Who has the best system here on Flyaway?

ZX81with 16k RAM pack.

Ooooooh - them were the days.

P4 @ 3.2Ghz
3Gb DDR2 RAM
Radeon X800XT Graphics Card
ASUS P5AD2 Premium motherboard.

Running too hot, or with too low a 12V line (or both), judging by the constant crashes I get, when playing on FSX.

Frustrating.

Core 2 Duo @ 2.4GHz (E6600)
2.5GB DDR2 RAM
Geforce 7600GT 256MB GDDR3 Graphics Card
500GB SATA HDD
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3
Windows Vista Ultimate

L@@k Bel0w

Good enough for me.

Core2Duo 6700
(2)ATi X1950 512mb each in Crossfire configuration
DDR2 ram, 4 sticks 1 gig each
Still XP home waiting for Vista Premium to ship
2 CD-DVD burners
2 each 250gig Sata drives in Raid0 configuration
5.1 speakers, 5 and 1 subwoofer
Sound Blaster X-FI card

Runs like a dream, all scenery maxed out even when I surf while I fly.

RadarMan, too good to be true, You say you got ALL settings maxed? Even traffic and boats andAI Traffic? What FPS are you getting.

Amazed

Any chance of a S/s so i can see what it looks like?

How much you spent on your system?

dannyboy2005 wrote:

RadarMan, too good to be true, You say you got ALL settings maxed? Even traffic and boats andAI Traffic? What FPS are you getting.

Amazed

Not all, the traffic is at a minimum, and vehicle, boats etc at about 25%.
If I add a traffic add-on I'll take a huge hit.
FPS doesn't seem to matter in FSX as it did in FS9, I fly at capped 20FPS but I get between 10 and 20 depending on the area.
It's a smooth as can be at that.
The scenery slides, that entire page (window) in settings is maxed out.
I have some screens in the FSX screen forum, one is KSEA something, it'll give you an Idea of how it looks.

Spend, a lot but I enjoy it. With a 24" wide screen LCD close to $4.

Cool, I'll take a nose!

AMD athlon 64 3500+ 2.20Ghz processor
Biostar NF-325-A9 mainboard
twin corsair 1Gig each RAM 2047MB total
Geforce 7600GT 215MB graphics card
250Gb hard drive
Windows Vista Business 32bit OS

Thermaltake soprano case with cold cathode tube lighting and other mods...

any sujestions on a possible upgrade to this system to get abit more performance?

i was going to keep this machine for a couple of months and then flog it to build something better, but i dont mind upgrading on it as will get my money back..

x pilot wrote:

AMD athlon 64 3500+ 2.20Ghz processor
Biostar NF-325-A9 mainboard
twin corsair 1Gig each RAM 2047MB total
Geforce 7600GT 215MB graphics card
250Gb hard drive
Windows Vista Business 32bit OS

Thermaltake soprano case with cold cathode tube lighting and other mods...

any sujestions on a possible upgrade to this system to get abit more performance?

i was going to keep this machine for a couple of months and then flog it to build something better, but i dont mind upgrading on it as will get my money back..

Using Vista I would add more ram, as for the video card. It doesn't pay right now to get a DX 10 card because we don't know when DX 10 will be available.
That and if you want a better CPU would be a boost.

cheers radarman... i was thinking of adding more RAM, what concerns me is having a AGP graphics card as there is no room really for a upgrade there? there is the Geforce 7800, i think that is the highest i could go, do you think that would make much of a difference...

vista gives me a platform rating of 4.2

do you think with upgrading i would be getting better performance out of fsx or wasting time and money?

thanks

x pilot wrote:

cheers radarman... i was thinking of adding more RAM, what concerns me is having a AGP graphics card as there is no room really for a upgrade there? there is the Geforce 7800, i think that is the highest i could go, do you think that would make much of a difference...

vista gives me a platform rating of 4.2

do you think with upgrading i would be getting better performance out of fsx or wasting time and money?

thanks

With a better card and more ram it would show. If you have the $ then do it, if it's pushing yourself then hold off for the big move.

Time to add mines (and show Radarman up)..... 😀

Thermaltake Shark Case
AMD Athlon 64X2 Dual Core Processor
2X Nvidia/Gigabyte 6800GS video cards in SLi mode
Nvidia/Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro SLi Motherboard
4X 512MB Corsair DDR RAM
37GB Raptor HDD (operating system only) with Windows Vista
2X 250GB Maxtor HDDs
500GB Hitachi Deskstar HDD
HP Multispeed/Multiformat DVD-R/RW with Lightscribe system
LG Multispeed/Multiformat DVD-R/RW
Linksys Wireless-N Internet Adapter
SolyTech 550w Power Supply
2X HP 17" Monitors

hang on...... I am on a roll...... 😎

Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard
Logitech MX Laser Mouse
Plustek 180 Degree Tilt and Pan Optical Camera
Saitek X52 Flight Control System

😀

well in my case I have

Asus motherboard
Amd athlon 64 x2 3800+ 2ghz
ozc 700W PSU
4gig corsair ram
200g hdd sata
cd/dvd burner lightscribe
evga 8800gts superclocked 640
19in samsung syncmaster 931bf
Vista premium on the way

my next step, and only thing left to do if upgrade de CPU but I dont know which to get...

Hey GundamWZero

Oh wow we definately have some tough competition here.

What would you say FSX needs most of(RAM,CPU,VIDEO)?

Hey GundamWZero, Quite a system you got going there especially with all the cool acessories.

how do you find the x52,ive always wanted to get one but i couldnt justigy spending $$$.

Besides the awesome throttle and all those buttons how do you find the joystick stacks up to a $30 one from walmart?

Trancelator wrote:

Hey GundamWZero

Oh wow we definately have some tough competition here.

What would you say FSX needs most of(RAM,CPU,VIDEO)?

Hey GundamWZero, Quite a system you got going there especially with all the cool acessories.

how do you find the x52,ive always wanted to get one but i couldnt justigy spending $$$.

Besides the awesome throttle and all those buttons how do you find the joystick stacks up to a $30 one from walmart?

Oh, its awesome!!!! I won't be buying any more flight controlers for a while.....to be honest, I think the controller is too advanced for current flight sims or games: for example, the trigger is actually two buttons in one. You squeeze the trigger slightly untill you hear the first click, thats Trigger 1. Continue to squeeze more and you'll get Trigger 2. You also have a mouse built into the throttle, great for accessing certain windows during flight.

There are downsides to it though: the rudder controls are in the flight stick (which makes me think WalMart). At least Thrustmaster had their rudder controls in the throttle..... for the X52, you will have to buy the optional rudder controls. Good for the added realism, but should have came with the system. Also the system doesn't have Force Feedback, but who needs force feedback?

FSX needs all three (CPU, RAM and Video). Last generation equipment may handle FSX between minimum and recommended settings, but if you want the system to be perfect, you will need a dual core processor (for processing speed) at least 2 gigs of ram (again for speed) and a good graphics card to max out FSX settings for it to scream. And with those kinds of upgrades you should invest in a powerful power supply, because those componets will eat it up.

The system im getting soon

Processor (CPU)
INTEL® Core 2 Extreme X6800 (2 X 2.93GHz) 1066MHz FSB/4MB Cache

Memory (RAM)
4096 MB CORSAIR XMS2 800MHz - (4x1GB)

Motherboard
ASUS® P5W DH DELUXE: DDR2, x16 slot, 975X chipset, 3 PCI

Operating System
WINDOWS® VISTA Ultimate (inc. Genuine CD & License)

USB Options
USB PORTS & BLUETOOTH USB ADPATER

Memory - 1st Hard Disk
750GB SERIAL ATA II HARD DRIVE WITH 16MB CACHE (7200rpm)

1st CD/DVD Drive
2x Blu-Ray BDRW + 12x DVD±RW/4x Dual Lyr + 32x CDRW

2nd CD/DVD Drive
16X DVD ROM WITH 48X CD ROM

Graphics Card
This one http://www.pixmania-pro.co.uk/uk/uk/432602/art/sapphire-technology/toxic-x1950xtx-512-mb-dua.html

Sound Card
Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeMusic 7.1

Case
Silver Neon Bubble case + Neon Extreme Kit

Power Supply & cooling
850W Quiet Five Rail PSU incl Case Fan & CPU Cooler

Firewire & Video Editing
3 PORT FIREWIRE (IEEE1394) PCI CARD

Monitor
WIDESCREEN 22 INCH TFT SIL/BLACK 1680 x 1050 5MS DVI

b3mmredm wrote:

The system im getting soon

Processor (CPU)
INTEL® Core 2 Extreme X6800 (2 X 2.93GHz) 1066MHz FSB/4MB Cache

Memory (RAM)
4096 MB CORSAIR XMS2 800MHz - (4x1GB)

Motherboard
ASUS® P5W DH DELUXE: DDR2, x16 slot, 975X chipset, 3 PCI

Operating System
WINDOWS® VISTA Ultimate (inc. Genuine CD & License)

USB Options
USB PORTS & BLUETOOTH USB ADPATER

Memory - 1st Hard Disk
750GB SERIAL ATA II HARD DRIVE WITH 16MB CACHE (7200rpm)

1st CD/DVD Drive
2x Blu-Ray BDRW + 12x DVD±RW/4x Dual Lyr + 32x CDRW

2nd CD/DVD Drive
16X DVD ROM WITH 48X CD ROM

Graphics Card
This one http://www.pixmania-pro.co.uk/uk/uk/432602/art/sapphire-technology/toxic-x1950xtx-512-mb-dua.html

Sound Card
Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeMusic 7.1

Case
Silver Neon Bubble case + Neon Extreme Kit

Power Supply & cooling
850W Quiet Five Rail PSU incl Case Fan & CPU Cooler

Firewire & Video Editing
3 PORT FIREWIRE (IEEE1394) PCI CARD

Monitor
WIDESCREEN 22 INCH TFT SIL/BLACK 1680 x 1050 5MS DVI

Perfect!! Who could ask for more!!

I was going to get the Core 2 Quad Extreme (4x2.66GHz), but i think you told me to stick with the Core 2 Extreme. Anyway, i think i will be safe for quite a while!

Oh and also, i found some other graphic cards and was wondering which one should i go for to run FSX at its best

1. The one i quoted in my system specification

2. http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=519994

3. http://www.scan.co.uk/products/productinfo.asp?WebProductID=506623

or

4. http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=534219

RadarMan wrote:

b3mmredm wrote:

The system im getting soon

Processor (CPU)
INTEL® Core 2 Extreme X6800 (2 X 2.93GHz) 1066MHz FSB/4MB Cache

Memory (RAM)
4096 MB CORSAIR XMS2 800MHz - (4x1GB)

Motherboard
ASUS® P5W DH DELUXE: DDR2, x16 slot, 975X chipset, 3 PCI

Operating System
WINDOWS® VISTA Ultimate (inc. Genuine CD & License)

USB Options
USB PORTS & BLUETOOTH USB ADPATER

Memory - 1st Hard Disk
750GB SERIAL ATA II HARD DRIVE WITH 16MB CACHE (7200rpm)

1st CD/DVD Drive
2x Blu-Ray BDRW + 12x DVD±RW/4x Dual Lyr + 32x CDRW

2nd CD/DVD Drive
16X DVD ROM WITH 48X CD ROM

Graphics Card
This one http://www.pixmania-pro.co.uk/uk/uk/432602/art/sapphire-technology/toxic-x1950xtx-512-mb-dua.html

Sound Card
Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeMusic 7.1

Case
Silver Neon Bubble case + Neon Extreme Kit

Power Supply & cooling
850W Quiet Five Rail PSU incl Case Fan & CPU Cooler

Firewire & Video Editing
3 PORT FIREWIRE (IEEE1394) PCI CARD

Monitor
WIDESCREEN 22 INCH TFT SIL/BLACK 1680 x 1050 5MS DVI

Perfect!! Who could ask for more!!

A water cooled system would not hurt anything

My Athlon 64 X2 DC CPU just arrived!!!! I'll tell you how fast FSX is in a hour...... 😎

I maxed out ALL the settings........

I threw the frame rate to UNLIMITED......

Now the sim only glitches slightly in congested areas......just like it was when it was running at 50% but now with all the sliders and advanced sliders at maximum! 😀

So now here are the new specs:

Thermaltake Shark Case
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400 Toledo Dual Core Processor @ 2.2Ghz
2X Nvidia/Gigabyte 6800GS video cards in SLi mode
Nvidia/Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro SLi Motherboard
4X 512MB Corsair DDR RAM
37GB Raptor HDD (operating system only) with Windows Vista
2X 250GB Maxtor HDDs
500GB Hitachi Deskstar HDD
HP Multispeed/Multiformat DVD-R/RW with Lightscribe system
LG Multispeed/Multiformat DVD-R/RW
Linksys Wireless-N Internet Adapter
SolyTech 550w Power Supply
2X HP 17" Monitors
Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard
Logitech MX Laser Mouse
Plustek 180 Degree Tilt and Pan Optical Camera
Saitek X52 Flight Control System

Now....time to overclock!!!!!

RadarMan wrote:

Good enough for me.

Core2Duo 6700
(2)ATi X1950 512mb each in Crossfire configuration
DDR2 ram, 4 sticks 1 gig each
Still XP home waiting for Vista Premium to ship
2 CD-DVD burners
2 each 250gig Sata drives in Raid0 configuration
5.1 speakers, 5 and 1 subwoofer
Sound Blaster X-FI card

Runs like a dream, all scenery maxed out even when I surf while I fly.

Hey RadarMan: Was wanting your opinion. I am running athlon duo core with 2 gig ddr ram with a nvidia 512 7950 super clocked card. Do you think putting an additional 7950 and running sli would be a bigger bang for the buck over buying a single GTX8800 ? I have a newer system and can run 2 cards. Have not upgraded to vista yet. I am running most slider about 75% pretty smoothly. Traffic turned up brings performance way down. I run traffic at about 20%. Damm traffic is a performance killer..

skypilot2 wrote:

RadarMan wrote:

Good enough for me.

Core2Duo 6700
(2)ATi X1950 512mb each in Crossfire configuration
DDR2 ram, 4 sticks 1 gig each
Still XP home waiting for Vista Premium to ship
2 CD-DVD burners
2 each 250gig Sata drives in Raid0 configuration
5.1 speakers, 5 and 1 subwoofer
Sound Blaster X-FI card

Runs like a dream, all scenery maxed out even when I surf while I fly.

Hey RadarMan: Was wanting your opinion. I am running athlon duo core with 2 gig ddr ram with a nvidia 512 7950 super clocked card. Do you think putting an additional 7950 and running sli would be a bigger bang for the buck over buying a single GTX8800 ? I have a newer system and can run 2 cards. Have not upgraded to vista yet. I am running most slider about 75% pretty smoothly. Traffic turned up brings performance way down. I run traffic at about 20%. Damm traffic is a performance killer..

FSX doesn't support SLi or Crossfire so you'd be wasting your money.

GTX8800 it is, when they come down in price some more.

skypilot2 wrote:

GTX8800 it is, when they come down in price some more.

Excellent card, wait until Directx comes out then the card will cost much less.

ThermalTake Tsunami Aluminium VA300SWA Dream
560W Thermaltake `PurePower` ATX Power Supply W0023
Asus A8N-SLI-Premium Socket-939 NVIDIA nForce4 M/B
LG GSA-4160B Dual Layer 16x DVD+R/-R/RW/RAM/DL Writer Dual Format BURNER
AMD Athlon 64 4000+, Socket 939, San Diego Core, HT2000 MT/s, 1MB L2 Cache
Thermalright XP-120 Heatsink
2 Vantec_HDC_502A_HDD_Cooler
4 Vantec EZ-Swap MRK-200ST-BK
2 Corsair TwinX 1024-3200XL Pro Total 2GIG 2.2.2.5 Gaming Ram
Panasonic 1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive
2 Western Digital RAPTOR 74Gb Serial ATA 10Krpm 8MB Cache Raid 0
Western Digital 120GB WD1200JB/JD Caviar SE Serial ATA 7200RPM 8MB Cache
2 Western Digital 200GB WD2000JS Caviar SE SATA II 7200RPM Hard Drive 8.9ms 8MB Cache
Western Digital WD3200YS Caviar RE SATA II 320GB 7200RPM Hard Drive 16MB Cache
Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty
2 XFX GeForce 7950 GT SLI
XP PRO Service Pack 2 Stripped down with all bullshit removed
Dell 2407FPW 24" UltraSharp Wide Screen Flat Panel LCD Monitor 1920x1200x32
Saitek Eclipse II keyboard
Saitek X52 Flight Control System
Saitek Pro Flight Rudder Pedals
Razer Copperhead Gaming Mouse
Nostromo SpeedPad n52
Egerdex DX1 Input System
2 Savant Elite Foot Switch
D-Link DGL-4100
D-Link DSL 504T
Logitech Z-640 5.1 Speaker System
Canon Image Class MP390
USB 2.0 Powered 7-Port Hub

With the above set-up I'm running FSX maxed out on all settings but just ordered a new CM Stacker 830 EVO to house all that shite.

RadarMan: Off subject, I just got off gamespy multi player. I have an ongoing problem with hearing and talking to others in the game. Is there some plug-in or driver that I need?

skypilot2 wrote:

GTX8800 it is, when they come down in price some more.

Just picked that up today!!!! 😀 I went to overclock the twin 6800 GS......no difference was found, except for the small streaks where it shows that overclocking was present. So I went out and bought this for 329.00:

Give me another hour and I'll tell you how the system will rate!!! 😀 I am going to buy another one of these in another month or two!!!!

skypilot2 wrote:

RadarMan: Off subject, I just got off gamespy multi player. I have an ongoing problem with hearing and talking to others in the game. Is there some plug-in or driver that I need?

If you play BF2 or 2142 with no problems using voice then you are fine. I was having the same problems using my mic with others on FSX multiplayer....I guess that the servers are not that strong and is dedicated to the graphics for the game.

Thats a hell of a good price. Where did ya get it that cheap?

skypilot2 wrote:

RadarMan: Off subject, I just got off gamespy multi player. I have an ongoing problem with hearing and talking to others in the game. Is there some plug-in or driver that I need?

See if there is an adjustment in the control panel of your sound card. If not check the Windows sound panel in the control panel of windows itself.
Check and see if earphones or whatever your using is set to the optimum sounds setting.

GundamWZero 😀 Good for you!!! Enjoy that beauty!!

Oh wow. What a nightmare.

First I didn't seat the SLi chip right (because I had no picture), which made me reset the BIOS to recognize the monitor. Lost Vista in that process......How the heck you "LOSE an OS just by resetting your BIOS? So I had to reinstall Vista. Thank goodness that the Raptor was only the operating system HDD only. I did a clean install then had to reinstall FSX. That was easy due to I had that on another HDD; all it did was to give the desktop a direction on where to find the program.

Next, came overclocking........ 🙄

The 8800GTS came Superclocked, so I didn't bother with that, but I increased the CPUs clock speed to 203 MHz from 200 MHz. Then I threw ALL the sliders to the max:

and it was extreamely choppy!!!!! So I will bring down some of the "bells and whistles" of the settings so that the sim can perform better.

But first........ sleep.

RadarMan wrote:

skypilot2 wrote:

RadarMan: Off subject, I just got off gamespy multi player. I have an ongoing problem with hearing and talking to others in the game. Is there some plug-in or driver that I need?

See if there is an adjustment in the control panel of your sound card. If not check the Windows sound panel in the control panel of windows itself.
Check and see if earphones or whatever your using is set to the optimum sounds setting.

GundamWZero 😀 Good for you!!! Enjoy that beauty!!

I checked all my setings and nothing has been accidentaly muted and sound works fine on all other applications. I am running a realtek AC97. Do you think I am missing a driver or something like that. The sound in multiplayer works some, but constant breaking up to the point where it's impossible to understand dialog...Anyone else having problems in this area. Maybe a new install???

skypilot2 wrote:

RadarMan wrote:

skypilot2 wrote:

RadarMan: Off subject, I just got off gamespy multi player. I have an ongoing problem with hearing and talking to others in the game. Is there some plug-in or driver that I need?

See if there is an adjustment in the control panel of your sound card. If not check the Windows sound panel in the control panel of windows itself.
Check and see if earphones or whatever your using is set to the optimum sounds setting.

GundamWZero 😀 Good for you!!! Enjoy that beauty!!

I checked all my setings and nothing has been accidentaly muted and sound works fine on all other applications. I am running a realtek AC97. Do you think I am missing a driver or something like that. The sound in multiplayer works some, but constant breaking up to the point where it's impossible to understand dialog...Anyone else having problems in this area. Maybe a new install???

Check for drivers first, I have a new card and I found new drivers at Creative for it, with a control panel.

skypilot2 wrote:

I checked all my setings and nothing has been accidentaly muted and sound works fine on all other applications. I am running a realtek AC97. Do you think I am missing a driver or something like that. The sound in multiplayer works some, but constant breaking up to the point where it's impossible to understand dialog...Anyone else having problems in this area. Maybe a new install???

It is probally your bandwith.

GundamWZero wrote:

skypilot2 wrote:

I checked all my setings and nothing has been accidentaly muted and sound works fine on all other applications. I am running a realtek AC97. Do you think I am missing a driver or something like that. The sound in multiplayer works some, but constant breaking up to the point where it's impossible to understand dialog...Anyone else having problems in this area. Maybe a new install???

It is probally your bandwith.

I am running cable modem and have no issues with another program called teamspeak. ??