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May 22^nd, 2005 at 7:32pm

luke Offline
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Upgrade for fs9 VFR Terrain and VFR Photographic Scenery.

Please check if this offer in a UK shop is reasonable,
for above :-

BUNDLE (PCI Exprs) for £170
Mobo MSI KbN Neo 04, nForce 4
CPU AMD 3000

MEM Corsair 512 x 2 =1g for £ 95

GFX 6600 GT 128mb PCI expr £150
Total £410

Cracky, £400 is a lot of money for an OAP, do you thing fs9 will fly with these software SMOOTHLY if I get anything less?

It appears to me that prices for AGP & PCIexp are very close, or am I mistaken?

Will appreciate help again.

HD wiil have to remain; my old 80g Maxtor IDE.
My PSU is 350w

Thnx

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Reply #1 - May 22^nd, 2005 at 9:23pm

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ehh....well I dont like your processer or GFX card, but what can you do? Anyway FS will run decently (around 35ish FPS) for VFR, but you could change your processer and GFX card to a Intel P4 or even the D (when it comes out) and a ATi and have a better system. But yes it will do what you want

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Reply #2 - May 23^rd, 2005 at 7:11am

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Hiya,

I'm probably not much help, but you should be able to get a 6600GT 128mb PCI-E for around £115 (inc vat).

The rest seems about normal, 1Gig RAM should be plenty, but I dont pretend to be an expert on Mobo's etc.

For your info though, I used to run VFR Terrain and photographic scenery on my system with (at the time Celeron 2Ghz, 512mb, ATI 9600XT), and it would run quite well. The only problem was the load time with the textures - but this could be something to do with my love of fast and pointy aeroplanes(and welsh valleys)! A top tip is to cut the vis down to less than 20 miles, fly a slow(ish) aeroplane, and enjoy the view.

Cheers,

Charlie

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Reply #3 - May 23^rd, 2005 at 12:26pm

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Thank you both,

I wish there was somebody, using these software, near here West London, S.Bucks that would demonstrate these and see another computer working before I fork out £400 plus.

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Reply #4 - May 23^rd, 2005 at 1:47pm

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Well I have the VFR scenery and although it takes a good while to load on my HDD (Be interesting to see how it goes when I get my Raptor!) it flies along easily at 25-30fps. You don't really [i]need]/i] PCI-e SLi for FS9 in my opinion.
Dan Wink

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