Getting a new system for FSX

[orcunizma 2]

Hey,

 

since my PC is outdated and I hardly get over 20 fps at medium settings I think I need a new system

 

So I thought about this one...

 

i7-4790K @ 4,4 GHz each core

2x 8 GB DDR3 1600 Crucial Ballistix Sport

3072 MB NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti, Gainward Phant.

2000 GB SATA III, 7.200

250 GB SATA III Samsung 840 Series EVO SSD

Windows 7 HP 64 bit

 

What do you think? Any suggestions? Mainly just for FSX. Thanks for help.

 

Best Regards

[UK_Squiff 1]

Looks like a pretty good system to me

[vc10man 732]

That system will fly, literally.

 

My system(see updated specs) is currently, as I fly the PMDG 777-300ER en route to LEMD(Madrid Barajas Aerosoft) giving me FPS 60-80 that I never ever saw before.

 

Rest assured, you will have no worries. Go for it.

[orcunizma 2]

Looks like a pretty good system to me

 

Thanks for your suggestion

 

That system will fly, literally.

 

My system(see updated specs) is currently, as I fly the PMDG 777-300ER en route to LEMD(Madrid Barajas Aerosoft) giving me FPS 60-80 that I never ever saw before.

 

Rest assured, you will have no worries. Go for it.

 

Are you running in DirectX 10 or 9?

 

Do I install both FSX and the O/S in the SSD? Or O/S in the HDD and just FSX alone in the SSD? How did you do it?

 

Best Regards

[Randall 82]

That will be an awesome system for FSX.  You won't need more than 8GB.  No sense paying for what you will never use.  Are you building the system yourself?  If so, I recommend following NickN's setup guides including the one on building a Haswell system for FSX.

 

Put the OS on the HDD and FSX alone on the SSD.

 

You won't believe how fun FSX can be without having to tweak all the time.  Have fun!

 

Randall

[vc10man 732]

Running DX11

 

I've installed both the OS and FSX on the same SSD drive. I wish I could have attached a screenshot here but as I do not know how to do it, cannot. Landed at Aerosoft's Madris Barajas, and was astonished to see 37-45FPS compared to the old rig. I for one, feel chuffed that I made the move to the 4th Generation Intel chip.

[Bert Pieke 7,584]

... FSX does not run DX11... :huh:

 

You probably mean DX9 (although the PC is certainly capable of DX11..)

Re the OP.. I would also suggest 2X4 GB of fast RAM and putting both the OS and FSX on the SSD, at least initially.

 

As you need more space, get a second SSD for FSX, and keep the HDD for data storage.

[vc10man 732]

 

 

FSX does not run DX11... :huh:



You probably mean DX9 (although the PC is certainly capable of DX11..)

You are most probably correct, Bert, as all I did was check which version was on the system. Not sure if I saw something referring to DX10 when installing the 777 though.

[BuddyDog 36]

My upgraded system is very similar to yours, but I used 8GB RAM, 500 GB SSD and a GTX 770.  It runs FSX great (I do not use DX10 mode) with PMDG, Majestic, FSDT, FlightBeam, ASN and FTX Global add ons.

[Flukey 5]

Even though Its not my OP this is good knowledge to know as I posted something similar spec wise here, http://forum.avsim.net/topic/449770-fs9-to-fsxp3d/#entry3060109 but have had no luck getting an answer....so this has eased my mind a little

 

maybe I should have popped it in the fsx forum LOL

[orcunizma 2]

Thanks for all the replies, good to hear good things about it ^_^

 

That will be an awesome system for FSX.  You won't need more than 8GB.  No sense paying for what you will never use.  Are you building the system yourself?  If so, I recommend following NickN's setup guides including the one on building a Haswell system for FSX.

 

Put the OS on the HDD and FSX alone on the SSD.

 

You won't believe how fun FSX can be without having to tweak all the time.  Have fun!

 

Randall

 

It's been sold as it is by the company which I choose because of the overclocking and 2 years guarantee on it.

 

 

... FSX does not run DX11... :huh:

 

You probably mean DX9 (although the PC is certainly capable of DX11..)

Re the OP.. I would also suggest 2X4 GB of fast RAM and putting both the OS and FSX on the SSD, at least initially.

 

As you need more space, get a second SSD for FSX, and keep the HDD for data storage.

 

Just one last thing, is it okay if I would put the O/S in the HDD and just FSX alone in the SSD? Does it matter much except loading times in Windows? Don't have enough money for a 2nd SSD.

 

Best Regards

[CPT747 1]

you don`t need a second SSD !

[VeryBumpy 272]

I would do like Bert says, put both on SSD. If you run out of room for FSX you can simply put the addons on the other HHD.

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[orcunizma 2]

AffinityMask to be set at 252? Hyperthreading is on, is this value correct to reach the best performance?

 

Best Regards