Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - Is this processor any good?? (This must be deja vu to some of you)

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | Is this processor any good?? (This must be deja vu to some of you)

DVA11701
Captain, B747-400
OLP

Joined on July 30 2011
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Nijmegen, Gelderland The Netherlands

290 legs, 1,050.1 hours
95 legs, 406.2 hours online
290 legs, 1,050.1 hours ACARS
11 legs, 25.1 hours event

Posted onPost created on July 04 2012 13:49 ET by Liam Kroes

Currently I have a Pentium 4 processor, yeah I know its old. And I found a processor on the web. Its a i5-2400 3.1 GHz- 3.4 GHz processor. As you can tell I want to upgrade my computer for better FS playing. Is this a good choice or should I pick a different one?? Give me your thoughts.

Liam Kroes

Captain, B747-400

DVA3196
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP, COMM

Joined on June 03 2006
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"pitchpowertrim.com"
Anderson, MO

619 legs, 1,093.4 hours
292 legs, 503.1 hours online
580 legs, 1,026.5 hours ACARS
89 legs, 191.0 hours event
236 legs dispatched, 110.1 hours

Posted onPost created on July 04 2012 14:01 ET by Michael Brown

An i5 processor will not work on a motherboard designed for a Pentium processor. You will need to replace the motherboard and processor at a minimum....probably the power supply too, I'm sure.

You have a lot to consider here...you very well may need to basically replace everything...pairing a "fast" CPU with old "slow" components would be counter productive.

Michael Brown (DVA3196)

Posted onPost created on July 04 2012 14:20 ET by Liam Kroes

So would you suggest that I would just buy a hole new computer??

Liam Kroes

Captain, B747-400

Posted onPost created on July 04 2012 14:48 ET by Michael Brown

Liam Kroes wrote:

So would you suggest that I would just buy a hole new computer??

You're probably going to need to. You could build your own for around €1000 ....that's my best guess...with Europe's VAT it may be more.

A €1000 ($1250) is pretty steep for a lot of us (including me). What I do is buy a component or two at a time. In a few months I have everything I need for a new system.

Michael Brown (DVA3196)

Posted onPost created on July 04 2012 16:12 ET by Liam Kroes

Okay and what would be the optimum system specification for FSX plus add-ons??

Liam Kroes

Captain, B747-400

Posted onPost created on July 04 2012 16:23 ET by Michael Brown

Liam Kroes wrote:

Okay and what would be the optimum system specification for FSX plus add-ons??

Do a cooler search ....many many many threads on this. Like you said ...Déjà vu! smile

Posted onPost created on July 04 2012 16:50 ET by Liam Kroes

Alright, i'll do that. Thanks!! You've been very helpful!

Liam Kroes

Captain, B747-400

DVA8158
Captain, B767-300
OLP

Joined on December 31 2009
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Newnan, GA USA

197 legs, 437.5 hours
161 legs, 329.8 hours online
196 legs, 435.9 hours ACARS
5 legs, 17.1 hours event

Posted onPost created on July 08 2012 23:29 ET by Peter Bagrationoff

I am putting together a system in the near future. Upgrading from a first gen i7 860 and EVGA P55 SLI mobo :

Corsair Special Edition White Graphite Series 600T Steel / Plastic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 Mobo
Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) - might get the 2700K unlocked for $20 more
Antec Kuhler H2O 620 Liquid Cooling System
CORSAIR Professional Series HX750 (CMPSU-750HX) 750W ATX12V 2.3 / EPS12V 2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS SILVER Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ8GX3M2A1600C8
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit - OEM

Total $1013

Going to use my OCZ Vertex 100 GB SSD drive from my current system as my boot/pagefile drive and 1 TB WD Caviar Black 7200 RPM as my data/application drive
Also have an AMD 5850 1 GB GPU that I may replace later with a Nvidia GPU

On my current system with the sliders at 50% and using 4xAA/16AF, I am getting around 36 FPS on average in the PMDG 757NGX with default FSX Scenery and AS2012 + FSUIPC Registered. Hoping to be able to move all the sliders higher and get around 40-45 FPS.

Peter Bagrationoff (DVA8158)

Posted onPost created on July 11 2012 10:23 ET by Liam Kroes

I think you meant the PMDG 737NGX. Wow!! Thats a lot of stuff and I expected to cost more than that!!! I could do the same as you but I just don't know where to get all that stuff. Where do you get is all?? On-line??? In a store??

Liam Kroes

Captain, B747-400

DVA9545
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP, 737-ATP

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Goiás Brazil

2,507 legs, 5,067.5 hours
2,336 legs, 4,789.1 hours online
2,499 legs, 5,037.9 hours ACARS
271 legs, 683.8 hours event

Posted onPost created on July 11 2012 14:38 ET by Thiago Braga

newegg.com, amazon and others electronic stores.

Thiago Braga (DVA9545)

DVA043
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Marietta, GA

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240 legs, 553.9 hours online
1,971 legs, 8,110.8 hours ACARS
75 legs, 196.3 hours event
2,349 legs, 9,452.6 hours total
91 legs dispatched, 66.4 hours

Posted onPost created on July 11 2012 16:03 ET by Luke Kolin

Don't forget that Liam appears to be in Europe. Do any of our European friends have any good online sources on the other side of the pond?

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on July 11 2012 20:31 ET by Peter Bagrationoff

Peter Bagrationoff wrote:

I am putting together a system in the near future. Upgrading from a first gen i7 860 and EVGA P55 SLI mobo :

Corsair Special Edition White Graphite Series 600T Steel / Plastic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 Mobo
Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) - might get the 2700K unlocked for $20 more
Antec Kuhler H2O 620 Liquid Cooling System
CORSAIR Professional Series HX750 (CMPSU-750HX) 750W ATX12V 2.3 / EPS12V 2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS SILVER Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ8GX3M2A1600C8
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit - OEM

Total $1013

Going to use my OCZ Vertex 100 GB SSD drive from my current system as my boot/pagefile drive and 1 TB WD Caviar Black 7200 RPM as my data/application drive
Also have an AMD 5850 1 GB GPU that I may replace later with a Nvidia GPU

On my current system with the sliders at 50% and using 4xAA/16AF, I am getting around 36 FPS on average in the PMDG 757NGX with default FSX Scenery and AS2012 + FSUIPC Registered. Hoping to be able to move all the sliders higher and get around 40-45 FPS.

Yes sorry that was the 737NGX....typo! I buy almost everything from Newegg and occasionally from Amazon.

Peter Bagrationoff (DVA8158)

Posted onPost created on July 12 2012 08:56 ET by Liam Kroes

Here in Holland we can buy stuff from amazon. I'm not sure about Newegg.com, I don't know if they do international shipping. Also we have a Target computer store but the stuff there looks 2 to 3 handed.

Liam Kroes

Captain, B747-400

DVA10665
Captain, MD-11
OLP

Joined on April 07 2012
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"captaen ..... táimid ag dul síos"
Western Europe

282 legs, 630.7 hours
162 legs, 433.9 hours online
279 legs, 619.7 hours ACARS
1 legs, 1.3 hours event
4,070 legs, 7,227.4 hours total

Posted onPost created on August 10 2012 18:04 ET by Daniel Healy

i know this is a bit old but i wanted to chip in on a great site you csnt buy individual parts but you select what you want and they will build it it is called http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk

Daniel Healy (DVA10665)

Posted onPost created on September 13 2012 15:03 ET by Liam Kroes

THIS:

Intel® Core™i5-3470
> ASUS® P8Z77-M
> 8GB SAMSUNG 1333MHz
> 2GB AMD RADEON™ HD7850
> 1TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s

OR:
Intel® Core™ i5-3570K
> ASUS® P8Z77-V LX
> 8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X 1600
> 2GB GEFORCE GTX 660 Ti
> 120GB INTEL 330 SERIES SSD

Liam Kroes

Captain, B747-400

DVA10723
Captain, B737-800
OLP

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19 legs, 27.1 hours online
1,525 legs, 4,930.9 hours ACARS
2 legs, 4.6 hours event

Posted onPost created on September 14 2012 08:03 ET by Josh Martin

Liam, may want to refer to this thread as well. I posted in it what I recently purchased.....LOVING IT!

http://www.deltava.org/thread.do?id=0x1afc8

Josh Martin

Captain, B737-800

AFV313
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Howick, KwaZulu-Natal ZA

2,941 legs, 9,560.6 hours
1,901 legs, 5,926.6 hours online
2,853 legs, 9,199.0 hours ACARS
58 legs, 272.0 hours event
350 legs dispatched, 155.5 hours

Posted onPost created on September 14 2012 09:08 ET by Robert Armstrong

Liam Kroes wrote:

THIS:

Intel® Core™i5-3470
> ASUS® P8Z77-M
> 8GB SAMSUNG 1333MHz
> 2GB AMD RADEON™ HD7850
> 1TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s

OR:
Intel® Core™ i5-3570K
> ASUS® P8Z77-V LX
> 8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X 1600
> 2GB GEFORCE GTX 660 Ti
> 120GB INTEL 330 SERIES SSD

Liam, from my experience the Nvidia Cards do way better for FS than ATI cards. That second machine would be a screamer, but you would run out of storage space pretty quickly. I'd throw in a 500GB or 1TB drive along with the SSD

Posted onPost created on September 15 2012 07:25 ET by Liam Kroes

Robert what do you mean with 'would be a screamer'?? BTW thanks for the tips.

Liam Kroes

Captain, B747-400

Posted onPost created on September 23 2012 10:39 ET by Peter Bagrationoff

I've been using an ATi 5850 for the past three years with no problems. I used to love Nvidia but started getting many BSODs from their drivers so I gave AMD a shot. I hope Nvidia has improved their driver reliability.as I plan on getting a 660 ti for Christmas.
I will say however Nvidia cards seem to be more consistent with AA and AF when switching from full screen to windowed mode and back.

Peter Bagrationoff (DVA8158)

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