Kevin Firth 114 Posted December 24, 2015 Report Share Posted December 24, 2015 <img src="http://fs-snaps.com/images/2015/12/24/image.md.jpg" alt="image.md.jpg" border="0"> :O this thing is a monster!!! lucky me :)Thanks to OCUK and DPD delivery for getting it to me on xmas eve... great service! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
UKJim 502 Posted December 24, 2015 Report Share Posted December 24, 2015 Happy Christmas lol! Link to post Share on other sites
brett 2,285 Posted December 24, 2015 Report Share Posted December 24, 2015 It looks like it should be on a race car, enjoy. Link to post Share on other sites
Quickmarch 488 Posted December 24, 2015 Report Share Posted December 24, 2015 It looks like a drone. Check your local ordinances to see if it's legal to fly it. Link to post Share on other sites
Kevin Firth 114 Posted December 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2015 Seriously, the pic doesnt do it justice. Its heavy, big, with a serious metal backplate and as previous commented on, a trio of what can only be termed turboprops on the front! Its almost as fast as the heaviest oc'ed 980Ti on the market but priced at nearly the cheapest. Normal price is £569 and currently discounted to £509.... Link to post Share on other sites
bilirubin 50 Posted December 24, 2015 Report Share Posted December 24, 2015 That is a serious bit of kit Kevin, I would bolt your tower down before you power up. Mike Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Coffee 2,030 Posted December 24, 2015 Report Share Posted December 24, 2015 Now I hope you will be using The GeForce for Good Firthlord Kevin. Link to post Share on other sites
Kevin Firth 114 Posted December 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 25, 2015 Just spotted that OCUK have the 6700K on offer at £269 (10% off) for boxing day if anyone was considering a skylake build...bit out if the question for me now at this time anyway Link to post Share on other sites
Christopher Low 63 Posted December 25, 2015 Report Share Posted December 25, 2015 Seriously, the pic doesnt do it justice. Its heavy, big, with a serious metal backplate and as previous commented on, a trio of what can only be termed turboprops on the front! Its almost as fast as the heaviest oc'ed 980Ti on the market but priced at nearly the cheapest. Normal price is £569 and currently discounted to £509.... Shhhh! Your wife might find out! Link to post Share on other sites
Kevin Firth 114 Posted December 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 25, 2015 Seriously, the pic doesnt do it justice. Its heavy, big, with a serious metal backplate and as previous commented on, a trio of what can only be termed turboprops on the front! Its almost as fast as the heaviest oc'ed 980Ti on the market but priced at nearly the cheapest. Normal price is £569 and currently discounted to £509.... Shhhh! Your wife might find out! She already did, I'm posting from the afterlife 1 Link to post Share on other sites
hlminx 301 Posted December 25, 2015 Report Share Posted December 25, 2015 oooh that's a nice one Kevin ! good buy Happy Christmas :-) Link to post Share on other sites
wain 879 Posted December 26, 2015 Report Share Posted December 26, 2015 Noce one...looks a great bit of kit... Link to post Share on other sites
Bruce (a.k.a. brian747) 142 Posted December 26, 2015 Report Share Posted December 26, 2015 A lovely piece of kit, Kevin! Enjoy..... Cheers, bruce a.k.a. brian747 P.S. <grin> Remember the time (not that many years ago) when the conventional wisdom was that FSX was processor-intensive, and so there was no point in adding a powerful graphics card? Yet another of the many FSX myths that have bitten the dust.... B. Link to post Share on other sites
Kevin Firth 114 Posted December 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 26, 2015 I think that was true of FSX, but this will be powering P3D only Link to post Share on other sites
Bruce (a.k.a. brian747) 142 Posted December 26, 2015 Report Share Posted December 26, 2015 Fair enough, but the myth is long busted for FSX, (too). Link to post Share on other sites
MyPC8MyBrain 273 Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 congrats Kevin, so you finally made the leap (i guess the guest room will have to wait ) can we see some Night Environment pics now off 3.1 with the new corected Photoreal emissives? Link to post Share on other sites
Kevin Firth 114 Posted December 29, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2015 Are they now properly corrected in 3.1 Chris? I've only just installed and got the card running nicely...and nice is a massive understatement...tremendously smooth and detailed flight, even with DSRx2 and all P3D3.1 sliders at max, with ai and boat traffic at decent levels - maintaining 30fps in the Q400 with slinky smooth TIR movements A great investment!! Let me see what I can do with NE next time.... Cheers K 1 Link to post Share on other sites
UKJim 502 Posted December 29, 2015 Report Share Posted December 29, 2015 Are they now properly corrected in 3.1 Chris? I've only just installed and got the card running nicely...and nice is a massive understatement...tremendously smooth and detailed flight, even with DSRx2 and all P3D3.1 sliders at max, with ai and boat traffic at decent levels - maintaining 30fps in the Q400 with slinky smooth TIR movements A great investment!! Let me see what I can do with NE next time.... Cheers K Good that it's all working well - maybe get a cheeky second and SLI them go on treat yourself lolol Link to post Share on other sites
Kevin Firth 114 Posted December 29, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2015 oh no! My next uncommitted £500 goes on SWMBO. I dont think that internal audit would consider another card in SLI to satisfy that requirement . Besides, the bloody thing is a) performing flawlessly at abominably high settings; and b) so big I couldnt physically fit another in my current case Fortunate, eh?!? Cheers K Link to post Share on other sites
MyPC8MyBrain 273 Posted December 29, 2015 Report Share Posted December 29, 2015 I’m very happy for you Kevin,i know you've been waiting a long time to update your system Are they now properly corrected in 3.1 Chris? since you started it all; i think it’s only fair that you be the judge quoted from Prepar3D published list of updates:Fixes and Improvements Fixed issue that caused weapon trails to not animate correctly at long distances Triton water updated to Cuda 6.5 and performance improved Fixed issue where sea foam texture would not display across multiple graphics cards Fixed bug where 3D water would not correlate correctly between multiple views Fixed terrain spikes that would occur with multiple moving views Reduced black textures when switching views showing previously requested objects Fixed crash that would occur when more than 24 2D views were opened Fixed issue with bump mapping where tangent was calculated incorrectly Fixed color of emissive night only materials <-- thats NE's night texture blend fix Fixed lighting value used for nighttime reflections Prevent sun and moon from fogging when volumetric fog is disabled Fixed issue where last emitted extrusion would become detached from the emitter Fixed bug that caused light effects to be overridden to use incorrect effect file 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Kevin Firth 114 Posted December 29, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2015 Chris, I'll try to grab a couple of test shots tonight/tomorrow.... K 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Kevin Firth 114 Posted December 30, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2015 Chris, every time I tried enabling NEUK in P3D3.1 scenery library it crashed the sim? :s Link to post Share on other sites
MyPC8MyBrain 273 Posted January 3, 2016 Report Share Posted January 3, 2016 a bug was found in 3.1 release that’s causing a memory leak when accessing library objects data files; this was reported to LM http://www.prepar3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6312&t=116596 (but you already know that ) Link to post Share on other sites
Kevin Firth 114 Posted January 3, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2016 haha yes I do lets talk later to try and troubleshoot that prob 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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