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New gaming rig
EHM-2381 Ted:
Given I just had my rather elderly e4400 Dual Core rig blow up last week (right as I re-activate...go figure) I have bit the bullet and will have a nice new Quad-core spec machine up and running towards the end of this week. I was going to build it myself but my local computer shop who have looked after some other gear for me over the last couple years tempted me with a rather nice setup and a pretty reasonable price given it's the Christmas season so I thought I would give them the trade.
While not looking forward to a couple days re-installing and tweaking everything it will be fun seeing how much of an improvement I get in FSX (and a couple other sims....finally I can get DCS: Black Shark and DCS: A-10 :)).
I've also ordered REX and GEX Europe....and been preparing to fly on VATSIM so quite looking forward to next weekend and flying the SU-80 and PC-12 in style!
EHM-2381 Ted:
Well after a couple interesting days I finally got FSX up and running on the new system. I have a couple bugs to iron out (namely the occasional gfx glitch...usual video tearing type stuff) as I get used to new capablities and limitations.
New system:
ASUS P5P41TD Mobo
Intel Core2 Quad Q8300@2.5GHz (not yet OC'd....I'll get to that eventually).
4Gb DDR3 RAM (3.5 actual as I still use WINXP Pro)
Nvidia GeForce GT430 1GB
While not a monster screamer system I have noticed a huge increase in overall image quality and smoothness so far doing test flights. Shame I cannot run Nhancer as my drivers are way past that so having to tweak it by trial and error.
Once I get rid of the last little gfx errors and the occasional "2-sec freeze" I'll be all set to go...should be able to fly using Flogger this weekend and might even give VATSIM a go too.
Good luck with your new build.
EHM-0654 Murray:
Apart from the tear-down of my Shuttle, I'm good to go on my new rig. The last bit that's been stopping me moving ahead with the rebuild (the Feser One liquid to replace what's currently in my Reserator XT) arrived this morning. I'll be doing the tear-down this weekend (early Saturday morning, so I get the rest of Saturday to debug/install all the new drivers), may get some pictures of the tear-down and rebuild in the new case.
EHM-1997 Alexander:
I had a dream a few weeks back where I was round your house Murray and you showed me a system that ran FSX at x-plane-smooth frame rates.
Heh. Pure fantasy. ;D
EHM-0654 Murray:
OK, time for a quick update. New rig is built, WC piped and filled, and I can get into the BIOS happily enough. I had (vainly) hoped that just moving the HD's over and turning on RAID in the BIOS would have worked, but the "new" RAID wants to format the drives before allowing them to be used, so I've got a couple of new drives sitting in a ShittyLink depot near me waiting to be delivered. Getting the old rig running again so I can Acronis the data across from it will be annoying (will need to buy cheap GPU and WC kit to make my Shuttle work, but I'm OK enough with that idea. I want another WC kit for when I get my properly new GPU(s) later this year... Will parallel the GPU(s) with the CPU/NB so I can get a reasonable OC on the CPU)
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