Simviation Forum - A good system for FSX ??

Oct 20^th, 2009 at 1:50pm

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http://www.beastcomputers.co.uk/beast-aphros-xs.php

well.......only if i won the lottery.....wonder if you could max out all the sliders on this beast!

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Reply #1 - Oct 20^th, 2009 at 4:29pm

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WOW that's all i can say about that monster. I would be surprised and extremely ticked off to buy that and it not run maxed sliders at AT-LEAST 30 fps in the most system heavy areas. But i mean 2 processors and 8 cores?!?!?!?!? Shocked

this should devore fsx! thanks for just putting me in debt. i want this computer now!

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Reply #2 - Oct 20^th, 2009 at 5:33pm

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It makes me dizzy looking at it Shocked

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Reply #3 - Oct 20^th, 2009 at 10:03pm

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It's nice, but to be fair, I'd rather have a water-cooled i7 975 overclocked system with dual Radeon 5870 (or 5870x2 now known as 5900 when it comes out). That would run FSX better than the OP at less cost anyway.

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Reply #4 - Oct 21^st, 2009 at 8:57am

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That dual-CPU stuff always fascinated me.. Cool

Are the m-board and BIOS set up to repesent the two CPUs as one, super fast CPU ? As in.. software like FSX doesn't know there are two CPUs ?

If not, it seems (to my naive eyes..lol), that you'd have two cars for crossing a street. Even if you COULD cut yourself in 1/2, you won't get across the street any faster.

I was always told that two-CPU computers were for running multiple programs more efficiently, simultaneously.. but really don't benifit games like FSX.

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Reply #5 - Oct 21^st, 2009 at 4:52pm

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It's nice, but to be fair, I'd rather have a water-cooled i7 975 overclocked system with dual Radeon 5870 (or 5870x2 now known as 5900 when it comes out). That would run FSX better than the OP at less cost anyway.

What good would a 5870x2 do for FSX? Nothing a single 5870 or a GTX 285 can do already.

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Reply #6 - Oct 22^nd, 2009 at 6:16am

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djt wrote on Oct 21^st, 2009 at 4:52pm:

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It's nice, but to be fair, I'd rather have a water-cooled i7 975 overclocked system with dual Radeon 5870 (or 5870x2 now known as 5900 when it comes out). That would run FSX better than the OP at less cost anyway.

What good would a 5870x2 do for FSX? Nothing a single 5870 or a GTX 285 can do already.

It's as good as a single 5870 in FSX and significantly faster in everything else. I use my PC for much more than FSX, so if I had an unlimited budget I would go with dual 5900.

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Reply #7 - Oct 22^nd, 2009 at 2:03pm

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It's as good as a single 5870 in FSX and significantly faster in everything else.

As I’ve seen firsthand with a 4870x2, no a dual GPU card is not “just as good” for FSX nor is it significantly faster in "everything" else.

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Reply #8 - Oct 23^rd, 2009 at 1:27am

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djt wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2009 at 2:03pm:

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It's as good as a single 5870 in FSX and significantly faster in everything else.

As I’ve seen firsthand with a 4870x2, no a dual GPU card is not “just as good” for FSX nor is it significantly faster in "everything" else.

And as far as I've seen in the majority of application benchmarks by every single source that is actually respectable - like ANANDTECH for example, a dual GPU card is usually significantly faster than a single card. It doesn't mean they're perfect, they have numerous flaws, but they are usually significantly faster.

You have quiet an awesome rig by the way. Wink

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Reply #9 - Oct 24^th, 2009 at 6:40pm

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djt wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2009 at 2:03pm:

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It's as good as a single 5870 in FSX and significantly faster in everything else.

As I’ve seen firsthand with a 4870x2, no a dual GPU card is not “just as good” for FSX nor is it significantly faster in "everything" else.

And as far as I've seen in the majority of application benchmarks by every single source that is actually respectable - like ANANDTECH for example, a dual GPU card is usually significantly faster than a single card. It doesn't mean they're perfect, they have numerous flaws, but they are usually significantly faster.

You have quiet an awesome rig by the way. Wink

That’s just it, what “application benchmarks”? The performance of games with 4870x2 is dependent on the drivers. In other words if a particular game is on the “pay no mind list” with an ATI driver revision the performance of that game with the 4870x2 suffers.

I’ve been testing dual GPU setups since Nvidia first came out with SLI in 2004 and nothing has really changed. Sure they’ve gotten better with wider game support (with Nvidia anyway) but with CPU bound games dual GPU’s are pretty much useless.

Out of about a dozen sims/games (mostly racing and flight sims) the only game that I personally saw any benefit in using the 4870x2 was GRID.

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