Simviation Forum - At long last! NEW PC!!

Nov 23^rd, 2012 at 4:42pm

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Finally able to design, buy, build, and most importantly; afford my own custom gaming rig! Just been tuning and tweaking FSX for now, managed to squeeze out a few screens. Running at 1080p, AA & Anisotropic, Bloom & ENBseries, almost every single slider maxed (save traffic), FTX, REX and A2A Accu-Feel. Solid and smooth 35-40 fps! discovered a beautiful new feature on my New GTX 660: FXAA! just turned it on along with the frame limiter and vsync in NVIDIA Inspector and POOF! Beauteous Maximus!

And I havent even got around to overclocking! Smiley

FRACTAL DESIGN Define Mini mATX Silent Case

ASUS P8Z77-M LGA 1155 Intel Z77 mATX Motherboard

INTEL Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge 3.8GHz Turbo Quad-Core Processor

COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 EVO CPU Cooler

EVGA nVidia GeForce GTX 660 FOR-THE-WIN Signature2 2GB Video Card

CRUCIAL Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 Memory

WESTERN DIGITAL RE4 500GB 7200 RPM Hard Drive

SEASONIC M12II 620W 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Modular Power Supply

MS Windows 7 SP1 64-bit - OEM

LITE-ON DVD Burner - OEM

XIGMATEK XAF-F1252 120MM Fan - 80 CFM (+2 Fractal Silent R2 120mm fans - 40 CFM each)

Cool

*dancing a jig*

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Reply #1 - Nov 23^rd, 2012 at 5:05pm

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Wow!

And just how much did that fine setup cost you?

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Reply #2 - Nov 23^rd, 2012 at 6:52pm

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Bud Greene wrote on Nov 23^rd, 2012 at 5:05pm:

Wow!

And just how much did that fine setup cost you?

All I can say is: "there's a reason God gave us TWO kidneys..."

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I'm just kidding!! $1054.89 all from newegg.

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(I'm never gonna miss that kidney...) Wink

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Reply #3 - Nov 23^rd, 2012 at 11:05pm

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Hi!

Great pics many thanks. It may seem like a llot of money but compared to real flying prices I see I really think it is money well spent if you like flying virtually.

Here in the UK a 1 hour lesson can cost up to 180-200 pounds which is like 350 USD or something and you need like 40 of them to even get a license or something. Nuts!

That last pic is the best for me. Looks suspiciously like Orbx. Clouds like that would bring my Dell desktop to pieces!

Many thanks,

P.

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Reply #4 - Nov 24^th, 2012 at 7:54am

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Wonderful shots, you seem to be doing a great job tuning that new electronic gizmo... Grin

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #5 - Nov 24^th, 2012 at 8:40am

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Why OC when it runs like THAT Wink

"Just try to be YOU".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw23LQkvg_k

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Reply #6 - Nov 25^th, 2012 at 9:51am

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PM wrote on Nov 23^rd, 2012 at 11:05pm:

Hi!

Great pics many thanks. It may seem like a llot of money but compared to real flying prices I see I really think it is money well spent if you like flying virtually.

Here in the UK a 1 hour lesson can cost up to 180-200 pounds which is like 350 USD or something and you need like 40 of them to even get a license or something. Nuts!

That last pic is the best for me. Looks suspiciously like Orbx. Clouds like that would bring my Dell desktop to pieces!

Many thanks,

P.

Thanks for looking! Yes, it is also exspensive in the extreme for flight lessons in the US, one of my dreams until quashed by it's economic reality... (and a weak stomach for motion-sickness, my most-hated physical weakness!) And yes, it IS in fact Orbx, their freeware KHQM Bowerman.

Flying Trucker wrote on Nov 24^th, 2012 at 7:54am:

Wonderful shots, you seem to be doing a great job tuning that new electronic gizmo... Grin

I should see about posting a video sometime, so you could see it in action! Thanks for the kind comments!

Bass wrote on Nov 24^th, 2012 at 8:40am:

Why OC when it runs like THAT Wink

So it will run even MORE BeTTerER! Cheesy

The never-ending-viscious-circle...

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Reply #7 - Nov 25^th, 2012 at 12:17pm

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Spindrift wrote on Nov 23^rd, 2012 at 6:52pm:

Bud Greene wrote on Nov 23^rd, 2012 at 5:05pm:

Wow!

And just how much did that fine setup cost you?

All I can say is: "there's a reason God gave us TWO kidneys..."

...

I'm just kidding!! $1054.89 all from newegg.

...

(I'm never gonna miss that kidney...) Wink

I would have opted for a partial liver removal, myself, as a healthy donor can grow back as much as 90% of the liver in as little as two weeks! Wink

Of course, considering my general health it might be more like two months. Smiley

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Reply #8 - Nov 26^th, 2012 at 6:01pm

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Lookin' very good, Spindrift Cool

Congrats on the new PC. I also have some new hardware comin' my way.........

Alienware X51

CPU
Intel Core i7-3770 3.4GHz (8MB Cache) with Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost Technology 2.0
GPU
1.5 GB NVIDEA GTX GeForce 660
MEMORY
8GB (2 X 4GB) Dual Channel DDR3 up to 1600MHz
HD
1TB SATA 3Gb/s (7200 RPM) 32MB cache

If it looks near good as yours I'll be very happy Cool

« Last Edit: Nov 27^th, 2012 at 6:32pm by CHUCK79 »

"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter silvered wings. Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun split clouds.....and done a hundred things you have never dreamed of.....wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence. Hovering there, I've chased the shouting wind along and flung my eager craft through footless halls of air.

Up, up the long, delerious, burning blue I've topped the wind swept heights with easy grace where never Lark, nor even Eagle flew. While with silent lifting of mind I've trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space, put out my hand and touched the face of god"

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