Hello all. Hard for me to believe this, but I've been out of the loop in the FS world for a couple of years. I'm building a new rig, and I'm going to do something I've enjoyed since I was a 12 year old kid running FS2 -- and that is -- fly a little. I was also a habitual FS tweaker, so I always felt at home here in the AVSIM Hardware forum. I think this is a good tech forum, compared to most, which is a tribute to all of you.

 

I'll be playing a lot of catch-up, as some things have changed, others have not since 08-09. First question, has this "nVidia Inspector" program largely (or completely?) supplanted nHancer?

nHancer was quite useful back then.

 

Only component I've ordered so far, is an eVGA GTX680 card. I want to try out some of these new *strange* IQ settings I hear of.

Yes. Nhancer is no more. NI offers more settings even.

Word Not Allowed. You're a mod now. Thanks for the heads up on nHancer...I suspected it was a thing of the past when I saw all these NI references.

 

I read your guide post, that was updated June 15. Very interesting...particularly the highmem thing, and the new (to me) BP information.

Rhett you're back!

 

You've been out a while if you've not used the highmemfix hehe. Bufferpools was added more recently and helps mostly with faster GPU's like the one you're getting.

Hi Ryan good to see you around

 

The 680GTX arrived yesterday, but I haven't hooked it up. I think I'll wait until I get the rest of the parts. Probably not smart if I have a dead card though hehe

 

I'm also not set on a 2700k either. The thing that worries me about current Ivy Bridges is how good clockers they might be...or might not be ... .more research is needed by me

Word Not Allowed. You're a mod now.

 

You've really been gone a long time! Been a mod for a long time now, must be half a year or longer, don't really remember, admin since recently.

 

Anyway, officially welcome back!

Here is the latest NI if anyone is interested:

http://downloads.guru3d.com/NVIDIA-Inspector-1.9.6.6-download-2612.html

 

Cheers

jja

Hi Ryan good to see you around

 

The 680GTX arrived yesterday, but I haven't hooked it up. I think I'll wait until I get the rest of the parts. Probably not smart if I have a dead card though hehe

 

I'm also not set on a 2700k either. The thing that worries me about current Ivy Bridges is how good clockers they might be...or might not be ... .more research is needed by me

 

Meh... based on the users here it seems Ivy bridge is good but not great. Clock per clock vs SB they are better but they create more heat than SB at the same clock speed. Ivy seems to benefit from proper liquid cooling (not closed loop like Corsair's lineup) then you can really crank them up to 4.8 - 5.0GHz.