So, Nehalem is OK?

[Flyby]

good points, Cap'n. Some games do scale well with either SLI or Crossfire. But some don't, and that's my complaint about the multi-GPU technology. I concede the point that minimum fps is the more important issue. Combat flight sims, I also agree, are (now) mainly CPU-bound, what with complex AI, FM, etc. The performance pendulum seems to have swung away from modern GPUs. It would be great if some of the calculations could be handed off to the GPU, if that would make a difference in the performance of our beloved flight sims. Only F4 seems to be able to make use of multiple cores. Black Shark has been released in Russia, and the word seems to be that a fast CPU makes a lot of difference, and that's an old DX8-modified-to-DX9 graphics engine.

So I guess I come full circle in this discussion. I thus relent. Modern GPUs are not the issue for combat flight sims on the (22-inch) average monitor. It's the CPU, and the code being written, or not written by combat sims to take advantage of multiple core. Glad I still have F4! But I'm looking forward to SoW_BoB. Guess I'll have to contract out for a liquid nitrogen storage tank in the basement!
Flyby out