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ok well i have the worlds dumbest question lol..

what are the specs for the rigs you guys fly on? i am asking becuse i want to posibly build a friend a rig for it butt they want to keep it on the lower side ie price side and i want to see what i can get away with specs wise..

now i would like to know the computer specs, Monitor rez and what FPS you guys normaly see at like biger airports and stuff.


thanks Ryan, and my Friend
 
RyanJames170 said:
ok well i have the worlds dumbest question lol..

what are the specs for the rigs you guys fly on? i am asking becuse i want to posibly build a friend a rig for it butt they want to keep it on the lower side ie price side and i want to see what i can get away with specs wise..

now i would like to know the computer specs, Monitor rez and what FPS you guys normaly see at like biger airports and stuff.


thanks Ryan, and my Friend
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I'd say min specs to make it worthwhile would be:

C2D 8400 at least
Geforce 8800 512mb version
4 Gigs of ram
250 GB 7500 RPM hard drive
 
Go to 'dual core v. quad core' Thread

See my latest post in the above-captioned thread for an economy minded fast running rig...

Here is a quote - "I had some time over this past weekend for tweaking and testing my latest 'economy' build using an AMD 955 Black Edition processor with GIGABYTE GA-MA785GMT-UD2H AM3 motherboard and Win7."

The machine is fast, smooth and inexpensive (relatively).
 
I have to go intell guys becuse i have a fairly good P-35 mobo thats from my rig before i went to a 790i.. and it can OC to 1600 FSB with out problems.
 
P35 Socket LGA775?

If that is the case, you might consider the Wolfdale E8600 Core2 Duo. I have read that they have quite a bit of o/c head room. That is the processor I have on my Asrock X48 Turbotwinz and will be adding DDR3 memory (and trying to get a BIG o/c on the Wolfdale). My board is Crossfire and already set up with twin ATI 4870s.
 
rvn817j said:
If that is the case, you might consider the Wolfdale E8600 Core2 Duo. I have read that they have quite a bit of o/c head room. That is the processor I have on my Asrock X48 Turbotwinz and will be adding DDR3 memory (and trying to get a BIG o/c on the Wolfdale). My board is Crossfire and already set up with twin ATI 4870s.
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cool.. yah i was looking around at the PD's and the lower end Core 2's
i know it seems.. i think a OC to 3.0-3.2 Ghz would do ok as long as they didnt run much more then active sky FSX and Teamspeak at the same time.
 
E5200 on my GA 31 gigabyte MoBo stock at 2.5 OCed to 3.4 with ATI 3850 and 4 gigs 6400 speed ram works fine for me.
 
Good O/C Harleyman

harleyman said:
E5200 on my GA 31 gigabyte MoBo stock at 2.5 OCed to 3.4 with ATI 3850 and 4 gigs 6400 speed ram works fine for me.
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That's a pretty respectable O/C on that E5200. For some reason I have had some of my best O/Cs on Gigabyte boards!
 
rvn817j said:
That's a pretty respectable O/C on that E5200. For some reason I have had some of my best O/Cs on Gigabyte boards!
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Actually its OCed to 3.333 But who cares right...

Yup..Gigabyte boards are good OCerd..

Thats stock heatsink too...

Runs at 34 idol and mid 40's under load
 
RyanJames170 said:
cool man yah i think i am going to go with a E5200 and OC it to 3.0 or better
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Its a strong running chip for 60 bucks or so for sure..

Whils it will not give that total FSX experience as a quad ..It will produce a great amount.

I run off it

FSX GEX UTX FEX and some meshes and have great results locked at 35 even in weather..I do have to tweak FEX weather some, as if set up wrong can pull my system down..But I run traffic at 50% and GA at 50% and ground at 25% .



That is only FSX SP1 too that I run..
 
No problem with the E8600 here. Gigabyte EP45-UD3R, Intel Core2Duo 333 MHZ E8600 Xigmatek HDT-S1283 CPU Cooler
4 GB G-Skill F2-8500CL5 5-5-5-15, EVGA GTX 260
Mushkin 580 watt quad rail power supply, RaidMax Smilodon case with 3 fans
WD Veloraptor drive 150gb for FSX alone. 2 Seagate 160gb and one 320gb drive
WinXP Pro Sp3
Win XP 64
 
you will be dissapointed with its performance as it a 128 bit card..

get a 256 bit card..

I never try to match the card to the monitor...I buy the card for its core clocks and memory clocks..
 
harleyman said:
you will be dissapointed with its performance as it a 128 bit card..

get a 256 bit card..

I never try to match the card to the monitor...I buy the card for its core clocks and memory clocks..
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Yep and you get what you pay for. Buy a cheap video card and it will bottleneck your system.
 
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