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You can (or at least could) buy additional heads somewhere online, although for the life of me I can't remember where! I seem to remember them being marketed as "spares", rather than additional units.

Make sure the filtering in the FS display menu is set to wither biliner or triliner.

Could just be different software versions between that video and the NGX

Will reserve judgement for the final product, but that VC seems extremely primitive to me. The original actually looks better imo. Was really hoping that they'd get the same team who modelled the ERJ 135/145s to do this one, as that is one of the best VCs around. Seems like feelthere have been dumped and this is an entirely Wilco product. That doesn't fill me with much hope for this.

VFR London, matched with Horizon GenX photoscenery and FS Treescapes, give the most realistic London possible in FSX. The EGLL approaches into the 27's over the city, look absolutely amazing.

Bought this the other day and after having a good play around with all the settings today, I'm unsure how I feel about it. Certainly does produce some nice scenery effects, but in order for them to really look impressive you have to just deal with the VC's being almost blacked out when flying into the sun. To then turn the shadows down to address that issue, you just end up with far less impressive scenery effects. May well be able to find a personal preference middle ground somewhere, but it's still a bit of a disappointment that we can't have the best of both worlds. That coupled with the fact that the scenery shadow effects are only really visible for a short window at pre/post dawn/dusk, make me wonder whether I'll keep running this. Shadows aside, I like the options for colour and fog tinting. This may well be the sole reason to run this personally, as I may just keep the shadows on default due to the above. Anyway, can't complain either way as for the price of a cinema ticket, I'll get plenty of enjoyment out of just playing around with the various effects.

I think this is purely going to be a strategy against bulldozer release. Will more than likely just be a re-badged 2600k with a higher stock clock speed. Would be surprised if, for that reason, they were any more likely to reach 5GHz than the other models.

I never got around to doing that side by side benchmark on the two processors unfortunately. Still have some 2500s in the house so hopefully I'll get the time to sort something out now the summer is drawing to a close. Beer and sunshine have to take priority while it lasts I'm afraid!

Impossible on the SE, you'll need a new board.

If you're using a single card in the top slot, it shouldn't really affect it at all. Either way I wasn't necessarily suggesting you buy the DG, rather just pointing out that there can be a major difference between onboard and dedicated sound processing. Some of the external jobs will no doubt be just as good, if more pricey.

Where did you hear that? You can SLI two different models of the same GPU, but not two different series of cards.

According to the latest episode of tenminutetaxi, the flight project is on hold while Microsoft re-evaluate its profitability. The information apparently comes from a MS insider. Anyone have any more info on this or how credible it is?

Disagree with some of the above. Whilst I'm certainly not an audiophile, I'm not ignorant of it either. I decided to take a punt on the budget xonar DG, and was blown away at the difference between that and on-board sound, particularly through headphones. Google for some reviews, it's impressed about everyone who's tested it as well.

What's your point? The 9600 is a much slower card than a 280/285. The latter cards do not bottleneck the 580.

You dont know how much your processor will give until you actually try to overclock it. It really is a complete lottery. you may get the best clocking chip in the world, or the worst. Most likely an average one though, which is why I told you to expect an average overclock, then treat anything more as a bonus. I wasn't making it up for the fun of it!

Is it hitting 86 at idle load on 3d clocks? If so then that's definitely a problem. If it's 86 under full load, then that's still high but reasonable depending on case temps.

It's not possible to SLI two different types of GPU, the chips need to be the same, so don't worry about that. Also with physx, the 280 will not slow down the 580 so long as you have the 280 set as the default physx processor, so no problem there either. Personally I'd just leave the 280 out all together. The 580 is more than capable of running two monitors without any issues, if all you're running on monitor 2 is some apps/desktop. Even with other games and the 280 running physx, the performance difference is extremely marginal, and even non existent in some physx games (have tested a 580+280 myself on this). The extra heat and power consumption of having the 280 installed far outweighs any benefits imo. The 580 really is an extremely capable card at the moment, all on its own.

Yes it is, but I had unlimited access to entire trays of OEM chips until I found one capable of doing so. If most chips did that speed safely, everyone would be running them at 5GHz. Aim for 4.5 and you won't be disappointed. If you end up with 5, consider it a bonus.

Is this going to be a pre-built system that's advertised as running at 5GHz? If so I'd be very, very wary of the voltage these guys will use to configure that overclock. Only an extremely tiny fraction of sandybridge will do 5GHz on low voltages. For that same reason, if you're building yourself don't use 5 as an aiming point, as you will be disappointed unless you are very lucky and get a great chip first time.

Yes, that means that the light wont actually illuminate until there is either ground, or apu power available. I have no idea when various airlines flows would have you flick the switch however.

I think on the NG's the pos light gets AC power from the ground service bus, so won't light up under battery power. This differs from the classic iirc.

Who said otherwise?

Don't be facetious, that's not the point. And for the record, those who have done this have seen far more than a 2fps improvement.

Despite what all the self appointed experts will tell you, FSX can and will make use of a second GPU to increase performance. The caveat however is that it will only do so for a specific type of setup, and in certain sim conditions. Anyone running huge resolutions, and/or massive levels of AA will see a benefit from a second card in a high GPU stress area of FSX (think thunderstorms at altitude, where the cpu isn't bound). There's a couple of threads kicking about where people who have actually bothered to test and prove this, and in fact even Phil Taylor himself has confirmed this in his blog (anybody going to question him?). Granted, it's not really much use for the majority, but it just riles me a little when people spread what is ultimately misinformation as absolute fact. There's so much of that around here, and I often see it waste many peoples time.

have you tried just removing the fsuipc.ini and letting it create a new one, as suggested in the intro document?