Today at work I finally bit the bullet and bought a new comp. Here some of the specs for the new machine.Dimension XPSPentium 4 Processor at 3.20GHz w/800MHz front side bus/ HT Technology Floppy Drive and Additional Storage Devices:3.5 in Floppy Drive and 128MB Dell USBMemory KeyMouse: Dell 2-button scroll mouse Secondary CD or DVD Drive: FREE UPGRADE! 48x CD-RW Drive with Sonic RecordNow Sound Card: Sound Blaster Audigy 2TM sound card with DVD Audio XPS Specialized Microsoft Worksuite including Money Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Memory: 1GB Dual Channel DDR SDRAM at 400MHzHard Drive: 120GB Serial ATA Hard Drive,7200RPM Network Interface: Integrated Intel® PRO 1000 Ethernet CD or DVD Drive: 16x DVD-ROM Drive Modem: 56K PCI Telephony Modem Video Card: NEW 256MB DDR ATI RADEONTM 9800 XT This computer was for other reasons than FS9, but will FS9 run ok on this machine?All comments are welcome.Thanks

no it won't (sarcasm) ;Dvery nice sir. how many arms and legs did you have to sell to buy it?

lol It will probably run like crap *:-*J/k I don't think there are much newer system available at this time.. so I assume FS9 will run perfectly on it :-) :-waveshocky :-hah"You talk so much , but you say so little" :-boom

lol you guys are probably right, with my luck it will probably have nothing but issues with FS9. Oh well at least I'll still have my old computer.;-) Will I be able to max out most of the sliders on this setup?

definately! :DOfcourse you just can happen to have The one in a million setup that FS jsut doesn't like :( then it won't run at all *:-*but nah, you will most likely have no probs at all maxin everything out :-hahHave fun with your new system ;-) :-waveshocky :-hah"You talk so much , but you say so little" :-boom

Sounds like you will have a awsome setup for FS9! Im expecting my new computer (upgraded) to be here this week too. (next week the latest) I ordered the parts the weekend before thanksgiving.

Not too bad, but you probably paid $1000+ more then had joe shmuck built it for you in the local shop.

Nope, My company is paying for the bulk of it. I still have to put in a little money though.

Today I got my new XPS well ahead of its expected arrival date of 12/10/03. I set everything up and then I finally got around to installing FS2004. For some reason I was expecting to be disappointed with the performance of FS2004 on this machine (I don

Galant, Nice system and great result with fs2004. I just imagine with even newer system that's how fs2004 will be :)ThanksChris Willis[link:fsw.simflight.com/FSWMenuFsSim.html]Clouds And Addons For MsFs

Galant... sounds like a great rig! Congrats."This has been the best upgrade to my flight simming experience and at only $300 (company paid for the rest) it has been one of the cheapest."Say... could you send me an application for your company? :-)