HiI have recently upgraded my system to a Gigabyte X79-UD3 Motherboard and now i have it running, not all that well i must add, i thought i would try and access the BIOS to look at over clocking, the problem i have encountered is that when windows starts to boot i press the del key but all i get on the screen is a heading saying gigabyte bios but below that, it is blank, what i expected to see was a 3d image of my mother board where i believe i could access certain features to change the settings. I have looked for clues in the manual but nothing, all it says is press the dell key and the picture they display in the manual is a 3d image of the motherboard, all i have is a blank blue screen apart from the header. I am wondering whether all the chip set drivers where install properly. Thanks Shaun

Page 51 of the manualFull Screen LOGO Show&&Allows you to determine whether to display the GIGABYTE Logo at system startup. Disabled skips the GIGABYTE Logo when the system starts up. (Default: Enabled)Get back to page 34To access the BIOS Setup program, press the <Delete> key during the POST when the power is turned on.

Hi Jan Thanks. Im in work at the moment but will have a look tonight. shaun

and now i have it running, not all that well i must add, i thought i would try and access the BIOS to look at over clocking

HelloThats the bit that worries me.Get it running really well with absolutely zero OS or hardware problems then look to overclock, any other way is a world of pain.By then your thermal paste will have started to cure, the components on the board will start to stabilise and you will have a feel for what the board is doing.There is no rush, just enjoy the stock performance while you work the glitches out.

Hi My problem is i think i keep expecting miricles when i upgrade, in this case i went from a Gigabyte X58 UD4 (I7 920 2.6) to a Gigabyte X79 UD3 I7 3930k (3.2) and i think i have gained nothing at all. I seem to have more stutters, frame rates are not much better, round about 30ish, when i read of people getting up towards a 100, how do they do it. Sometimes i feel like packing it all in. shaun

Just forget all about FPS. First get the pc runningRun this checklist http://janvaane.org/virtualfsx/?page_id=287

My problem is i think i keep expecting miricles when i upgrade

HelloThere is more to good performance than putting fast components in a box, spend some time tuning the OS and the sim, get those running as sweetly as possible, then you have a baseline to work from.The other aspect to performance is balance in the components,You have replaced the 920 with the 3930 which is a definite step up but your graphics card is now the bottleneck.A better all round strategy for a fast and balanced machine to run FSX would have been an i7 2700K and spending the difference on a GTX 580.And you would also have gained a better upgrade path.

Hi When i decided to go down this route i believed that spending more on the processor would have benefited me more, thinking my card was ok and FSX is CPU hungry i would have seen some kind of increase. So now from what you are saying that my graphics card is the bottle neck, so would it be better for me to overclock my CPU or upgrade my graphics card. Cheers Shaun

HelloOC the cpu once you have the machine sorted out properly, then wait for the 6 series Nvidia cards to arrive, two things will happen then1: they should be a lot faster than the 5 series2: the 580 will become cheaper.Wins all round

No CPU running at 3.2 GHz will give you great performance in FSX. You should be able to get that 3930 running in the mid 4GHz range with a few nearly trivial changes in the BIOS (and a good quality CPU cooler). THAT will make a big difference. Your GTX470 GPU will probably be pretty much maxxed out at ~3.8 GHz and above on that CPU. But I agree with mad dog's post above--wait for the Kepler video cards to upgrade (ETA April); a PCIe 3.0 680 could make a big difference (at least we're all hoping for that).