:( PMDG, today I just found out that you are making a Dash and Jetstream 4100 for FSX, I however only have FS2004 so now thanks to you guys and making such amazing products and making amazing planes I'am now convinced to join the dark side, convinced to upgrade to FSX, all thanks to you and your temptations!lol, anyways here are my specs, I was wondering if anyone could suggest what to upgrade, to what, and how. Sorry but im a noob at upgrading, lol.Intel Core 2 quad processor Q6600 2.44ghz (came with computer)5120MB of RAM (came with computer)750GB HD (came with computer)Nvidia PNY Q8800GT (upgraded from internal graphics)Michael Ward

Sign your posts with your real name please per forum rules...I'd get something like this:CPU - best Intel Core i7 you can affordRAM - 6GB DDR3 (I like newegg's G.Skill brand)Mobo - Asus P6T seriesVideo - Nvidia GTX285 1GB (I like the eVGA brand)HD - not incredibly crucial, but if you want to upgrade you can't go wrong with the WD Velociraptor... then salvage the other drive you have and use it as a mass storage drive.Case - I like Coolermaster stuff (have a CM Storm Sniper myself)Power supply - Corsair 620HXwww.newegg.com is where I've always bought parts for all my systems over the years, they've never let me down.

This is the system I just bought:Case: Antec Twelve HundredPower Supply: CORSAIR 1000WProcessor: Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition 975 3.33GHzMotherboard: ASUS i7 Rampage II ExtremeMemory: CORSAIR XMS3 6GB (3 x 2GB) DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 Hard Drive: Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB 10000 RPM 16MB CacheSecond Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB 7200 RPM 32MB CacheOptical Drive: LG Blu-ray/HD DVD-ROM & 16X DVD

Don't be a hater! Well, I guess you CAN be a hater if you really want to, but just do not hate PMDG :( FSX is not all that bad...like seriously dude. I don't understand why people hate FSX. Let me tell you till a couple weeks ago, I had a Pentium D 2.8GHz, 2GB of RAM @ 533mhz, GeForce 8600GT, and a Dell generic motherboard. And I was running FSX with addons like PMDG 747X, LDS 767, including GEX and FEX 1024 X 1024 clouds and I had the sliders pretty up there. Was I getting performance like an i7 975 system? of course not. But was it acceptable and "playable"? Absolutely! It was acceptable enough that that's the system I was running FSX on for over a year. Recently I just upgraded the CPU to Q6600 and RAM to 4GB @ 800MHz. NOT because performance was horrible, but why not upgrade when you can?As far as your setup, I would suggest that you consider overclocking if you can. And also get yourself some DDR2 800 at 4-4-4 timings running it at Dual Channel which means it has to be in intervals of 2 or 4GB and identical sticks. Or perhaps move on to DDR3 if you can. Also have a look at NickN's FSX Guide over at simforums.comLike NickN says,

FSX runs fine, the problem is you or your system.

Take care dude and see you in the skies!

I just heard the interview on FSbreak with the Aerosoft guy. He said in the interview that many of the modern GFX-cards make FSX run SLOWER, because of a bug in some load timer inside the engine, if I understood him correctly. If this is the case, you should not invest in a new graphic card, if your computer is going to be used mostly with flight simulator.

Well thanks for the suggestions everyone, im going to get my FSX back from my friend today and give it another test run and see how im getting on frames, then im going to consider what to upgrade. However Im not going to upgrade untill Octoberish since I want to finish off my PPL training, I only have like another 8 hours to get, and of course thats more important. :) So that gives me time to save up some money and since this is computers im sure there will be some better products or some cheaper products to get at that time.

I just heard the interview on FSbreak with the Aerosoft guy. He said in the interview that many of the modern GFX-cards make FSX run SLOWER, because of a bug in some load timer inside the engine, if I understood him correctly. If this is the case, you should not invest in a new graphic card, if your computer is going to be used mostly with flight simulator.

That's interesting - where can I read more about this?Cheers,Blake

That's interesting - where can I read more about this?Cheers,Blake

http://www.fsbreak.net/podcast/25 That's the linkage. Think Mathias was referring to sli though.John Ellison

:( PMDG, today I just found out that you are making a Dash and Jetstream 4100 for FSX, I however only have FS2004 so now thanks to you guys and making such amazing products and making amazing planes I'am now convinced to join the dark side, convinced to upgrade to FSX, all thanks to you and your temptations!lol, anyways here are my specs, I was wondering if anyone could suggest what to upgrade, to what, and how. Sorry but im a noob at upgrading, lol.Intel Core 2 quad processor Q6600 2.44ghz (came with computer)5120MB of RAM (came with computer)750GB HD (came with computer)Nvidia PNY Q8800GT (upgraded from internal graphics)Michael Ward

Your best upgrade there would be to add ram as that's the major handiicap with that system. Consider a new system in the future with Window7 64bit and the best hardware you can afford at the time.Cpu is ok ish at the moment but looks like new innards to the box at least in the future.To be honest you won't get the best from fsx using a 32bit operating system now.John Ellison

For optimal FSX performance any CPU either i7, Core 2 or Quad have to be OC'd to at least 3.8 GHZ with good overclockable memory sticks @ 4 Gb's.

FWIW, my recent i7 upgrade is running FSX very sweet! If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to send me a PM. Also, the tuning links a the bottom of my sig contain a wealth of tweaking info that I suggest you take a gander-at before ordering any hardware. NickN has had a very positive influance on my FSX rig and I only hope to pass on some of the widsom.

:( PMDG, today I just found out that you are making a Dash and Jetstream 4100 for FSX, I however only have FS2004 so now thanks to you guys and making such amazing products and making amazing planes I'am now convinced to join the dark side, convinced to upgrade to FSX, all thanks to you and your temptations!lol, anyways here are my specs, I was wondering if anyone could suggest what to upgrade, to what, and how. Sorry but im a noob at upgrading, lol.Intel Core 2 quad processor Q6600 2.44ghz (came with computer)5120MB of RAM (came with computer)750GB HD (came with computer)Nvidia PNY Q8800GT (upgraded from internal graphics)

FSX Rules!!!!!!!!!!

To be honest you won't get the best from fsx using a 32bit operating system now.

I have a 64bit, and I will look into a new CPU in the future, my main thing though is I dont need like 60FPS all I need is at least 20.

My advice: Try FSX on your current rig first. See how it goes.Definitely get 4Gb of RAM and get Vista 64-bit or Windows 7.Best regards,Robin.

Ram is your missing ingredient. Its cheap so that would do the trick. You can moderately overclock the CPU but RAM is what you need the most.