Roger55

Well I was thinking after reading the stuff on the web site that is there I thought I would probably be running with 4/1/1/1/1 or something close to that and sneak things up. And if there is a way to turn off music (if there is any) you do that too. You need engine sounds. On my old rig, which lasted for five years, I flew MSFS2004 with really low settings, and sometimes ridiculously low frame rates (4-6 for a 1906 Antoinette-very detailed). The CPU was another Celeron and the Vid card with 252MB had a PC bus, a real bottleneck. And there must be a way to reduce the "hundreds of AC in the sky." Now the 132 super patch is 188 MB. 132F is called a mini patch. Now if 132 super patch is going to hit the frame rate and tax the CPU I can do without patches that are just upgrades. I've been doing IL2FB with the settings all up. Don't know how that compares. And the same goes for FS2004.

Started downloading 1.32 Uberpatch. Manager says it will take 10 hours and the site has resume support.. Please let me know if I don't have to do this, since I bought OFF today. At least the site will let dial up download. I've had to beg for ETO and an update for BOB II. That really must irritate folks when have to do it.

I should have thanked Camel Jockey for the stear to PC Wizard. It even shows the CPU temperature! Great little utility.

Motherboard Intel PQ35JO with Intel Q35 Chipset. If it's going to generate so much heat that I need to open the side and blow into the tower with a Breez Box fan, I just bought a white elephant this morning. Back in the DOS days RB was my first flight sim. Worked the flight model slowly up. It was great. Thought maybe someone had done the same kind of thing for Windows. Too bad.

Yes it would be nice to know what motherboard I have. Unfortunately, this was a rush job because the HP horror burned out in July. So I left it up to Granit Computing. I have been struggling with reloading stuff since then. If a brand new copy of OFF ordered today needs a 200 MB patch, I can't download it unless there is a mirror that will let me use a manager to restart over the long period it will take 200 MB to come over the phone line. I called Granit. If I find some CPUs that I want I can bring the tower down there and have them tell me if they will work. The Tech thought the Intel E7400 mentioned in this thread should work. Intel has Celerons that are faster (2.2 and 2.4 GHz) in the same series as the E1400. Bench time there is now $110 an hour; so, I may simply have to go for something a little cheaper. I will look for the brothersoft site. Thanks.

Maybe that was a little flippant. I would appreciate any collective knowledge that was out there. Really.

So we are talking a definite maybe :-).

Yes Widowmaker I can do that. It's an MSI NX8400GS dual core 512MB DDR2 that every application I have reads as a GeForce. I thought I was moving up. The old Radeon 256 PCI had less memory and of all things a PC bus. That improved may frame rate on FS2004 by about 4-6 fps over the built in! That Intel Celeron CPU is an E1400. I don't know where look the thing up except on Intel to know what it's good for. I told my Tech that I needed new puter to run Word and half the Flight sims on the planet. I didn't want something like the HP clunker I had for 5 years.