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Upgrade advice wanted

Postby PJmac » Tue Oct 23, 2007 11:26 am

System at present:

M/B    Gigabyte K8NS Pro

         Athlon 64 3400+

         Radeon  9600

         RAM 1GB

With this, I can run FSX at a reasonable level, and FS9 slightly better, but want a big improvement.
I have had suggested by a local dealer the following, (UK prices I'm afraid)

M/b    Foxconn AM2

CPU    AMD Dual core 4600+

Graphics    X/Vision GEFORCE 8600GT Super SLI P 512mb

RAM         2GB memory


This would cost
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Re: Upgrade advice wanted

Postby Schnyd » Tue Oct 23, 2007 11:38 am

I would do the AMD 64 X2 5000 Brisbane Black edition. Should be similar cost but it has an unlocked multiplier so you can over clock to 3.2 GHz.
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Re: Upgrade advice wanted

Postby mjrhealth » Tue Oct 23, 2007 3:07 pm

Id go for the fastes CPU you can get as it will have the greates impact on framerrtaes. There has being a lot of discussion on this and you will find the video card wont have as much impact as the CPU as FSX is all abt pushing data which requires a lot of bandwidth on the data bus, besides the AMD 6000 is so cheap it will be your best buy.
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Re: Upgrade advice wanted

Postby garymbuska » Tue Oct 23, 2007 3:15 pm

My son just put together a SYSTEM that consists of EVGA nForce 680i SE SLI Socket 775 Motherboard, 2 EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS Superclocked 320MB PCIe, 1 Corsair DHX XMS2 DOMINATOR 2048MB PC8500 DDR2 1066, 1 Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 3Ghz 4MB 1333FSB, 1 Cooler Stacker 830 Full Tower w/1000W PSU AL Black and 5 Thermaltake Smart Case Fans Blue LED 12 CM.
He also bought the upgrade for VISTA and a Seagate 320GB Serial ATA HD 7200/16MB/SATA-3G
Boy I sure do wish it was my system. When this thing cranks up it sound like it is going to take off.
 Of course the price tag for all of this was HOLD ON TO YOUR Pocket books$2,366.61
And that includes tax and 2nd day AIR shipping.
Really not that bad price wise all of this came from Tiger Direct 8-)
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