David L From United Kingdom, joined May 1999, 9213 posts, RR: 42 Reply 1, posted (7 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 3570 times:
Looks OK to me. I guess the only comment I have is that you might want to get a bigger monitor at some point but that's always the way.
I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that the best PC is one dedicated to FS. I mean, I don't care a lot if something slows my SQL Server or internet access by 15% but I don't want anything interfering with FS. It would also make it much easier to troubleshoot FS whereas I'm less inclined to fine-tune other applications. Not just at the moment, though!
Dan2002 From United States of America, joined Dec 2002, 2055 posts, RR: 5 Reply 2, posted (7 years 10 months 3 weeks 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 3557 times:
I dont think Windows XP MCE is the best o/s to run FS9 on, but I dont think it will make that much of a difference.
-Dan
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ITA350 From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2005, 158 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (7 years 10 months 3 weeks 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 3552 times:
Quoting Dan2002 (Reply 2): I dont think Windows XP MCE is the best o/s to run FS9 on,
I run FS9 on media center I dont find a difference at all. Infact Xp MCE is just Xp professional with a registry extension that include media center. Although i do recommend a larger screen.
Dan2002 From United States of America, joined Dec 2002, 2055 posts, RR: 5 Reply 5, posted (7 years 10 months 3 weeks 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 3520 times:
Quoting ITA350 (Reply 4): I run FS9 on media center I dont find a difference at all. Infact Xp MCE is just Xp professional with a registry extension that include media center. Although i do recommend a larger screen.
Do you know what that registy key does? It enables a few memory hogging processes that you dont find on XP Home or XP Pro. It adds some new services that automatically start by default consuming some more ram. Again, your talking to a person that was a member of the short lived MCE 2005 beta program. I could email them and ask if you would like to know more.
-Dan
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TwinCommander From United States of America, joined Apr 2005, 149 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (7 years 10 months 3 weeks 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 3498 times:
only problem with that machine...
Its a dell...
heres what i have;
Intel Confidental 2.4c @ 3.1ghz
2 sticks mushkin black pc-3200 memory, 512mb @ 1000mhz bus speed, dual channel mode
ASUS P4P800 Motherboard
2 seagate 80gb baracuda V SATA hard drives, in raid, stripe 0
soundblaster audigy gamer sound card
ATI Radeon x850 XT video card, AGP 256mb GDDR3 memory
enermax whisper 460w powersupply
coolermaster stacker case
im just biased since i build computers myself. i personaly cant stand any corporate built garbage.
Dan2002 From United States of America, joined Dec 2002, 2055 posts, RR: 5 Reply 8, posted (7 years 10 months 3 weeks 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 3491 times:
ITA350 From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2005, 158 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (7 years 10 months 3 weeks 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 3471 times:
Dan2002 " Do you know what that registy key does? It enables a few memory hogging processes that you dont find on XP Home or XP Pro. It adds some new services that automatically start by default consuming some more ram. Again, your talking to a person that was a member of the short lived MCE 2005 beta program. I could email them and ask if you would like to know more."
I never knew that MCE consumed RAM when it wasn't running. Although when recording I thought that it was only the non-hardware enabled tuners that took up RAM. I never notice problems any problems when playing FS while recording TV. I am also using the PMDG 737 at the same time.
Dan2002 From United States of America, joined Dec 2002, 2055 posts, RR: 5 Reply 10, posted (7 years 10 months 3 weeks 2 days 7 hours ago) and read 3466 times:
Quoting ITA350 (Reply 9): I never notice problems any problems when playing FS while recording TV. I am also using the PMDG 737 at the same time.
Yea at like 2 FPS.
-Dan
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