With my 3 monitor setup and NGX, photo scenery VFR Germany with lots of autogen and over Frankfurt City with a view looking at EDDF with many AI traffic and lots of cloudlayers, my system, including Windows, uses up to 7.8 Gb.....

 

I had to turn the LOD radius down from 5.5 to 5.0 as sometimes my system reached 8 Gb and then Out Of Memory....LOL

 

What are you running in the background? As FSX is a 32GB application, it can't use anywhere close to that much RAM. In the NGX, over Aerosoft Megacities San Fran (crazy high amounts of autogen), Flightbeam KSFOX, AS2012 maxed out settings, and UT2 @ 100%, FSX uses about 1.85GB of RAM. I agree with you that beyond 8GB is completely useless, except for aesthetic purposes, but aesthetic purposes are important to some people (including me ).

By the way, don't forget to include these at released.....

 

http://www.guru3d.co...ghz-clockspeed/

 

 

 

3000MHZ?!?!? :shok: :shok:

Possible to overclock them???

 

:Just Kidding:

Possible to overclock them???

 

:Just Kidding:

 

Depending on the motherboard..... :Bring It On:

What are you running in the background? As FSX is a 32GB application, it can't use anywhere close to that much RAM. In the NGX, over Aerosoft Megacities San Fran (crazy high amounts of autogen), Flightbeam KSFOX, AS2012 maxed out settings, and UT2 @ 100%, FSX uses about 1.85GB of RAM. I agree with you that beyond 8GB is completely useless, except for aesthetic purposes, but aesthetic purposes are important to some people (including me ).

 

Try with a resolution of 5040x1050 , 4x AA and 16 AF and you will see that it is possible...

It was Word Not Allowed that pointed me to the LOD radius , otherwise I was still haqving those OOM's.

Try with a resolution of 5040x1050

 

I usually run at 5760x1080. It's a limitation of how much memory FSX can recognize because of it's 32-bit nature. As a 32-bit application, FSX cannot ever access more than 4GB of RAM, even on a 64-bit system. OOM's occur b/c FSX tries to use more memory than 4GB (or 2GB w/ 32-bit os, or 3GB w/ the 3GB switch applied), not b/c it runs out of system RAM. If you ran out of system RAM you would get a message that Windows had run out of virtual memory, not the FSX OOM.

 

That's neither here nor there as far as this discussion goes. That 3Ghz RAM is hot, I want some!

Morten,

 

If you want the most insane system ever, go for something like this:

 

Intel Core i7 3960X

Nvidia GeForce GTX680

32GB DDR3 2400

Corsair AX1200 Power Supply

Corsair Obsidian 800D

OCZ 480GB Revodrive

Asus Rampage IV X79 Motherboard

Corsair H100 Watercooling

 

^^If only I could afford this LOL

 

Hi guys, I'm digging up this thread from it's grave, hope that is not in conflict with any rules ;-) After a very busy summer with a company restructuring and all leftover time spent in the 911 on road and track, it's now time to build a proper FSX rig.

 

I have decided to build a new PC for FSX only. No other software, no other use for this PC will hopefully ensure no compromises and no clutter and I will try to follow all guides with regards to the correct prep of Windows and FSX from start to end.

 

Are there any significant changes in the recommended hardware listed above that I might take into consideration as some time has past :-)

Check out AMD's RAM and RAMDisk, you can get up to a 64GB lightninng fast ramdrive.

Hm, interesting, thanks! I'll have a good look at this.

Most will agree the i7 LGA CPUs are a "waste" because of the limits of FSX. My rig is very similar to what is listed. I just added SLI'd GTX 680 FTW 4gb cards. Save some cash on the CPU and get the 3930k. Get 64GB of the fastest RAM that board will take because you can.

 

I'm waiting for IB-E as it seems the Haswell rollout means a new socket all around(?). I am able to get PCIe 3.0 on both my cards now and I realize I got lucky because the X79 doesn't guarantee this with nVidia cards.

 

Depending on how urgent your need for this rig is you may be better served by waiting for Haswell and the 700 series nVidia or HD8xxx cards.

 

Good luck either way. I love my rig and it just eats anything I throw at it.

Thanks Dan, points taken. I am not very keen on de-lidding the cpu and my understanding is that that would be the best way to go with the setup on the list. I'll read up on the Haswell.

I think the above proposed computer by Ben is probably the best solution right now. I too wouldn't go IB if my budget was no object. And since real watercooling isn't that big of a problem, and is more effective, I would rather do that than H100. But H100 is by far the best AIO solution.

Thanks Word Not Allowed, noted. To think a bit further, I will of course set up FSX as you recommend, but do you have any recommendations about what guide is good to follow as of to get Win and the PC to be best optimized for FSX. This rig will be used only for FSX so I can take the axe at everything that is not necessary. Quite interesting build this actually, with no compromises at all.

what guide is good to follow as of to get Win and the PC to be best optimized for FSX

 

Uh, darn. On this I follow only my own guide, the one I know since 20 years or so, since I built the first computer. I never wrote anything similar, the best one I know is from NickN, though I never followed that one and had pretty much successful installations.

The best I can do is help you "on the way"... I don't think I'll find time anytime soon to write a tutorial on installing "windows for FSX".

 

I know what you mean with "no compromise". I wish I could do the same...

Thanks, I guess being very meticulous about Win services would be the way to go. I have read a link to a Windows tuning guide here that was not so ancient, I'll look it up.

 

Edit: Yeah, Nick's guide was the one :-)