Thanks Frank
Obviously as this is identical to the spec of my current FS machine
which I've had for around a year, I have no fear that, as you say FSX
will literally fly on it.
My query was more regarding Win 7, coupled with the guts of the
machine, as to the possible enhancement of the current sim experience.
Would FSX actually run better on the latest MS platform, or are there
drawbacks?
The new(er) machine has 2Gb extra RAM, but the graphics card are the
same with 512 on-board. Same Tb disc.
Any improvement would need to come from Operating system, and would
this be perceptible?
Perceptible enough to spend the time reloading, re-registering
etcetera etcetera etcetera.........
I am looking forward to seeing both machines on the network, and
running widefs for Plan-G etc. The network topics and resolutions
discussed at length here have been interesting and informative but
sadly, have not resolved historic issues here in front of me. Vista
and XP are not good bedfellows, especially when the latter has
squinty eyes! (resolved later today)!
I am only frustrated that I am away from Saturday, and have only 4
days at home in the next 3 weeks to play ! I'll also need some time
to transfer the 15 years of data currently stored on the 3 Hard Drive
within the Dell, maybe it should become a server?
I'll keep you posted
best wishes
Kev
On 4/7/2010 14:41:04, jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> That is one humdinger of a spec Kevin, I say go for it.
> Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
> FSX should very literally fly in it.
> DDR3 memory is not cheap, and is reckoned to be faster than the bog
> standard
> DDR2. FSX will not use half that memory, most of my 8gb sits idling, and
> that is only DDR2.
>
> Frank
