PC spec

[Lidman 0]

Looking to upgrade to run FS9 better and cope with FSX on XP Prox64 edition and perhaps in future convert to Vista. Envisage new spec :

Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 (2X2.66GHZ) 1066MHz FSB/4Mb L2 Cache,

4096Mb Corsair XMS2 800MHz 5-5-5-12 (4x1Gb or 2x2Gb),

Asus P5W DH Deluxe, 768Mb Geforce 8800GTX PC1 Express,

Antec Nine Hundred Atx case, Enermax Galaxy 850w PSU, and Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro.

Your expert comments much appreciated.

Lidman

[mutley 4,498]

Hi Lidman, welcome to the forum.

Looking at your proposed spec you will be going for the same processor as I have, everything else looks to exceed anything I presently have so FS9 will positively fly with that spec and FSX should run at a respectable speed.

If MartinW is around he would be able to give you and expert opinion.

Cheers

[dgor 0]

Hi Lidman,

Welcome to the forum! :-)

RE your spec, it looks great to me. FS9 will run very well indeed and FSX should give at least 30FPS or so, which is very good.

Regards,

Dave

EDIT: Nuts, Mut beat me to it

[mutley 4,498]

Sorry Dave, great minds and all that

[Lidman 0]

Thanks for the welcome and comments.

Is Martin W around ? Any remarks on RAM selection for my new PC.

John

[MartinW 0]

Hi, you are actually considering similar specs as my PC, although you may want to hold off for a while.

I also have the Asus P5W DH Deluxe, although it's sitting in its box on my bedroom floor. It's a long story, but I have the P5B deluxe installed due to its very good overclocking ability. The rest of your specs are similar to mine:

E6700 overclocked to 3.3

Ram is identical to yours.

Enermax liberty 620 watt PSU

BFG 7900gtx (Overclocked with 'coolbits')

Arctic cooling freezer 7 Pro.

I wouldn't disagree with your RAM selection as you'd expect considering mine is identical.

Some people think they will get better performance with super fast fancy RAM, they will, but only if they are prepared to overclock to an extreme degree. There would be no advantage to the super fast ram without overclocking.

The ram you have selected will alow an overclock to 3.3 or above if you require. The following post over at JF will explain better, Magic Man is the expert when it comes to RAM. As you will see, there’s more to RAM selection than just picking the fastest out there many that do that waste their money because they don't overclock. The ram you have chosen will be perfect at stock speeds and any reasonable degree of overclock you decide on.

http://forum.justflight.com/forum/topic ... C_ID=22909

As long as you don't go crazy with the sliders you should see perfectly acceptable performance in FSX, I do at 3.3 for the E6700. Your GPU is faster than mine, and despite the fact that FSX is CPU bound to a considerable degree your extra GPU punch will make a difference.

Don't forget that the FSX update is in beta, and the priority for the update is performance, so you should see even better performance in a few weeks when the update is released. Aces have managed to increase the degree to which FSX utilises the second core of dual core CPU’s so that’s very welcome indeed.

To sum up, your system looks very good, with plenty of power from your PSU, great GPU and the very overclockable E6700.

However, the new pricing structure has been announced from Intel, along with news of the new processors soon to be released. There’s going to be the new E6850 for example that will be the same price as the quad core Conroe. Looking to the future, and the other games you may play that will be coded for multi-core you may decide on Quad. Perhaps a wait of a month or two would be in your interests.

[Lidman 0]

Hi Martin W.

Your comments are reassuring, thank you.

I take your point about the new processor.

John

[MartinW 0]

Hope it goes faster than Mutleys business of a shovel! :mrhappy:

[mutley 4,498]

That shouldn't be difficult :sadblinky:

[MartinW 0]