I have the following setup, built mainly for BF3 in october 2010:

 

ASUS Rampage III Extreme X58, Corsair Dominator DHX DDR3 1333MHz 16GB (4x4), Intel® Core i7-960 Processor 3,2 Ghz, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480, 2x Western Digital Caviar® Black 1TB, Win7 Ultimate 64bit.

 

Fitted a GTX590 as soon as it came out, also fitted a i7-980 3,33 processor about a year ago. I run FSX, PMDG 737NGX, FSG,REX,GEX,UTX

 

I know this is not the best setup for FSX but it is very good for BF3. As my interest now is moving towards FS I am now thinking about rebuilding.

 

Do I have something to work with here or would I be better off selling off this rig and build a new one?

 

I am in the lucky position that money is no object, so feel free to reply with your hottest rig fantasy ever ;-)

There is an AvSim FSX Hardware guide here: http://forum.avsim.net/topic/370594-read-before-posting-software-hardware-guide-for-fsx/

There is an AvSim FSX Hardware guide here: http://forum.avsim.n...-guide-for-fsx/

 

+1

 

SCroll down the hardware section, it tells you exactly what parts you want!

I am in the lucky position that money is no object, so feel free to reply with your hottest rig fantasy ever ;-)

 

Try this setup http://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/tech/k/whatis/system/ :Big Grin:

Could go with something like what I built, maybe de-lid the CPU and go with custom water cooling for better temps and overclocking capability. Swap out the RAM for some 2.6GHz+ stuff and get a larger PSU if you think you'll ever go Tri or Quad SLI. Bump up the mobo to an Extreme 6 and you really can't get any faster/better than that for FSX. Snag a set of PFC flight controls and build yourself a nice sim pit and that's the dream setup right there.

I would also suggest either 2700K or 3770K, but you would need to de-lid the CPU on the 3770K to get it to perform better than 2700K when OCed.

Bear in mind that both 680 or the PCIEx3 don't bring much into FSX.

Then add a 2nd GPU to that system, it will bring some FPS in some certain situations, strong PSU for two GPUs, fast RAM as Max said, and you'll be singin.

Add to that PFC, there is a review in my sig, be sure to check it out. Gonna cost your couple of thousands, but you should really be happy with it.

Thank you very much guys, I'll start checking these things out now.

 

Regards

Morten Steen

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One question, what do you meen by de-lid the processor?

 

Thanks

 

 

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Morten Steen

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Bear in mind that both 680 or the PCIEx3 don't bring much into FSX.

 

Word Not Allowed, while I agree with the rest of your post I do have to take issue with this statement. In my testing so far I have seen a noticeable improvement in the smoothness of the sim by using full x16 PCIe 3.0 (vs x8, simulating x16 2.0 speed). You're right that the FPS hasn't increased, but overall I notice micro-stuttering and pop-in all but disappear. Mind you my testing has not yet included GPU overclocking, so there may be even more performance hidden in this beast. I'm hoping to continue testing tonight or tomorrow and will report results in the IB results thread when I have them.

Cool Max, if the smoothness is really better, then all I can is whooohooo. But... keep in mind that smoothness is really subjective. And what you have to compare is apples to apples. Like... 2700K on Z77 with GTX680 vs 3770K on Z77 with GTX680. Both same clock. And those two one beside another. Not even after another... I would be afraid to give any opinions on smoothness if I didn't have that opportunity. I would be worried too much about the placebo effect.

 

One question, what do you meen by de-lid the processor?

 

It means taking off the metal lid on the CPU, to get to the actual CPU. Currently, IB are made with a thermal paste between the CPU and the IHS (lid). There is a link somewhere in the forum about this... and I read that some even brought temperature down by 10 degrees.

money no object ? Buy a real airplane my friend.... that is unless you already have one :Hypnotized:

Well, I doubt he has millions... and if you have a 2nd hand cheap 737, let me know where I can buy it

Moneys no object for the 2% er. here ya go,

 

@ Word Not Allowed, the PCI-e 3.0 will not give you more FPS but will probably (with the right GPU 685) give a better experience with very demanding scenery like Orbx is, that mean you'll probably be able to crank up the eye candy with less stutterings and popping autogen if any.

 

As Phil taylor said before and as I suspected myself the PCI-e 2.0 is the bottleneck with FSX on complex scenery with top of the line computer.

 

IB just came out (remember the SB mobo problems at launch) and the mobo manuf. have not implemented their board for the GPU 3.0 yet, also, the driver for the card is also buggy...here... http://legitreviews.com/news/13174/

 

Also here...that's s biggy... http://www.legitreviews.com/news/13188/

 

The bottom line is that IB and the PCI-e 3.0 is in its infancy.

Dang ArDee that sim has to cost more than some real planes !!! :Hypnotized: