5 Monitor Flight Simulator

Another thing to consider about using Crossfire, am I right in saying you can only have 1 monitor/1 Eyefinity group running, with the rest of the displays disabled?

Seeing as the build in GPU on the i5 can support 2 monitors, if you can get a board with two display outputs OP can attach the 2x19" to that and then set the 3x21" in Eyefinity on the discrete card. That way OP doesn't need to buy a FLEX card, and also allowing him to use Crossfire if the new version of Flight does support Crossfire/SLi.
 
stulid said:
Still got it here in it's box, it still works. My brother seems to think he's having it.
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then why the change? was it for a colour scheme or something?

sorry to go off topic OP, but i think this has pretty much been answered as best we can. my first build with the gigabyte board stulid mentioned and the 650W version of the PSU would be great and support crossfire, and if you want the PCIe gen3 support go for the second build
 
Never been one to be bothered about colour schemes,

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But it does look better.
 
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Hi all,

Thank you very much for the discussion and pointing me in the right direction in terms of getting a decent spec machine. I'm going to talk it through with the other guys on Tuesday and may have some more questions then.

Interesting point about the SSD though - I didn't think of this.
 
chaparral said:
I always heard that FSX rans better on nvidia GPU's.............Has this changed now ??
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nope, it hasnt. the only reason we're speccing ATI cards is because of the 5 monitor requirement and lack of SLI/crossfire support of flight sims (although i'm not sure why nkata recommended what he did)

@ the OP, what kind of money were you planning on spending on the monitors. going by your size request the logical candidates would be the BenQ G925HDA 18.5" for the bottom two screens, and either the Dell Ultrasharp U2211H 21.5" or the OcUK V-Line 221V2SB 22" which is a good phillips monitor.

main reason im asking is it will change how you wire everything up

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dumb question, but can you get an ATI graphics card to do the graphics and a cheap Nvidia graphics card to do Physx? if you can it would take a nice load off the processor thats for sure
 
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Reaper 392 said:
nope, it hasnt. the only reason we're speccing ATI cards is because of the 5 monitor requirement and lack of SLI/crossfire support of flight sims (although i'm not sure why nkata recommended what he did)

@ the OP, what kind of money were you planning on spending on the monitors. going by your size request the logical candidates would be the BenQ G925HDA 18.5" for the bottom two screens, and either the Dell Ultrasharp U2211H 21.5" or the OcUK V-Line 221V2SB 22" which is a good phillips monitor.

main reason im asking is it will change how you wire everything up

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dumb question, but can you get an ATI graphics card to do the graphics and a cheap Nvidia graphics card to do Physx? if you can it would take a nice load off the processor thats for sure
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What's the point, FSX doesn't have Physx. :p
 
Reaper 392 said:
nope, it hasnt. the only reason we're speccing ATI cards is because of the 5 monitor requirement and lack of SLI/crossfire support of flight sims (although i'm not sure why nkata recommended what he did)

@ the OP, what kind of money were you planning on spending on the monitors. going by your size request the logical candidates would be the BenQ G925HDA 18.5" for the bottom two screens, and either the Dell Ultrasharp U2211H 21.5" or the OcUK V-Line 221V2SB 22" which is a good phillips monitor.

main reason im asking is it will change how you wire everything up

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dumb question, but can you get an ATI graphics card to do the graphics and a cheap Nvidia graphics card to do Physx? if you can it would take a nice load off the processor thats for sure
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I think our overall budget was about £1400 top end. Do all of the above monitors rotate so they're on their side?
 
winds0r said:
I think our overall budget was about £1400 top end. Do all of the above monitors rotate so they're on their side?
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how were you planning on having the monitors? with my limited flight sim knowledge i thought you were after something like this:

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|  22" #1   |  22" #2   |  22" #1   |
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        |  19" #1 |  19" #2 |
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Reaper 392 said:
really? very surprised at that. it would work wonders for the millions of physics things that go on in flight sims
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This is a 5 year old game we are talking about here. :p

Remember those Ageia PhysX cards back in 2005-2006 timeframe? Those were expensive and barely any games supported it. FSX was probably going gold about then and adding PhysX involves more code, which means more testing and delays for FSX.
 
Do 6970s support 5 monitors? Mine has 2 display ports, 2 DVIs and an HDMI.

If crossfire and sli isn't supported, it could be a decent solution. 2gb of memory wouldn't hurt either I expect if only one GPU would be working.
 
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