Hi! I am going to buy a whole new computer as my current (which is old) one is horrible for FSX + complex aircraft add ons + big airports. I would like to know your recommendations of specs i should have that will give me around 20-30 fps even in complex scenarios.Thanks in advance,Jonathan.

I7-2600K works for me. OCed to 4.3-4.6ghz. I use a gtx580 nvidia card which is also nice. Frames around orbx airports with rex and addon planes and traffic I usually get around 50fps. Cheers

Hi! I am going to buy a whole new computer as my current (which is old) one is horrible for FSX + complex aircraft add ons + big airports. I would like to know your recommendations of specs i should have that will give me around 20-30 fps even in complex scenarios.Thanks in advance,Jonathan.I run FSX on a dual core 2.66 CPU laptop with a NVIDIA 1Gb 230 card and 4Mb RAM. FSX runs just fine on high settings with the LDS 767. HIghly detailed airports and night time seems to drag it down quite a bit but I can fly it quite well with a bit of commonsense at 20 - 25fps and that rate looks a lot better in FSX than it does in FS9. Have a look at the new edition of "Computer Pilot" if you can where there is an excellent, very thoroughly researched article on hardware upgrades and frame rates. Certainly a faster processor is better without a doubt but better video cards or SSD Drives hardly seem to improve matters at all. In any case i5 type performance can be upgrade to i7 type performance simply by setting autogen from "very dense" to just "Dense". Go figure. It seems that FSX was written for non multiple core processors and still has trouble making use of those extra channels in any case. Check the article it is very good and well worth a look but essentially, what it says is that better and more expensive hardware may not get you value for money when it comes to FSX framerates. As I say it runs well for me and next week I should have the PMDG 747X and we will see how that goes but it should work just fine!By the way I also run low levels of traffic and REX V2 with lots of weather.Gerry

Core i5 2500K or i7 2600K P67 based mobo Overclock the chip to ~4.5+GHz with a good aftermarket cooler.4 or 8GB of DDR3-1333A recent generation Nvidia card (460, 560 Ti, 570, 580) with at least 1GB of RAM.That's the basic core stuff you should be getting. CPU speed is king with FSX as far as being able to run all the big scenery addons with good framerates. SSD will improve load times and general Windows responsiveness.

Core i5 2500K or i7 2600K P67 based mobo Overclock the chip to ~4.5+GHz with a good aftermarket cooler.4 or 8GB of DDR3-1333A recent generation Nvidia card (460, 560 Ti, 570, 580) with at least 1GB of RAM.That's the basic core stuff you should be getting. CPU speed is king with FSX as far as being able to run all the big scenery addons with good framerates. SSD will improve load times and general Windows responsiveness.

- Many differences between 2500K and 2600K compared to the performance within FSX?- Thinking about getting the 560Ti, simply the 570 and 580 are too expensive. How do you think about the 560 Ti?- Overclocking to 4,5 GHz, won't that too fast and won't that be too hot?- Wich cooler do you recommend. How about the Corsair A70?Hope to get response =) Kind regards,Steven

- Many differences between 2500K and 2600K compared to the performance within FSX?- Thinking about getting the 560Ti, simply the 570 and 580 are too expensive. How do you think about the 560 Ti?- Overclocking to 4,5 GHz, won't that too fast and won't that be too hot?- Wich cooler do you recommend. How about the Corsair A70?Hope to get response =) Kind regards,Steven

2600K has hyperthreading, that's about it. No reason to get it if all you do is FSX.560Ti is a good card - again, if all you do is FSX, it's fine. I got a 570 because I play a lot of other games that really use the GPU.Many people have overclocked the Sandy Bridge chips to near 5GHz, 4.5 is not too fast or too hot.Corsair A70 is a good cooler yes.

2600K has hyperthreading, that's about it. No reason to get it if all you do is FSX.560Ti is a good card - again, if all you do is FSX, it's fine. I got a 570 because I play a lot of other games that really use the GPU.Many people have overclocked the Sandy Bridge chips to near 5GHz, 4.5 is not too fast or too hot.Corsair A70 is a good cooler yes.

Many many thanks!! I think I've completed my list then! I'm also going to take the MSI P67A-GD65 with Corsair 2 x 4GB 1333, won't be a problem I think ;) Oh, .. with Windows 7 64 bit ofcourse and no SSD. It's too new and to expensive for me now. And I don't care if I have to wait a few minutes more to boot my computer or FSX.Kind regards,Steven

Will the new Radeon 6990 card (4Gb) be better than two 580 cards? I am runing dual monitors with the throttles and FMC on 1 monitor and the cockpit 2D on the other monitor. I plan on getting the 990 CPU.