Simviation Forum - New Rig Time

Oct 24^th, 2010 at 9:27am

Tequila Sunrise Offline
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Old rig died last night and I already had my eye on this.
I'm looking at the following system from Wired to Fire: http://www.wired2fir....php?systype=14 (Sim X1000) with a few alterations listed bellow*

I should note that in addition to the FSX I'll be using this system to run ProEngineer 4 & 5, rekon it should be ok however if anyone sees anything I should alter I'd appreciate the advice.

*Spec:
OS : Win 7 home premium
PSU: Xigmatek NRP-MC702 700W Power Supply
CPU: Core i7 875K 8MB Cache Socket 1156
Prolimatech Megahalem CPU Cooler
Card: Radeon HD5870 1GB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
RAM: 4GB Corsair DDR3 1600MHz C8 Twin3X
HD: Samsung 500GB Spinpoint F3 16MB Cache SATA 300

Craig

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Reply #1 - Oct 27^th, 2010 at 11:19pm

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There are many many different configurations that should all run FSX well. That system looks good.

Apparently Nvidia is better for FSX, I haven't tried this, and the newer Nvidia cards are either slower than the 5870 in most applications (GTX 460), or they're hot and expensive (GTX 470, GTX 480)... so the decision is very difficult. eh.... look at factory overclocked versions of the GTX 460 (>850mhz), as well as the GTX 470 and 480. But I can't say if will be better or worse. In any case, plenty of people get exellent performance with ATi cards (myself included).

newer hardware is arriving including the replacement to the 5870 in the coming months. A faster version of the GTX 460 is also coming out,.

If you're not overclocking downgrade the CPU to get Core i7 870. If you're not overclocking then stock cooling should be good enough.

RAM is good, but corsair are often expensive. Look at other brands and see if you can get the timing down to C7 provided it doesn't change the cost much.

HD: try to get a 1tb Samsung Spinpoint F3. It should be faster anyways

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Reply #2 - Oct 28^th, 2010 at 2:41pm

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Thanks for that, was having a bit of a hard time on the card. Was told about some new cards coming next month however as I have pro-Eng course work due in 4 weeks I couldn't wait Sad

Should be back in business in a week or so

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Reply #3 - Dec 22^nd, 2010 at 10:04am

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Hey NNNG there is one factor effecting graphic cards and fsx and that is fax can only access so much through a small bandwidth hole and when you put a high end graphic card your putting much more then fsx needs slowing it down. I read that last night from aerosoft founder and with his ideas I managed to average 25 fps with intel gma graphics

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Reply #4 - Dec 22^nd, 2010 at 12:48pm

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manesag wrote on Dec 22^nd, 2010 at 10:04am:

Hey NNNG there is one factor effecting graphic cards and fsx and that is fax can only access so much through a small bandwidth hole and when you put a high end graphic card your putting much more then fsx needs slowing it down. I read that last night from aerosoft founder and with his ideas I managed to average 25 fps with intel gma graphics

A faster graphics card is slower?

Sounds like crap to me. I read the document by the Aerosoft founder, and the section regarding graphics cards had factual errors, and it didn't make sense at all. But whatever works for you I suppose.

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