As Barron said , just the change in OS and the SSD are new. After going to all the trouble of installing a new OS on my pc the jump to SSD for a system drive is a no-brainer. It gives my ancient system (over a year old) a healthy boost in startup and load times.
This change has given me 10FPS on my minimum speed in a track that is used to bench mark IL2-1946, and as you have pointed out Zapatista the sim is not optimised for dual CPU's and modern graphics cards.
Until BOB comes out anyone would be silly to buy a system for it. My post was just to inform people of the improvements I experienced in my upgrade.
Since then I've had a chance to fly online some more and the improvement in minimum frames gives the sim a smoothness that I have not experienced in the past.
Sure my systems will have HDD in them for the forseeable future, the cost makes them ideal for Photo's, music and videos. But after seeing the improvements in performance I can see that the SSD are the way to go for systems and programs like flight sims.
I personally didn't think $260aud FOR 64GB was too bad, I remember when I got my first computer way back when, an Apple ][+, and the hard drive was $1000US for 10 Megabytes! That was too much and had to do with 160K floppies!
Cheers!
05-21-2010, 05:21 AM
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