and clocked at 1.40 GHZ! WHAT? And the ram was 2GB! WHAT????????? It performed very good! How is this possible?

Hello dear avsimmers I built my pc 5 years ago. The specs are Core i3 2120 1155p , 2x4GB DDR3 1333mhz Ram , Radeon HD6670 2gigs 128bit graphics , Gigabyte H61 MA-D3V mobo. I'm bored of compromising performance for graphics and vice versa and want to make some significant changes to run the P3D or FSX-SE smoothly with decent graphics. Here, I'm able to find used i7 2600k or 3770k in good condition as the mobo is 1155p and thinking about putting a GTX 1060 inside. But I'm pretty much concerned about the mobo as it's old and not sure if it could run these hardware consistently. and i know that it's like impossible to make a stable cpu overlock on a H61 chipset mot…

Hi! My fsx needs mroe performance. I need a GPU. I am thinking a gtx 1060. Amazon.com: MSI GAMING GeForce GTX 1060 3GB GDDR5 DirectX 12 VR Ready (GeForce GTX 1060 3G OCV1): Computers & Accessories. This is my motherboard model : 0KXN37 Intel bay trail host bridge is my chipset Will the 1060 fit?

I bought a new ssd and now p3d v3 is stuttering and im getting slightly lower fps aswell not happy think i will have to go back to my hdd please help.

Well, last night I purchased a Curved 65 inch Samsung 4K TV for my simulator. As a TV it's impressive; however, the bad news came for my P3D sim. I have an EVGA 970 card, CPU 6700k. Setting my card's resolution at the TV's 'Native Resolution' of 3840 x 2160, my fps drops from 29fps to around 12fps.. and the lag is significant. Why? And this is settings P3D's inner resolution at around 1920x1080 In order to get back to a near 25-30 fps and smoothness, I need to lower the Nvidia 970 card's resolution to around 1920 x 1080. Increasing or decreasing P3D's resolution makes no difference other than: the higher above 1080x (), will consume more VAS. So, then I'm d…

I will be upgrading upto this bundle https://www.scan.co.uk/products/asus-rog-maximus-hero-ix-z270-atx-motherboard-plus-kaby-lake-intel-core-i7-7700k-cpu I need advise on the memory I should use with this setup. I keep reading good stuff about Gskills Ripjaws, but there are so many variants. This will be for Xplane 11 only so I'm going for Ddr4 and 32gb. Also what is the best thermal compound for cpu and cooler installation? Any help would be appreciated.

..just need your advice for 2 fast small (120GB will be sufficient) SSD HD one to host the OS and one for the my Sim. I need to keep budget under control so I guess it shouldn't be any fancy one Tnx Yair

I have tried searching on google for an answer on this, but haven't found anything useful. First, my PC specs: CPU: i7-4790k MB: MSI B85M-E45 GPU: Geforce GTX 770 2GB RAM: 8 GB OS: Win 10 64-bit So, I decided to try OC my CPU to get some more FPS. Since I never have done this before, I went to google and started reading a few guides. One guide I found, was using the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility, and I started with that one. My problem is that I cannot go any higher than 44x on the multipliers for the active cores. I also tried overclocking in BIOS, with the same result. My computer runs stable at these settings, and the temperature is not an issue ye…

Hi guys, I just installed all my new hardware parts and in fact that its not so unusual hardware parts, maybe some of you have the same setup at home and could give me some tipps to overclock or to setup the P3D. What settings do you have? Thanks a lot Timm

I use ultimate De-frag 4 but doesn't the one that comes with Microsoft tools get the job done just as well? Seems to with less hassle and it seems to work faster and you can set it up to d-frag automatically. Is there really any advantage to using the payware? Knowledgeable advice appreciated. Thanks, Vic Green

We took the plunge and bought one of these bad boys and other than going through pure craziness with Dell it is awesome. I installed p3d yesterday and it works wonderfully if any of you were thinking of checking one out. My wife took control of it though as usual lol. We made a video for her last night. Now she can do her world of warcraft ugh

Hello Everyone, About three years ago I built my dream system to run FSX boxed edition and finally had a system that ran it reasonably well. I delidded my i7 3700 3.5 GHz and with water cooling successfully overclocked it to 4.0GHz. Combined with the then top of the range GTX 680 2Gig Graphics, SSD drives and 8 GIG of Gskill RAM running at 2000, I was in heaven. Sadly after a catastrophic event last week (in computer terms) I am faced with loading everything including hundreds of add-ons from scratch. If I am going to upgrade, now is the time. My question is this. Is there anything out there now, some three years later, that will give me significant enough gains in FSX p…

Well folks,"i must say that after years of upgrading, and tweaking and doing all sort of things to get the best out of my system". It all started with me when I bought FSX Boxed in 2006, All things went out the window from that point on. Trying to get FSX running just regular on a machine was impossible. FSX demanded shear power from the cpu and could care less how powerful your video card was. In fact that was the year I stopped upgrading video cards; they were not solving my problem. I had to start upgrading my cpu's on a regular basis. But as I found out in time, that there were no cpu's strong enough to take FSX on at that time,nor in the near …

Looking for opinions on a 6800k vs the new 7700k for simming. I understand that 7700k will be slightly faster for mainly single threaded games such as GTA V / Battlefield etc there are tons of benchmarks for highly single threaded games , but what about CPU heavy games that also take advantage of multi threading like X-Plane/FSX/DCS/P3D? The other thing I'm considering is if the X99 boards are a dead end, will there be a 7800k (or whatever it will be)? I'm using Oculus VR so I want the best performance on sims. Currently using an aging 3930K running @ 4.2Ghz it does ok but I've pushed this system as far as it's going.