Hello everyone. I've been away from flight simulator for a while. I once had a desktop that was pretty old with about 800MB of ram and a decent video card. I was running FS9 with some payware like the LVL-D 767, Flight 1 Beechcraft B-200, Flight 1 C172, and a B36 Bonanza. Of course I had to bring the graphics way down to run those airplanes with any enjoyment. I was ran simple clouds or anti-aliasing. Oh yeah, I was living in the dark ages as far as computers go for flight simulation. I'm a real world pilot/CFI at a flight school and I'm looking to get back into the flight sim world for fun now that I have a little extra cash to spend on a new computer. I really just need a new computer and figured I'd go ahead and build a beast. I've compiled a wish list on newegg and it looks like this. Tell me what you guys think. I also know that the new flight sim is coming out and I'm sure that computers nowadays will not be able to keep up just like about 3 years when I stopped flight simming. I think Microsoft is really trying to appeal to everyone with the new one, so it may not stick with the hard core simmers. I don't know but I'm gonna try and stick with FSX with loads of payware to make it realistic as possible. Also I remember that computers had a lot of catching up with FSX to run it with good frame rates and FSX wasn't compatible with some features of new comptuers so a little knowledge about that would help too. ;)Here are the specs:ASUS Rampage II Extreme LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX EVGA SuperClocked GeForce GTX 580 (Fermi) 1536MB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP SLI Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor BX80601950CORSAIR DOMINATOR 12GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)CORSAIR Professional Series AX1200 1200W ATX12V v2.31 / EPS12V v2.92 SLI Certified 80 PLUS GOLDWestern Digital 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5"CORSAIR CWCH50-1 High Performance CPU CoolerLG Black 10X BD-ROM 16X DVD-ROM SATAAnd of course a widescreen HD monitor and a free little 15" Dell monitor from my aunt to run two monitors for panels and such.

The spec´s looking really nice. I wish I would also have one of this damn good i7 CPU´s .