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I too had that difficult decision to make.With my current system I get absolutely no stutters or choppy scenery. You must use the right drivers, nhancer, and fsg tweaks in order to achieve smooth flight. All my other programs run like a dream.As for FSX performance, 20-30 fps in KLGA with very dense AG and bad weather is pretty damn good, but I want even more performance.I believe my bottleneck is my hard drives. My new SSD drives will change that.It's up to you to decide whether the investment will fulfill your desire to enjoy FSX.I'm glad I made the financial investment.

NG,One thing I would say is you might not want to utilize the Corsair H50 cooler. While a great idea, I didn't have get the results compared to air I thought I would. If you wanted water cooling then I would recommend a true water system and not the H50. Otherwise just go with a good air HSF like the TRUE 120, Cogage True Spirit, or Noctua NH-U12P.

NG,One thing I would say is you might not want to utilize the Corsair H50 cooler. While a great idea, I didn't have get the results compared to air I thought I would. If you wanted water cooling then I would recommend a true water system and not the H50. Otherwise just go with a good air HSF like the TRUE 120, Cogage True Spirit, or Noctua NH-U12P.

Thanx for that info, i think real watercooling is out of the question, just to much hassel, ill try a air cooler then, sins the Cooler Master HAF 932 Big Tower has some moster ventilation that might be a good idea i thinkIs there a good reason why ppl use Asus P6T Deluxe V.2 instead of ASUS Rampage II Extreme, X58 Socket-1366, are the some differance in preformance related to FSX?

HiAny one regarding to this topic (new rig) have suggestion / experience with what optimal solution for using 3 monitors with FSX (only).

I just got the H50 in process of building my rig now. Ill let you know how well it works.

Well I just Oc'ed my 920 to 3.5ghz and my idle temps were in the 40-42 range with the h50. I ran OCCT linpack for 30 minutes and never saw over 74C. Hope this helps.

Is there a good reason why ppl use Asus P6T Deluxe V.2 instead of ASUS Rampage II Extreme, X58 Socket-1366, are the some differance in preformance related to FSX?

I went P6T Deluxe primarily based on the reviews.

HiAny one regarding to this topic (new rig) have suggestion / experience with what optimal solution for using 3 monitors with FSX (only).

I'm doing well with the TripleHead2Go Digital into three Dell monitors. I started the system that way, so I've never compared it against one monitor only and can't say what the performance hit is. But overall my performance is quite good - smooth 30fps in most settings with default aircraft, smooth 20-30 fps with complex aircraft (like the A2A Cub) and/or complex scenery areas. Using FPS limiter locked at 30fps. I run AI traffic pretty high (59 percent on all categories) and use high weather settings as well (ASA weather generator, REX textures). Currently using scenery complexity at very dense and autogen at dense. Full specs are below. As other posters have said, you're likely to get smoother performance, no stutters and crisp textures throughout, if you apply the proper tuning. Current hardware still isn't a magic bullet and you can't max everything out, but it's still a much better experience than on my old (c.2006) rig.FYI, re: three-monitor setups, I'm also keeping an eye on the new ATI 5800 series cards - search the Video Cards and Drivers forum for that or "eyefinity" (their name for their technology that runs mulitple monitors directly off the video card). No reports yet on performance but might be worth a look.Hope this helps.Alan

Thanx for the heads up guys :(

I'm doing well with the TripleHead2Go Digital into three Dell monitors. I started the system that way, so I've never compared it against one monitor only and can't say what the performance hit is. But overall my performance is quite good - smooth 30fps in most settings with default aircraft, smooth 20-30 fps with complex aircraft (like the A2A Cub) and/or complex scenery areas. Using FPS limiter locked at 30fps. I run AI traffic pretty high (59 percent on all categories) and use high weather settings as well (ASA weather generator, REX textures). Currently using scenery complexity at very dense and autogen at dense. Full specs are below. As other posters have said, you're likely to get smoother performance, no stutters and crisp textures throughout, if you apply the proper tuning. Current hardware still isn't a magic bullet and you can't max everything out, but it's still a much better experience than on my old (c.2006) rig.FYI, re: three-monitor setups, I'm also keeping an eye on the new ATI 5800 series cards - search the Video Cards and Drivers forum for that or "eyefinity" (their name for their technology that runs mulitple monitors directly off the video card). No reports yet on performance but might be worth a look.Hope this helps.Alan

I just purchased an ATI 5870 and started testing it. So far, the results look good. I'm running two 1920x1080 23" Asus Monitors (3840x1080 combined "Eyefinity" res) and getting good frame rates. A third monitor will be added soon.Machine specs:Core i7 920 QuadcoreDiamond ATI 5870 6GB RAM2TB 7200 RPM Hard DriveAsus 23" DVI/HDMI LCDFSX SettingsDetail: LargeComplexity: MaxMesh: MaxTexture Res: MaxWater effects: Low 2.xScenery Complexity: DenseAutogen: NormalSpecial Effects: HighTraffic: very lowAnisotropic & Antialais on Catalyst settings: DefaultAt SeaTac Airport in a Boeing 747, taking off averages about 30 fps. After about 10,000 feet, FPS increased to about 60.Adjusting the graphics card control panel seems to have a dramatic impact on frame rates-- more so than my previous Nvidia 9800 GTX cards.Turning the Catalyst settings to low and reducing some FSX settings to medium raised frame rates at take off to 50-60 fps. The 9800 under similar settings only went to about 35 fps... and it was only driving 1 monitor. Setting Catalyst to max on everything resulted in about 8 fps. Other games like Battlefront II looked smooth despite the incredible res. The card is also very quiet considering the load.I intend to install a third monitor early next week. The trick with the 5870 is that it requires at least one monitor to have a displayport connection. If you don't, you can adapt an existing DVI or HDMI monitor. But you need to buy an "active" displayport adapter. Note: passive adapters don't work; the adapter must be powered. According to ATI, it has something to do with the cards ability to control an displayport monitor's clock speed. It took a lot of digging on Google to figure this out.I ordered one from Dell for about $99 which reviewers said would work. Keep you posted.

I just purchased an ATI 5870 and started testing it. So far, the results look good. I'm running two 1920x1080 23" Asus Monitors (3840x1080 combined "Eyefinity" res) and getting good frame rates. A third monitor will be added soon.Machine specs:Core i7 920 QuadcoreDiamond ATI 5870 6GB RAM2TB 7200 RPM Hard DriveAsus 23" DVI/HDMI LCDFSX SettingsDetail: LargeComplexity: MaxMesh: MaxTexture Res: MaxWater effects: Low 2.xScenery Complexity: DenseAutogen: NormalSpecial Effects: HighTraffic: very lowAnisotropic & Antialais on Catalyst settings: DefaultAt SeaTac Airport in a Boeing 747, taking off averages about 30 fps. After about 10,000 feet, FPS increased to about 60.Adjusting the graphics card control panel seems to have a dramatic impact on frame rates-- more so than my previous Nvidia 9800 GTX cards.Turning the Catalyst settings to low and reducing some FSX settings to medium raised frame rates at take off to 50-60 fps. The 9800 under similar settings only went to about 35 fps... and it was only driving 1 monitor. Setting Catalyst to max on everything resulted in about 8 fps. Other games like Battlefront II looked smooth despite the incredible res. The card is also very quiet considering the load.I intend to install a third monitor early next week. The trick with the 5870 is that it requires at least one monitor to have a displayport connection. If you don't, you can adapt an existing DVI or HDMI monitor. But you need to buy an "active" displayport adapter. Note: passive adapters don't work; the adapter must be powered. According to ATI, it has something to do with the cards ability to control an displayport monitor's clock speed. It took a lot of digging on Google to figure this out.I ordered one from Dell for about $99 which reviewers said would work. Keep you posted.

One other note, enabling DX10 preview seems to improve frame rates a lot. Not sure why. On my Nvidia card, never noticed much difference. On the 5870, notice about 10fps more.

The DX10 code path is more efficient than the DX9 code path, meaning it takes fewer instructions to accomplish the same work and therefore less time to complete, which equates to higher framerates.

The DX10 code path is more efficient than the DX9 code path, meaning it takes fewer instructions to accomplish the same work and therefore less time to complete, which equates to higher framerates.

Makes sense, thanks! Definitely noticeable on the 5870.