bailout3 Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 Hi all. Recently my PC has been bogging down...blurries, freezing, slide shows. I believe there is way too much for it to handle. It is a 2.8 G amd cpu with 1 g dedicated graphics card. There is still sufficient HD space but even lowering the graphics specs in FSX isn't helping. I have more then 300 payware sceneries and aircraft including most FTX addons. I don't believe tweaking is going to improve things much for me so I am looking at a new system. I don't have the savvy to build my own and will purchase a prebuilt system. The one I'm looking at is an ASUS M32CD ( 4 G processor) which includes I -7 6700 with 16GB DDR4 (2133mhz) Ram, 2 TB HD 7200RPM Win10/64 bit 500W power supply 4Xsata 6.0 GB ports , and an AMD R9-370 (2G) video card. Money is an issue so I don't want to spend more then $1300 tax inc. which this system is available for at this time. Any recommendations would be appreciated, thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadtom65 Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 Hi. Can not help you to much but I think you should try to go for an Nvidia graphics card rather than an AMD one. What you need is some one from your Country to help you price wise as to what is best equipment to get. Good luck. Derek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 Hi, imo, get the i7 6700, the RAM you have picked out is fine, you'll want a Very good MOBO to go with that i7 6700 and do not cheap out on your PSU, get a good quality one and try for 800w and up. as for your GPU Mabey a GTX 970 or better and for your HD's use that 2TB 7200rpm for storage and pick up a 1 or 1.5TB SSD to put your Sim on. this will obviously put you over the $1300.00 mark but if you look for some good deals you might be able to get all of this for around $1500 to $1700 it'll take some time and good research. otherwise the stuff you have picked out will most likely perform much better than what you have now. Hope this helps Greg, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penzoil3 Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 Tha AMD R9-370 is a very good card. There's nothing wrong with AMD cards. The AMD vs Nvidia thing is a matter of personal preference. I happen to prefer AMD. In 17 years of simming, it's all I've ever used. Bought one Nvidia about 6 years ago, promptly ripped it out and returned it. Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bailout3 Posted November 22, 2015 Author Share Posted November 22, 2015 Thanks for the comments....I have read a ssd is a good idea but I don,t know much about them....is the idea that fsx goes on the ssd and addons in the hd? Is that how it works? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penzoil3 Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 Basically, yes. I upgraded my system drive to a 500GB SSD. I have P3D 2.5 and 3.0 on a 1TB SSD. FSX is on a normal 1TB HD. It even loads faster with the OS on an SSD. Not as fast as the P3D SSD loads, admittedly, but a lot faster than it ever did before I upgraded the system drive. Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 Don't know about Canada but in England we have firms specialising in building PC's for gaming. My experience is that they will build a PC to your specification and the price will be about par with a slightly lesser specified one off the shelf. My own and my friend in the North both bought our current gaming PC's this way and I must say we're both impressed each having bought the computers from a different builder. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bailout3 Posted November 22, 2015 Author Share Posted November 22, 2015 I appreciate all the opinions...thx. I guess purchasing an ssd for my present system would not help now? The most exasperating problem right now is the blurries. eg: departing from kbzn to kjac everything is fine for about 10 min. Frames are about 25 to 30 which is ok then the blurries start at the side then quickly extends to every direction. The only solution that brings back the detail is to go to settings..and change the autogen either up or down...doesn't seem to matter which. All is well for about another 10 minutes then the scenery goes blurry again. Any one have an idea how to correct this or is it a combination of not enough system to handle the load? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 Your going to the settings page is probably giving the PC time to catch up with the texture loading, rather than anything you change while you are there. I think your initial assessment is correct and I expect all of the problems you describe will be solved by the new hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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