System for FSX?

Uncle Vic wrote:
> I finally handed my old machine down and bought something state of
> the art. I'm running FS9 happily at 60+ FPS with the sliders maxed,
> but I wonder what I am missing by avoiding FSX. I guess my main
> question would be if this machine's rendering of FSX will be a slide
> show like my old one was with FS9. Here's the machine:
>
> ASUS STI motherboard
> Intel Core-2 duo E6400 @ 2.13 gHz
> 2 gigs memory DDR2
> 250 GB Hard drive (SATA-300)
> Radeon X1600 pro video card (256 MB onboard)
> Soundblaster Audigy ZS2 Platinum sound card
> (I nicked that from another machine)


I wd say that this wd run FSX quite satisfactorily


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Vic,

Looks like a good system. The only issue I would have is the graphics
card... I know that FSX (and FS9) is always going to be CPU limited,
but, for the good processor you are getting the GPU isn't really
matched; performance wise.

If you are buying the machine 'off-the-shelf' then I would ask how much
an upgrade to either a Radeon X1900+ or NVidia 7600GT at the least.
Even better would be a the higher end X1950 or 7900GT+ cards.

Forgetting about FS for the moment (gasps in horror! ), any machine
that will be used for high performance computing such as gami.. err
simulations need to be designed to be performance matched. Having a
Core-2 E6800 extreme paired to 512MB RAM and a X1300 is really a waste
(unless you are just interested in specific number crunching tasks).
Likewise, having a 8800GTX paired to a Celeron (or some such) is again
not going to give you top performance.

Cheers...

AndyR

Uncle Vic wrote:
> I finally handed my old machine down and bought something state of the art.
> I'm running FS9 happily at 60+ FPS with the sliders maxed, but I wonder
> what I am missing by avoiding FSX. I guess my main question would be if
> this machine's rendering of FSX will be a slide show like my old one was
> with FS9. Here's the machine:
>
> ASUS STI motherboard
> Intel Core-2 duo E6400 @ 2.13 gHz
> 2 gigs memory DDR2
> 250 GB Hard drive (SATA-300)
> Radeon X1600 pro video card (256 MB onboard)
> Soundblaster Audigy ZS2 Platinum sound card
> (I nicked that from another machine)
>
>
>
> --
> Uncle Vic
>
> Don't be afraid. The lack of a deity is not an opening for chaos. It is a
> call for responsibility. -Lauren Becker
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One fine day in alt.games.microsoft.flight-sim, "CheesyPeas"
<andrew.q.robinson.TakeThisOut@gsk.com> bloodied us up with this:

> Vic,
>
> Looks like a good system. The only issue I would have is the graphics
> card... I know that FSX (and FS9) is always going to be CPU limited,
> but, for the good processor you are getting the GPU isn't really
> matched; performance wise.
>
> If you are buying the machine 'off-the-shelf' then I would ask how
> much an upgrade to either a Radeon X1900+ or NVidia 7600GT at the
> least. Even better would be a the higher end X1950 or 7900GT+ cards.
>
> Forgetting about FS for the moment (gasps in horror! ), any machine
> that will be used for high performance computing such as gami.. err
> simulations need to be designed to be performance matched. Having a
> Core-2 E6800 extreme paired to 512MB RAM and a X1300 is really a waste
> (unless you are just interested in specific number crunching tasks).
> Likewise, having a 8800GTX paired to a Celeron (or some such) is again
> not going to give you top performance.
>
> Cheers...
>

Thanks for the info, Andy. I've already had the machine built, and have
been using it for a few weeks now. I'm getting great frame rates in FS9,
and there's so much addon stuff for it that I think I'll camp for a while.
Coming off the dreaded NVidia 5200, I'm quite pleased with the Radeon
x1600. Too bad I didn't know enough to get the x1900, but that's usually
the case with me... as soon as I buy something, a better one is on the
shelf. The machine I just bought seems to be *almost* state of the art for
FS9, so maybe a few years from now, one will be available to run FSX all
proper.

Later!

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