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Hi, Excellent report - Forgetting FPS, could you say which one actually ran the smoothest? i.e. least amount of stuttering / tearing if any! Regards, Ted.

Hi GB, I have updated the affinity mask calculator to provide an expert mode, so that you can customise the affinity mask to use any logical cores and threads that you desire. http://www.gatwick-fsg.org.uk/affinitymask.aspx?SubMenuItem=hardware Regards, Ted.

I use 1364 without any problems at all and it uses the top 5 cores of my i7 4930k.

Paul, What a wonderful simple, cost effective solution. Thanks for sharing B) Regards, Ted.

Hi Bill, Could you please tell if you use any form of Bezel Management with your Eyefinity setup, as I use nVidia Surround with Bezel Management enabled but if you look at my picture you will notice the knobs towards the far right get elongated. They only look correct if I turn Bezel Management off. Regards, Ted.

Sorry Howard, I guess I had a sense of humor failure :Just Kidding: Regards, Ted.

Hi Howard, Are you very sure that is not a typo, as according to the Dell web site you have one zero too many? See below. Regards, Ted. DellTM UltraSharpTM U3011 30” Monitor with PremierColor DISPLAY Diagonal Viewable Size: 75.6 cm (30") Aspect Ratio Widescreen (16:10) Panel Type, Surface: IPS (In-Plane Switching), anti glare with hard coat 3H Optimal Resolution: 2560 x 1600 at 60 Hz Contrast Ratio: 1000: 1 (typical), Dynamic Contrast Ratio: 100,000:1 (Max) Brightness: 370 cd/m2 (typical) Response Time: 7ms (gray to gray) Viewing Angle (178° vertical / 178° horizontal) Color Support: 1.07 billion colors Pixel Pitch: 0.2505mm Display Type Widescreen Flat Panel Display

Hi Manny,No, I get a very fluid experience in FSX. I know that it all depends on how you have FSX configured but on a scale of 1 to 10 my settings are at about 8. Using a detailed glass cockpit, TIR, real-time weather, GEX, REX and UK2000/ORBX airports I am getting from 24 FPS to 35 FPS on the ground and I have seen in excess of 100 FPS in the air from outside the cockpit.I have also tried Flight with FRAPS running and I was getting 58-60 FPS consistently with all the sliders on max. X-Plane 10 hits the GPU's harder and I have not yet got the configuration right.At the end of the day, as long as you see the scenery moving smoothly and the 'game play' is fluid, that it what counts IMHO.So for me, SLI does not degrade the performance. Maybe it is because I have a very fast CPU and memory to compliment the GPU's?One other thing, both my GPU's are running a full 16x PCI-E slot speed. The Sandybridge (not E type) motherboards only have 8x PCI-E slots for the GPU's when more than one GPU is used. So maybe that would cause a bottle neck with SLI in conjunction with FSX for others?Regards,Ted.

Hi GB,I would recommend a pair of 3GB ZOTAC GeForce® GTX 580 AMP²! Edition - ZT-50104-10P in SLI surround mode.http://www.zotac.com...=100253〈=enI have two of the 1.5GB versions in SLI surround mode and they are very fast and run very cool, even under load.Regards,Ted.

Hi Frank,Not possible using AMD Eyefinity http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/amd-eyefinity-technology/how-to/Pages/faqs.aspx#diff-resand the same for nVidia SLI Surround http://widescreengamingforum.com/book/export/html/1504 - read down and you will find it described.In both scenarios, you end up only being able to run at the lowest resolution of the 3 monitors. i.e. 1600 x 1200.You can run the screens on a another dedicated graphics card to undock and display cockpit panels but the card cannot be connected to the SLI configuration.Regards,Ted.

Hi Ryan,Just tried again and it still crashes. X-Plane 10 works fine but MS Flight also errors as you can see here.Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: Flight.exe Application Version: 1.0.0.30016 Application Timestamp: 4f28a36a Fault Module Name: nvd3dum.dll Fault Module Version: 8.17.12.9573 Fault Module Timestamp: 4f34782e Exception Code: c0000005 Exception Offset: 0050e0d8 OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1 Locale ID: 2057 Additional Information 1: 0a9e Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789 Additional Information 3: 0a9e Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789It must be Windows then I guess. Way too much to rebuild, so I will stick with 285.62, as everything works with that.Thank you very much for trying to help me.Regards,Ted.

Hi Ryan,Thank you for your assistance. I will try your recommendations when I get home from work.Regards,Ted.

Hi,This driver does not work for me. Here is the extract of my post on the nVidia forums.Hi,I have just upgraded from driver version 285.62 to 295.73 and I get the following error when running FSX. The error occurs as soon as the chosen situation has finnished loading the simulation data.Problem signature:Problem Event Name: APPCRASHApplication Name: fsx.exeApplication Version: 10.0.61637.0Application Timestamp: 46fadb14Fault Module Name: nvd3dum.dllFault Module Version: 8.17.12.9573Fault Module Timestamp: 4f34782eException Code: c0000005Exception Offset: 0050e0d8OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1Locale ID: 2057Additional Information 1: 0a9eAdditional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789Additional Information 3: 0a9eAdditional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789Here is the System Information from the nVidia Control Panel - I am using 2 x Zotac GTX 580 AMP Edition cards configured for SLI surround gaming.[Display]Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit (Service Pack 1)DirectX version: 11.0GPU processor: GeForce GTX 580Driver version: 285.62DirectX support: 11CUDA Cores: 512Core clock: 815 MHzShader clock: 1630 MHzMemory clock: 2050 MHz (4100 MHz data rate)Memory interface: 384-bitTotal available graphics memory: 4095 MBDedicated video memory: 1536 MB GDDR5System video memory: 0 MBShared system memory: 2559 MBVideo BIOS version: 70.10.17.00.01IRQ: 24Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen2GPU processor: GeForce GTX 580Driver version: 285.62DirectX support: 11CUDA Cores: 512Core clock: 815 MHzShader clock: 1630 MHzMemory clock: 2050 MHz (4100 MHz data rate)Memory interface: 384-bitTotal available graphics memory: 4095 MBDedicated video memory: 1536 MB GDDR5System video memory: 0 MBShared system memory: 2559 MBVideo BIOS version: 70.10.17.00.01IRQ: 30Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen2I have rolled my drivers back to 285.62 and FSX is running fine again but I would appreciate if anyone could assist with why I am getting the APPCRASH using 295.73.Regards,Ted.

Hi,This driver does not work for me. Here is the extract of my post on the nVidia forums.Hi,I have just upgraded from driver version 285.62 to 295.73 and I get the following error when running FSX. The error occurs as soon as the chosen situation has finnished loading the simulation data.Problem signature:Problem Event Name: APPCRASHApplication Name: fsx.exeApplication Version: 10.0.61637.0Application Timestamp: 46fadb14Fault Module Name: nvd3dum.dllFault Module Version: 8.17.12.9573Fault Module Timestamp: 4f34782eException Code: c0000005Exception Offset: 0050e0d8OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1Locale ID: 2057Additional Information 1: 0a9eAdditional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789Additional Information 3: 0a9eAdditional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789Here is the System Information from the nVidia Control Panel - I am using 2 x Zotac GTX 580 AMP Edition cards configured for SLI surround gaming.[Display]Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit (Service Pack 1)DirectX version: 11.0GPU processor: GeForce GTX 580Driver version: 285.62DirectX support: 11CUDA Cores: 512Core clock: 815 MHzShader clock: 1630 MHzMemory clock: 2050 MHz (4100 MHz data rate)Memory interface: 384-bitTotal available graphics memory: 4095 MBDedicated video memory: 1536 MB GDDR5System video memory: 0 MBShared system memory: 2559 MBVideo BIOS version: 70.10.17.00.01IRQ: 24Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen2GPU processor: GeForce GTX 580Driver version: 285.62DirectX support: 11CUDA Cores: 512Core clock: 815 MHzShader clock: 1630 MHzMemory clock: 2050 MHz (4100 MHz data rate)Memory interface: 384-bitTotal available graphics memory: 4095 MBDedicated video memory: 1536 MB GDDR5System video memory: 0 MBShared system memory: 2559 MBVideo BIOS version: 70.10.17.00.01IRQ: 30Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen2I have rolled my drivers back to 285.62 and FSX is running fine again but I would appreciate if anyone could assist with why I am getting the APPCRASH using 295.73.Regards,Ted.

Hi Iain,Thanks for the update. At least Windows 7 is now recognising your hardware correctly. I think that Frank is on the right lines and it is just a CPFlgiht FSComm configuration issue.Let us know what Paolo comes back with, as I would be interested in the fix.Have a good 2012 :¬)Regards,Ted.