Need help from the Intel guys quick

[DAL900]

Hi Guys,

My main system is on life support and I will pull the plug tommorrow. I have used AMD all along and have no idea about Intel systems. My question is will the following be enough for FSX and FS9 (mainly). I cant find the qoute paper but going from memory this is what I'm looking at:

Intel board with SLI (forgot the number)
Intel Core 2 Duo E8000
DDR2-800 2 GB (M/B is expandable to 4 slots)
GeForce 9600GT 1 GB DDR2

Should I stay with XP or go Vista, is vista good with FS9???

If you all say GO, I'll build it by noon

Thanks for any help

[Michael Carter]

That would be a screaming machine for XP and FS9.

Sorry, it's just so much cheaper to build a high-end FS9 machine and XP than an FSX and Vista machine.

[Padraig]

Exactly Mike, but with a quad core if you can afford it would be able to run FSX with no problems at all on a XP machine, I dont use FS9 anymore since FSX came out and my card is a tad lower than yours its the G8 version not the 9 but I find the Quad lets me pump up alot more autogen etc that my previous 2 Core Duo with the same card. Also if getting more RAM is your thing, then I would suggest getting a 64bit version of XP so you can handle 2GB + or do a BIOS tweak here and there with your ram, the most I could get with a XP32bit is 3.25GB

[DAL900]

Thanks to all that replied, I'm building now and should be up in the sky in a few hours

[Matt Olieman]

Chuck, I'll be interested to hear of your results. Good luck

BTW, what hard drive will you be using and let us know what intel motherboard you've got.

Matt Olieman

[747sim]

That looks as though it should run it. I'm running an Intel D915pbl with a pentium dual core extreme and an Nvidia 8600 GT with 2 gig of ram on vista and that runs FSX on ultra high quality just peachy

[Padraig]

That looks as though it should run it. I'm running an Intel D915pbl with a pentium dual core extreme and an Nvidia 8600 GT with 2 gig of ram on vista and that runs FSX on ultra high quality just peachy

To honest I dont know how you are getting great results on a Vista OS with only 2 GB of ram because once vista gets settled and you install the AV and the usual stuff, I cant see how there is much memory left for FSX as we know that it does require a bit if RAM. Plus your CPU too which is only a Dual core. How in earth are you able to get such good results with good settings inside FSX ? and I know its not your card either. Whats your FPS on Ultra High Settings with FSX ?

Im using quad core 'Yorkfield' 3.0GHz with a single NV 8800 GTX and 3.25GB of ram which is read by XP32 along with bare bones XP OS and then FSX installed on a SATA Raptor HDD.

Im just curious as to how are you managing this.

[747sim]

well i did get some scenery hacks and reduced some unneeded things in the cfg and its fine i get about 20 frames per second but i don't mind a continuous is something like 14 so it looks smooth enough.

[Michael Carter]

I can't fly an approach in weather on 14 FPS.

[747sim]

as i said im running a bit over 20 which looks smooth