RichTee

I a have an Optoma HD70 that get's little use (movies 2/3 times a month) too.....hummmmmmmm....I can hear it calling for me....'use me on BS, the missus won't mind.....':)

BenQ 24" 1920x1200 & 2 Dell 17" 1200 x 1024 (will rotate the dell's when I finally get my system to run!)

Thanks EtherealN - may get some peddles instead to go with my X52

Well - I've taken the plunge and am going i7 (OC'ed to 3.4ish) - I'm selling/sold my Quad Xeon x3220 and mobo on top of a load of other things that were sitting around. My new budget will give me the option of......... Dual 5870's or Dual GTX 285 maybe 295's or 1 GPU (any of the above) and a single or dual SSD's With or without XFire or SLI - what are your thoughts if the above option were availabe to you? I think with the rapid progress but still high prices of SSD's I may hold off there - I've 2 x 72GB Raptors in stripe to use for the time being. And nVidia are not up to much until Q2 next year....DX10 nVidia or DX11 ATI? This system will be for DCS:BS and Lomac only (and boinc / rosetta@home when not in use).

Thanks!

Sorry for being daft but all the patches / hotfixes look to be from 1.0.1a to something else. I've the English DVD 1.0 install (bought from Amazon UK last week) What should be my first or only patch / hotfix? Ta:joystick:

Outstanding!

This reporting is from Feb 08 - maybe it just didn't take off?

Well in that case - I'll dual boot x64 / Win7 and as my Xeon is a Quad Core anyway & I'll upgrade my gpu before my cpu, moving my 4650 to the second PCIe x16 slot. Humm, and 5870 + 4650 would give me 4/5 outputs total (oww, hurts my head thinking about setting it up) Anyone want to buy: HP NW9440 laptop / Acer Aspire One / Genelec 1029's monitors - all cash to RichTee's GPU fund :) many thinks for the info guys!

Thanks Kuky - I forget I'm already asking the card to drive a 1920 x 1200 centre screen. Most of the read ups I've done here are of course driving 1200 x 1024 screens for same or (most cases) better spec'ed gpu's. The 5xxx series promises great things, but £300 for a gpu? Not till the New Year I'm afraid. Cheers

Thanks Kuky, I've OCed my Xeon to 3.2 - With regards to multi monitor as I understood it my second card just acts as an output for softTH, with the rendering done on the first card. Is it that the 4650 (about 18mts old) won't do 2 physical monitors or 3 monitors - 2 to output and render to a 3rd? It's the 1GB DDR3 version. Maybe I will try with just flight on the 24" and use the 2nd/3rd monitors for the SKVAL / ABRIS screens, which should have a lower performance requirment? I'm avoiding buying anything expensive (CPU's / GPU's etc) until I start my new build in the new year.

Many thanks CyBerkut! DVD arrived today - clean installing xp64 over the weekend ready for DCS. Will check out SoftTH. I found an older Gigabyte PCIe ATi (x800 Radeon?) card sitting around at work. It's going in my 2nd 2.0 16x PCIe slot. Been trawling through the multi monitor setups in the forums, my God there's some systems to aspier too! (eyes a perfectly good Acer One just to steal the screen for SKVAL) Once again, cheers!

So, after wasting my early years on Microprose 'Janes Apache Gunship' on the C64 and tape drive (i kid you not) then not simming for years (there just arn't any sims for the PS3) and trolling this forum I've bitten the bullet. My Saitek x52 is on it's way along with my disc of BlackShark (Lock On is sitting on the shelf too). While I save for my MGR (Monster Gaming Rig*) I've a home build that's a year and a half old doing nothing I'd like to at least get started on, and would like advice on setting up for performance. It will only be used for gaming and then only BS and LO. Intel Xeon X3220 2.4Ghz / 8Mb Cache / 1066 (can be oc'ed on air upto 2.8/3.2GHz) 4 GB Corsair DDR3 Intel DP45SG MoBo (has 2 PCIe x16 ver2 slots) ATI 4650 1GB DDR3(? will have to check) Dual 10K 73GB Raptors (Stripped 4 boot) PCIe x4 SAS Card - 4x73GB 10K 2.5" SAS HD's (Striped 4 storage) So....I have at my disposal for OS 32 bit and 64 bit Win XP, and a Benq 24" 1920 x 1200 HD monitor and if I can use them a pair of Dell 1200x1024 17" monitors. What I have to ask is - am I okay on XP 32 bit? Or should I use 64 bit version to use all the ram? Can I use the 17" Dell's for either side or below of the 24"? Would it be worth getting a second ATI 4650 (quite cheap now) to run in crossfire even if I don't use the two 17" monitors?:joystick: Any other advice.:music_whistling: * MGR build to commence post Christmas, don't worry, I'll be picking brains and talking specs for that later!:P