Flyby Posted February 11, 2011 Posted February 11, 2011 Hi gang, I'm trying to select a motherboard (X58 chipset). Of course there are many offerings, and luckily several in my budget range. But reading all the different test criteria (see the link for an example of what I'm speaking of), I realize I have no idea which of those tests best relate to our combat flight sims. For instance is the test for 3Dmark06/vantage the best representation for gauging performance in complex flight sims like Black Shark and A10? If not, then which of those mentioned is the hot ticket for motherboards and our style of gaming? Oh, the link: http://www.motherboards.org/reviews/motherboards/2080_6.html Yeah, I know another question from "him".:lol: Flyby out The U.S. Congress is the best governing body that BIG money can buy. :cry:
egorter Posted February 11, 2011 Posted February 11, 2011 3Dmark is usually used to test graphics performance of your graphics card/cards and CPU. The system board governs moving data around basically. So you want to consider SATA 3 vs SATA 2 for HDD, number of graphics card slots, on board audio or not.Power consumption. Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati Master sergeant shooter sergeant important person of sergeants extreme:gun_rifle:
Flyby Posted February 11, 2011 Author Posted February 11, 2011 thanks egorter, So I'd be able to enhance gaming performance if I bought an SATA 3 hdd? And maybe two 16x PCI-E slots for video card gaming in either SLi or Xfire? thanks, Flyby out The U.S. Congress is the best governing body that BIG money can buy. :cry:
egorter Posted February 11, 2011 Posted February 11, 2011 SATA 3 is faster than SATA 2 or consider an SSD and two 16x PCI-E should work great. Having said that I am currently running one video card (nvidia 470GTS) and the Sim runs great. Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati Master sergeant shooter sergeant important person of sergeants extreme:gun_rifle:
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