FSX SP1 on short finals...

DanKH · Post by **DanKH** » 10 May 2007, 22:48

http://blogs.msdn.com/ptaylor/default.aspx

Post by **Trev Clark** » 11 May 2007, 08:12

Thanks Dan, I am really looking forward to a 260mb download

, still if it is as good as people are saying, it might make it worthwhile!

Post by **Rick Piper** » 11 May 2007, 11:53

Hi Trev

260 mb! thats about 6 minutes here mate

Move back

Regards
Rick

AndyG · Post by **AndyG** » 11 May 2007, 15:12

Rick Piper wrote:Hi Trev

260 mb! thats about 6 minutes here mate

Move back

Regards
Rick

Nah, Trev doesn't need to move back, he just needs to make sure Telefonica have fed the donkeys that day. :think:

AndyG

ChrisHunt · Post by **ChrisHunt** » 11 May 2007, 15:16

...and let them into the paddock (if they'll go). On the subject of FSX - I haven't played for about 3 months now so I'm very much looking forward to SP1 - hopefully the answer to most of my FSX ills.

I tried to sneek in an upgrade to a dual core E6600 the other week by pretending my desktop was broken but was spotted and headed off at the pass (bugger). Komplett do quite a nice upgrade for less than 300 squid.

Regards,
Chris

Post by **Rick Piper** » 11 May 2007, 16:27

Hi Chris

I have an E6600 core2 running on an ASUS board and it's been solid at 3.3 ghz for about 4 months so far.

supposed to run at 2.4 ghz but being it is so stable i have left it overclocked

I looked at the other chips at the time and the 6600 was best value although they have just released the 6420 which may be worth a look as it now has 4mb of cache which it didn't before.

the old E6400 was happy at 3.3 ghz too but contrary to OC boards was not as fast as an E6600 at the same speed as i tried both on here.

I think Ben went for the Quad core so he can then waste 3 cpu's in FSX

instead of my 1 :shock: (flash Git!)

Regards
Rick

PS: remember you can't use AGP graphics cards on the latest Motherboards & you have to use DDR2 ram so it might not be the bargain you thought.

AndyMinx · Post by **AndyMinx** » 11 May 2007, 16:47

So they were still on target for an end of April release?! :roll:

Anyway I hope this actually lets FSX work on my system! Never did manage to sort it! :sad:

Regards,

d0mokun · Post by **d0mokun** » 11 May 2007, 17:03

They were.. but problems arose and thus were fixed.

Rick.. just built a system with the 6420 and it easily matches the 6600, believe it or not. Well, you wouldn't notice the difference imo. Brilliant cpu.. just like the 6600.

Dan.

Post by **Rick Piper** » 11 May 2007, 17:16

Hi Dan

I do beleive it.

just when i built mine there where a lot of people saying the E6400 was the same at 3.3 ghz as the E6600 so i tried one and it was 25% slower.

now that the cache has been bought up to 4 mb i am happy it will be the same.

Regards
Rick

Post by **RAF_Quantum** » 11 May 2007, 17:38

Hi Rick,

Are you running the stock cooler with that or have you had to upgrade? I have E6600 plus ASUS P5B DLX mobo running at 'out of the box' speed.

Rgds

John