My current HP media center PC with Windows XP Media Center OS installed died over the weekend.I am currently using FS9 (I own FSX not sure if I will upgrade or not) anyway. Will the following HP system be good for FS9 and FSX.I may opt to order the PC with Windows XPx64 insted of Vista.Configuration Summary Selected Features:

Not too shabby for an off the shelf system. I used to buy the HP Media Centers and turn them into FlightSim machines but there was always something that held them back (like bus speed or RAM speed or HDD). You also usually can't overclock them at all. That's a pretty good Media Center setup you're looking at. Imagine it would run FS9 just fine and probably FSX too but not on high sliders. I run FSX on a ######ized Media Center (dual-core 2.6GH with an ATI Radeon HD 3870 oc'ed to 777MHz) right now and get decent FPS with sliders on high medium. But I wanted better performance which is why I decided to build my own system. For FS9 though, it looks like plenty of power.Just my 2 cents.

Good for FS9 decent for FSXBottleneck's for FSX are the CPU speed. Since its an HP machine I highly doubt you'll be able to overclock it. To see FSX run very well you want 4.0 GHz and you'll need to overclock the 920 to get that speed.Also if you can I'd go for a GTX260 or 285 for that system instead of an ATI video card

Good for FS9 decent for FSXBottleneck's for FSX are the CPU speed. Since its an HP machine I highly doubt you'll be able to overclock it. To see FSX run very well you want 4.0 GHz and you'll need to overclock the 920 to get that speed.Also if you can I'd go for a GTX260 or 285 for that system instead of an ATI video card

Thanks it's not much more to bump to a 4.0 and the only reason why I when with the ATI is I have never had any luck with the GForce cards they always seem to give my system stutters. Am I ok with 12GB of Ram or is that overkill??