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FSDT Airports
mpochylko:
Awesome guys, I figured the CPU is lacking however after I did some research and tweaking, used the nVidia inspector and the DX10 fixer I have increased the FPS to 19-22 at all the FSDT airports. They look great, and run smoothly, I turned my AI traffic down to 7% from 20% which still populates everything and looks good at the same time. This issue I have is not being able to overclock, any processor model that doesn't end in "K" cannot be overclocked. I'm stuck with the 2.8ghz unless I get a new processor, then I fear the motherboard will be too old to support the new processor, and it compounds from there. The GTX970 that I recently installed has made a world of difference so far, but I would love to upgrade the cpu still.
The 2D still gives me a huge increase in frames vs. the 3D. from 19-22 on the 3d to like 50 -100 on the 2d.
I bought 5 airports in a bundle a few weeks ago, I wanted KJFK, then noticed the savings the more I bought and blew through $250 bucks in one sitting. They are all activated and installed correctly.
KLAX
KJFK
KLAS
KORD
KDFW
As I fly to one of the airports the frames are great (27-30), then as the scenery loads it drops 10 fps or so. It's not a huge deal now that its better than 5-6fps, just want to make sure I'm getting the most from the system and the scenery. Also I should have mentioned too I just moved to FSX:SE. I feel like the fsx.cfg file is good, and the installs are fine. the Driver for the GPU is up to date so who knows.
Bruce Hamilton:
You should be able to get a decent processor and motherboard for about what you paid for the graphics card.
mpochylko:
Ive been looking around. Not sure what motherboard to go with.
bradl:
--- Quote from: mpochylko on February 13, 2016, 06:33:23 pm ---Ive been looking around. Not sure what motherboard to go with.
--- End quote ---
I went a little bit interesting, but gives a lot of power. I went with a mITX build. I figured that at the way I'm going now, I really don't need a huge tower for all of the things I do on a PC (mainly flightsimming) and it was too much of a cost to overpower it, when the only tweaks I'd need to do would be a CPU, memory, or HDD/SSD upgrade.
With that said, that didn't mean that the case had to be some small box to match the size of the motherboard. So with that, here's what I did:
* Gigabyte GA-Z77N-WIFI mITX motherboard. This is an unlocked board, and easy to overclock. But stock settings are just as beefy.
* Intel Core i5-3570K CPU. Like the motherboard, the CPU is unlocked, and can be overclocked as well.
* 16GB DDR3 memory. Mine are by Corsair, but already had them. Suit to pleasure.
* AMD Radeon R9 290 GPU. Again, already have this.
* Bitfenix Prodigy mITX case. This doesn't look like a mITX case, but it is. Fits everything wonderfully, plus can fit up to 9 2.5" drives.
Basically, I followed similar to these two builds:
http://gizmodo.com/5955172/how-to-build-a-small-gaming-pc
http://www.tonymacx86.com/golden-builds/74854-bittermelons-chip-build-ga-z77n-wifi-i5-3570k-hd-6870-a.html
Plus if done right, this could be turned into a Hackintosh. But since I already converted everything I do except FS to Macs, I'm good there.
However, this was a build from two years ago, so there is a new revision for the board:
Gigabyte GA-Z97N-WIFI
This could fit a Core i5-4670K (if you want to go with an unlocked CPU; they have a supported CPU list on that product's page). Other than that, everything else will fit. There are mATX and ATX variants of this as well, but it all depends on how big you want your PC to be.
BL.
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