modelr
December 24th, 2009, 15:05
Ok, I finally broke down and bought the guts to upgrade my 4yr old HP Mediacenter computer. Am wondering how it will do compared to my old one.
Now, mind you, my old rig, which I'm still running right now, at one time would run FS9 decently, until a whole bunch of errors were introduced during a spike that occured when a car hit a power pole during a major defrag, about two years ago. I'm STILL finding missing/damaged files thru-out my system. My entire library of personal stuff was screwed up, over 5GB of stuff, as well as a lot of FS stuff, both loaded and saved. I have been redoing everything, where possible, but still couldn't get a decent flight in, because about every 8-10 minutes, the sim would pause, and do a complete reload of scenery and textures, and for some reason, this would take as much as five minutes or more to complete. And that included after two reloads of the program! Oh, I use "Ultimate Defrag 2008" and defrag after every major scenery/texture program load/change.
Anyway, here's my old system specs:
HP Pavilion m7463w Media Center
Intel Pentium D 3.0GHzx2
4GB RAM Kingston KVR533D2, DDR2 1GBx4
NVidia GeForce 8500GT w/1GB memory
SATA 300GB HDD, 270GB for computer use, 9GB for original program recovery, on separate partition
Realtek onboard sound feeding Logitech 80W 5.1 surround sound.
OS was, until last week, XP SP3, 32bit.
Present OS Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit. (NO complaints, so far.)
I could get 19-20FPS consistently, (locked at 20FPS) with most sliders 1/2-3/4, AI at 90% (and I have ALOT!) as long as I wasn't looking directly at a frame killing scenery/city/airport. Even then, I would average in the 10-12FPS area, except in places like downtown Las Vegas/New York/Chicago areas where I had some rather high scenery installed.
I also had FSX installed, but didn't fly it much. Sliders were usually turned pretty much off. I could get 12-15 FPS tho', on average in open areas. Hi scenery brought it to it's knees.
My new rigs parts:
AMD Phenom II X4 810
Gigabyte MA770T-UD3P Mobo
2BG Samsung 1333MHz DDR3 memory (to be upgraded to 8GB (three more sticks) when the store gets it in next week)
ATI Radeon HD5750 Video card 1G GDDR5 memory
500W power supply
Aspire X-Cruiser case
My FS systems are being reloaded, entirely from scratch, on their own, (one for each system, FS9 and FSX) 1TB WD external USB2.0 HDD.
MY OS upgrade was loaded on a new SATA 500GB internal HDD
Any comments?
Now, mind you, my old rig, which I'm still running right now, at one time would run FS9 decently, until a whole bunch of errors were introduced during a spike that occured when a car hit a power pole during a major defrag, about two years ago. I'm STILL finding missing/damaged files thru-out my system. My entire library of personal stuff was screwed up, over 5GB of stuff, as well as a lot of FS stuff, both loaded and saved. I have been redoing everything, where possible, but still couldn't get a decent flight in, because about every 8-10 minutes, the sim would pause, and do a complete reload of scenery and textures, and for some reason, this would take as much as five minutes or more to complete. And that included after two reloads of the program! Oh, I use "Ultimate Defrag 2008" and defrag after every major scenery/texture program load/change.
Anyway, here's my old system specs:
HP Pavilion m7463w Media Center
Intel Pentium D 3.0GHzx2
4GB RAM Kingston KVR533D2, DDR2 1GBx4
NVidia GeForce 8500GT w/1GB memory
SATA 300GB HDD, 270GB for computer use, 9GB for original program recovery, on separate partition
Realtek onboard sound feeding Logitech 80W 5.1 surround sound.
OS was, until last week, XP SP3, 32bit.
Present OS Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit. (NO complaints, so far.)
I could get 19-20FPS consistently, (locked at 20FPS) with most sliders 1/2-3/4, AI at 90% (and I have ALOT!) as long as I wasn't looking directly at a frame killing scenery/city/airport. Even then, I would average in the 10-12FPS area, except in places like downtown Las Vegas/New York/Chicago areas where I had some rather high scenery installed.
I also had FSX installed, but didn't fly it much. Sliders were usually turned pretty much off. I could get 12-15 FPS tho', on average in open areas. Hi scenery brought it to it's knees.
My new rigs parts:
AMD Phenom II X4 810
Gigabyte MA770T-UD3P Mobo
2BG Samsung 1333MHz DDR3 memory (to be upgraded to 8GB (three more sticks) when the store gets it in next week)
ATI Radeon HD5750 Video card 1G GDDR5 memory
500W power supply
Aspire X-Cruiser case
My FS systems are being reloaded, entirely from scratch, on their own, (one for each system, FS9 and FSX) 1TB WD external USB2.0 HDD.
MY OS upgrade was loaded on a new SATA 500GB internal HDD
Any comments?