My FSX Build - Your Thoughts/Comments

[No Ice 3]

Very nice set up you will have Martin.

 

For Christmas though make sure santa brings you an SSD

 

I use an OCZ agility 3 240GB and it made the biggest difference to my PC and gaming for a long time

 

FPS won't go up but with the spare time you will have not waiting for things to load you can start a new hobby, Like break dancing or spear fishing.

 

 

Regards

 

Craig

[MDF86 123]

Ha ha, I actually thought about an SSD but I had to draw the line with something and that's where it came down! I already went about 20-25% over budget and just blew another £100 on desk and chair to make myself at home tweaking and installing add ons :lol:

 

Will get some pics of the new setup up once it's all sorted out. I feel like a kid at Christmas, not going to be sleeping much tonight!

[HUSSAR 272]

And what's wrong with break dancing? But seriously... Craig, is the SSD used for FSX installation or cache?

 

Martin, check your PM

[No Ice 3]

And what's wrong with break dancing? But seriously... Craig, is the SSD used for FSX installation or cache?

 

Martin, check your PM

 

Nothing, I Wish I could dance like the jabbawockeez :-).

 

I have windows and FSX installed on my SSD. Loading times are a thing of the past.

 

Craig

[MDF86 123]

If I did get an SSD further down the road I presume there's no easy way to transfer FSX to it? It would be a full reinstall onto the SSD?

[mosteen 111]

 

Nothing, I Wish I could dance like the jabbawockeez :-).

 

I have windows and FSX installed on my SSD. Loading times are a thing of the past.

 

Craig

 

Interesting, I am building a dedicated rig high end for FSX only, would you recommend I go SSD only?

[Ben Cap 89]

Ideally I'd like to get it up to 4.5. Do you think that's reasonable?

 

Yes. Without a de-lid, you should be able to hit 4.5.

[Wynthorpe 51]

Sounds like a nice system.... But you are making a MAJOR mistake. You MUST buy the NGX, its worlds apart from the iFly in terms of immersion factor, its unreal. I own bith and the iFly got mothballed the day the NGX was released.

[No Ice 3]

 

 

Interesting, I am building a dedicated rig high end for FSX only, would you recommend I go SSD only?

 

I have a 240gb SSD for windows flight sim and other games. I also have another 500gb hard drive for films music and all that other good stuff.

 

If your building a high end rig it will feel bottleneck until you speed your hard drive up. SSD prices have dropped dramatically over the years and I think it's no brainer.

 

 

You will also notice textures load a lot quicker in Fsx and from PC boot to aircraft parked at the stand takes about 1 min if that.

 

 

Regards

 

Craig

[Sooty332 0]

Nice build, you have the same CPU as me and the motherboard is the one I wish to purchase as right now I am unable to OC and my memory is running at a slower speed than it should (completely messed up when buying a mobo). I am hoping to reach 4.4 on my IB without de lidding, my FSX experiecne right now is good but i really want another 20% out of performance

[westman 257]

Nice setup, that like à orders it myself.

Thinked that its was useless to recomend the GA board, tought you were one from

ASUS country .

That one clocks really good , the best budget clocker

It easy make 2950mhz if you have mems and memcontroller for it

 

Hasse

[scottb613 1,188]

Hi BA,<br /><br />I just finished building a very similar machine... I've always preferred Gigabyte and it seems to be running very well... I just used Gigabyte's "Easy Tune" software to over-clock... I realize it may not provide the optimum settings for any given setup - but - a single click had me running fine at 4.5 Ghz... I think you'll like your new setup... <br /><br />Just for comparison:<br /><br />============================================================<br />SANDY BRIDGE<br /><br />Intel Core i7-2700K Sandy Bridge 3.5GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 3000 BX80623i72700K<br /><br />GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD5H-WB LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard<br /><br />CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9<br /><br />EVGA 025-P3-1579-AR GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) HD 2560MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card<br /><br />Noctua NH-C12P SE14 140mm SSO CPU Cooler<br /><br />PC Power and Cooling Silencer Mk II 750W High Performance 80PLUS Silver SLI CrossFire ready Power Supply<br /><br />(2) SAMSUNG 830 Series MZ-7PC256B/WW 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)<br /><br />Western Digital WD Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5 Internal Hard Drive<br /><br />Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit<br /><br /> ============================================================<br /><br />Regards,<br />Scott

 

Sorry - Tapatalk is mangling my post...

 

Hi BA,

 

I just finished building a very similar machine... I've always preferred Gigabyte and it seems to be running very well... I just used Gigabyte's "Easy Tune" software to over-clock... I realize it may not provide the optimum settings for any given setup - but - a single click had me running fine at 4.5 Ghz... I think you'll like your new setup...

 

Just for comparison:

 

============================================================

SANDY BRIDGE

 

Intel Core i7-2700K Sandy Bridge 3.5GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 3000 BX80623i72700K

 

GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD5H-WB LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

 

CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9

 

EVGA 025-P3-1579-AR GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) HD 2560MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

 

Noctua NH-C12P SE14 140mm SSO CPU Cooler

 

PC Power and Cooling Silencer Mk II 750W High Performance 80PLUS Silver SLI CrossFire ready Power Supply

 

(2) SAMSUNG 830 Series MZ-7PC256B/WW 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

 

Western Digital WD Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5 Internal Hard Drive

 

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit

 

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Regards,

Scott

[mosteen 111]

 

I have a 240gb SSD for windows flight sim and other games. I also have another 500gb hard drive for films music and all that other good stuff.

 

If your building a high end rig it will feel bottleneck until you speed your hard drive up. SSD prices have dropped dramatically over the years and I think it's no brainer.

 

 

You will also notice textures load a lot quicker in Fsx and from PC boot to aircraft parked at the stand takes about 1 min if that.

 

 

Regards

 

Craig

 

Craig, thanks, actually I am building a HE rig for FSX only, have allways wanted a machine for pure FSX, no compromises