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DVA3442
Senior Captain, B767-300
Joined on August 10 2006
Online Double Century Club
Million Mile Club
Quincentenary Club
Peoria, IL USA
510 legs, 2,231.3 hours
202 legs,
862.4 hours online 477 legs,
2,103.5 hours ACARS 19 legs,
58.4 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
October 31 2006 19:56 ET by Ian Hamilton
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Alright, I am the man of this house now and have decided I want an upgrade. I'm tired of having great approaches and botching the landing due to frames. I am only 17 and am not very "computer savy." I am going to go to a place in town called the Computer Deli, where you choose what you want to put on the computer. I am willing to spend around $2000 but not much over. I am wanting to fly with really good frames even with payware on, and even be able to fly on FSX with decent frames, later. Input would be great!
Thank You
Ian HamiltonSenior Captain, B767-300
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DVA2253
Senior Captain, DC-8-61
COMM
Joined on April 01 2005
Everett 250 Club
Online Century Club
Eight Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"I'd rather be flying!" Church Hill, TN USA
862 legs, 1,344.5 hours
108 legs,
165.2 hours online 299 legs,
485.1 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
October 31 2006 20:09 ET by George Lewis
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What frame rates are you getting now?
Go with the Intel Core 2 Duo - in January the prices will come down because the Core 2 Quad will come out. Get an NVIDIA 7800 GT card, about 2MB of RAM and a decent motherboard that supports the Core 2 Duo. PCI-Express, of course, so get a good case and a beefed up power supply - I recommend Antec for the case and power supply.
Others will probably recommend ATI - I have nothing against ATI, but I don't use their stuff. I don't know alot about AMD either, but the Core 2 Duo is the fastest thing out there from what I've seen.
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DVA3442
Senior Captain, B767-300
Joined on August 10 2006
Online Double Century Club
Million Mile Club
Quincentenary Club
Peoria, IL USA
510 legs, 2,231.3 hours
202 legs,
862.4 hours online 477 legs,
2,103.5 hours ACARS 19 legs,
58.4 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
October 31 2006 20:17 ET by Ian Hamilton
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I only get about 14 locked at 20 if im lucky with payware and 18 locked at 20 without payware, no traffic, no nothing, settings mostly low.
Ian HamiltonSenior Captain, B767-300
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DVA2214
Captain, A330-300
OLP E-MAIL
Joined on March 25 2005
50 State Club
Everett 500 Club
Globetrotter
White Knuckles Club
Million Mile Club
Millennium Club
US Capital Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
"One takeoff and landing at a time" Tampa, FL
1,124 legs, 2,777.2 hours
35 legs,
61.3 hours online 1,005 legs,
2,492.2 hours ACARS 1,153 legs, 2,869.7 hours total 111 legs dispatched, 90.7
hours
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Posted onPost created on
November 01 2006 00:45 ET by Anthony Katosh
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I have AMD right now, an i have Intel. the only really big differance i seen was AMD you can overclock it big time.
It does handle FS better than my Intel set up did
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DVA3419
Captain, MD-88
Joined on July 31 2006
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
"Propellers keep you kewl!" Newark, DE
67 legs, 89.6 hours
61 legs,
82.8 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
November 01 2006 06:37 ET by Norm Hare
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I think what George meant to say was 2 gigabyte of ram
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DVA2253
Senior Captain, DC-8-61
COMM
Joined on April 01 2005
Everett 250 Club
Online Century Club
Eight Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"I'd rather be flying!" Church Hill, TN USA
862 legs, 1,344.5 hours
108 legs,
165.2 hours online 299 legs,
485.1 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
November 01 2006 08:13 ET by George Lewis
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Affirmative, that was a typo - or a brain-typo LOL
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DVA3419
Captain, MD-88
Joined on July 31 2006
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
"Propellers keep you kewl!" Newark, DE
67 legs, 89.6 hours
61 legs,
82.8 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
November 01 2006 08:25 ET by Norm Hare
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It just shows our age George. Remember when 2mb of RAM was screaming?? (Actually...I remember when 4k of ram could run the pharmacy in a drugstore....this was pre-pc..late 70's early 80's)
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DVA3442
Senior Captain, B767-300
Joined on August 10 2006
Online Double Century Club
Million Mile Club
Quincentenary Club
Peoria, IL USA
510 legs, 2,231.3 hours
202 legs,
862.4 hours online 477 legs,
2,103.5 hours ACARS 19 legs,
58.4 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
November 01 2006 15:20 ET by Ian Hamilton
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Last ?'s, would it be good if I got 4 gb of ram instead of 2? Also, should I get the best motherboard out there? And finally should I run SLI video cards(2 of them)? Thanks!
Ian HamiltonSenior Captain, B767-300
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DVA3419
Captain, MD-88
Joined on July 31 2006
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
"Propellers keep you kewl!" Newark, DE
67 legs, 89.6 hours
61 legs,
82.8 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
November 01 2006 15:43 ET by Norm Hare
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Because of memory mapping for hardware devices, you may not actually be able to use or see the entire 4gb of ram. Given the cost, I would think 2gb would be plenty.
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DVA2253
Senior Captain, DC-8-61
COMM
Joined on April 01 2005
Everett 250 Club
Online Century Club
Eight Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"I'd rather be flying!" Church Hill, TN USA
862 legs, 1,344.5 hours
108 legs,
165.2 hours online 299 legs,
485.1 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
November 01 2006 16:34 ET by George Lewis
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I personally think that the sweet spot between price and performance gains between 2GB and 4GB means this isn't worth doing.
Remember, you're working on a $2,000 budget. A good $400 video card x2 for SLI would run you about 40% of your budget. You still have to get the case, motherboard, cpu, ram, hard drive(s), dvd-rom, etc.
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DVA2253
Senior Captain, DC-8-61
COMM
Joined on April 01 2005
Everett 250 Club
Online Century Club
Eight Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"I'd rather be flying!" Church Hill, TN USA
862 legs, 1,344.5 hours
108 legs,
165.2 hours online 299 legs,
485.1 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
November 01 2006 16:35 ET by George Lewis
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Ian, go here and look around: http://www.zipzoomfly.com I buy my own personal PC upgrades from this place most of the time. reputable and no problems with them and I've made a few orders over the years...
either way, it'll give you an idea of pricing on your parts for your system.
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