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Postby Jon H » Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:54 am

As I'm going to university next year I've been looking around for a computer to take for under
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Re: Looking for new PC

Postby flymo » Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:36 am

you would have problems running FSX on the 6150, FS9 would be flyable though.
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Re: Looking for new PC

Postby Jon H » Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:24 pm

you would have problems running FSX on the 6150, FS9 would be flyable though.


What do you mean by flyable?
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Re: Looking for new PC

Postby ozzy72 » Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:43 pm

It'll run but you'll have to turn down some of the graphics settings and it won't look as good as it would on a dedicated tower. Alas laptops have limitations.
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Re: Looking for new PC

Postby Gunny04 » Mon Feb 19, 2007 4:03 pm

Actually thats the same setup as I have, and stock it will run FS9 nearly maxed out completly minus the clouds, throw another gig of ram in a relatively good GPU and a new psu (Spend prolly another 300 or so on it at a later date) and FSX would be flyable and FS9 maxed out.....

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Re: Looking for new PC

Postby born_2_fly » Mon Feb 19, 2007 5:17 pm

Actually thats the same setup as I have, and stock it will run FS9 nearly maxed out completly minus the clouds, throw another gig of ram in a relatively good GPU and a new psu (Spend prolly another 300 or so on it at a later date) and FSX would be flyable and FS9 maxed out.....

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Then you have basically a new computer!?!
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Re: Looking for new PC

Postby Gunny04 » Mon Feb 19, 2007 8:59 pm

What do you mean by I have a new pc? I bought this computer last August or september.... I guess its fairly new, Stock its the same as the one in question in this post, I just tossed in my extra 1024 ram, a 7300LE (mistake) and my HPs hard drive. Before I bought the 7300LE I had a 6150 built in and it maxed FS9 out fine with a gig of ram....

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Re: Looking for new PC

Postby Jon H » Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:10 am

Another option would be to build a system using a small form factor barebones unit.
Below is a list of components that I think should come to the same specification as the Asus L100, and it comes to just under
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Re: Looking for new PC

Postby Mees » Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:56 am

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Re: Looking for new PC

Postby Jon H » Tue Feb 20, 2007 12:17 pm

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I think that's a bit more than I need, and my budget includes a monitor, keyboard, speakers, everything.
Thanks anyway though.
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Re: Looking for new PC

Postby ctjoyce » Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:01 pm

Ewww shuttle. And what graphics are you using? I don't see a card on your list.

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Re: Looking for new PC

Postby Mees » Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:47 am

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... 81&subcat=


Should be save for a week with that rig, and it'd run Vista quite OK I think ;D
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