Pc Advice 2

[Waleed Nuseibeh 0]

This question is intended for Mathijs, and anyone else with some experience.

Having thought about the excellent answers in my previous thread regardind a new pc, I am now thinking of buying a stock hp with a 22 or 24 inch screen.

It is still more expensive at around $1,200.00, but a lot cheaper than building my own.

The specs are very similar:

Core 2 quad with 3gb ram, and a 500gb hard drive runing vista 32bit.

The video card is its "weakness": 8700GT, but I figured I can update to a GTS if needed at a later time.

My question here is, will it run fsx at decent framerates, or will it struggle?

I know fs9 is will run fine, as it is much more capable than my old rig.

Thanks for all the help

[baltzer 1]

From what i know it's all about the processer the bigger the better.if you are runnig vista you need a quad processer.

be jens

[Iron.Eagle 0]

what sort of CPU is it? it won't work well, if the cores run below 2,4GHz (the higher the better)

[Waleed Nuseibeh 0]

Chris,

it is running at 2.4ghz 8mb l2 cache.

Also, I think the card is a basic GT @ 512mb.

[Iron.Eagle 0]

i forgot: wich BUS Frequency? only 2,4GHz and standard 800MHz BUS is critical...

if you should decide for this PC you should prepare yourself for overclocking because that MIGHT not be enough for reaching (subjectively) sufficiently high framerates