What can i do to my computer to help FPS in FSX?

[jpwamt]

Hi, yea im sure this has been gone over a million times but if anyone could get me some suggestions on how i can run FSX better,  im getting about 15-20fps with the scenery graphics slider at medium high- medion low when just flying around a basic 172, and a rural area.     I just would like to be able to turn up the graphics a little more and get constant 30fps if possible.

well here is my system  a gateway GT5028  well heres a link to the basic specs of it   http://reviews.cnet.com/Gateway_GT5028_Media_Center_Athlon_64_X2_2_GHz_1_GB_RAM_250_GB_HDD/4507-3118_7-31752987.html?tag=nav

i upgraded the ram to 2.0 gb
I installed a  SAPPHIRE Radeon X1600PRO 512MB video card   heres a link to that  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102015

the cpu installed is a AMD athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+

which im pretty sure the L1 and L2 cache is 128kb and 512kb,  and ive seen some processors that have a L2 cache of 1mb, how much better are these?

i guess that pretty much it for performance wise.

so if someone could those some suggestions at me that would be great,  and im not rich, so building a new computer is not an option, and dosent seem like it would be a good idea, cause this one dosent seem to be doing to bad, i would just like it to be a little better.

thanks in advance

[jimcooper1]

Go to the FSX forum and read the hints, tips and tweaks.

[visualchaosfx]

Get an Alienware computer or stick with FS2004 for the time being. That would be my suggestion. I've read so much about poor frame rates in FSX and even witnessed it myself. Thats why I'm sellin my copy on eBay. I mean FSX looks really cool, but there is so much more content for FS2004 and I'm getting great frame rates on my current system(see sig).

[justpassingthrough]

[quote]Hi, yea im sure this has been gone over a million times but if anyone could get me some suggestions on how i can run FSX better,

[jpwamt]

how would you think a Geforce 7950gt would perform?

And what do you mean by being bottlenecked and why?

[ctjoyce]

A bottleneck's is when one part(s) of a computer gives another part more instructions than it can handle at once. So adding a super fast GPU to that system would create two bottlenecks. First at the northbridge, and then at the processer.

For a system like that a 7950GT is the perfect solution. Its fast enough to be able to preform, but not so fast that its going to talk faster than the processor can listen. The biggest problem in that rig is your motherboard. First off it has a locked BIOS, so overclocking is out of the question, and it doesn't have a northbridge designed to deal with high traffic, like say a NForce 680i or NForce 4 board where they were designed to have huge amounts of data flowing all the time.

So the best you can do is throw in a 7950GT into that system without changeing your motherboard, everything else is soft modding.

Also pick up Riva Tuner, and go to town.

Cheers
Cameron