I just upgraded my rig with a i7 920 and thought if anyone wanted to read about the outcome and how FSX now performs for me you visit my site and have a look. I gotta say I am not sorry I did it!Sean Sorry here's the site:http://fsxoni7920.webs.com

I just upgraded my rig with a i7 920 and thought if anyone wanted to read about the outcome and how FSX now performs for me you visit my site and have a look. I gotta say I am not sorry I did it!Sean

Just wondering why you don't talk about it here in the forum ?

Just wondering why you don't talk about it here in the forum ?

I'm sorry, it was a lot of info so I put togther a quick website for people to view. I am more than willing to talk about it here, I just didn't think I could post all that here, again sorry.

Any suggestions on best vid card to go with this set up? The 8800's I have seem ok, would there be any benefit to upgrading. This mobo supportd sli and crossfire so which one would be the best?ThanksSean

I recently purchased the EVGA GTX 285 1GB board. Then overclock it to the more expensive sister-versions. It worked nicely for me. Don't do SLI or more than 1GB boards as FSX won't make any use of it except at exremely large resolutions with higher AA.

I recently purchased the EVGA GTX 285 1GB board. Then overclock it to the more expensive sister-versions. It worked nicely for me. Don't do SLI or more than 1GB boards as FSX won't make any use of it except at exremely large resolutions with higher AA.

Will I see a good performance increase? From what I understand, and I might be wrong, FSX in CPU intensive. When I upgraded the vid to the current 8800's in sli, I was very disappointed in the results. Barely made a difference, so I guess what I am wondering is it a worthwhile update for the money.ThanksSean

It could speed up the surrounding terrain refresh and LOD levels, yes. I would at this time switch down to only one 8800 and use NHancer and follow NickN's advice for tuning the GPU. This is also found in the link 'Flightsim X Tuning' at the bottom of my sig. You are not using all the PCIe bandwidth on the i7 with an 8800 but you will not notice a significant increase in FPS with the GTX 285. I do notice in very heavy scenery such as KATL with 100% custom AI (all gates have parked AI) that I don't dip in FPS as much with the newer GPU. Otherwise, using FPS_limiter locked @ 30fps, it stays there throughout the rest of my flight so it does help. Just don't expect 60FPS, just good, stutter free, nice experience.Good luck...

It could speed up the surrounding terrain refresh and LOD levels, yes. I would at this time switch down to only one 8800 and use NHancer and follow NickN's advice for tuning the GPU. This is also found in the link 'Flightsim X Tuning' at the bottom of my sig. You are not using all the PCIe bandwidth on the i7 with an 8800 but you will not notice a significant increase in FPS with the GTX 285. I do notice in very heavy scenery such as KATL with 100% custom AI (all gates have parked AI) that I don't dip in FPS as much with the newer GPU. Otherwise, using FPS_limiter locked @ 30fps, it stays there throughout the rest of my flight so it does help. Just don't expect 60FPS, just good, stutter free, nice experience.Good luck...

Thanks Al, I noticed you said switch down to 1 8800, would this be an improvement? Does SLI do nothing for FSX? I have used NickN's guide and I saw that he did not use SLI, but is it a benefit not to use it or take out a card?ThanksSean

Thanks Al, I noticed you said switch down to 1 8800, would this be an improvement? Does SLI do nothing for FSX? I have used NickN's guide and I saw that he did not use SLI, but is it a benefit not to use it or take out a card?ThanksSean

How much perf increase you get with bigger gpu is a tricky science, but what is for sure is that, getting a bigger card is more likelly to improve things and not make them worse. Since you are a bit suspect of the benefits of new card, i would advice that the 9600 has dropped in price a lot, i think its now about

Thanks Al, I noticed you said switch down to 1 8800, would this be an improvement? Does SLI do nothing for FSX? I have used NickN's guide and I saw that he did not use SLI, but is it a benefit not to use it or take out a card?ThanksSean

No, general consensus for serveral FS versions now is SLI will in no way help performace. In fact from my own experience when SLI was new, and still true to this day, is it may actually drag it down a abit. SLI will only help in 2560 relsolutions and above with very high levels of AA (16x, etc..)Take out the extra card on 1920 resolutions and below and cleanely remove and reinstall the nvidia driver and setup nHancer again.This is also true of double-GPU cards such as x2 or GTX295. The GTX 295 with two cores runs FSX worse than my GTX 285 becuase of the extra core.

No, general consensus for serveral FS versions now is SLI will in no way help performace. In fact from my own experience when SLI was new, and still true to this day, is it may actually drag it down a abit. SLI will only help in 2560 relsolutions and above with very high levels of AA (16x, etc..)Take out the extra card on 1920 resolutions and below and cleanely remove and reinstall the nvidia driver and setup nHancer again.This is also true of double-GPU cards such as x2 or GTX295. The GTX 295 with two cores runs FSX worse than my GTX 285 becuase of the extra core.

Hi thereI get a big improvement running FSX at 3840 x 1024 using a Matrox Triplehead Digital with an ATI 3870X2 in DX10 preview mode (which supports Crossfire) compared to when I run FSX in standard mode.I am guessing from the other posts that I should go for GTX295 at these resolutions ?RegardsLufty