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Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | About my new G card
DVA7130
Senior Captain, B727-200
OLP

Joined on March 23 2009
50 State Club
Everett 250 Club
Events Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
Eight Century Club
Online Eight Century

"Hudson, we have a problem"
Tyrone, GA USA

846 legs, 1,482.4 hours
814 legs, 1,429.8 hours online
818 legs, 1,443.2 hours ACARS
178 legs, 322.6 hours event
 Posted onPost created on December 31 2010 19:12 ET by Ryan Morse
Today I got a new Nvidia Geforce 9800GT to replace my old Radeon 5450 graphic card. I got it for $109 at Best Buy on sale. Was this a good buy, and will I see a big difference in FSX?


DVA5661
Senior Captain, B737-800
OLP, COMM

Joined on March 07 2008
50 State Club
Online Triple Century Club
Flying Colonel
Everett Millennium Club
Globetrotter
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
Two Million Mile Club

"737 or MD-11, how far you wanna go?"
Melbourne, FL USA

1,928 legs, 4,823.7 hours
304 legs, 639.9 hours online
1,880 legs, 4,735.4 hours ACARS
19 legs, 40.9 hours event
 Posted onPost created on December 31 2010 19:28 ET by Vic DeSantis
Ryan,
I am in the process of building a complete/dedicated FSX rig from scratch. What I have discovered in my many months of research on all things FSX related (particularly PC issues), yes, you may see some improvement. I also run a 9800GT which replaced my old ATI 4870 Card. That coupled with a RAM upgrade actually allowed me to use FSX at pretty good settings. My 9800 GT and 6 Gigs of RAM are running on an AMD Phenom Quad Core at 2.2 Ghz...that is the constant source of my frustration. If you do allot of reading about FSX you will discover that FSX is much more CPU dependent that GPU dependant (the opposite of FS9).


DVA4180
Senior Captain, MD-88
OLP

Joined on March 08 2007
Online Century Club
Long Beach Century Club
50 State Club
Triple Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

"Have A&P - Will work for peanuts!"
Van Buren Charter Township, MI

351 legs, 783.1 hours
193 legs, 388.4 hours online
340 legs, 759.3 hours ACARS
20 legs, 41.0 hours event
 Posted onPost created on January 01 2011 12:08 ET by Joseph Schwab
I have 2 x 9800GTX's and I have given up on that rig. Constant CTD's playing FSX. I have bought a name brand computer, and hope that I can finally get some flight time back in..


DVA4215
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP

Joined on March 12 2007
Everett 250 Club
Six Century Club
Online Quadruple Century Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary

Pleasant Grove, UT USA

636 legs, 1,647.2 hours
410 legs, 746.5 hours online
589 legs, 1,563.2 hours ACARS
7 legs, 10.3 hours event
 Posted onPost created on January 01 2011 16:21 ET by Kyle Hatch
Ryan, I just bought the 9800GT 1024MB a few days ago and love it! Im running FS9 at full settings and the lowest frames I get is 18 (I am only running 1GB RAM too) and I can run FSX too! But I think my problem is with FSX, I dont have enough RAM to have it run smooth all the time. Here is how FSX looks with my 9800GT http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd52/CosmoCougarRocks/Sim/KYLE-GAMING-2010-dec-27-019.jpg so you should be happy with it. Let us know!


DVA7130
Senior Captain, B727-200
OLP

Joined on March 23 2009
50 State Club
Everett 250 Club
Events Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
Eight Century Club
Online Eight Century

"Hudson, we have a problem"
Tyrone, GA USA

846 legs, 1,482.4 hours
814 legs, 1,429.8 hours online
818 legs, 1,443.2 hours ACARS
178 legs, 322.6 hours event
 Posted onPost created on January 01 2011 19:19 ET by Ryan Morse
I love it, getting 45 frames during near all phases of flight, will LOTS of clouds and anit-aliasing.


DVA4215
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP

Joined on March 12 2007
Everett 250 Club
Six Century Club
Online Quadruple Century Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary

Pleasant Grove, UT USA

636 legs, 1,647.2 hours
410 legs, 746.5 hours online
589 legs, 1,563.2 hours ACARS
7 legs, 10.3 hours event
 Posted onPost created on January 01 2011 20:43 ET by Kyle Hatch
What are your CPU specs Ryan?


DVA7130
Senior Captain, B727-200
OLP

Joined on March 23 2009
50 State Club
Everett 250 Club
Events Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
Eight Century Club
Online Eight Century

"Hudson, we have a problem"
Tyrone, GA USA

846 legs, 1,482.4 hours
814 legs, 1,429.8 hours online
818 legs, 1,443.2 hours ACARS
178 legs, 322.6 hours event
 Posted onPost created on January 01 2011 23:18 ET by Ryan Morse
Phenom II X4 945(3.0GHz) 8GB of memory


DVA6356
Senior Captain, A350-900
OLP
E-MAIL

Joined on September 05 2008
50 State Club
Globetrotter
Online Century Club
Ten Million Miles and Beyond
White Knuckles Club
Everett Bi-Millennium Club
Tri-Millennium Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Panda Club

"Now, where's the rice at?"
Atlanta, GA

3,768 legs, 35,191.3 hours
109 legs, 605.9 hours online
3,761 legs, 35,127.7 hours ACARS
40 legs, 88.8 hours event
CURRENTLY LOGGED IN
 Posted onPost created on January 02 2011 09:31 ET by Chuong Nguyen
stick with windows xp people. biggrin


DVA5661
Senior Captain, B737-800
OLP, COMM

Joined on March 07 2008
50 State Club
Online Triple Century Club
Flying Colonel
Everett Millennium Club
Globetrotter
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
Two Million Mile Club

"737 or MD-11, how far you wanna go?"
Melbourne, FL USA

1,928 legs, 4,823.7 hours
304 legs, 639.9 hours online
1,880 legs, 4,735.4 hours ACARS
19 legs, 40.9 hours event
 Posted onPost created on January 02 2011 12:25 ET by Vic DeSantis
Joseph Schwab wrote:

I have 2 x 9800GTX's and I have given up on that rig. Constant CTD's playing FSX. I have bought a name brand computer, and hope that I can finally get some flight time back in..


ACP Schwab has reinforced my point exactly. Having the latest, greatest, and most powerful GPU may not solve your woes with FSX. FSX needs processing speed!!! Adding hundreds of dollars in graphics cards might give you somewhat of a boost, but otherwise, spend the money on a good CPU and MOBO.


DVA7636
Senior Captain, L-1011-100
OLP

Joined on August 11 2009
50 State Club
Events Double Century Club
Burbank 250 Club
Quincentenary Club
Online Quintuple Century Club
Globetrotter
Black Pearl Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

"Uses "Sparkly Eyes" Technique on ATC"
Channelview, TX USA

588 legs, 1,196.5 hours
572 legs, 1,164.8 hours online
586 legs, 1,192.9 hours ACARS
287 legs, 572.1 hours event
 Posted onPost created on January 03 2011 08:41 ET by Tracy Norris
I'm with Chuong wink Stick with XP. I also have 2x9800s running across six monitors (Matrox TripleHead2Go off one output) and everything is running peachy.

Tracy Norris

Senior Captain, L-1011-100
DVA7130
Senior Captain, B727-200
OLP

Joined on March 23 2009
50 State Club
Everett 250 Club
Events Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
Eight Century Club
Online Eight Century

"Hudson, we have a problem"
Tyrone, GA USA

846 legs, 1,482.4 hours
814 legs, 1,429.8 hours online
818 legs, 1,443.2 hours ACARS
178 legs, 322.6 hours event
 Posted onPost created on January 03 2011 08:48 ET by Ryan Morse
wow, 6 biggrin


DVA4595
Senior Captain, A320
OLP

Joined on June 15 2007
B757 100 Club
Everett 500 Club
Tri-Jet Triumph
50 State Club
Millennium Club
Online Millennium Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Event Half Century Club

"How 'bout them Dawgs?"
Cumming, GA

1,370 legs, 1,903.7 hours
1,273 legs, 1,764.9 hours online
1,323 legs, 1,832.7 hours ACARS
52 legs, 95.6 hours event
3 legs dispatched, 10.8 hours
 Posted onPost created on January 03 2011 08:50 ET by Mark Springsteen
I have to say that windows 7 has been flawless on my machine. I saw a significant improvment with the overall performance of my machine the day I installed windows 7. I never have problems with crashes of glitches. I would suggest getting the 64 edition for sure.


DVA3794
Senior Captain, A320
OLP, 737-ATP

Joined on December 03 2006
50 State Club
Globetrotter
US Coastal Club
Events Quadruple Century
US Mountaineer Club
Everett Bi-Millennium Club
Tri-Millennium Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Three Million Mile Club
Online Thirty Century

"volando libero......."
Antarctica

3,459 legs, 8,141.9 hours
3,131 legs, 7,039.5 hours online
3,251 legs, 7,332.7 hours ACARS
478 legs, 964.8 hours event
65 legs dispatched, 72.4 hours
 Posted onPost created on January 03 2011 10:00 ET by Vincenzo Musumeci
Mark Springsteen wrote:

I have to say that windows 7 has been flawless on my machine. I saw a significant improvment with the overall performance of my machine the day I installed windows 7. I never have problems with crashes of glitches. I would suggest getting the 64 edition for sure.


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