I am putting together parts for a home-built system to run FSX. As I haven

>>What I hope to accomplish with the initial system is the>following:>25-30 fps in FSX with Tileproxy, ActiveSkyX, maximum cloud>settings, high terrain mesh/texture settings, no water>effects, no autogen, low AI traffic.>>Realistic?>>Stobbe>I would hope so, yes! My system (specs below) can solidly do 25-30 fps with the settings you describe.RhettAMD 3700+ (@2585 mhz), eVGA 7800GT 256 (Guru3D 93.71), ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2gb Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8 (1T), WD 150 gig 10000rpm Raptor, WD 250gig 7200rpm SATA2, Seagate 120gb 5400 rpm external HD, CoolerMaster Praetorian

The best advice I can give you is to research power supplies MOBO's and whatever else you need. Read all the reviews on the component you are looking that you can find. At the very least you should get a MOBO with a P35 Chipset. If you don't plan on SLI then probably at least a 600W P/S. Everything I have read re: the newer processors ie: with G0 stepping is that theyeasily overclock on even stock cooling but you might want to look atthe Thermaltake Typhoon.Google the heck out of components and you will find a lot of reviews as well as advice/opinions in many of the forums.CraigASUS A8N- nForce SLI Chipset SATA RAID Dual PCIe MOBOAMD ATHLON64 3500+ CPU w/ HT TechLG GWA-4161 DVD/CDSeagate ST3160811AS 160GB Barracuda 9 7200RPM 8MB SATA II 3Gb/s NCQSeagate ST3160811AS 250GB Barracuda 9 7200RPM 8MB SATA II 3Gb/s NCQEVGA 7950 GT KO PCIe 512mb nvodngov19147-[Guru3D.com] drivers SB Audigy 22G Corsair PC 3200 400MHZ Dual Channel DDR Aspire 500W P/SWinXP Pro 32bit SP2Track IR3 w/vectorCH Yolk & RuddersFS Genesis Terrain MeshFS Genesis Land ClassActive SkyRC4

Thanks CraigHave done a fair bit more research already; great advice on the G0 stepping. I will post my assembled components with comments once done.Stobbe