Hi All,I'm about to buy a new system unit to go with my 19," .24-.25AG0 P992 FD Trinitron monitor and Harmon Kardon HK-395 speakers with subwoofer. In addition to running FS2004 I'll be doing the usual grunt stuff, all under XP Home Edition.The existing system unit contains a 2.2 GHz pentium 4, 1GB RAM, an 80GB 7200 RPM hard drive,a 64MB DDR NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 200 graphics card with DVI and an SB Live! 1024 Digital Sound card.I'm happy with the sound I'm getting, and (maybe I'm ignorant) even with the visuals I get in FS2004, although system performance leaves a great deal to be desired, perhaps for reasons not germaine here.FS2004 will be my most demanding application: I don't play other games, I don't play music, etc., and Neither Quicken nor MS Word uses enough resources to worry about.My question is smple, though the answer isn't: what should I put in my new system unit for graphics and sound; and should I go to the expense of getting more than a Gig of RAM?I appreciate your help!Barney

Hi Barney, welcome to the Avsim forum. If you're running your monitor at a resolution of 1280x or less, I'ld suggest you get yourself an Ati9600pro or XT to start and check it out. A 9800pro or better would give you a little more reserves and the option to run FS at higher AA/AF levels and/or perhaps going to 1600x. Ideally, a 9800 is powered by a stronger CPU. 1 GB of RAM is probably good enuogh. Hope this helps. Good luck and kind regards Jaap

Thanks, Jaap... That's the kind of info I need!Barney