Hi all,Well, I finally got a new computer I went from a P4 2.8 1 GIG PC2700 DDR RAM160 GIG IDE HDX800PRO 256MB Vid Cardto thisCore 2 Duo E66002 GIG of some kind of DDR RAM250 GIG SATA HDGeForce 7600GT 256 MB DDR3Someone said I wasn't going to see a significant increase in performance in FS. Let me tell you, I almost lost control of my bodily functions when I fired up the PMDG 747 with VC at default Phoenix with UT at 72% all settings either full right or one notch short of it and AS6 so far (frames were set to unlimited my the lowest FPS I saw was 32, mostly in the high 40's though, and that was on the ground during the takeoff roll, amazing!) If you're thinking about upgrading, get what I got if you're budget can afford it. I paid appx $1400. for mine, labor was $90. Great deal considering I could find nothing even close for the price I got mine for. (7.1 SB sound card as well as a cool looking case and a 550W power supply). If anyone is interested how the FSX demo runs with on this system, let me know and I'll post the results here.Jeff

hi sweetcan you tell me why you didnt go for a 7900GT instead a 7600GT?

I'm waiting for all this DX10 stuff to happen.Jeff

>...I almost lost control of my bodily functions>Love the description of your pleasure, LOLSeriously, that's excellent news as your new spec sounds very similar to that which i'm contemplating - hopefully PMDG's 737 will now give the same excellent frame rates...Have fun with the new rigGary

Coming from a good 'ol P4, such a swap will make a considerable difference. :-) If somenbody claimed that's not the case, I fear they're mistaken. I doubt somebody will fall of their chair if they came from a neat AMD64 system. ;-) As far as I would dare to judge, the difference between a P4 and AMD64 - in FS terms - was more spectacular than an AMD64 to C2D swap would be. It's great for us users that Intel returned to 'technology street' and are able to offer a competitive product at reasonable prices (plus a reasonable power consumption!). The greatest benefit for us users: Choices... :-) Have fun and kind regards Jaap

That's great! I'm looking at a similar system, leaning to the E6600 but may go with the E6700. Also from the reviews of these chips, they seem to have a wide berth for overclocking, up to 4 Ghz in one review and 3.66Mhz on another with relative ease. Normally I don't consider this, but if you bounce it up to about 3 Ghz you should get similar performance to the X6800. Some of the benchmarks I've seen in these reviews at 3.66 are off the chart!! I think that would be pushing it though!!

What motherboard are you using Jeff?Manny

Manny, I have the box right here, it's called an MSI P965 Neo, it's pretty good, if I knew what I was doing, I'd start messing with the BIOS to squeeze as much performance out of this machine as possible.Jeff

>>Someone said I wasn't going to see a significant increase in>performance in FS. Let me tell you, I almost lost control of>my bodily functions when I fired up the PMDG 747 Hheheh. I remember that thread. Someone did tell you that, but I didn't think they were right. I figured you'd fall out of your chair.Going from a P4 2.8 to a Core 2 Duo is two generations ahead and so it's no surprise ta me. Do you know what I upgraded from in Jan 06? A P4 1.8 ghz system. To a 3700+. Yeah, I about lost my bodily functions too haha.>supply). If anyone is interested how the FSX demo runs with>on this system, let me know and I'll post the results here.>Well shoot jeff I imagine the FSX demo smokes...Imagine how much better the actual FSX will be, with the fixed autogen and so on...RhettAMD 3700+ powered by Gerbil wheel + gerbil, eVGA 7800GT 256, ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2 gigs Corsair TWINX, blah blah, etc. etc.