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[snpower]

Hi

I'm an avid Mac guy and professional pilot that is discovering how phenomenonal products like FSX are, especially combined with quality add ons such as REX. I am planning on building a system which will more or less just be used for simming later this year and was hoping to get some input on what components to buy. I realize technology changes rapidly so suggestions now may not be the best in six months. Cost is an object – I'd like the best bang for the buck but this will not be a cost is no object project. I'd like to stick as close to $1200.00 or so as I can. Thanks in advance.

[Guitarman]

Hi SN,

I was also looking for a new system but I am waiting now for the new Intel CPU's (Sandy Bridge).  The GPU will be a NVidia 570 with 1 Gb or more, RAM will be 6 or 12 GB and harddisk 2 x 1Tb.  As OS it'll be my current W7-64.

There are a few hardware specialists over here like Alain1 and Fontaine.  They can help you much more.

Hope this helps to start your research.

[vincendos]

Hi

I'm an avid Mac guy and professional pilot that is discovering how phenomenonal products like FSX are, especially combined with quality add ons such as REX. I am planning on building a system which will more or less just be used for simming later this year and was hoping to get some input on what components to buy. I realize technology changes rapidly so suggestions now may not be the best in six months. Cost is an object – I'd like the best bang for the buck but this will not be a cost is no object project. I'd like to stick as close to $1200.00 or so as I can. Thanks in advance.

Depending what you want from your simming and the FPS you want governs the hardware you need. I have my FPS set at 65 and with light weather and not too much detailed scenary I easily get that, with heavy weather and city scenary it drops to between 20fps and 30fps. I am running at PC with an intel i7 quat core overclocked to 4gb, 12gb RAM 1800 Corsair, 2 x GTX470 in sli mode and a 1tb HDD  this seems fine with FSX but sometimes the fps will drop to 15fps.

[alehead]

Vincendos,

I have a similar system to yours, an i7 950 at 4GHz, though "only" 6Gb 1600MHz DDR3, one GTX470, and an SSD for FSX with a Raptor X 300Gb for Windows 7 64...

I peg the FPS at 30 internally, use the FFTF=0/Buuferpools USEPOOLS=0 tweak with TBM and TextureMaxLoad set accordingly to reduce the massive load on the GPU caused by Pools not being used, and run an affinitymask or 14 to free up Core0 for the fibres...

I have rather high settings but NO traffic at all, and get 25-30 FPS in all situations I have tested so far, at all airports including FlyTampa and co. The only airports to go below 25 are FTX YBBN and YMML, though they are flyable at these settings too currently...

You are certainly right, it is important to find the best settings for the way you wish to use the simulation... just wanted to share my experience with you, as I have a fairly similar setup...

Andrew

[buckman]

howdy guys without question horse power and memory are important however visuals ie:monitors are to.
i'm curious what you boys favor. since 2008 i use matrox triplehead 2go utilizing 3 times 24in samsung wide screens.
i have not heard anything on this topic so on that note either i'm behind or ahead of the times. definately check it out.