hi guys,i recently upgraded from a 7300 gs card and amd 3500 processor to twin 8500 gt cards and an amd 4200 dual core processor,and,basically am not happy with the improvement.i am sli enabled,have the right graphics drivers and the amd dual core optimizer.if anyone can help me with either tuning tips for bios or steer me in the right direction your help would be appreciated,thanks,joe.

If I am right in thinking you have two Nvidia Cards running in SLI, then:FS2004 with one card runs at the same speed as when it has a second card installed in SLI FSX with one card runs at the same speed as when it has a second card installed in SLI In other words for FS2004 and FSX adding a second identical card in a SLI configuration has zero performance benefit over a single card.I have not got round to installing FSX service pack 1, but I believe FSX will give an improved performance with dual core processors after service pack 1 is installed. Best and Warm RegardsAdrian Wainer

>hi guys,i recently upgraded from a 7300 gs card and amd 3500>processor to twin 8500 gt cards and an amd 4200 dual core>processor,and,basically am not happy with the improvement.i am>sli enabled,have the right graphics drivers and the amd dual>core optimizer.if anyone can help me with either tuning tips>for bios or steer me in the right direction your help would be>appreciated,thanks,joe.I do not like telling you this, but you didn't really upgrade a whole lot. What I mean is, a 4200+ is about the same speed as a 3500+. It has 2 cores yes, but what would get you higher frame rate in FS is raw cpu horsepower.Secondly, as was said two graphics cards will not really help much in FS, unless you are running multiple monitors and/or very high resolutions and want super-high AA/AF.The main thing you need is a faster cpu. Having said that, a 4200+ can do ok in FS, even FSX. You should overclock it, that will help a lot. But your upgrade from a 3500+ to a 4200+ is really not a speed increase. It is mainly one-core to two cores, and the cpu's are similar in speed.That's why you are disappointed with your upgrade's FS performance. CPU's are about the same speed.For FS I would disable the SLI, if you are running in SLI mode. Turn it off for FS you will be better off.Do some research here and on the net on how to overclock your 4400+. You should be able to bump it up a notch or two with no problems.RhettAMD 3700+ (@2585 mhz), eVGA 7800GT 256 (Guru3D 93.71), ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2gb Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8 (1T), WD 150 gig 10000rpm Raptor, WD 250gig 7200rpm SATA2, Seagate 120gb 5400 rpm external HD, CoolerMaster Praetorian

I sure do understand that it's been hard for the AMD guys to throw in the towel and swap over to Intel. In 4-5 years, it's probably gonna be equally hard for the Intel guys to swap back over to AMD. . . . but that's the way these currents run. Sorry to say, it's time to bite the bullet. Ditch the AMD setup and start over with Intel. In 2-3 upgrade cycles, we'll all be back . . . to AMD (/ATI)'s Fusion.