djt01,Once again, good news as regards FS 9. The specs for the new box arein the attachment. I'll be getting a pair of fast Seagates from Newegg to fill in the blanks :-)jb[a href=http://exmixer.com/]Windows utility links/FS 2004[/a]

No doubt you will be pleased with the performance of FS9 on that box. But I have to say, I've made tremendous progress in learning FSX and the new camera system. And quite frankly, FSX blows FS9 away in immersion once you get some cameras setup and the scenery tweaked. I can live with 32 FPS locked in FSX. It looks great.

Bananimal,>>I can live with 32 FPS locked in FSX.<

I ended up cleaning up my gamming system today with a reformat of Windows and a new install of FSX, this time with the new nTune version 5.05.25.00. Like before with nTune 5.05.22.00 I did not have any problems activating FSX. If it helps here is my installation process. I always disable my network connection when I