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DVA5672
Captain, A330-300
Joined on March 10 2008
Online Double Century Club
Million Mile Club
Everett 500 Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Nine Century Club
Fort Worth, TX
953 legs, 4,374.8 hours
292 legs,
1,232.3 hours online 876 legs,
4,093.4 hours ACARS 1 legs,
5.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
September 19 2009 19:07 ET by Crosby Otobo
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Hi im tryna get me a new desktop strictly for running fs9 and fsx with the best graphics and performance possible, so whats more important, more cpu cores and a good video card or good dual core cpu with an out of this world video card?
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DVA1038
Captain, B737-800
E-MAIL
Joined on January 12 2003
Century Club
"Celer, Silens, Mortalis" Summerville, SC USA
169 legs, 1,008.2 hours
56 legs,
288.5 hours online 25 legs,
221.2 hours ACARS 1 legs,
5.0 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
September 19 2009 19:13 ET by Kevin Cornish
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For FSX, go with a mother board with the Intel i7. That'd be your best bet.
Kevin CornishCaptain, B737-800
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DVA5672
Captain, A330-300
Joined on March 10 2008
Online Double Century Club
Million Mile Club
Everett 500 Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Nine Century Club
Fort Worth, TX
953 legs, 4,374.8 hours
292 legs,
1,232.3 hours online 876 legs,
4,093.4 hours ACARS 1 legs,
5.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
September 19 2009 19:33 ET by Crosby Otobo
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Thanks Kevin.
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DVA7180
Captain, MD-88
Joined on March 17 2009
Richmond, BC Canada
59 legs, 109.5 hours
4 legs,
6.8 hours online 56 legs,
101.4 hours ACARS 2 legs,
3.2 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
September 19 2009 19:48 ET by Lindsey Wiebe
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Must aps including the FS's cannot use quad core... so a good dual core will be better i.e. 3.0ghz +. Then vid card I would go minimum 9600GT 512. For an extra like $50 you can go 9800GT+ 512 MB then you would be laughing.
Lindsey WiebeCaptain, MD-88
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DVA2541
Captain, B737-800
E-MAIL
Joined on August 17 2005
Century Club
"What's that button for? OOPs" Erwin, TN USA
122 legs, 206.7 hours
1 legs,
1.1 hours online 1 legs,
1.2 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
September 20 2009 08:56 ET by John Swisher
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FSX will use more than two cores and prefers cores and speed, FS9 does not just pure speed. Any video card 9800gt or above will do fine. Its all about the cpu.
Hope this helps.
John SwisherCaptain, B737-800
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DVA7373
Captain, B757-200
OLP
Joined on May 31 2009
"Howdy" Southeastern United States
72 legs, 187.6 hours
32 legs,
85.4 hours online 67 legs,
153.2 hours ACARS 2 legs,
3.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
September 20 2009 08:59 ET by Nicholas Taylor
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FSX can take advantage of up to 256 cores. And honestly, statistics show the 8800 GTS is the BEST video card for FSX. Also, FSX is DEFINITELY very processor dependent and the video card is not as important.
Nicholas TaylorCaptain, B757-200
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DVA7729
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP
Joined on September 09 2009
50 State Club
Triple Century Club
Online Triple Century Club
Globetrotter
"Roar like GE-90s!" Mississauga, ON Canada
396 legs, 1,741.6 hours
380 legs,
1,692.7 hours online 391 legs,
1,702.2 hours ACARS 46 legs,
113.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
September 20 2009 09:38 ET by Shahzeb Bhutto
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Processor: Intel Core i7
RAM: 3-4GB
Graphics Card: 8800GTS or higher
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DVA5672
Captain, A330-300
Joined on March 10 2008
Online Double Century Club
Million Mile Club
Everett 500 Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Nine Century Club
Fort Worth, TX
953 legs, 4,374.8 hours
292 legs,
1,232.3 hours online 876 legs,
4,093.4 hours ACARS 1 legs,
5.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
September 20 2009 09:47 ET by Crosby Otobo
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Thanks for the info guys, just didnt want to spend a lot of money and say this aint enough.
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DVA3931
Senior Captain, L-1011-100
OLP, COMM
Joined on January 19 2007
50 State Club
Tri-Jet Triumph
Million Mile Club
Online Quadruple Century Club
Flying Colonel
Globetrotter
Burbank 500 Club
Eurocap Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
"De oppresso liber" Surry, ME
1,882 legs, 3,806.7 hours
478 legs,
767.8 hours online 1,107 legs,
1,674.5 hours ACARS 55 legs,
114.8 hours event 195 legs dispatched, 134.4
hours
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Posted onPost created on
September 20 2009 09:48 ET by Andrew Kaufmann
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And get NHancer
links for tuning FSX and installing it the right way
http://www.simforums.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=29041&PN=1
this one here is how to properly set up your system.
http://205.252.250.26/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1208959973/0#0
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DVA5672
Captain, A330-300
Joined on March 10 2008
Online Double Century Club
Million Mile Club
Everett 500 Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Nine Century Club
Fort Worth, TX
953 legs, 4,374.8 hours
292 legs,
1,232.3 hours online 876 legs,
4,093.4 hours ACARS 1 legs,
5.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
September 20 2009 11:49 ET by Crosby Otobo
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Thanks for the links Andy.
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