Good evening,I don't have to send a man on Mars, but I want to run FSX with ALL addons in harwares and sofwares available and run 40FPS and above.What would you suggest?Case, MB, CPU, RAM, Graphic card, sound, screen etc etc....Thanks for your advices. I am looking for the real pro stuff!Jean Paul

See my sig. It should help you choose. Note my prices are in AUD, not USD. Probably cheaper in America.

Hi Chris,Thanks for coming so soon. Your first choice seems to be excellent. I ordered TrackIR 5 and should be here by saturday.How about this kind of equipment?I presume you found all this in Perth?Perhaps I could purchase online?So you mean your FSX is absolutely fluid?RegardsJean Paul

Buy online, should save you money. But shop around for lowest prices, offers etc first. This is as real as it gets and is very smooth. I bought this from different shops online and instore from Perth and Australia wide.

Good evening,I don't have to send a man on Mars, but I want to run FSX with ALL addons in harwares and sofwares available and run 40FPS and above.What would you suggest?Case, MB, CPU, RAM, Graphic card, sound, screen etc etc....Thanks for your advices. I am looking for the real pro stuff!Jean Paul

Chris suggestion is really good. But if I was you the goal of 40 fps is great but expect more round 30 fps. That will still give a excellent viewing (my opinion).

Hi!Thanks for your input. Yes, 40fps is probably optimistic :( What about this Notepad Alienware M17X?Would this be a good choice?Jean Paul

Overpriced and overrated. It's nowhere near as good of system as a desktop built by you.

Unless you plan on overclocking to 6 or lower the settings, forget about 40 fps everywhere. 30s is more realistic.The goal is 30s and smooth. I achieve 30s in about 95% of the sceneries I fly in. There are a few that I have to lower the AG to normal and depending on weather, AI etc. I still don't get 30. But it's smooth. :(

Exactly, more frames isn't the goal for FSX, we want a smooth flight with no stutters etc, so 40fps is unreacheable however 30fps is just as smooth.

And a notebook aint gonna give you the performance you want....I understand you're from Indonesia... not sure how hard it is to buy parts online there but that will be your best bet! To build your own desktop!

I think Indonesia has those huge digital shopping malls like China does and competition between shops for selling parts is ferocious so you can get great deals!Definitely try to get the parts together yourself and custom-build a PC....you'll never get the same kind of performance from a pre-built branded PC.

Yes Panda Power you are right. Indonesia is the Ali Baba's cave in that respect.What we are going to try to find is:NVidia 480 GTXi7 Extreme Edition 980Gigabyte GA-X58A-VD5Memory perhaps up to 12 GB(depending slots)2X HD Velociraptor at 10.000rpm about 300Gb or more if availableGood casing and power supply and good fansHope this will do it :( Jean Paul

Yes Panda Power you are right. Indonesia is the Ali Baba's cave in that respect.What we are going to try to find is:NVidia 480 GTXi7 Extreme Edition 980Gigabyte GA-X58A-VD5Memory perhaps up to 12 GB(depending slots)2X HD Velociraptor at 10.000rpm about 300Gb or more if availableGood casing and power supply and good fansHope this will do it :( Jean Paul

I have read on overclock forums that people have had trouble getting a stable OC with 12GB of ram and they have to either underclock their ram or lower the OC on their CPU to get everthing stable.Unless you are going to use software that needs 12GB of ram do not waste the money, 6GB is perfect for FSX.CAS6 ram is preferable, if you can not get it then try for at least CAS7. Do not get CAS9 ram, that is slow. I can recommend this Mushkin ram if you can find it where you are.http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820226121Rod

I'm going to recommend that you buy 2 Vertex 2 SSD drives. One for the OS and one for FSX.The OS one does not have to be that big. Size matters for FSX. Plus, SSDs are much faster.

I am a little suspicious about SSD drives with PC?Not too many people use them so far. I contnue with the 10.000rpm drives.Thanks and regardsJean Paul