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I have never ran fsx on a desktop ushally I messed around with my laptop but now that I have got the hang of controls ect... and I am able to fly almost like a pro I was checking before I pay

It will run default FSX & FSX Acceleration with no addons okay.  The CPU is a 2600 and you can not OC a 2600 by much if at all.

If they would change the CPU to a 2600K that would be a lot better because you could OC your system between 4.4GHz and 4.8GHz pretty easily.

The way it is now the more addons you add that required CPU cycles the more your FPS will fall.

If you get it you need to put FSX on its own hard drive and I would get another hard drive for FSX and install it.

You can use the 80GB SSD for your OS and any programs that have to go on the OS drive.  Use the 500GB for everything else.

Get a third drive for FSX and FSX addons only.  I would recommend a 600GB WD Velociraptor, but if that is to much money then get the fasted 7,200 RPM drive with the biggest cache you can find that fits your budget.

cheers for the advice the 80gb ssd drive was for Fsx I hoped that that would be enough for the Fsx only part my budget wont stretch to another hard drive I don't think.. not sure on exact prices of hard drives and I was using a website recommended to me pcspecialist.co.uk to do this because they were the only site I found which would build custom pcs with  excellent reviews ect.. I changed my qoute to the 2600k and it added

I changed the 500gb hard drive for the 600GB WD Velociraptor which brings the price to

Get asus P8P67 Pro if overclocking.

And DDR3-1600.

And update processor cooling like Coolermaster Hyper 212+

Other than that you're good.

SSD's are massively faster than any hard disk, if you can fit windows and fsx on the drive then do that otherwise put either fsx or windows on a different drive like a raptor.

I don't know a thing about over-clocking and probably wouldn't try in-case I destroyed

Right now my FSX drive has 106GB on it.

Why not buy a 2500K?

Overclock to 4.6 / 4.8 in a blink of en eye!

Save some money, FSX does not use HT anyways, so...

The Asus P8P67 is OK for stable overclocking, but maybe you should wait for the new Z68 Chip?

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/332942-gig ... es-to-z68/