I'm wondering about giving up on FSX and designing a system around an Intel CPU P4 524 3.06GHz for use exclusively with FS9. Can anyone give me an idea of what kind of benchmarks I could expect with this CPU, a 7600GS 512Mb GPU, and 2 Mb RAM? What about the holy grail: Level-D, AS6, 5 cloud layers, Ultimate Traffic at 80%, complicated scenery, and so on. Thanks for your advice.---Will

>I'm wondering about giving up on FSX and designing a system>around an Intel CPU P4 524 3.06GHz for use exclusively with>FS9. Can anyone give me an idea of what kind of benchmarks I>could expect with this CPU, a 7600GS 512Mb GPU, and 2 Mb RAM? >What about the holy grail: Level-D, AS6, 5 cloud layers,>Ultimate Traffic at 80%, complicated scenery, and so on. >Thanks for your advice.>---WillI just replaced a 3.06GHz P4 as my primary PC (it's now my secondary FS and primary development box). It has a 256MB nVidia 6800 Ultra AGP card and 1GB of 1066MHz RDRAM. It runs FS9 with lots of add-ons acceptably (~20 fps) but doesn't break any records doing it. With frames locked at 20, I had no problem with LDS/PMDG birds and weather. I did not use a traffic add-on, however, due to the framerate hit traffic put on the system. Good quality add-on airports like Cloud9 and FlyTampa worked OK, with frame rate dips into the mid teens...SimFlyers ran like an obese 17 year old dog on that system, however.On that system I would agree with a decision to shelve FSX.RegardsBob ScottATP IMEL Gulfstream II-III-IV-VSantiago de Chile