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hey guys,

For what?

Also whats your budget

Cheers
Cameron

Depends on what you mean by "run it". Sure it should work on that system, but it's most likely not going to be great.

http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2 ... 1190754444

i want FSX to run fairly well. medium graphics but great performance also. i have about $500 to spend.....i price that machine out and it is going to cost $407. what do you guys suggest???

thanks for the link that helps me understand a little bit better what im getting myself into... anyways this is what i would look for to get outta of FSX:

10% road traffic 20% boats and ships
Airport vehicles medium to low range
Autogen 1/2 -1/4
No light bloom
No ultimate terrian x
water slider 2x low
all other sliders 50%-75%
15-25FPS
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no see i have been running FS9 with medium low graphics and only getting 9 FPS if i am in the bush country somewhere or at FL350. so i mean i am not looking to get the absoloote best outta FSX but medium Detail....with 15 or more FPS

$ 500?! Thats going to be a challenge.

Do you already have a case, DVD drive, and motherboard? Those bits aren't listed. Also do you already have a monitor and do you need the XP disk?

$800 is a much better budget.

Cheers
Cameron

sorry i left some things out.....this is what i have and need:

HAVE:
monitor
keeyboard
case
80gb HD
windows XP SP2
400 watt supply

NEED:
Ram=2gb
Video Card=nVidia 7600 GTS
Mother Board=?
Processor=amd 64 2.4ghz

What do you guys suggest i change or improve?

Which type of RAM are you getting? 6400 at least, right?

EDIT: I used to have a similar system (actually just a few days ago) and it ran just fine on medium graphics settings. I think you'll be happy with it, just don't push the sliders too far, because that's when the frustration begins.

i dont know...whats 6400 ram? i dont know that much about comps. i know just enough to get me by. lol

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6550
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819115030

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813128050

RAM: Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800 2GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820145034

Video Card: nVidia GeForce 8600GT
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814130290

DVD Burner: Samgsung 20x DVD+/-R DL / CR-RW
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6827151155

After rebates this all comes to your $500. This system should run FSX at mid/high settings and because you will have a DX10 video card you will get all the shiny new eye candy of SP2/DX10. I know you wanted AMD, and I know you said a 7600GT, but trust me this system will run circles around it, and with a simple upgrade of a video card, and maybe a bit of an overclock, and it should last you quite a while.

Cheers
Cameron

Cameron,

Question, if you were going to build your own PC rather than spend $6,000.00 on one of those custom game PC's what would you use for a motherboard, CPU, graphics card, memory, PS, hard drive, etc.?  Basically if money was no object, but everything had to be purchased off the shelf what would you get?

Rod

Hope you don't mind if I throw the "money no object pc". My thoughts anyway


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Cameron,

Question, if you were going to build your own PC rather than spend $6,000.00 on one of those custom game PC's what would you use for a motherboard, CPU, graphics card, memory, PS, hard drive, etc.?  Basically if money was no object, but everything had to be purchased off the shelf what would you get?

Rod

Things that Nick knows about, and I shouldn't, unfortunately I don't have a military credit card so I can't buy them.

Seriously though.

2x Intel Xeon X5460
TYAN S5382WAG2NRF
2x 8800GTX from eVGA
16GB PC2-1066 Corsair XMS2
4x Samgsung 64GB SSD in RAID 0
4x Seagate Baracuda 750GB SATA 3 (2x 2 in RAID 0, then pair that RAID into a RAID 1)
LG Combo HD-DVD BluRAY Burner x2 (technically these aren't out yet)
Custom made Silverstone TJ-07 style case to accept a Server motherboard with custom Airbrushing, and interior powder UV blue powder coat.
Thermaltake Toughpower 1300W
Peltier Cooling for CPU, Northbridge, video cards.
UV cathodes inside the case.
HP W2408 as a wall mounted Display.
3x HP W2207 on matrox THG
Optimus Maximus Keyboard
Logitech G9 Mouse
Thrustmaster HOTAS stick w/ CH pedals

OS; WinXP Pro x64, Susi Linux server x64

Overclock: 5Ghz on each core.

Roughly this would cost well over $13,000 seeing as those DVD drives cost roughly $1,200 a piece, but for a rig that costs the same as a new car it would be hella good. And why so much RAM? And why a dual processor setup? And why so many screens? Well in addition to running normal tasks in windows I would be running a virtual machine and a server off said virtual machine. So the 24 is for my server, and the 3x 22s are for windows. The SSDs would be for my windows install, and the 1.5TB worth of seagates for my serer. The only thing that I would need to go with this rig would be dual T3 Lines to the house, tacking on another $1300 a month.

And lets not even think about what the electric bill is going to be...............

Cheers
Cameron

thanks for all the help guys....i think that i am going to go with the newegg stuff but its gonna be awhile before i can buy....gotta save up the money.

one more ? should i stay with Windows XP SP2 or update to the new Vista OS???