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Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | Thinking its time to upgrade
DVA10626
Captain, B757-200
OLP

Joined on March 23 2012
50 State Club
B757 100 Club
Globetrotter
Everett 500 Club
Six Century Club
Online Six Century Club
White Knuckles Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary

"No matter what else happens, fly the airplane."
Cumming, GA

670 legs, 1,736.8 hours
630 legs, 1,643.3 hours online
668 legs, 1,733.5 hours ACARS
5 legs, 13.4 hours event
 Posted onPost created on May 25 2016 13:25 ET by Steven Weikle
The setup I've been running for 4+ years is an MSI motherboard with E5300 series Xenon processor 4 GB RAM and GeForce GT 630 with 1Gb DDR3 VRAM. Running on Win XP SP3. After several months, I felt I needed to run Windows Updates, I'm not sure if there's any correlation but after reboot, the onboard sound device is non-functional with a code41 error. I've tried the remove device practice from device manager. My next steps are to go to MSI and see if there's an updated driver for it, and also see if there's a Bios update. Has anyone experienced a problem like this? Thoughts are swirling around in my head whether to simply upgrade the OS but with 4+ year old hardware, Is it worth it? Another consideration is FSX. X-plane offers some unique advantages since it's portable to Linux as well as MAC.


DVA11021
Captain, B757-200
OLP

Joined on September 13 2012
B757 100 Club
Everett 250 Club
Triple Century Club
Online Triple Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary

Milford, NH

375 legs, 620.5 hours
365 legs, 604.5 hours online
374 legs, 618.9 hours ACARS
21 legs, 51.4 hours event
 Posted onPost created on May 25 2016 13:30 ET by Sean Zarella
look at your update history and look for kb3086255 if that is installed it caused a whole mess of problems especially for flight sim

Go and uninstall the update.

reboot and check


DVA11021
Captain, B757-200
OLP

Joined on September 13 2012
B757 100 Club
Everett 250 Club
Triple Century Club
Online Triple Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary

Milford, NH

375 legs, 620.5 hours
365 legs, 604.5 hours online
374 legs, 618.9 hours ACARS
21 legs, 51.4 hours event
 Posted onPost created on May 25 2016 14:31 ET by Sean Zarella
also you running a xeon chip, which is mainly used for servers and less for gaming rigs, They dont support overclock and have lower clock freq than a consumer grade cpu and cant handle graphic load as well as
consumer cpus do, They ARE excellent with ECC memory for servers .

Are you considering a entire pc upgrade? you have a budget?

I would recommend no less than I7 series. I myself have 4790k @ 4.7 ghz, RIPS through everything in my triple monitor setup and increased my flight sim 5 display setup 100 fold than my older amd 8120


DVA10626
Captain, B757-200
OLP

Joined on March 23 2012
50 State Club
B757 100 Club
Globetrotter
Everett 500 Club
Six Century Club
Online Six Century Club
White Knuckles Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary

"No matter what else happens, fly the airplane."
Cumming, GA

670 legs, 1,736.8 hours
630 legs, 1,643.3 hours online
668 legs, 1,733.5 hours ACARS
5 legs, 13.4 hours event
 Posted onPost created on May 25 2016 17:48 ET by Steven Weikle
It's actually an E5200 Dual Core "Wolfdale" Xeon is probably the wrong terminology since it does not support ECC RAM. Clock speed is at 2.5Ghz. But my thought is eventually, I'm going to need to at least replace the CPU, motherboard, graphics card. I have 2 500Gb Sata drives set up in a RAID 1 configuration. I'm hoping I could do something like this for less than $500.


DVA11021
Captain, B757-200
OLP

Joined on September 13 2012
B757 100 Club
Everett 250 Club
Triple Century Club
Online Triple Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary

Milford, NH

375 legs, 620.5 hours
365 legs, 604.5 hours online
374 legs, 618.9 hours ACARS
21 legs, 51.4 hours event
 Posted onPost created on May 25 2016 18:11 ET by Sean Zarella
a single SSD could make your boot speed 1000000x faster

Ok so for 500 you wont get far but this is my part picker without monitors ect just the computer

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/4v7Rf7


DVA10626
Captain, B757-200
OLP

Joined on March 23 2012
50 State Club
B757 100 Club
Globetrotter
Everett 500 Club
Six Century Club
Online Six Century Club
White Knuckles Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary

"No matter what else happens, fly the airplane."
Cumming, GA

670 legs, 1,736.8 hours
630 legs, 1,643.3 hours online
668 legs, 1,733.5 hours ACARS
5 legs, 13.4 hours event
 Posted onPost created on May 26 2016 00:40 ET by Steven Weikle
Can SSD's benefit from the dual write speed of RAID 1? if so, at $88 bucks, why not run the mirror? Only thing is maybe a bigger power supply is needed?


DVA10626
Captain, B757-200
OLP

Joined on March 23 2012
50 State Club
B757 100 Club
Globetrotter
Everett 500 Club
Six Century Club
Online Six Century Club
White Knuckles Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary

"No matter what else happens, fly the airplane."
Cumming, GA

670 legs, 1,736.8 hours
630 legs, 1,643.3 hours online
668 legs, 1,733.5 hours ACARS
5 legs, 13.4 hours event
 Posted onPost created on May 26 2016 00:42 ET by Steven Weikle
I like your choices otherwise.


DVA11021
Captain, B757-200
OLP

Joined on September 13 2012
B757 100 Club
Everett 250 Club
Triple Century Club
Online Triple Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary

Milford, NH

375 legs, 620.5 hours
365 legs, 604.5 hours online
374 legs, 618.9 hours ACARS
21 legs, 51.4 hours event
 Posted onPost created on May 26 2016 10:58 ET by Sean Zarella
If your raid1 setup can boot to your desktop from your UEFI in less than 25 seconds then your set, but do you run backups on your Raid1 setup?


DVA10626
Captain, B757-200
OLP

Joined on March 23 2012
50 State Club
B757 100 Club
Globetrotter
Everett 500 Club
Six Century Club
Online Six Century Club
White Knuckles Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary

"No matter what else happens, fly the airplane."
Cumming, GA

670 legs, 1,736.8 hours
630 legs, 1,643.3 hours online
668 legs, 1,733.5 hours ACARS
5 legs, 13.4 hours event
 Posted onPost created on May 26 2016 11:38 ET by Steven Weikle
I do.. I learned that lesson the hard way a few years ago.


DVA11021
Captain, B757-200
OLP

Joined on September 13 2012
B757 100 Club
Everett 250 Club
Triple Century Club
Online Triple Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary

Milford, NH

375 legs, 620.5 hours
365 legs, 604.5 hours online
374 legs, 618.9 hours ACARS
21 legs, 51.4 hours event
 Posted onPost created on May 26 2016 14:24 ET by Sean Zarella
I also built this kit with i7 6700k which would be fantastic with adding a ssd for your windows installation and fsx http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Zzdqqk

swapped out the video card for Nvidia if you need one, but if going that route get the new 1070 or 1080



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