Plugpennyshadow wrote on Jun 1^st, 2009 at 9:39pm:


no, Nhancer is D3D9 only

for now we are at 3.8Ghz 1.20V pending a new case and shorter memory down the road! I like that it is running mid 60C's and stable at a low voltage. I will keep trying to lower the voltage, and i am not opposed to trying 4!

now lets see how well this helped out FSX


p.s. let me know if you need a beta tester for GEX Euro!

I haft'a call it a night.. this old engineer is pooped

Will check back tomorrow after 18 holes and I get going on GEX work

I tee-off about an hour after dawn since the first hole starts just outside my back door

You may find that 940 is running 4GHz like the new 950's will at much lower vCPU.

It looks like you cap out at right around 1.35v with the airflow in that tower so lets see what happens. I have seen 940 i7s run 4Ghz @ 1.28 in the past

and after all is said and done you can get a futher perf boost by securing memory that runs lower timing. In a few months the 6-6-6 products will be much cheaper and that would be a boost in smoothness for you

G1000Pilot wrote on Jun 2^nd, 2009 at 10:22pm:


I would not boost water shader level unless you like issues at large hubs in urban areas

But thats up to you

OK so if you are now at 4G stable and running 75c with OCCT then you will never see that temp with FSX running. OCCT will load that CPU down to the max which FSX wont do

At this point and assuming you have tuned the sim to your liking and its running good, the only other tweak that may serve purpose over large amounts of autogen trees is bufferpools

Now, i7 tends to display more stutter issues flying over large amounts of trees than Intel procs of the past and there is a reason for that which will be cured with a next step up in video card tech not on the market as of yet.. so for right now there is only 2 ways to deal with the issue assuming the sim is correctly tuned

1. Drop the autogen slider a notch

2. Set a bufferpool level <-- does not work for all systems

Before you add bufferpools.. note, its NOT a framerate tweak.. its for stutters only and you will only see the result of its use in action over VERY large amounts of trees and buildings so if you are running smooth right now you DO NOT need to add it to the config file!

If you find you need to try it then add the following to the end of the fsx.cfg list

[BUFFERPOOLS]
Poolsize=X

Value for it we can try a few different ones and see what happens..

Start with

80000000

or 80MB

if that nets none or a better result but not quite right, raise it to

100000000

or 100MB

If still no result or it gets better but not quite right, raise it again to

200000000

or 200MB

There is really no reason to go any higher as I have not come across any card that if bufferpools is going to help/work 200MB is more than enough.

There is only one other circumstance whereby a higher bufferpool level would be used and that is if you are getting constant sound crackle issues in the audio with FSX and high autogen slider settings. If that were the case the value to try would be 490000000 or 490MB otherwise a value that high would not be used

Now be aware.. bufferpools set high can invoke black 'spikes' coming from the autogen as you pan around the aircraft. If you see that visual anomaly and it does not clear up after you pan around the aircraft several times after initial flight load then the BP level is too high and must be reduced.


Thats really about it.. remember that i7 and a 285 is not a 'free ticket' to a 100% autogen and water shader slider. the settings I posted in the tuning thread and the suggestions that go with them should be adhered to. For you I can see the autogen slider being set to 100% in a lot of places however VERY DENSE would still probably be more reasonable.

If you add any large addons to the sim you really should re-run a single NAME defrag after that install. If you add something small its not necessary to defrag and can wait till the next regualr mantainance period

And do be aware since you are running FSX from a separate disk you should not need to NAME defrag other than about once every month or two unless you install something into the sim during that period. The disk will stay clean becuase FSX is not located on the same partition as the OS.




Make sure to check your tower every so often for dust building up.. keep it clean.


If you have any other questions let me know

EDIT: frame lock.. set to 28 or 30

G1000Pilot wrote on Jun 3^rd, 2009 at 12:35am:



they sell cans of compressed air at home depot or radio shack.. I also use a old toothbrush to get into spots like fans and the fins on heatsinks to break up dust and then use the canned air to blow it out.. and blow through the video card heatsink

...last just a small vacuum to suck up anything thats left over loose on the bottom of the tower

of course thats all done with the tower unplugged from the wall

yea.. we can go ahead and verify your specs in CPUz but if you set it as I posted you must be running correctly.. good to verify though

I told ya so..   listen to the doctor!

LOL


OK, no problem.. late for me here anyway.. I just stopped by to check on your progress and it would appear you are pretty much in FSX bliss now

I will check back tomorrow