EICAS 3 Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 The projects you have in store for us, and the already released products, is one of the reasons why I wish to rejoin this whole FS experience.I wish to ask you(aerosoft and/or its users) for your advice regarding hardware:I wish to build my self a PC(I won't be doing the actual work, a company will) forces me to think about, what my new PC must be made up of, so that it can work wonders with FSX.Now what should I focus on? I want to have it, yet I don't want to go bankrupt So how should I prioritize my spending?I will be happy to post my intital sketches, but I would like to get some advice from you first, and then post a suggested system?I really hope you have not grown tired of posts like these, and that you will find the time to help me out Yours trulyBoaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limp 29 Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 Hi, good choice to come back to FSX Basically what I would recommend is a big CPU quad core if possible and overclocked... If you can go for 3 gigs of ram or 4 (in that case get Vista 64 bits).. And for the graphic card I have a 8800 gts which works fine...For the hard drive you can get the Western Digital 640 giga which is quite fast... Those where my two cents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EICAS 3 Posted July 23, 2008 Author Share Posted July 23, 2008 Hi, good choice to come back to FSX Basically what I would recommend is a big CPU quad core if possible and overclocked... If you can go for 3 gigs of ram or 4 (in that case get Vista 64 bits).. And for the graphic card I have a 8800 gts which works fine...For the hard drive you can get the Western Digital 640 giga which is quite fast... Those where my two cents Thank you for your reply. This is what I have thought about purchasing, any comments? * Coolermaster Cosmos 1000 Case * Thermaltake Toughpower 700W PSU * ASUS P5N-D * Intel® Core™2 Quad Q9450 Quad Core 4x2.66GHz 12MB * Coolermaster Hyper TX2 Fan * Corsair XMS2 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 800MHz * 250GB 7200RPM SATA II * 500GB 7200RPM SATA II * Samsung SH-S203 20x DVD RW LightScribe Black SATA * nVidia GeForce 9800GX2 1GB * Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 Home Premium (64-bit) * Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Now the options I have are numerous, www.powerc.com offers me several options for my rig, but some that I have considdered are: 1) Coolermaster Cosmos S Case instead of the '1000' case (40£ more) 2) Corsair 1000W Power Supply Unit , instead of 700W (75£ more) 3) MSI P7N Diamond MoBo, which has the newer 780i chip but is 100£ more! 4) Corsair XMS2 8GB (4x2GB) DDR2 800MHz, which gives me 4GB RAM more (60£ more) 5) WD VelociRaptor 300GB SATAII 10,000RPM Hard Drive, instead of the 500GB 7200RPM HD (145£ more) There are numerous other options for CPUs, graphic cards and HDDs, but these are the ones I am considdering. Now do you have any advice for my setup? Anything YOU would prioritize differently? Last but not least, what kind of performance can I expect my proposed rig to give me, when flying FSX? Many thanks Boaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limp 29 Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 Hi,I wrote a reply yesterday, but I think I forgot to post-it... So basically I was saying the 8 gigs of ram is useless... That the velociraptor is a good choice if you can afford it... Install Vista 64 on your other drive and keep the velociraptor for FSX Concerning the psu, I have something like 550 W and everything works fine. So the 700W will be more than enough For the speed of FSX it will depend on where you fly. In example, if I fly a twotter mission in Alaska, I get constant 24 fps locked mode. But if I take the Wilco A320 from Heathrow X than my FPS is more like 15 FPS... Where will you be flying ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EICAS 3 Posted July 25, 2008 Author Share Posted July 25, 2008 Hi,I wrote a reply yesterday, but I think I forgot to post-it... So basically I was saying the 8 gigs of ram is useless... That the velociraptor is a good choice if you can afford it... Install Vista 64 on your other drive and keep the velociraptor for FSX Concerning the psu, I have something like 550 W and everything works fine. So the 700W will be more than enough For the speed of FSX it will depend on where you fly. In example, if I fly a twotter mission in Alaska, I get constant 24 fps locked mode. But if I take the Wilco A320 from Heathrow X than my FPS is more like 15 FPS... Where will you be flying ?Thank you, this type of advice will help me prioritize, my spending I will mostly be flying the PMDG from Sim-Wings' Heathrow to and from fsdreamteams Kennedy or O'Hare airports. And with AI Just writing this make my hands shake, because with my current rig, I cannot even fly VFR in FSX. Boaz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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