Hi folksI'm currently running FSX (SP1) on an old P4 3.2Ghz CPU, a 512MB AGP video card, and 1GB of ram. Although after tweeking i've gotten decent results with this setup I'm looking for something better to upgrade to on a limited budget.After some research I'm looking at purchasing the following items to improve my FSX experience (all prices are in Canadian dollars).Intel E8500 3.16GHZ 1333Mhz CPU $210ASUS P5E-VM MB $130ASUS PCIE EN9500GT video card $100Kingston HyperX 2GB,PC2-8500 DDR2 1066Mhz memory $86I would greatly appreciate any comments, suggestions, or experiences that people have had with this hardware. Should I expect to see muchof a performance improvement? Thanks in advance for for your input.Mark

Only let down may be the video card, id go for a 9600 GTs 512, and make sure ram is a 2 X 1GIG kit so that mem operates in dual channel mode not just a single 2gig stick, anyway will be a vast improvement over what you have.

The performance will be like night and day. Get an 8800GT. I'm seeing 'em at $100 US after rebate. More Vcard won't help, less Will hurt. The ram can come down to DDR2800. You'll be O/Cing to 400Mhz and the ram will be running at 800. No sense getting tires rated to 120mph when you're only gonna be going 80 (and FYI running the ram faster won't help). Consider a Q6600.http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWi...tNumber=7159746