Firstly, Happy New Year everyone!I'm considering orering a new rig with the following spec, and as I'm certainly not technical, would appreciate your thoughts regarding handling FSX.Dell Dimension 9200 running Intel E6700 (2.67Ghz)2048MB DDR2 ramNvidia GeForce 7950 GX2 - 1GB video cardThanksToni.

At first glance, I can say the Core2Duo (E6700) cpu's are about the best going for FS right now. I have not yet heard any reports from the quad-core chips yet.2 gigs ram will be fine7950GX2 is a good card, but video is your red flag. You might consider an 8800 card since it has some form of DX10 support to it. This might save you from **having to buy a video card again in 10-12 months** when the FS DirectX10 update is out.In general, there are several people here with Dell's and they seem to like the performance they get in FS. Of course, if you build it yourself, you KNOW without any doubt, exactly what is in your box. Buying from Dell, etc. you often don't know 100% what's in it without really delving into it.For example, with that Dell, do you know the wattage of the power supply? The rails and rating of each rail? The motherboard? The ram timings? Probably not, as these specs are not known or cared about by the average consumer, but they can have quite an effect on the running of the sim.RhettAMD 3700+ (@2530 mhz), eVGA 7800GT 256 (Guru3D 93.71), ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2 GB Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8, WD 250 gig 7200 rpm SATA2, CoolerMaster Praetorian

Mace. I agree, go for the 8800GTX.WRT Dell your right. A woman came into my shop yesterday with a recently bought machine from them. She felt she got a deal but had some problems not being able to update her machine. It seems to stop during the update, running XP home. I looked and found it had 128MB of RAM.Even a Win-95 had problems with updates with 128MB's.Sometimes a deal is NOT a deal!

I'd consider checking out www.newegg.com and building your own system. You'll be able to get the 8800 (Dell does not seem to offer this yet), and save yourself about $1000. I'm specing a system right now E6600, 2 GB 800 MHz mem, DFI Infinity 975X MB, 640 MB 8800 GTS, 160 GB 10,000 rpm drive, 20" WS Sceptre flat screen, Audigy 4 SE, Logitech Z-4i 2.1 speakers plus other components for $1950 including shipping. I may decide to purchase some more cooling accesories for the case.You may want to get more disk space.Thomas[a href=http://www.flyingscool.com] http://www.flyingscool.com/images/Signature.jpg [/a]I like using VC's :-)N15802 KASH '73 Piper Cherokee Challenger 180