by volunteer » Mon May 07, 2007 4:15 am
Wifi is important as the new FSX is really good when flying with others on the internet. My plan was to get a hundred pound graphics card - and upgrade when it was economic too. And put the old one on EBay. Ditto the processor.
I was planning to get a ten pound desk fan and poke it into the case, as a cooler. But I don't need it -the 120 mm hole cut in the side with a 120 mm fan : really cools it down - most of the air flow was strangled by the cases own baffles and grids where the fan goes. I don't think efficient cooling need be noisy. My overclocking 20% - only puts puts the internal temp up by 2 degrees.
I think if you get a NVidia board- then it works best if everything is NVidia - ie: SLI cards etc. Don't mix and match (ie: NVidia chip set board and ATI graphics card)! A SLI set up wil be good - yes.
My board gets a good write up - if you google it - but it only has a couple of card slots - so, one for the sound card (an upgrade) and one for the Wifi - and yr done for.
I heard that Intel chippy's are the way to go - AMD chips are not as fast.
E6600 overclocked to 3400. Asus P5N E sli with 3GB memory, Vista and 7900GS vid card. new Pro Yoke and pedals