November 30, 200619 yr Hey, Everyone I just spent a little over $600 USD upgrading my computer :-) If all goes well i should be getting everything this Monday or Tuesdays.Here are my specs before and after.Before:Dell Dimensions 8400Intel Pentium 4 550 (3.40GHz) w/HT1GB (512MBx2), 240-pin DIMM, DDR2 PC-3200256MB GeForce 6800 GTO (350/900)Creative Sound Audigy 2 ZS400GB S-ATA HDD 7200RPMAfter:Dell Dimensions 8400Intel Pentium 4 550 (3.40GHz) w/HTCrucial 2GB (1GBx2), 240-pin DIMM, DDR2 PC2-4200 512MB eVGA 7950GT KO Superclocked (600/1450)Creative Sound Audigy 2 ZS400GB S-ATA HDD 7200RPMAs you can see it's nothing too major just a new vcard and RAM. Anyway enough with the small talk the reason im here is im huge into FS9 and have tons of high quality payware addons in my hanger (PMDG 747, CS 757 Captain and CLS A340-600 The Beast) just to name a few, FS9 runs pretty well everything on Ultra High at 1280 by 1024 4xAA and 16xAF with FPS locked at 30 but things tend to get choppy and sluggish if i enable real world weather and there is heavy cloud coverage in my area.Do you think I'll notice any major performance improvements with these upgrades?- Ryan
December 1, 200619 yr Hi Ryan, improvements in the choppy/sluggishness fields are likely with more RAM. Performance increases in terms of framerates should be in relation to the differences of the GPU (plus where the CPU isn't the limiting factor). Kind regards Jaap
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