There are loads of posts on this forum, about different hardware, different GFX cards.. etc.. and every time I come here I get more and more confused..SO.. I've made some decisions... the ONLY way to go for FSX is overclocking.. which probably means watercooling.. Standard CPU speeds at the moment won't get you really good performance all round.. SO.. I've got a fair amount of money.. thinking of spending around

If you get a Penryn you can overclock it on air. People are hitting 4 ghz on air with those. 4ghz will get you the performance you mention in FSX.Now don't get me wrong, you can go with water, and get even more with the Extreme Edition Penryn (QX9650) but my point is that those 45 nm cpu's are overclocking well on air.About the new nVidia card, I don't know, we will just have to wait n see how well it does FS. I am concerned about nVidia's recent (the last year or 1.5 years) driver work. It seems to ignore FS for the most part.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