DVA3943
Senior Captain, B737-800
Joined on January 22 2007
Online Seven Century Club
Millennium Club
""Brakes released- cleared to push""
North Kingstown, RI USA
1,379 legs, 1,845.6 hours
1,277 legs,
1,632.7 hours online
1,266 legs,
1,659.7 hours ACARS
30 legs,
54.0 hours event
9 legs dispatched, 6.8
hours
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Posted onPost created on
June 29 2011 00:35 ET by Trevor Woolley
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DVA6776
Captain, B757-200
OLP
Joined on December 22 2008
Century Club
Online Century Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
"Atlanta, here I come"
Indianapolis, IN USA
169 legs, 338.2 hours
159 legs,
322.5 hours online
161 legs,
323.7 hours ACARS
31 legs,
65.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
June 29 2011 00:39 ET by Ruben Schuckit
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DVA3943
Senior Captain, B737-800
Joined on January 22 2007
Online Seven Century Club
Millennium Club
""Brakes released- cleared to push""
North Kingstown, RI USA
1,379 legs, 1,845.6 hours
1,277 legs,
1,632.7 hours online
1,266 legs,
1,659.7 hours ACARS
30 legs,
54.0 hours event
9 legs dispatched, 6.8
hours
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Posted onPost created on
June 29 2011 00:41 ET by Trevor Woolley
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DVA9030
Captain, B767-300
Joined on September 16 2010
50 State Club
Century Club
Online Century Club
"Fly ZMP!"
Mabank, TX USA
150 legs, 278.8 hours
112 legs,
205.1 hours online
145 legs,
261.8 hours ACARS
1 legs,
1.2 hours event
170 legs, 380.1 hours total
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Posted onPost created on
July 29 2011 21:22 ET by Grayson Jackson
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DVA9117
Captain, B737-800
Joined on October 13 2010
50 State Club
Globetrotter
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Everett 250 Club
Commuter Conquest
US Mountaineer Club
US Coastal Club
Nine Century Club
New Bern, NC
934 legs, 2,493.6 hours
934 legs,
2,493.6 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
July 29 2011 23:42 ET by Jim Atkins
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Ok-I am going to tell you what I just ran across. For the longest time I used my laptop to fly FSX and had very reasonable Frames and smooth flying. Suddenly recently, my frames took a nose dive. Went from solid 30's (I limit them there) to low teens to single digits. It was terrible! I even loaded FS9 to see what was going on-and there was no improvement. So I did some troubleshooting (defrag, memory testing etc) and decided the video driver needed updating. No luck--I was starting to thing I had hardware issues when I downloaded some temperature monitoring software. My CPU was blasting at around 80C and the video cards (I have a SLI setup) was cranking around 70C. So I blew out my machine and tried again no luck. So I figure there is something wrong with my cooling fans (I have 3 of them) but I hear them running in there so I decide to take the extreme measure of disassembling the laptop and lo and behold it is filthy in there. I had sand from when I was in Iraq in there! More importantly I had significant blockages of the fans, the heatsinks and the cooling vents even though I regularly blow it out. So I clean them all out reassemble and I am back to the solid 30's, (90's on FS9) and the machine is running a solid 39C CPU under load. So I talk to a hardware buddy of mine an he tells me that blowing out computers are good but will eventually (especially blown in the wrong vent or location) will clog up vents with dirt and redirect air flow in the wrong direction leading to heat buildup which will bring CPU's to their knees. The Morale to the story is check you heat issues and airflow. It can affect a lot more than you think so don't underestimate your cooling issues.
For reference I run a Dell M1730 Dell Laptop with a Core 2 Duo Extreme Chip with dual Nvidia 8800M GTX 512 Video Cards, 8GB of DDR2 RAM and I run FSX with a ridiculous amount of payware on it (including all the FSDT Sceneries, FlyTampa, PMDG's Wilcos CLS's all the Captain Sim's among others). I took it to Iraq when I was over there for 3 years and the thing blasted away without effort.
Jim AtkinsCaptain, B737-800
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