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Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | Looking to do an upgrade
DVA9181
Captain, B757-200

Joined on November 07 2010

Bellevue, WA USA

81 legs, 386.0 hours
7 legs, 15.3 hours online
81 legs, 386.0 hours ACARS
 Posted onPost created on June 17 2011 18:20 ET by Ivaylo Ivanov
Hey, guys. Looking for some sugguestions on an upgrade. My budget is around $500.

I currently have a Core 2 Duo E6600 overclocked to 3.5 GHz, a Gigabyte LGA 775 board (I keep forgetting the model...), and 4 GB of DDR2 memory. Since I'll be upgrading the CPU, I'll need to upgrade the motherboard and the memory to DDR3.

For FSX, should I go with an i5 or an i7? Can anyone give me recommendations on a motherboard and/or memory?

Thanks!

Ivaylo Ivanov

Captain, B757-200
DVA9181
Captain, B757-200

Joined on November 07 2010

Bellevue, WA USA

81 legs, 386.0 hours
7 legs, 15.3 hours online
81 legs, 386.0 hours ACARS
 Posted onPost created on June 20 2011 03:54 ET by Ivaylo Ivanov
Anyone?

Ivaylo Ivanov

Captain, B757-200
DVA9080
Senior Captain, DC-6
OLP
E-MAIL

Joined on September 30 2010
B757 100 Club
Everett 250 Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Carolina Club
Online Seven Century Club
Eight Century Club
Events Century Club

Elizabethtown, KY

865 legs, 2,390.3 hours
778 legs, 2,126.8 hours online
821 legs, 2,255.0 hours ACARS
107 legs, 261.1 hours event
70 legs dispatched, 109.8 hours
 Posted onPost created on June 20 2011 10:11 ET by Nathan Cox
an i5 would be most cost-effective. FS also doesn't take advantage of hyperthreading.


DVA9181
Captain, B757-200

Joined on November 07 2010

Bellevue, WA USA

81 legs, 386.0 hours
7 legs, 15.3 hours online
81 legs, 386.0 hours ACARS
 Posted onPost created on June 26 2011 17:20 ET by Ivaylo Ivanov
Thanks for the reply.

I ended up going with an i5 2500k (not sure if I'm going to OC yet), an Asus P8P67 board, and 8 GB of G.Skill RIPJAWS DDR3. I'll be putting it all together tomorrow!

Ivaylo Ivanov

Captain, B757-200
DVA7670
First Officer, B777-200

Joined on August 14 2009
DVA Five-Year Anniversary

"Any landing you can walk away from..."
Sharpsburg, GA USA

77 legs, 354.3 hours
75 legs, 349.5 hours ACARS
 Posted onPost created on June 30 2011 20:00 ET by Dustin Thames
Yeah, I went with i5-760 with 4GB of DDR3. I'm getting about 65 fps with everything pretty much turned all the way up. I'm probably getting greedy, but I I'm going to give FSX a shot. I expect to be humbled back to FS9 rather quickly, though.

Dustin Thames

First Officer, B777-200
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
 Posted onPost created on July 03 2011 05:22 ET by Stephan Faessler
sent you an email mate, cheers



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