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DVA9677
Captain, B737-800
OLP
Joined on April 11 2011
50 State Club
Online Double Century Club
Quincentenary Club
"American 1482, your APU is leaking baggage."
Kissimmee, FL USA
543 legs, 735.9 hours
247 legs,
299.2 hours online
538 legs,
725.6 hours ACARS
2 legs,
2.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
March 26 2012 19:24 ET by John Anderson
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So I've decided to trade in my Athlon II X2, 250 for the Phenom II X4, 965 Black Edition.
Going from 3ghz to 3.4.
With the addition of cores and stepping up in speed, I hope to see a marked improvement in FS9.
What do you think?
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DVA10139
Captain, B737-800
Joined on September 04 2011
50 State Club
"Love to fly"
Jacksonville, FL USA
64 legs, 100.3 hours
14 legs,
21.9 hours online
61 legs,
97.8 hours ACARS
3 legs,
5.5 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
March 27 2012 23:02 ET by Gary Buska
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Changing your CPU will help but what about the other items such as amount of ram and the speed of the ram
And you can not forget about the video card either.
I just recently built a brand new system my old system was a Pentium 4 3.2 gig with 4 gig ram at 600mhz and a AGP video card wiith 256 gb memory.
New system features a ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN3 Intel Z68 Motherboard - ATX, Intel Z68 Express, Socket H2 (LGA1155), 2200MHz DDR3 (O.C.), SATA 6.0 Gb/s, RAID, 8-CH Audio, Gigabit LAN, USB 3.0, PCIe 3.0, CrossFireX/SLI, Bluetooth
A Intel Core i7-2700K BX80619i72700K Unlocked Processor - Quad Core, 8MB L3 Cache, 1MB L2 Cache, 3.50 GHz (3.90 GHz Max Turbo), Socket H2 (LGA1155)
A EVGA 01G-P3-1556-KR GeForce GTX 550 Ti FPB Video Card - 1024MB, GDDR5, PCI-Express 2.0 (x16), 2x Dual-Link DVI-I, 1x Mini-HDMI, DirectX 11, Dual-Slot, SLI Ready
A Cooler Master RS850-SPHAD3-US Silent Pro Hybrid Power Supply - ATX, Modular, 850 Watt, SLI/CrossFire Ready, 80 Plus Gold Certified, 135mm Silent Fan
and Corsair CMZ4GX3M1A1600C9B Vengeance Desktop Memory Module - 4GB, PC3-12800, DDR3-1600MHz, 9-9-9-24 CAS Latency, Intel XMP Ready, Unbuffered
I wanted the 32bit windows 7 for now plan to switch to 64 soon and than I can add up to 32 gig of memory at 2200mhz
For me this was a drastic change and very noticeable difference.
Gary BuskaCaptain, B737-800
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DVA9677
Captain, B737-800
OLP
Joined on April 11 2011
50 State Club
Online Double Century Club
Quincentenary Club
"American 1482, your APU is leaking baggage."
Kissimmee, FL USA
543 legs, 735.9 hours
247 legs,
299.2 hours online
538 legs,
725.6 hours ACARS
2 legs,
2.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
March 28 2012 00:25 ET by John Anderson
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Gary, I've just recently gone up to 8gb of RAM at 1600mhz (max for my board  ). That made a noticable dif. I'm running off Win7, 64 bit with an NVidia GeForce 210 overclocked to 580mhz
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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
March 28 2012 10:09 ET by Kenneth Dickerson
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I built a new system this year that has a I5 2500 processor, sabertooth Mobo, 16 gigs of ram, and EVGA GTX 570. FSX is running wide open with everything on high and no issues. But the thing that I think that is really helping is I am using Win7-64. I believe with the extra ram and the ability to use it all that FSX does crap out now because of memory issues. I have flown an entire day on the weekend and not once did the software crash. Where as I used to have to worry about going more than 2 hours before I would get the FATAL Error.
Kenneth DickersonFirst Officer, A330-300
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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
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Posted onPost created on
March 28 2012 12:51 ET by Vincenzo Musumeci
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John,
I have the same processor and I'm very pleased with it, used to run FS9 at above 50 fps....my GPU is better tough!
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DVA9677
Captain, B737-800
OLP
Joined on April 11 2011
50 State Club
Online Double Century Club
Quincentenary Club
"American 1482, your APU is leaking baggage."
Kissimmee, FL USA
543 legs, 735.9 hours
247 legs,
299.2 hours online
538 legs,
725.6 hours ACARS
2 legs,
2.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
March 28 2012 13:12 ET by John Anderson
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what gpu are you running?
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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
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Posted onPost created on
March 28 2012 14:00 ET by Vincenzo Musumeci
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Gtx 285 2.0 OC
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DVA5255
First Officer, A330-300
Joined on November 17 2007
Western United States
31 legs, 54.8 hours
15 legs,
18.7 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
March 28 2012 20:20 ET by Louis Vanbelkum
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that is a fine processor as for video card almost any video card will offer little improvement over a simple cheap one outside of multi monitor for the most part
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DVA9677
Captain, B737-800
OLP
Joined on April 11 2011
50 State Club
Online Double Century Club
Quincentenary Club
"American 1482, your APU is leaking baggage."
Kissimmee, FL USA
543 legs, 735.9 hours
247 legs,
299.2 hours online
538 legs,
725.6 hours ACARS
2 legs,
2.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
April 01 2012 21:11 ET by John Anderson
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So . . .
Now what's the best way to make sure that only FS9 runs on one core and everything else runs on the others?
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DVA10139
Captain, B737-800
Joined on September 04 2011
50 State Club
"Love to fly"
Jacksonville, FL USA
64 legs, 100.3 hours
14 legs,
21.9 hours online
61 legs,
97.8 hours ACARS
3 legs,
5.5 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
April 02 2012 13:12 ET by Gary Buska
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John Anderson wrote:Gary, I've just recently gone up to 8gb of RAM at 1600mhz (max for my board ). That made a noticable dif. I'm running off Win7, 64 bit with an NVidia GeForce 210 overclocked to 580mhz
Why are you using the GeForce 210? do you have space issues that stop you from putting a double slot card in.
If not I would suggest a different card I got mine for $119.00 on sale it regular sells for 139.00.
Because I am using a 32 bit OS I only have the 4 gig ram. My version of FSX will not run on a 64 bit OS. I can not run it maxed out but come close to it.
Check out the link below it might help you with FS9. This is from Simviation Forum's
http://205.252.250.26/cgi-bin/yabb25/YaBB.pl?num=1211055375/0#7
Gary BuskaCaptain, B737-800
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DVA9677
Captain, B737-800
OLP
Joined on April 11 2011
50 State Club
Online Double Century Club
Quincentenary Club
"American 1482, your APU is leaking baggage."
Kissimmee, FL USA
543 legs, 735.9 hours
247 legs,
299.2 hours online
538 legs,
725.6 hours ACARS
2 legs,
2.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
April 02 2012 14:11 ET by John Anderson
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EVGA Gforce 210, $32.00
18 month old daughter, $400.00 per month
3 year old son, $600.00 per month
Any other questions? 
The experience gained as a Combat Soldier didn't land me a very good Civillian Infantry job. Trying to make do with what I can, and the 210 gave the best bang for the little buck I had.
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