Just showed my wife the pics of your setup and even she said that looked cool, and would I like to do that one day.

 

Woohoo! lol

Just showed my wife the pics of your setup and even she said that looked cool, and would I like to do that one day.

 

Woohoo! lol

That's great! Just play your cards right. Sneaky devils those wives. It could end up costing more than the hardware! :LMAO:

Here is another one. I am loving this hardware!

If you think the head movement looks smoother here than in my previous one

you are right it is! I just discovers F7 in TrackIR GUI which is for Precision. It smooths out the jerky

movement beautifully. you can either click on in a the bottom right of the TrackIR GUI of just press f7

in the sim. Make sure you don't have any conflicts! :-)

 

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1. Installed Drivers form the CD supplied with Mother Board. Chipset driver first followed by SATA driver and then the rest. Didn't install Intel RST for Samsung 840 Pro as per Samsung Instructions.
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      observation:

• Screwed up here! Installed chipset driver without with using the GUI on the ASUS CD. Explored the CD to find the driver and used the setup.exe which was in fact the asussetup.exe file so no big deal. But got to wondering if I should have used the ASUS GUI on the disk to install correctly so proceeded to reinstall again. Got to thing about reinstalling without removing driver already installed. It all went downhill form there. decided to start again form windows reinstall. That started with a secure erase of the Samsung 840 Pro with Samsung Magician. That turned into a nightmare. Made bootable USB but could not booth form it! Made bootable DVD but the Samsung GUI was unreadable. Installed SSD in another computer to Secure erase in a windows environment but Magician could not find it. The system was probable IDE. Installed Windows on one of the HDD's in the new build and tried to secure erase the SSD in that windows environment. Samsung Magician found the SSD and started the Secure erase process but after all of that I got a error message. Gave up on secure erase and reinstalled window 7 Ultimate on the Samsung again using Diskpart formatting the disk. It would have been easier to do that in the first place but I didn't want to take any chances and I got bogged down. Also had to do no.2 above all over again. Whole day on project wasted. Not to self quite when tired!
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• One other screw up. SATA drives should be installed after the chipset drivers. Samsung say not to install the Intel RST drivers but there is another SATA controller! I did not install the ASmedia drivers second but it seems that is OK.
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1. Installed Nvidia drivers using the Gigabyte GUI form the CD supplied leaving out the unnecessary Stuff and then downloaded the latest driver and performed a clean install of the new drivers.
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1. Updated DirectX
2.  

 

 

August 19th 2013

 

 

Thanks Dave for sharing your built, got some good info. Myself I am "slowly"building a haswell watercooled build. Is there any guide how to setup ssd's for the first time? I have a samsung Evo 250GB and 750GB. 

1. Connected all SATA devices and used all 8 SATA ports on the MB. ASUS ships the Sabertooth Z87 with only 4 SATA cablesL
2.  
3. Formatted and Aligned SSD's to 1024k and HDD's to 64k
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5. Installed the 3 Thermisters included with the Mother Board. One is outside the case to detect ambient temp. Not sure what to do with the other 2. Put both of them on the Silver Arrow SB-E Extreme for the time being.

 

 

 

Thanks for sharing us your build. I am building slowly my PC for flight sim. waiting continues for memory 2400mhz Corsair or Gskill. However is there a guide for setting up the ssd's? I have 2 Samsung Evo's. And it will be the first time for me using SSD's.

Thanks for sharing us your build. I am building slowly my PC for flight sim. waiting continues for memory 2400mhz Corsair or Gskill. However is there a guide for setting up the ssd's? I have 2 Samsung Evo's. And it will be the first time for me using SSD's.

 I am using Nicks Guides over on sim forums. One is for installing and optimizing windows for FSX or any other demanding application. It is very detailed and Nick insists that if you follow the guide follow it to the letter! So patients is required. Took me a couple of months to get through the whole thing! Here it is:

http://www.simforums.com/forums/the-fsx-computer-system-the-bible-by-nickn_topic46211.html

 

It is written for the average user and covers everything including aspect of setting up you FSX machine including SSD alignment etc.

 

It doesn't end there. There is also a guide of overclocking the i7 4770k to 4.8ghz on air. Here it is: http://www.simforums.com/forums/haswell-48ghz-on-air-building-a-haswell-system_topic46180.html

 

Very useful thread for selecting the right hardware etc. I listed all of the components in my build at the top of this thread and I can highly recommend this build.

 

It doesn't end there the is the FSX optimizing guide. At the end of the bible (The Nick Neeham Version) LOL you are directed to two approaches to optimizing FSX.

 

There is a guide here on AVSIM but I preferred to follow the above offering and I am not disappointed! :lol:

thanks, reading time

I am gearing up for the Next and insane part of this project. The sub-Zero ambient Temp environment for the Overclocking this $3000 Machine. I have to be honest since the announcement of P3D V2 I have wondered why I was not more patient since I originally planed to wait to see P3d V2 before acting on this plan. But hey the OC potential here is going to be huge and from what I have read despite the new graphics Engine etc. P3D V2 will demand high performance too, so none of this will be wasted.

 

As I mention before this Rig will live in my un-insulated garage and boy do it get cold in there! As much as minus 20 degrees. I did an experiment with My i7 920 build on the roof of my garage and managed to complete 3DMark06 at 4.85GHZ for a score of 32,000+. So here are the plans. The cage is being built this weekend!

 

Here is the Fighter flight controls setup :lol:

And just to be conciliatory I'll us XPX for the my fighter haswell video:

Good pictures. Lots of ingenuity.

I also have a Haswell i7 4770K. Mine is over-clocked at 4.2 Mhz. It's super quiet.

I am using a Tower case.

Good pictures. Lots of ingenuity.

I also have a Haswell i7 4770K. Mine is over-clocked at 4.2 Mhz. It's super quiet.

I am using a Tower case.

Thanks, I haven't started Overclocking yet but hope to get started on that soon.

Like real Flying with this hobby it is 90% of the time setting up and 10% flying :lol:

Thanks, I haven't started Overclocking yet but hope to get started on that soon.

Like real Flying with this hobby it is 90% of the time setting up and 10% flying :lol:

Good Luck with the next phase of your project.

I also used the Samsung 840 Pro SSD for my new rig. In my case I have the MZ-7PD512.

Still no progress here i.e. haven't yet done any OC or even Setup Nvidia inspector.

However I am still enjoying the Haswell so far. Here is another video featuring some of the best Freeware I have

seen for FSX:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaUZYD_muAE&feature=youtu.be

 

Be  careful with the OC !!!

I am no longer an OOM virgin! :LMAO: I got my first OOM ever flying the Milviz 737 into chiliwak in ORBX PNW under a REX sky. I was recording with FRAPS also. I think FRAPS caused it though because I did the exact same flight with the NGX right after it without recording it and no OOM (yes I know 2 completely different aircraft). During the playback the is a windows sound that is heard every 10 to 15 seconds. Anyone know if this has something to do with the OOM or what it is?

 

That windows chime is probably FSUIPC's low-VAS warning (assuming you're running FSUIPC). By default, the warning is enabled, and it starts bonging at you when you get down to ~300MB of the 4GB available VAS remaining. Sometimes you can cheat death when you first hear the warning by saving the flight--the process of saving a flight seems to reset some things to recover some of the VAS. And sometimes not.

 

Regards