Another new rig question

[gavinprice02]

Hi there people,

I have been away from the scene for a couple of years now due to many reasons but am now back, grown up and now have my own place and have seriously started an interest in builing me a PC.

Ok so I have had a good read of the sticky at the top section and have figured what

[Slotback]

Seasonic X-series 750 might be better, but I'm still waiting for Nick on this one.

[idahosurge]

You need at least two hard drives, one for FSX and one for the OS and everything else.  If you can afford a 300GB Velcirator I would go with that rather than the 150GB, it will give you room to expand.  For my second hard drive I got a 750GB Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM w/32MB cache.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... =0&Recs=10

I am getting the Barracuda partitioned into two drives, a 250GB and a 500GB.  The 250GB will have the OS and other stuff like Office 2007.  The 500GB will have stuff like GEXn and photo scenery, basically FSX stuff that does not have to go on the FSX drive.  I think that this way I will always have enough room.  One of the things that Nick recommends is to not have your HD's at more than 50% or so capacity for optimum performance.  This is why I recommend the 300GB Velciraptor.

The BFG GTX285OCFU has the fastest clocks (core, memory & shader).  Over at Tiger Direct they are only $5.00 more than a BFG GTX285OCX and both are cheaper than what Newegg is selling a slower BFG GTX285 for.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... =0&Recs=10



Rod

[gavinprice02]

thanks for the help guys. However, I'm struggling to find the PC Power and Cooling PSU over here in the UK, are there any units the same quality as this at around

[NickN]

answered in PM

but you will need to OC to get results even with i7 and a 950 is much easier to clock high than a 920

Regardless, a good clocking heatink is needed.. the Intel box heatsink is not going to allow clocking very far

The deal is, to use 1600 memory correctly you either dont clock at all, or, you must clock to at least 3.2GHz+ on a 920, 3.6Ghz+ on a 950

In both cases best results are seen in clocks 3.8GHz and higher

a 975 will not change memory speed since those allow full CPU multiplier changes and they also allow the full 6.4GT/s QPI the 920/950 wont. With a 975 you do not have to deal with memory speed changes as the memory will always run 1600 no matter what the CPU speed is

[gavinprice02]

Thanks for the help. I'm definitely overclocking, just trying to do my research on how to do it.
Once again, thanks everyone

[gavinprice02]

System ordered. Can't wait to simming again!