Hi there,i'm planning to upgrade for XMas.At the moment my system is the one shown in my signature :-coolWhich CPU (Intel) and VGA (PCI Express) are the best at the moment?I have bought my new FSX dedicated HD (MAXTOR 300GB - ATA): should i have bought a SATA drive instead? Or perhaps the perform similar?thanks in advance for helpingLuigi ;-)

VGA for which resoltion(s)? Ciao Jaap

Hi Japp,i'm usually running ACoF at 1280x960Luigi ;-)

my friend told me about ASUS N6800GT 256 DDR2, would it be enough?thanks againLuigi ;-)

almost all new motherboards are sata, get a sata drive instead. the best video card all depends on if you like nvidia or ati. I am leaning towards the ATI X1950XTX but it is expensive.

>almost all new motherboards are sata, get a sata drivein the afternoon i have tried my friend spare SATA drive.every time WinXP starts i get this error message (see 2 pics below)it looks like it's trying to install primary and secondary IDE channel but with errors.The error(2) messages say: "the driver cannot be used with this platform"; what does this mean? My OS is WinXP SP2 Thanks for helpingLuigi ;-)http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/157727.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/157724.jpg