DVA071
Senior Captain, B757-200
Joined on July 03 2001
Triple Century Club
Online Triple Century Club
Weston, MA USA
375 legs, 1,827.1 hours
310 legs,
1,535.6 hours online 159 legs,
991.1 hours ACARS 2 legs,
14.5 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
May 25 2006 23:07 ET by Geoffrey Smith
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So, I'm shopping around looking for a new laptop for school. The reality is, I'm not going to get two computers - one for flightsim and one for the real world, so I'm looking around to find something that might at least give me a flight here and there. The line of laptops I'm currently looking at ship with the ATI Radeon Mobility X1600, which is essentially an underclocked X1600 (clocked down to 477 core and memory, I believe if you can get in a good cooling situation there is potential for overclocking). To upgrade from 128mb video ram to 256 mb dedicated ram is essentially a $500 upgrade the way the pricing sturcutre is (there is another 160 mhz CPU speed and 20 GB hard drive space, but those I could do without). Is that worth it? How much does flight sim depend on the video ram as opposed to the dedicated ram?
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DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP
Joined on June 10 2001
Event Half Century Club
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Everett 1500 Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Four Million Mile Club
"Col. Panic" Marietta, GA
2,241 legs, 8,967.3 hours
240 legs,
553.9 hours online 1,899 legs,
7,760.4 hours ACARS 75 legs,
196.3 hours event 2,277 legs, 9,102.2 hours total 91 legs dispatched, 66.4
hours
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Posted onPost created on
May 25 2006 23:14 ET by Luke Kolin
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If an extra 128MB is $500 more, it's certainly not worth it. I've yet to see a single person demonstrate that going up to 256MB of texture RAM makes a whit of difference in FS9. If you can parlay some of that money into a 2GB machine, or an extra 200Mhz in CPU speed, sure - but other than that, don't bother. I ran FS9 a touch choppy with a 64MB GeForce2Ti card; with a 128MB 9700 and 9800Pro it is smooth.
Cheers!
Luke KolinSenior Captain, MD-11
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