Building a new PC budget USD3,500-4,500.
Flying with 3 monitors screen, PLUS one monitor for the AirManager itself.
Reasons: I like to have my left and right view of the airfield when on downwind. (Do you know if the ultrawide monitor can see runway when on downwind?)
I read that Airmanager export itself, if you use motherboard graphics port, it will save you on FPS. anyone heard that?
- Anyway, can you advise which motherboard (2 graphics output) meet my needs?
- Which GPU with the 3 graphics output should i choose?
- do i really need those liquid cooling?
- advise on ram, CPU, etc…etc…etc… will be great
- shall hear from you.
I run five monitors doing this - three big ones and two little ones. Four of them are connected to an NVidia 3070TI and one of the little ones to the internal Intel graphics. It’s very handy and fast. It’s not exactly automatic with Air Manager though - you have to tell it exactly where you want each panel, but very straightforward.
There is a caveat though. Not all motherboards allow the simultaneous use of both PCI-E and built-in graphics. You will have to experiment with firmware ('BIOS") settings to work out how to do that. About a year ago someone else mentioned that only recent motherboards allows this feature, and it might only fit with UEFI firmware.
My motherboard is a year-old Aorus B60M Pro AX with AMI UEFI firmware 08/31/2021. It had settings which referred to the internal graphics with labels like “auto” which seemed to select only the used or fastest graphics, and “enable” which referred to the internal card in addition - it was not very intuitive.
Please let us know if you need more help and I will have a closer look.
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Hey, thanks, that’s a great reference to hear it work out.
So indeed, i should choose a motherboard with onboard graphics.
hearing that part "you have to experience with BIOS… omg, this is the pain of this game. a never ending tweaking, spending more time tweaking than playing…
but yes, if you can help to advise which motherboard works for my needs.
rather, how should i choose? i am not a PC builder. always use mac.
Air Manager hardly uses any resources so I wouldn’t worry about it hitting performance. I have an AM5 motherboard that has 2 internal (1x DP, 1 xHDMI) graphics ports that can both be used at the same time as my RTX GPU giving me 6 outputs. I’m super happy with it so far.
hey bud
can you share rest of your hw specs?
fps when on all 5 screen?
any other things to note?
btw, why 5 screen?
Not currently running all those monitors and am not one to get fixated by FPS. I’m happy with a smooth high quality experience and I certainly get that.
My main component specs are
Asus B650E-E AM5 mb
7800X3D
Dark Rock 4 Pro cooler
G-Skill 32GB DDR5 CL 30 RAM
RTX 4080
2TB M.2 NVME Gen4 SSD
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Replying to questions in your post no. 3
OK i’ve had a look at my BIOS settings and the one that matters is SETTINGS / INTERNAL GRAPHICS. There are three possibilities:
(1) “Auto”, which I found enabled only my pci-e GPU, all four output sockets.
(2) “Enabled”, which enables the internal graphics plus the pci-e GPU, six outputs in total.
(3) “Disabled” which I haven’t tried.
FPS varies with all the usual graphics settings, but typical “best” would be 45 on the ground with LODs set around 120 -150. This is with i9, 32GB ram, rtx 3070ti. There are so many variables though, this is pretty meaningless. Anything better than 30 is “smooth” in my opinion, the more the better.
5 screens - 3 curved side-by-side for ordinary views via Track-IR from cockpit or outside, one for Plan-G flight planner moving map, one for Air Manager self-assembled collection of things I want to see always - changes with each particular aircraft (like flaps, elev trim, altimeter, compass etc., heli rotor clutch, water rudder - you name it). Great system.
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