New i7 System

[macca22au]

And in this country that memory is $A450 a pair cost price .... and it is only sold in pairs!

I've also got the good news that I can also install as my D drive for FSX the new Western Digital 300gig 10,000 RPM VelociRaptor.

[NickN]

[quote]Don't tempt me I might just do that.

[NickN]

I know what you need... you need me to build this thing right, set it up and tune it and ship it back to you

Well shoot, wrote the check but I must have misplaced your mailing address

LOL


Which one?

I'm in a very sunny place right now playing golf while the market bottoms out and stabilizes

[macca22au]

Where in Nevada?

[NickN]

Where in Nevada?

just north of the tropics but about 2500 miles from my playground in Nevada

[macca22au]

Is it one of those islands where the planes land almost on the beach?  Parting the hair of the watchers!

[cause88]

I am going to guess Hawaii.

[macca22au]

But he won't rise to the bait!

[NickN]

[quote]I am going to guess Hawaii.

[SubZer0]

[quote][quote]I am going to guess Hawaii.

[NickN]

[quote][quote][quote]I am going to guess Hawaii.

[SubZer0]

Understood and agreed Nick! I'll do as much research as I can before I even touch that new processor out of the box!

[macca22au]

I haven't got the full details yet, but OCZ is now putting high end RAM out in packets of three for the i7 chips.  Allegedly they are especially tuned for the i7 behaviour.

[macca22au]

Nick:  I have seen previous discussions, but my tech has a 4870x2 vidcard as well as the 280.  The 4870x2 is marginally cheaper, but that is not significant,  I am of course painfully aware that MSFS has minimal hyperthreading and does not support SLI (so the x2 is limited).

Is the difference in the performance of these two cards sufficient to insist on the 280?

I know that if there is only a 10% difference that is a big difference in MSFS.

[NickN]

4870 suffers in heavy weather.. yes there is a big difference

if you play Crysis buy the x2 4870. FSX ... the 280

ATi cards are shader engine.. Nvidia cards are horsepower

FSX is a year 2000 shit rendering engine which requires horsepower not shaders