sevenheavy From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2004, 1012 posts, RR: 12 Posted (3 months 3 weeks 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 2425 times:
Hi all,
My PC started behaving strangely a couple of weeks ago. It progressively got worse then wouldn't boot at all and apparently the motherboard is shot.
So, rather than buy a new motherboard and gain nothing I've bought a new machine. Aside from the headache of trying to get back thousands of FS9 addons I thought this might finally be an opportunity to run FSX smoothly. My specs are;
Intel i5 2500k (the overclockable version). Given the choice I would have gone for an i7 but couldn't quite run to it.
Nvidia GeForce gtx560 ti 1gb.
1tb hard drive
16gb DDR ram
Gigabyte z68 motherboard
Any thoughts? I'm really hoping it will run FSX. my old quad core q6600 would run it, but not particularly well, so I stayed with FS9.
It arrives Thursday....good thing too, I'm finding life tough without a pc very tough!
817Dreamliiner From United Kingdom, joined Jul 2008, 502 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (3 months 3 weeks 2 days ago) and read 2420 times:
I think it should run well, depending on the CPU speed ( which you didnt list), other than that I think you would have a good pc there. You may have to play with the settings, but that would be on your own preference
These are my specs:
Intel core i5-2410M @ 2.3GHZ turbo boost up to 2.9GHZ, NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M, 6GB DDR3 memory, 640GB HDD, Windows 7 64 bit
And for me it runs fsx well, I dont use high settings though, but I have traffic pretty much near 100%
QFA380 From Australia, joined Jul 2005, 1829 posts, RR: 1 Reply 2, posted (3 months 3 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 2398 times:
Looking forward to some opinions. I'm looking at a new build aswell, with similar specs, probably lash out and get the i7-2600 and up to the 2GB GTX 560 while keeping the 16GB ram.
817Dreamliiner From United Kingdom, joined Jul 2008, 502 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (3 months 3 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 2388 times:
Quoting QFA380 (Reply 2): Do you use any other addons? PMDG planes or any scenery?
Not really, the only payware I have is the overland aircraft packages, and any other scenery I have are pretty much afcads, not really fond of high detailed scenery, though I would like to fly the PMDG 738 someday
Burkhard From Germany, joined Nov 2006, 3977 posts, RR: 2 Reply 4, posted (3 months 3 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 2368 times:
That will definitively run FSX smooth with most options rather high. The I5-2500 is enough of CPU for FSX even without overclocking, the GPU is fine, enough memory. I propose you check the disk isn't too slow, some manufactures put 5400rpm drives into such system to save 5$.
sevenheavy From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2004, 1012 posts, RR: 12 Reply 5, posted (3 months 3 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 2348 times:
Thanks all. The CPU is 3.3 ghz. Apparently this chip is designed to be over clocked but I've never done that before, and I'm not sure if it's necessary.
I'll also check the hard drive speed...that's one thing I'm not sure of. Does it have much effect?
Thanks again. I'll be sure to feed back once I'm up and running for those who are thinking of upgrading their PCs
Burkhard From Germany, joined Nov 2006, 3977 posts, RR: 2 Reply 7, posted (3 months 3 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 2307 times:
Does it have much effect?
It makes system booting times, FSX startup times and texture loading times slower than necessary - if is is a 5400rpm drive instead of a 7200 one this means the times you sit there waiting for response is 33% longer.
If you have a 5400rpm drive, the option to purchase a 64G solid state disk and put FSX on it is really interesting.
That is overkill. You will never fully use that amount of RAM, specially not with FSX. I have over 100gigs worth of mods done to FSX (megascenery, fsglobal, UTX, complete WOAI set to 100%, almost every slider to 100%, active sky 2012, PMDG NGX etc etc) and at most FSX will use 2gb of RAM on my system, and I "only" have 6gb. Only when I run newer, more advanced games (BF3) will my physical memory usage go up to about 50%, and unless I use a torture or benchmarking program, I've never used the full 6gb.
Anyways, I guess my point is save a few bucks on the ram. That money is best spent on a better video card, or two of the same one (SLI).
Just for reference my specs are:
"old" i7-920 oc'ed to 3.67
6gb ram
1.2TB (2x 620gb 7200 rpm RAID 0)
ATI 6950 OC'ed to 6970 oc speeds
FSX scenery slider all maxed. In very dense areas with the PMDG NGX and heavy clouds and 100% traffic I get FPSs in the high teens. As soon as I move to cruise though I get 60FPSs no problem. I could get 30fps easy on the denser areas if I turned down some sliders but I prefer eye candy over performance to an extent.
sevenheavy From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2004, 1012 posts, RR: 12 Reply 10, posted (3 months 2 weeks 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 2246 times:
Quoting Fly2HMO (Reply 9): A bit late to the thread but I will point out this:
Quoting sevenheavy (Thread starter):
16gb DDR ram
That is overkill.
Thanks for the feedback. I would ideally have gone for 8gb, but the package deal at the time meant I basically got the extra 8gb for free, so why not!
Sounds like you have a very nice system. Apparently the i5 2500k is designed for overclocking. Never done it before but there seems to be a few tutorials out there, do you think it will make much difference?
The PC was delivered yesterday, although the idiots forgot to include an OS so I'll have to install W7 when it arrives today!
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