Computers - Making Sense Of It All

[Pips]

Wow! Those pics are outstanding. You've sold me Ted! I'm off to get that G31-M motherboard and E8400 installed! Thank you, thank you.

[harleyman]

Wow! Those pics are outstanding. You've sold me Ted! I'm off to get that G31-M motherboard and E8400 installed! Thank you, thank you.

Awsome combo for FSX there...

[Major_Spittle]

Wow Ted, that is incredible. I might be building my Mother-in-Law a computer here soon and I'm looking at using the same MB/CPU combo. I can't imagine a better low cost solution for FSX.

[harleyman]

There is one lower cost.

The E5200 for 69 bucks...

[Major_Spittle]

Yeah, but with the Amazing OC ability of the e8400 and added cache for running on boards that only support DDR2 800 I would really lean toward spending the extra money.

I wish I had money to just plug processors into my MB and see how they would run FSX.

[harleyman]

I run my E5200 at 3.4 and FSX is smooth as silk locked at 35....

[txnetcop]

Yeah, but with the Amazing OC ability of the e8400 and added cache for running on boards that only support DDR2 800 I would really lean toward spending the extra money.

I wish I had money to just plug processors into my MB and see how they would run FSX.

I would normally agree with you on this Major, but Pips is trying to spend the least amount of money to get FSX at a standard 22-25 fps without stuttering all over the place. Unfortunately the parts available in New Zealand where he lives were really expensive proportionally. I use a Gigabyte X-48 DQ6 but they aren't as cheap there as they are here so this was a pretty easy to build and configure option. I am using a very low CAS latency DDR2 1066 RAM and have it reading the same so that 800mhz rating may not be reality with this board.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820146785
Ted