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DVA7988
Captain, MD-88
Joined on November 21 2009
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
Century Club
Irving, TX
120 legs, 175.8 hours
110 legs,
165.6 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
April 22 2011 17:49 ET by Daniel Bednar
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Hi Everyone,
Before I order my new desktop PC, I wanted to get some opinions on this configuration for running FSX smoothly...
Dell XPS 8300
Intel Core i7-2600 processor (8MB Cache, 3.4GHz)
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium, 64Bit
8GB DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz - 4 DIMMs
1TB - 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache
NVIDIA GT420 1GB DDR3
Soundblaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio
Thanks for any feedback!
Dan Bednar
Daniel BednarCaptain, MD-88
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DVA7016
Senior Captain, B767-300
Joined on February 14 2009
B757 100 Club
Everett 250 Club
Triple Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
"I5 2500K - 560GTX - 8GB Ripjaw"
Essex GB
385 legs, 1,090.6 hours
384 legs,
1,089.6 hours ACARS
1,821 legs, 4,442.9 hours total
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Posted onPost created on
April 23 2011 16:30 ET by Alan Barber
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Daniel, the only thing I would change is the cpu to a 2600K - this enables better overclocking
Alan BarberSenior Captain, B767-300
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DVA9716
First Officer, A330-300
Joined on April 26 2011
50 State Club
Century Club
Online Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"Take Offs are optional - Landing are mandatory!"
Killeen, TX USA
154 legs, 324.0 hours
102 legs,
218.1 hours online
153 legs,
321.7 hours ACARS
4 legs,
8.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
April 29 2011 16:44 ET by Kenneth Dickerson
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I just built a new system this weekend and FSX is smooth as butter! AMD 1095, 8 gig, Gygabyte 890 mobo, Nvidea 560T, H50 Water cooler, 2 x 32meg cache 500 gyg wd hd's and 300 gyg Raptor drive -soley dedicated to FSX. There is no stutters, shutters, or pauses now. The system that was replaced was a Intel 920, EVGA X58 Mobo, Nvidia 420 series card and my 3DMark11 test was twice as fast. From my research for those in rebuild mode don't go Crossfire or SLI, Flight sim is a CPU hungry resource bastard a strong vid card helps but running 2 will just waste the green. Based on your setup I would recommend the Raptor Drive if it is in your budget.
Kenneth DickersonFirst Officer, A330-300
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DVA1690
Senior Captain, MD-88
OLP
Joined on May 05 2004
50 State Club
Quatercentenary Club
Online Quadruple Century Club
Stage 1 Jet Double Century Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
"Life begins at Vr"
Longmont, CO USA
477 legs, 700.4 hours
468 legs,
686.6 hours online
254 legs,
389.4 hours ACARS
3 legs,
3.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
April 29 2011 17:00 ET by Trevor Bair
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Daniel Bednar wrote:
1TB - 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cacher
As with Kenneth, that part concerns me a bit. I just built a system that has a 1 TB, 7200 rpm 64 mb cache drive. 16 mb seems like it might be a potential bottleneck. SSD's are great if they're within your budget.
I'd also agree with Alan about the 2600K. It's a good processor! Good luck!
Trevor BairSenior Captain, MD-88
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DVA4069
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP
Joined on February 18 2007
Everett 250 Club
Online Quadruple Century Club
Six Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"War Eagle!"
Southeastern United States
681 legs, 2,227.3 hours
478 legs,
1,098.5 hours online
607 legs,
1,936.8 hours ACARS
25 legs,
59.2 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
April 29 2011 19:09 ET by J.T. Coston
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I noticed you said it was a Dell XPS. You could have saved yourself probably 50% by buying the parts and building it yourself. It does look like a nice system though.
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DVA9544
Senior Captain, B737-800
OLP
Joined on February 26 2011
Century Club
50 State Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Everett Century Club
"Always Upwind and Downwind"
Hergiswil, Nidwalden Switzerland
151 legs, 246.8 hours
64 legs,
112.2 hours online
151 legs,
246.8 hours ACARS
7 legs,
12.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
April 29 2011 22:01 ET by Stephan Faessler
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If you can build you PC yourself, you may get the following crucial parts:
1-2 TB HDD with SATAIII 6GB and 64MB Cache (very crucial and important), WD or Seagate as the best. No SDD drives!
1 Nvidia GTX570 (the Best money can buy, else is overkill)
better RAM with better timings such as GSkill with 6-8-6-20 (get the lowest timings possible), 6GB is sufficient since FSX can't address more
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DVA9545
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP, 737-ATP
Joined on March 03 2011
50 State Club
Globetrotter
Quad-Jet Quartermaster
US Coastal Club
US Mountaineer Club
Million Mile Club
Events Double Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Toulouse 500 Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Online Twenty Century
"YUPIIIII"
Goiás Brazil
2,508 legs, 5,073.1 hours
2,337 legs,
4,794.7 hours online
2,500 legs,
5,043.5 hours ACARS
271 legs,
683.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
April 30 2011 16:32 ET by Thiago Braga
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Dude, don`t get Dell. Build your own computer. Buy the parts and you can build yourself. Get a tower with a lots of fan.
I build mine and I got a LED monitor View Sonic with 1080P full HD 24` at buy.com for USD145.00
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