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DVA018
Senior Captain, MD-11
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Joined on June 15 2001
Six Century Club

"Keep yer wheels off the ground"
Spokane, WA USA

984 legs, 1,958.5 hours
20 legs, 35.1 hours online
227 legs, 397.6 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on March 16 2010 21:47 ET by Larry Hart

Good news for FSX flyers, the new Intel i9 six core processor is officially out, . The only one available as of today is called the i7 980X Extreme 3.3 Ghz Gulftown, at $1,100. The other mainstream and performance editions are soon to follow, hopefully with a better price. Why they tagged this version "i7" is a mystery to me, but it is the newer 32nm i9 Gulftown architecture. Possibly it has to do with 1366 motherboard recognition. See it here:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115223

Larry Hart (DVA018)

DVA2318
Captain, B777-200
OLP
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Joined on May 01 2005
Online Century Club
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Detroit, MI

201 legs, 637.0 hours
177 legs, 600.7 hours online
191 legs, 622.5 hours ACARS
41 legs, 98.6 hours event
216 legs, 721.7 hours total

Posted onPost created on March 16 2010 22:02 ET by Brandon Cruz

Are you being serious? I can't keep up with technology.

They are releasing the Nvidia Geforce 480 GPU'S at the end of this month also (rumored) !!!

Anyway team a pair of those i9's with this motherboard and you will have the fastest computer ever!!

http://www.evga.com/articles/00537/

DVA4295
Captain, B767-300

Joined on April 05 2007
Online Century Club
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Stratford, CT USA

212 legs, 397.9 hours
194 legs, 368.4 hours online
190 legs, 356.7 hours ACARS
3 legs, 6.7 hours event
19 legs dispatched, 10.0 hours

Posted onPost created on March 16 2010 23:20 ET by John Alusik

repeat thread... http://www.deltava.org/thread.do?id=0x15ec9

John Alusik

Captain, B767-300

DVA950
Senior Captain, B737-800

Joined on November 19 2002
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Nazareth, PA USA

1,210 legs, 2,875.1 hours
1,147 legs, 2,716.7 hours online
886 legs, 1,977.2 hours ACARS
206 legs, 484.9 hours event

Posted onPost created on March 18 2010 00:28 ET by Anthony Piasecki

Larry Hart wrote:

Good news for FSX flyers, the new Intel i9 six core processor is officially out, . The only one available as of today is called the i7 980X Extreme 3.3 Ghz Gulftown, at $1,100. The other mainstream and performance editions are soon to follow, hopefully with a better price. Why they tagged this version "i7" is a mystery to me, but it is the newer 32nm i9 Gulftown architecture. Possibly it has to do with 1366 motherboard recognition. See it here:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115223

You know Larry That RampageX is a sweet board, and for what I have pumped into my rig, heck what's a G spot these days smile

Lap that puppy down and see what it can put out cool

Anthony Piasecki

Senior Captain, B737-800

DVA8221
Captain, B757-200
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Joined on January 17 2010

Ann Arbor, MI

73 legs, 186.7 hours
66 legs, 161.5 hours online
73 legs, 186.7 hours ACARS
4 legs, 7.5 hours event

Posted onPost created on March 18 2010 05:43 ET by Sandro Salgueiro

I can't keep up with technology [2]

Sandro Salgueiro

Captain, B757-200

Posted onPost created on March 18 2010 08:32 ET by Anthony Piasecki

Well here's what it can do so far, looks promising, http://www.overclock.net/intel-cpus/691512-i7-980x-unboxing-benching.html Going to have to tie my finger behind my back , to keep it from pushing the button plotting

Anthony Piasecki

Senior Captain, B737-800

DVA5919
Captain, MD-11

Joined on May 13 2008
Everett Century Club
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"...and don't call me Shirley"
Hillsboro, OR USA

507 legs, 1,438.9 hours
4 legs, 3.7 hours online
506 legs, 1,436.4 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on March 19 2010 19:14 ET by Jack Vogel

Ya, its all wonderful (I work for Intel, I know :)), but the problem is the sim's are SMP stupid
so the only benefit you see is the OS using the other cores. I'm not convinced even Win 7
is that multi-core smart, yes, it uses all of my quad cores, but when running FSX I still have
CPU 0 getting absolutely slammed with the other 3 just seeing spikes.

Can only dream about a sim that is finely threaded and disperses work across all cores...

Jack Vogel

Captain, MD-11

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