Al Brumski
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Nov 6, 2007, 7:36 AM
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Just an FYI:
Specs:
Asus P5N32E-SLI (680)
E6859 @3.8 ghz
2x1g OCZ FLEX XLC 9200 water cooled
2x EVGA 8800GTX (modded bios 640/2100/1674)
XP 32
FS9 (fsx simply occupies space on my hard drive at this point).
Before, the only driver that would not cause shimmering on and around
taxiways was 97.94. Also, applying SLI would do nothing to improve
fps. My fps at that point were ~60 in airports, and up to ~180 at
altitude. Even at these framerates, I would experience "micro
stutters" when taxiing.
On a whim I tried 169.01 and WOW...
Now when I enable SLI, everything is glass smooth at AA = enhance
application settings, sli32x. The framerates are the same.
I tried 169.04 and noticed an fps decrease so it was back to 169.01
for me. IQ is also excellent.
You might want to try this driver specially if you've got SLI.
Just a note, the FRY's near me just got in a shipment of QX9650's but
they won't sell them until 11/12 which is the official release date. I
can see them through the parts cage behind the counter, so near and
yet so far.
At least I have a few more days before I come home with one and my
wife kills me..
I hope to get a few days in before she looks at the credit card
activity.
But honey, it's 45nm and uses four cores. I had to have one!!!!
Nice knowing you all..
Nuke
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 18:51:03 -0600, "Don Burnette"
<d.burnette@clothes.comcast.net> wrote:
>I did receive today, my new P5E X38 motherboard, and 2gb Corsair Dominator
>PC8500 ram.
>
>Since this EVGA 680i, after coming back from the dead, is still running, I
>decided I would power it down ( for the first time since getting it going
>again on Sat), insert the two new sticks of ram ( already have 2gb of
>Corsair Extreme PC8500 ram in it), bringing my total to 4gb, and if the
>system powered up fine, I would run it a while, if it got stuck on the C1
>error again ( memory controller issue on this board), then I would go ahead
>and upgrade with the new mb.
>
>Well, it went fine, the system is up and running with 4gb of ram. Granted ,
>XP Pro ( 32 bit ), only shows 2.75gb as available ram, but I knew that would
>probably be the case with the way 32 bit windows allocates ram, and it's
>limit.
>
>Anyways, I flew a quick hop from Nashville to Memphis. Whilst I can't say
>the extra ram helped performance in the fps dept, I can say it seems to have
>smoothed things out somewhat. Before, sometimes while looking around with my
>Track IR, or switching to exterior views, I would see slight stutters, not
>major but just a little here and there. That seems to have gone away for the
>most part, and things don't seem to pop into view as much as they used too.
>I am sure I will notice some little improvements in other areas as I get
>more time with it.
>
>Just an initial observation.
>
>I guess I will continue to run this EVGA 680i for a while , and see how it
>does. Perhaps sometime after the first of the year, I will get a new
>processor and then do the mb upgrade, unless this thing gets flakey again
>beforehand.
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