Hi,Well, looks like the Galaxy EVO 1250 watt power supply I purchased from Newegg is bad. Unbelievable, I've wasted days testing and retesting just to find the problem and rule out the power supply.So far I've purchased an Asus P6X58D Premium motherboard, two EVGA 480 video boards that were returned for two Asus 480 boards, a 1250 watt power supply that has to be returned to Newegg for a replacement and a new I7 980X processor.Now I have to wait on an RMA from Newegg, ship the P/S to them and then wait for a replacement. More wasted time!.All this just to run FSX on three monitors at a higher resolution. I must be out of my mind, there are time (like now) when I wish I "NEVER" heard of Microsoft Flight Simulator (back in 1982) and/or Bruce Artwick!!!

I feel your pain but have no fear, the minute you get it all together and it works, you'll forget all about it - - - until your NEXT upgrade.Vic

I feel your pain and share your wonderment at why we keep getting better hardware just to try and run FSX a little better and smoother. I must say that a lot of it for me is that I do like to tweak computers, not so much FSX cfg tweaking, but hardware tweaking.My signature rig is great and ran FSX great, but I had it put together by someone and after I got everything set up the way I wanted I started to want to build one. Well I could not put the bug off any longer and ordered all the parts from NE on the 14th. My i7 980X, R3E, Zotac Amp GTX 480, Crucial C300 SSD, Mushkin Redline ram, WD VRap's, HAF X case, Corsair AX850 PS and my Viewsonic 26" IPS panel showed up at my door step on the 19th and 20th.Believe me it was not long before I was wondering why didn't I just stick with what I had. Though some what stressful, putting the thing together was easy, booted on the first try and when I put the Win7 cd in it booted right into the Win7 installation routine.Getting Win7 installed on the SSD the exact way that I wanted it installed and getting all the MB drivers updated to the latest manufacturer drivers took me close to six hours! All I can say is never try to install ICH10R drivers on a SATA controller until you have changed that controller from IDE to AHCI in the BIOS! I knew to do that before I did anything else, but I completely forgot.I am now in the middle of transferring software from the signature rig to the new one and I know once I get everything transferred and get all my FSX stuff installed I will be glad that I did it and then the tweaking fun part will begin. Then 30 days later when I feel everything is stable it is time to OC and even more hardware tweaking fun will begin!

Hi,Well, looks like the Galaxy EVO 1250 watt power supply I purchased from Newegg is bad. Unbelievable, I've wasted days testing and retesting just to find the problem and rule out the power supply.So far I've purchased an Asus P6X58D Premium motherboard, two EVGA 480 video boards that were returned for two Asus 480 boards, a 1250 watt power supply that has to be returned to Newegg for a replacement and a new I7 980X processor.Now I have to wait on an RMA from Newegg, ship the P/S to them and then wait for a replacement. More wasted time!.All this just to run FSX on three monitors at a higher resolution. I must be out of my mind, there are time (like now) when I wish I "NEVER" heard of Microsoft Flight Simulator (back in 1982) and/or Bruce Artwick!!!  

Mike from the sound of all of your escapades with hardware I would think that you should not be flying real airplanes!  IMO  :) jja

Hi Guys,Well, the new power supply arrived today. I just got done rebuilding the computer, so far so good. No system restarts when running FSX. Looks like the power supply was at least part of the problem.So far, life is good again. :Big Grin: I also got my new VRAC throttle quad today, I'll get some photos up in the hardware forum. This is one heavy/impressive looking throttle quad. If it performs as well as it looks I'll be extremely happy with my $1,240.00 purchase.

Hey Mike,Not sure if your frustration is FSX or Newegg, ha!Tell me, howz your experience with Newegg? Seems like you have lots of returns for one reason or another. Are they "nickle and diming you"? 15% restocking?, shipping charges? Turn-around time must be in the weeks? Reason I am asking is I can get pretty much everything at my local Frys Electronics or at Newegg. Probably about $50 more at Fry's but I have no shipping charges, no waiting, instant return and exchanges and they will even test the system (board, video, ram, cpu) before it goes out the door to make sure they are all working properly.Your thoughts?thx,Clutch

Hi Clutch,As far as I'm concerned, Newegg is a good and reputable company. I've had no problems with Newegg (I've ordered numerous items from them), I understand there may be times when items sent (from any company) can be defective and will have to be returned for replacement. When they ship items to me I have them the next business day or second day the latest (they ship from NJ and I'm in NY). As far as the power supply, Newegg sent me a UPS label via email (I had the return label in a couple of hours) to ship the item back to them at no cost to me. As soon as I figured out the return label was sent via email and not through the mail, I printed the label, boxed up the power supply and shipped the item from the nearest UPS store. The shipping label sent was for ground shipping, the defective power supply had to be shipped to California and took six days. Guess if there is any problem it would be the wait. Newegg will not ship replacement items until the defective item is received. There is no restocking fee when returning defective items for replacement.All-in-All, when its all said and done, I would gladly do business with Newegg again.The two EVGA480 video boards were purchased locally from J&R and were exchanged immediately for the two Asus480 boards I now have in my system.As far as any shipping charges (some items ship for free), it offsets the cost of tax I would end up paying if the item(s) were purchased in NY.

Hey Mike,Not sure if your frustration is FSX or Newegg, ha!Tell me, howz your experience with Newegg? Seems like you have lots of returns for one reason or another. Are they "nickle and diming you"? 15% restocking?, shipping charges? Turn-around time must be in the weeks? Reason I am asking is I can get pretty much everything at my local Frys Electronics or at Newegg. Probably about $50 more at Fry's but I have no shipping charges, no waiting, instant return and exchanges and they will even test the system (board, video, ram, cpu) before it goes out the door to make sure they are all working properly.Your thoughts?thx,Clutch

Hi,Well, looks like the Galaxy EVO 1250 watt power supply I purchased from Newegg is bad. Unbelievable, I've wasted days testing and retesting just to find the problem and rule out the power supply.So far I've purchased an Asus P6X58D Premium motherboard, two EVGA 480 video boards that were returned for two Asus 480 boards, a 1250 watt power supply that has to be returned to Newegg for a replacement and a new I7 980X processor.Now I have to wait on an RMA from Newegg, ship the P/S to them and then wait for a replacement. More wasted time!.All this just to run FSX on three monitors at a higher resolution. I must be out of my mind, there are time (like now) when I wish I "NEVER" heard of Microsoft Flight Simulator (back in 1982) and/or Bruce Artwick!!!

Hi Michael,Yes, I also think I must be crazy to try FSX but it's addictive! I am fighting with OOM errors now (see my posting in the main FSX forum) and wondering if it's worth trying Windows 7 64-bit again (since I already have it). I only have an E8400 CPU (X38 chipset) with an ASUS P5E3 board, 4GB of Kingston Hyper-X RAM and a PSU much less powerful than yours (500W Antec) but no issues so far other than this memory and graphics anomalies issues (probably all related). :Whistle: Good luck with your new system!John