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New FSX PC - recommendations?

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  • 16-02-2012 9:05pm
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    storker
    Registered Users Posts: 5,675 ✭✭✭


    My current system is creaking a little, with a hard disk and graphics card needing replacing, and it does struggle anyway over the big cities and sometimes with Orbx, or certain less frame-rate-friendly aircraft.

    So, it's time to look at a replacement. I'm thinking along the lines of i7 3.40 with 8MB RAM and a +/- 1 GB nVidia card. While I'm at it, Ill see if there's enough left in the budget for a yoke/throttle/pedals setup. Budget +/- €2000 (fingers crossed).

    I'd be grateful for any suggestions in terms of best spec, best supplier, best value etc. I would consider building a PC but I have concerns about getting everything work together up. I work in IT, but I'm far from being a hardware guru.

    Input appreciated!

    Stork


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    gugleguy
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    GPU: nvidia/ATI 1GB min, ideally 1.5GB+,

    there is an argument elsewhere on boards about which is better/cheaper....yeah whatever.

    CPU: i7 as a basis, personally I say.

    screen: you will see in some Flight Sims documentation that the smallest is better so as not to incur eyestrain....yeah whatever.

    RAM: ideally, as much as you can afford!

    32 or 64 bit OS - 64 bit only for consideration here.


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