I'm going to build a small sim/cockpit panel to use as procedure trainer for PPL students in the local flight club/school. (similar to the one on baron58.com)We're going for FS9, to keep computer hardware costs down. Graphics quality is not too important anyway.What is important, though, is having a wide view.Three projectors would be awesome, but we don't have the space or the money, so we're going for several monitors or tv's.After discovering mainboards with several PCI-express slots, I'm looking at running everything on one computer.Two screens will be used for instruments behind the panel.If we have four PCI Express x16 slots (ASUS P5W64 WS Pro), four identical gfx-cards with dual outputs (and a monster PSU), that would technically leave up to six screens for views.Question is - what kind of CPU and GPU performance would be needed to run FS9 with 6 outside views (plus two instrument views)?So far all multi-monitor setups I've heard of that has more than three monitors (apart from Matrox TH2G setups) is using WideFS and several computers.My guess is that all the views will impact the CPU the most, and that I can go for cheaper graphics cards. (X1650, or maybe even as low as X1050?)I understand the second core in a Core 2 Duo / Athlon X2 won't be utilized much, so I'm thinking maybe the fastest available single core CPU would perform as well in FS9?Or will all the views simply turn FS9 into a slideshow on any CPU?

You may want to stop by the Home cockpit support forum here at Avsim, lots of this type thing being built there..