Hi Boys,Alright, I just purchased a new computer, and I was wondering how you think it will hold up. Now before you go and get all flustered because its a Mac, please keep in my mind that I am a commercial retoucher, and really needed this for my business. I added an additional hard drive bay to run bootcamp and thus have windows and FSX on. What do you think?Its a mac pro (tower) with 8 cores!

• Two 2.4GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Westmere” (8 cores)
• 12GB (6X2GB) RAM
• 1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive
• 1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive
• ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB

Thanks guys!

nice 12gb of ram is cool for fsx. PM me 2gb please!!!!:( it should run very smooth with those specs

The one issue is that you can't overclock the CPUs... FSX really likes the newer Intel CPUs up around 4GHz. Multi-CPU isn't going to help you ask much as raw clock speed would.

The one issue is that you can't overclock the CPUs... FSX really likes the newer Intel CPUs up around 4GHz. Multi-CPU isn't going to help you ask much as raw clock speed would.

Yeah, thats what I figured. Its all I could do though. Either way, I'll see an improvement from my iMac.

Yeah, thats what I figured. Its all I could do though. Either way, I'll see an improvement from my iMac.

Nice The CPU will hurt you but its good. I kind of want to try FSX on my new 2010 macbook pro. Still need to go buy another copy of windows since I got the OEM(Single license :() Core i7 2.66Ghz4gb 1066mhz320M512mb(I think this equivalent to a 8800M)7200RPM HDD

Oh, FSX...So silly that the simulation can't run well on an 8 core, high end system. I guess we're stuck with it for a while, maybe forever. We'll just have to see what becomes of MS Flight. In the meantime however, it definitely keeping me busy.Cheers!