Thinking of Upgrading

[B-Valvs]

I'm really starting to want to throw my computer out the window. It's slow, made for family/student use and is pushed past its limits by my games. It gets very frustrating. I had been looking at the Alienware Aurora system for a while and now that Patchz got his new system he's making me jealous.

[FuturePilot]

If you get the new one are you going to sell the other one piece by piece?

[Slotback]

Core i7 930 is a very good processor. It can usually overclock to around 4.0ghz with upgraded cooling.

12 gigabytes of RAM is very rarely needed. If this is an FSX system then 6gb will suffice. It would also be wise to go with DDR3-1600 preferably with low latencies (CAS (CL) = 7).

FSX very rarely gets any gain from dual-videocards. Go grab a single faster card. There's a number of choices here...:

GTX 285 --- fast, tried and tested in FSX.
Radeon 5850 ---

[B-Valvs]

If you get the new one are you going to sell the other one piece by piece?

No.

Thanks for the advice so far.

8-)

[olderndirt]

Although it's nice to buy something preassembled and under warranty, consider purchasing separate components and assembling them yourself.

[B-Valvs]

[quote]Although it's nice to buy something preassembled and under warranty, consider purchasing separate components and assembling them yourself.

[olderndirt]

[quote][quote]Although it's nice to buy something preassembled and under warranty, consider purchasing separate components and assembling them yourself.

[Slotback]

The Radeon 5970 is the fastest videocard money can buy. However, it uses two graphics processors. FSX generally only uses one graphics processor. And each graphics processor is slower than the Radeon 5870.


So if the system is only for FSX then 5870 is your best bet (or maybe GTX 470 or GTX 480)

But if you're into gaming the 5970 will be faster.

[Pablo]

[quote][quote][quote]Although it's nice to buy something preassembled and under warranty, consider purchasing separate components and assembling them yourself.

[B-Valvs]

The Radeon 5970 is the fastest videocard money can buy. However, it uses two graphics processors. FSX generally only uses one graphics processor. And each graphics processor is slower than the Radeon 5870.


So if the system is only for FSX then 5870 is your best bet (or maybe GTX 470 or GTX 480)

But if you're into gaming the 5970 will be faster.

Well, the main reason I want a new system is for FSX, but I do play some other games. As games go though, I don't think these are very intense on the computer. Things like Empire Total War, Railsim and I want to finally be able to play Battlestations Pacific (which I got last July and my current system can't even run).

8-)

[B-Valvs]

[quote][quote][quote][quote]Although it's nice to buy something preassembled and under warranty, consider purchasing separate components and assembling them yourself.

[Fozzer]

Although my (very) ancient Desktop Computer will run both FS2004, (and FSX with a few reduced settings), I do have slight difficulty in running some of my other Computer Games smoothly, like Bioshock and S-T-A-L-K-E-R, etc,