Somethings not right and I'm not sure what...

[LiquorDealer]

I am not a computer person - I built this primarily for FSX and I've got a real bottleneck somewhere - I think HD wise but I'm not sure what to do about it. Here's what I have:

HAF 912
Seatronic 850
I5-2500K
Gigabyte Z68X-UD3P-B3
G.Skill DDR3-1596 Dual Channel 8192 MB
Radeon HD 6870 X 2
Win 7 Home 64 bit
WD 5000HD
WD 10 EADS

I currently have everything but FSX on the WD 5000 and FSX on the WD 10EADS

I have considered going to an SSD but at this time I'm lost. Can anyone give me some information that I can understand as to what I need to do. Everything is terribly slow. I woul;d print my CPUZ but can't figure out how to do it.

 

[fralexandr]

An easy way to print cpuz is to press the "prt scrn" button and paste it into paint. This takes a screenshot.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/...en#take-screen-capture-print-screen=windows-7

is crossfire working properly? you might want to try disabling crossfire. Some games don't like multigpu setups and Flight Simulator X is one of these.

The wd 10 eads is also a 1TB WD GREEN drive which is meant as a storage drive (optimized for lower energy).
many sandbox games seem to drop frames when loading in new areas on a platter hard drive.

 

[mfenn]

"Everything is slow" is awfully vague. Can you list out some specific things that are slow, being as detailed as possible?

 

[VirtualLarry]

The WD Green EADS is a 5400 RPM HDD, although it should have good STR (sequential transfer rate).

 

[vbuggy]

Isn't it just because everything is slow?

I'm not a big FS X guy but I've played with it and that rig looks pretty low-level once you start with the add-ons and the detail. I'm not convinced an SSD will be a panacea. A more contemporary i7 and NVidias might actually make the difference you want.

 

[Torn Mind]

Use Task Manager and a Task Manager equivalent for GPUs(i.e Afterburner) to check on what the hardware is doing. Resource Monitor can help you monitor disk usage.

Might want to try disabling Crossfire just to see if that does anything.

 

[John Connor]

I would have put FSX on the WD 5000HD.