Fozzer wrote on Nov 13^th, 2008 at 11:22am:



300GB HD Velociraptor... full FSX install with addons.. 130GB used

25-35min defrag and thats a NAME defrag not the crap Windows defrag


I did not look at the chipset when I posted.. last time I saw the KT133 chipset was 2002

you need a computer Paul

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I remember building a gaming computer around something like that...  I went all out and splurged for a WHOPPING 64MB of EDO RAM  (0.05 GB for reference) and some sort of ridiculously expensive "Voodo"  video card (I think its claim to fame was 16MB of dedicated memory  ) ... it had a blazing fast 56K modem and a new-fangled sound card (both plugged in ISA slots).. and the REALLY cool thing was this monstrous, external CD burner (they were too big to be internal at that time).

If I remember correctly, I had nearly $4,000 tied up in that computer .. and that was circa 1995 dollars.. A similar expenditure today would be more like $6,000..

Now look what we can get for  1/3 of that 

Computers have never been cheaper 

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Or.. more specifically.. Life is much too short to NOT prattle endlessly about a hobby or passion  

However, priorities do rear their ugly heads... Flying real airplanes can make a fellow put priorities into perspective..  (you wanna talk about fuel bills ? )

Alejandro Rhodes wrote on Nov 14^th, 2008 at 8:49am:


Yeah Nick already said that.

although probably more likely that some computer shop just ripped him off and gave him a small one with the right label on it and he just didnt bother to check   

Try to use fdisk before you format the HDD.Then format, after that probably it will not recognise the all drive but windows will.
It happend to me before, and thats what i have done, and i done it with a windows Millenium start up disk.
It worked with me.

KT133 southbridge does not support the larger HDD

it has nothing to do with using FDISK or anything else



As for 'need' and 'want' .. this is not the 80's or 90's where computers were a luxury.  in this day and age not having a decent, at least 2 year old fairly modern model, is on the same order of not having a phone in the house and having to walk several miles to the general store to make a phone call    

For me its not endless

I dont skimp on parts and play price games.. I buy the right tools for the job the first time and use them without issue and never ending upgrades

The system I posted at the top of this forum cost close to 4000 dollars in March of 2007. Today it can be had for about 2500 or less and will run FSX if properly clocked on max scenery sliders with the exception of high traffic slider settings in combination with heavy weather under major hub conditions

That tower still runs today, 24/7 although I use it for other purposes now

There have not been any upgrades in that tower since I purchased it and I expect it will continue to serve me well for several more years


I do buy hardware about once a year because I test and also like to play, and, I can afford it however in the computer MSFS game.. anyone who plays the price game will end up in a never ending upgrade circle that will end up costing them more over a 2 year period than simply biting the bulet and buying the parts outright


It also comes down to priority and what it is you wish to do. If you spend more time in a car or motorcycle for recreation.. put the money in that instead



I mean.. come on Paul.. you bought 250GB of hard drive and can only use 128GB of it becasue of the prehistoric chipset?

.. thats a waste of money and time figuring it out right there. You dont have to be on a 2500 dollar system to make sure when you buy upgrades like that HDD they work without issues and at the same time even a cheaper C2D PCIe system would run your MSFS much better than that KT133    


but.. to each his own. I still have that Timex Sinclair and Apple IIc somewhere

LOL!

You guys are prattling on and on about Paul's KT133 chipset when he has an NFORCE 2 (ultra 400?) CHIPSET as he clearly stated in the first page of this thread.

Paul, you really need to go into BIOS and turn LBA on. (Large Block Addressing)

Other than that, read Nick's first post in this thread over again carefully. I was surprised at your post that followed Nick's first response, you seemed to just give up hope when a solution seemed imminent .....