As you all have seen with the T-38 in the interest of filming it with FRAPS and all that really showed me how inadequate my PC was at doing anything else other than running FSX by itself. I wound up OC'ing my i7-950 to 4ghz stable, with temps within limits, and am able to run the stress tests of my choice through their paces without crashing. Either way in searching for other ways to improve performance I was looking at my video card (a GTX 285 1GB), but doing a lot of research on Avsim led me toward not spending the money. So the big question remains as to whether I should go from Vista to Win 7, and what are the possible repricussions of doing so? Was also looking at getting a 990X.. Know the other 2 cores will not help, but on Newegg the 990X is actually cheaper somehow than the old 975 or even 980X.
Rest of the PC Specs are Asus P6T Deluxe V2 mobo, 6GB of RAM, main drive is a 750GB 7200RPM drive, and the FSX drive is a 150GB 10,000RPM drive. Right now pushing a 167 bclk with the multiplier at max (24).. The other reason I want the Extreme edition chip to have the unlocked multiplier so I don't have to mess with my RAM timings/voltage as much. Thanks in advance for any help.
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