How would this build do?

[DazzleStar]

Recently I have been thinking of building a PC to move away from my Pentium 4 build. Problem though is budget, I'm 15 so its going to be about

[CD.]

If you're interested I'm selling THIS for

[The Snake 87]

If I were you, I would buy what he ^^ is offering bro.

[DazzleStar]

2 things:

• I don't have the money at the moment... 
• I was really thinking of building my own system for the experience and knowledge, as it would help in college next year.

I also fancied a quad core system, but the Core 2 Duos are so quick! Tough decision. Sorry CD., maybe if its for sale still when I have the money I will buy it! 

[CD.]

I was really thinking of building my own system for the experience and knowledge, as it would help in college next year.

I could take it apart, re-box it all and send it to you....

 

[Fozzer]

I was really thinking of building my own system for the experience and knowledge, as it would help in college next year.

I could take it apart, re-box it all and send it to you....

[The Snake 87]

Who reads the directions anyway? 

[Fozzer]

Your specs:
Dell Dimension 2400
2.66GHz Pentium 4
NVIDIA GeForce 6200 256mb
1gb DDR memory
80gb Seagate hard drive

Actually...to save loadsa money...

To run FS 2004 only...I would just upgrade the Video card to a nVidia 7800GS. 256MB.
Pop in another Gig of Memory....(To make 2 GB).
...and that should do the trick!... ...!

....(My ancient AMD 2600+ (2.1 Ghz) Socket A Processor, and AGP nVidia 78000GS 256 MB Card runs it fine, flat-out!).

(Check your Power Supply Wattage.....)..!

Paul...G-BPLF...FS 2004....Win XP Pro... 8-)...!

[757200ba]

Hey, Fozzer.
One question, its not the first time i see your posts and your specs.You say you run almost fs 2004 maxed out.Do you have any adds on it? what fps you have?

I ask this because of my specs ( and your opinion is welcome for some modifications

Gigabyte Ga-p35-DS4
Intel Pentium 4 Dual core 2.8
2Gb Ram (if necessary i will check cicling)
Ati HD 4350 1gb
Sata 500gb
Sata 300gb

[The Snake 87]

Dazzle: If you go with a Socket 775, it might just save you a good few, and some newer 775 motherboards can use DDR3 RAM. But, most likely the CPU wouldn't be able to match what you want. Still, I think it would be a good thought.

[Fozzer]

Hey, Fozzer.
One question, its not the first time i see your posts and your specs.You say you run almost fs 2004 maxed out.Do you have any adds on it? what fps you have?

I ask this because of my specs ( and your opinion is welcome for some modifications

Gigabyte Ga-p35-DS4
Intel Pentium 4 Dual core 2.8
2Gb Ram (if necessary i will check cicling)
Ati HD 4350 1gb
Sata 500gb
Sata 300gb

Hello ba... ...!

My FS 2004 is an absolute joy to fly with my (ancient?) Computer system...(It will even run FSX SP2 with slightly reduced Autogen).

I don't do any "tweaking/overclocking, etc" to my Hardware, (a recipe for disaster!), or FS 2004 Software.

I have all my FS 2004 sliders maxed, and all the boxes ticked, and with my Frame Rated locked at 20 FPS, I obtain a "smooth" flight at 19 FPS in most places flying at low levels... ...!

My Trusty AMD 2600+ Thoroughbred Socket A Processor running at 2.1 GHz copes admirably with the Sim (and most games), and the upgrade from an AGP nVidia 6600GT O/C 128 AGP Card to my present AGP nVidia 7800GS 256 Card made the biggest difference to my "Smoothness", speed,

[DazzleStar]

I would quite happily shove in a new GPU, but the problem lies in that my motherboard only supports PCI. So its a near impossible task. TBH, I want to build a PC to see how good my problem solving is too, something is inevitably going to go wrong!

[757200ba]

The only thing im thinking now is to get or a 8800 gt or the 8800 gtx ($ is also short), and get a unicore 3.6 ghz (since fs9 dont use the dual), i guess i will have better results than the dual at 2.8 ghz.

What you guys think?

I use lots of pmdg and level d and much more scenery from aerosoft and AI.

By the way is anybody using world of AI?Recently i made a fresh instal of fs9.And now i want to instal some AI and the program tells me that i already have them , and ask me if i want to repair what i have installed (i remember that this is a new instalation, no old files or cfg), and when i repair the AI is active 

Many thanks to all

[Fozzer]

I would quite happily shove in a new GPU, but the problem lies in that my motherboard only supports PCI. So its a near impossible task. TBH, I want to build a PC to see how good my problem solving is too, something is inevitably going to go wrong!

Blimey Dazz!...

I didn't realise your Motherboard was so old...with just "PCI"

[Mazza]

I would quite happily shove in a new GPU, but the problem lies in that my motherboard only supports PCI. So its a near impossible task. TBH, I want to build a PC to see how good my problem solving is too, something is inevitably going to go wrong!

Blimey Dazz!...

I didn't realise your Motherboard was so old...with just "PCI"