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Cheers - not planning on having more than 1 card in SLI arrangement.

I took the plunge and bought the bundle about an hour ago :) I currently have a 700W PSU, will this be adequate?

Arjen, Thanks so much for your speedy and informative post, most appreciated. This is the bundle I'm considering: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-092-OE but opting for an i7-2700K and 8Gb RAM. This is the graphics card out of interest: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-094-GI Good job they offer 'buy now, pay in 12 months' otherwise the wife will have a coronary :) Cheers again. Ad

Hi there, I've not posted on here for a while now but I'm after some advice on upgrading my computer. My current specs are in my signature but thinking of ditching AMD in favour of Intel. I've been looking at overclocked bundles online and have seen an i7-2700K OC'd to 4.6Ghz, with 8GB RAM. That said, I've also been looking at another overclock bundle elsewhere which offers the Intel i7-3820 CPU OC'd to 4.5Ghz also with 8GB RAM. Price-wise, very similar. I'm also on the verge of buying a GTX560 '448' as I've seen one on special offer this week only - reduced to £167.99. I've read on here and elsewhere that there isn't much difference between the 2700K and 3820 in terms of performance, however, considering my current system, will there be a difference between the two for me? Especially in terms of running FSX. Any advice given will really be appreciated. Cheers, Adam.

Tell me about it, Ron. What as task I'd chosen, I didn't realise how many great products there are available.In the end, after much deliberation and thought, I went for the Carenado CT210 Centurion. I did a relatively quick flight from Banff to Golden in it and was impressed at the exterior and interior - very detailed and looks great not to mention how good it is on the frames as well. I also did a quick flight around the Edmonton area and again, frames held well and NRM scenery really clear and detailed. Just what I wanted.Thanks for your advice gents, much appreciated.Ad

Cheers Danny.I really am impressed by the Carenado C337H and the CT210M Centurion. Just been watching some videos on You Tube and really like what I see.

Thanks for the replies so far.I was looking at the Orbx Lancair IV-P - the 33% off is a tempter. Though I'm sorely tempted with the Carenado Cessna C340 II HD as well.Argh, I'm torn, as you can imagine! Does anyone have much experience with the Lancair? I was thinking I could go for this as it is that bit cheaper than the C340 and possibly go for this one at a later date.Ad Excellent advice :) you've just blown my plans out the water lol

Hi there,Whilst waiting for Orbx NRM to download to complement PNW, I was thinking it was about time I bought a light aircraft rather than using the poor default aircraft for low and slow flight.Can anyone recommend something? I've been looking at Carenado as I see a lot of good stuff about them but unsure of which aircraft is best.I don't have much of a criteria, I think I'd prefer retractable landing gear, single or two engined I'm not too fussy on that score. Something better than default and easy on the FPS if possible.Any advice would be gratefully received.Cheers,Adam

Thanks for your reply Don and the link to NickN's guide to Nvidia Inspector.I have just completed a circuit in the MD-11 from Geneva and very pleased with the results. Visibility is much better, blurries are few and far between the criss-cross grid has gone. I get around 20-25FPS which is much better than my previous FSX install.Best wishes to everyone at Christmas and for 2012.Adam

Hi Jim and Boeing247,Thanks for your replies.I did have nHancer 2.5.9 installed as per NickN's guide but wasn't terribly keen on the ingame looks. I have the nVidia control panel which came with the drivers for my graphics card, I also have inspector but I don't particularly know what to do with these. If you can recommend how I could use these or point me in the direction of some good instructions, I'd be very grateful. I am using Trilinear filtering in FSX with anti-aliasing enabled.I load FSX using the bat file created by the frame rate limiter.The screenshots don't really show up the grid too well; it's a diagonal grid. If you look at the original size here you'll see it across the green and the runway. In this screenshot from the air, you can see they go all the way through the FSDT scenery. The concrete tiles on the taxiway are supposed to be there, so not complaining about those :)I'll have a look at FSXBooster, I had contemplated it in the past but read about some negative issues that it gave some users. These issues have probably been ironed out since.Thanks again,Adam

I know the title is a bit vague but I've a few queries, so if anyone can find the time to help me, it'd be much appreciated.I've recently done a clean install of FSX having overclocked my CPU for the first time, not much but I'm still getting the hang of it, 3.2 to 3.6. I've also bought another hard drive which is now solely for FSX. My FSX.cfg file has been processed by Bojote's tweaking tool and at the moment, I'm doing a bit of testing. Using PMDG MD-11 and FSDT Geneva as a base, I've noticed a few things I'm not sure how to remedy.1) There is a criss-cross grid appearing at Geneva airport. How would I get rid of these? Screenshot 1 and screenshot 5. Links I've posted are to my Flickr account.2) There's still a subtantial amount of blurriness, my settings in FSX are quite high, however I would expect to see better textures when approaching GVA. See screenshot 2 & screenshot 3. Any ideas on this one?3) Is there a particular way to get rid of the high bloom from AI aircraft landing lights? Initially I thought there was a problem and I was seeing 2 suns! See screenshot 4.4) As per Bojote's recommendations, I have the internal FPS in FSX set at unlimited and have FPS locked at 30 using the external software. However, the FPS still jumps from 20s to above 30 and back again. Is this just normal or should it be relatively steady?I increased the LOD_Radius from 4.5 to 6.5 and it didn't make much difference apart from impacting on the FPS. As I've said, my in game settings are set relatively high so would've thought blurries shouldn't be much of a problem.I can provide additional details of settings or my FSX.cfg if this would be of use?Season's Greetings.Adam

I thought it was the other way round? I'm happy to be proved wrong though as I've not yet fully installed all my add-ons.I've installed GEX, then UTX, then I'm sure there's a UTX upgrade feature in GEX.Or am I doing the long winded route when I should install UTX, then GEX and enable both install options including UTX?Adam

I have just reinstalled FSX because I've just bought a SATA3 64Mb cache 750Gb HDD which I've dedicated solely for FSX use. I was getting fed up of such dire performance and couldn't OC my computer with the stock fan so bought a new cooler too.I have never followed NickN's guide before so read it and took the bare bones from that and decided to do the following:Install FSX and Acceleration, then GEX, then UTX and then other scenery, finishing with aircraft. I don't have use software such as FSPassengers etc though once I get FSX running as I like it, I may invest.I have still to finish installing scenery as I started last night but as NickN said, reboot in between installs. So far so good, however, there's still plenty of tweaking to be done as I've still a fair amount of blurries. I did a flight into FSDT Geneva last night with a default aircraft and whilst performance is good, I'm not overly happy with how the textures look.Hope this offers some help or insight.Adam

I must admit I've been hankering for some of the other FSDT airports and knew if I waited long enough, a sale might occur. This is my lucky day :)My last acquisition was by Fly Tampa, Tampa Intl reworked but that slows FSX down unbelievably.Adam

Hey,I've just received an email notification to say FSDT and Cloud 9 are having a sale during May.30% off FSDT and 40% off Cloud 9.Sale ends May 19th.See http://www.fsdreamte...hp?topic=4298.0 for more details.Adam