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Using 2 PSU has CLoD kicking it in high gear!

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flyer01

Charter Member 2012
I'v put 2 PSU's on the PC. 500 and 550 watt.

1280-1024 60Hz

Pseudo

AA-x8

AEF-off

SSAO-on

VSYNC-ON

TG- original

The 1st video is with the CloD settings at Med.




The 2ed video is with the settings on Med/high. Med BD and Forest.




The 3ed video is with the settings on high/Very high with the new Nvidia 275.33-desktop-win7-winvista-64bit drivers.Very high-BD and Forest.




Althrough I can fly CLoD at the very high settings I'm going to put the forest at high or med.

With this set up seams the higher the settings the better the sim plays and looks.

This is how I have the PSU'S set up on the PC:

500 and 550 watt on the GPU.
550 watt on MOBO
500 watt on HD and CD/DVD player

After doing this the PC loads and run's faster. And CLoD plays and looks better on my PC than it ever has.

If you have a high end PC and CLod is not playing very well it could be your PSU.

I did not want to get a high Watt PSU when I had others not being used. As it turns out this may work better then getting one PSU with more watts.

This is the link to the page that tells how to do this:
http://www.absoluteinsight.net/21


The main thing that I didn't know was how to put the jumpers to turn on the PSU. The PSU that I add has a switch for off and on. And have it in the back of the PC on the out side With all the wires on the inside of the case other then the 110AC power cord.



If you need to or just want to add more watts to your PC and have some PSU's not being used this is a money saver.

I'm going to fly in ETO to see what the duel PSU is like.

When you get a video card thy say what watt PSU it takes to run that video card. Not what watt PSU it takes to run your whole system. I found that out by adding the other PSU.

flyer01

PS: Its up to the sim'er to work with there video card to get CLoD or any other sim to work the best in there PC.
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Intel core Duo E8600 @ 3.33GHz
Ram 4GB
(Duel power supply
500 and 550 watt running the GPU
500 watt on MOBO,HD and CD player)
Video card GTX 470 1280 MB GDDR5
MOBO- Gigabyte GA-EP45_UD3P
(Duel partition
Windows XP Pro 32bit.
Windows 7 PRO 64 bit.)
CLoD in W-7 Pro 64 bit
Fraps
2 saitek x52 throttles
MSWFF Pro 2
TIR5
Monitor- HP-19, HP-24 or a VIZIO 42in screen.
Turtle Beach Gaming Headset and Mic.
(Eat More Beans. The World Needs The Gas and Wind Power!)
 
WOW!! This sounds cool..
If it helps with your great Videos I am all for it..:applause: :applause:

Heck this E-machine of mine has the stock 350 watt power unit..
So far so good as has been said..
The 3.0 gig P4 CPU and Asus 512 meg video card, with the Audigy 2 Pro sound card and 2 gigs of DDR Ram it runs okay so far for me.
Thank God..
But I am not trying to do the wonderful things you do for all of us here..
Thanks,
BRAVO..
:salute: :salute: :salute:
 
Having to use two PSU's tells me the your original PSU was of insufficient amperage to run your system. It's an ingenious way to provide the needed power if you have a spare PSU lying around.
 
I have also put a CB Ice cooler unit in the case.

What is a CB Ice cooler?

Its a unit that sets outside the PC. You put Ice and water in the cooler.

There is a pump that pushes ice cold water through a inlet hose to a cooling pad and returns the water back through a outlet hose back to the Ice cooler.

The hoses are insulated.

I have the cooling pad covering the GPU to keep it cool. and the rest of the pad on the MOBO cooler and on the CPU.

Now when I put my hand on the back of the PC Fan, the air stays cool while flying CLoD.

I have 2 of the Ice coolers with pumps and hose from different operations that required them for pain relief.

This also works great.:icon_lol:

The whay I have the PSU,s and Ice cooler makes my system and CLod play much better on High and Very High setting.

flyer01:salute:
 
flyer01 said:
I'v put 2 PSU's on the PC. 500 and 550 watt.

1280-1024 60Hz
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I'm wondering how you run a resolution of 1280 - 1040 60Hz. Where do you get this choice from?
I don't have CoD but I-L2 allows either 1280x960 or 1600x1200. I run CFS3 in 1980x1080.

1280 x 1024 ?

My GTX 550 Ti lasted but 3 weeks; it was a PNY GeForce. Best Buy wasn't surprised. I exchanged it for a Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti. I have extra psu's. gonna read that article but I don't see how an extra psu will do any more than my existing 600w power supply with a 12 pin hookup to my graphics card. No way can my system draw near the 600w so why would I want to add more? Just askin'

p.s. are you using Directx 11?

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richcreator said:
I'm wondering how you run a resolution of 1280 - 1024 60Hz. Where do you get this choice from?
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It's not a widescreen monitor?
BTW, CFS3 will run in whatever resolutions your card/monitor combination supports without resorting to voodoo or koan therapy - something MS got right first time.
 
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