I was looking at Digital storm to build me an FSX beast for about $3500 to $4000 with SLI and top of the line i 7 processor that should run FSX no problem and future proof as well.

Don't waste your money with SLI for FSX. http://www.simforums...topic34141.html and read the facts from the man who knows.Also Nick can advise you on what is good and bad in purchasing hardware.Don't use Tom's Hardware as a guide. You will get really good advise from NickN.CheersJulian

I was looking at Digital storm to build me an FSX beast for about $3500 to $4000 with SLI and top of the line i 7 processor that should run FSX no problem and future proof as well.

Do yourself a big favor. If you are comfortable with putting a new graphics card in your PC, or sticking a couple of memory DIMMs into a slot, save yourself a couple of thousand and build your own PC. I did it last year for the first time, built a comparable $5500 Dell for $1600, and it only took me about 4 hours to build as a first timer....If you can plug things in, and are capable of driving in maybe 10 small screws, you can do it yourself and save a bundle.

Do yourself a big favor. If you are comfortable with putting a new graphics card in your PC, or sticking a couple of memory DIMMs into a slot, save yourself a couple of thousand and build your own PC. I did it last year for the first time, built a comparable $5500 Dell for $1600, and it only took me about 4 hours to build as a first timer....If you can plug things in, and are capable of driving in maybe 10 small screws, you can do it yourself and save a bundle.

TRUE my friend!I have this one... can you tell me if NGX will run? if i need something tell meWindows 7 Ultimate 64BitsIntel i3-530 2.93Ghz (4CPUs)2GB RAM DDR3 i'll put 2GB more Nvidia Ge Force 9800 GT 1GB DDR3 DirectX 11

The i 3 might be a problem.

The i 3 might be a problem.

Thanks! for the info... But we don't really know how much resources it will request... lets see

Well..If you buy a rig ONLY for FSX you should put your money in CPU/ RAM a Good single GPU and a maybe a SSD as system disc.With liquid cooling you should be able the clock the CPU up to 4 GHZIf you want to use the rig for other games/sims and perhaps MS new sim in the future, you could invest in SLi-GPU set up.Good to now is the fact that a new Intel generation of CPU is released in January(sany Bridge), a fact that should bring prices DOWN on the top notch CPU's in very close future.Moooore bang for the buxx !I will wait another couple of months with my investment..:()

Well..If you buy a rig ONLY for FSX you should put your money in CPU/ RAM a Good single GPU and a maybe a SSD as system disc.With liquid cooling you should be able the clock the CPU up to 4 GHZIf you want to use the rig for other games/sims and perhaps MS new sim in the future, you could invest in SLi-GPU set up.Good to now is the fact that a new Intel generation of CPU is released in January(sany Bridge), a fact that should bring prices DOWN on the top notch CPU's in very close future.Moooore bang for the buxx !I will wait another couple of months with my investment..:()

An i7 should run at 4GHz on air, not water cooling needed as far is I know.And if you don't get 4GHz, 3,9 will do fine too :)Best Regards,Bert Van Bulck

An i7 should run at 4GHz on air, not water cooling needed as far is I know.And if you don't get 4GHz, 3,9 will do fine too :)Best Regards,Bert Van Bulck

Of course...But want mama-rig to looove mee loooong time ...!:)

hi guys,im new here, and advantage the topic,could u please tell me wich CPU is better for run fsx all maxed?i5 760(2.8) or II X4 965(3.4)the GPU is an HD6850tnx..(and sorry for my english,im from Brazil \o)

I am running FSX, my machine isn't an iCore but it seems to run it OK with sliders on the right side of the bar. The CPU is the most critical path to good performance, I've overclocked mine to 4.275 GHz on air (Core 2 Duo) and it made a big difference. Overclocking my video card didn't make any difference at all with FSX. I've heard that a quad-core will give smoother frames than a dual-core because the other cores are used for terrain and texture processing, but the CPU speed still mainly determines FPS. System specs are below. Jim

I am running FSX, my machine isn't an iCore but it seems to run it OK with sliders on the right side of the bar. The CPU is the most critical path to good performance, I've overclocked mine to 4.275 GHz on air (Core 2 Duo) and it made a big difference. Overclocking my video card didn't make any difference at all with FSX. I've heard that a quad-core will give smoother frames than a dual-core because the other cores are used for terrain and texture processing, but the CPU speed still mainly determines FPS. System specs are below. Jim

Hi Jim,Yes - you are correct, FSX can and does put those cores to use (up to 8 with no tweaks, 32 with a little .cfg fiddling). I've had an i7 for about a year now (a relatively cheap 920, o/C'd easily to 3.6 GHz) with an equally inexpensive nVidia GTS250 and it is simply beautiful to run FSX! The cores will be put to good use.Also, yes, the 4,25 GHz tweak you performed sure as heck worked, and the video card, not so much. Turns out, cpu is (as it's always been) key for FS, but over the years the vid card, too. And now, it's the link/path between the two! The beauty is, if you move to i7 particularly, the bandwidth between processor and video is more than any program can use - even in triple SLI. So, with a i7-920/930 you kill "two bottlenecks with one stone" so to speak.Anyway, when you can, move to iCore w/ 4 or more cores. You will not regret it.Cheers and Happy New Year!

Jim - sorry, I never answered your actual 'question'! My bad. Anyway - keep the video card. The extra cores in your proposed new rig AND the bandwidth to the card from these cores will bring new life to your very nice GTS260.Cheers!

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I got my computer built for around $2400 a little bit over my limit but take a look at specs in my signature, it's a nice setup thats future proof and will probably run the NGX insanely well hopefully.

I don't have the best computer, it's worst than most of yours. But I've managed to keep sliders around medium, and got around 25+ FPS in highly dense areas, in the Caribbean now >_< On average around 60 FPS, but that's not the point. Flying with The Jetstream I'm able to get a steady 25 FPS in huge airports, will this live up to NGX standards? Or do I need to give up?