I upgraded a while ago for FS2004, but not to FSX given the early dismal performance reviews. Now that there is much more scenery available, as well as plane add-ons, I am thinking of upgrading to FSX and along the way upgrading my rig.It would be going from A64 4000+ to X2 6000+ with 2gig RAM, Nvidia 8800GS video card, and Asus N570/N590 chipset.I like flightsim packed - commercial plane along the likes of LDS767, with scenery, and full AI traffic.With the FSX patch and the rig above, will Flight sim run decent, or is it going to be like the P4 1.8 days with FS2004 (slide show, 10fps)?Many thanks!PS: Is it worth the extra money for the Nvidia 590 over the 570 chipset on Asus motherboards?

It depends greatly on where you define "descent" as a function of tolerable FPS and acceptable game settings. Me, I like to have my AI cranked to max, my terrain settings mostly maxed (with water and autogen about mid-high range), weather max coverage and where possible max range, aircraft medium-high, AA/AF on and no bloom. With such settings on the rig in my sig, I mostly see 18-25 on the ground and 25-45 in the air. But some places are still no go at such highish settings eg. KEWR delivers a very sad 7 FPS at such settings.The rig you are proposing will probably pull about 2/3 - 3/4 of the FPS that I get, so if you consider those adjusted FPS descent or if not are happy to push a few sliders down loader until the FPS does become descent, then the system you propose will make you happy. But if you are looking for an all slider right and 20+ FPS everywhere, then we only reached that with FS9 a year ago and it will probably be another year or two before hardware can get FSX to that level.Gary

yeah sorry, you're not gonna get to run with AI maxed and LvlD 767 with the AMD6000....a friend of mine just got that..You'll need to look at the Intel E6850 and overclock that...The video card you list is fine and the RAM too....I mean, if you fly around smaller cities and farm country, you'll be fine....but Boston, NYC, ATL, ORD, LAX/SFO ie top 20 airport cities...will be still rough, especially with AI and autogen..

I am waiting for Intel's 45 nm beasts in 1-2 months. They should significantly outperform anything we currently see for FSX. ==Marten:Weber==P-D920 oc3.64MHz 2GB RAM WinXP ATI X1900+1024MB 2xSATA250 2xVIEWSONIC 19"Need AI? Get AI: www.world-of-ai.com

I am considering getting an Intel E6750, but do you guys think an Intel E6850 would be worth the additional $100? Any thoughts appreciated.

I recently upgraded to a 6750 on a P35 motherboard and am very happy with it. I am overclocking it to 3.61 at 1.5v and was able to go 3.5 at stock voltage. To the original poster, this is my first Intel since a P166. I've been loyal to AMD but Intel has just beat them too badly with the C2D.Don

>I am considering getting an Intel E6750, but do you guys>think an Intel E6850 would be worth the additional $100? Any>thoughts appreciated.For a variety of reasons, if it were me I would spend the extra $100, get the E6850 and be done with it.If you have a set budget then E6750 is fine because you can overclock it almost (but not quite) as high as a E6850, all for $100 less. Talk about bang-for-buck.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