My Specs, what do you think? i7 2600K factory overclocked to 3.9ghz, AMD Ratheon HD 6870, 8gb DDR3 1333 Mhz ram, RAID-0 2TB Hard Drive, Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit, Alienware Aurora all for $1,594.00

Should be quite good, you might want to try and unleash your CPU to its full potential. 3.9GHz is a stock standard intel OC. See my sig for what I just built myself. I get 25 -30 FPS with the PMDG 747,FTX AU @ FTX YBBN with Active Sky, REX2 etc all running and most sliders full right on the scale. You should not be far off this, maybe better, I have suspicions about my CPU not being one of the better batches.

Should be quite good, you might want to try and unleash your CPU to its full potential. 3.9GHz is a stock standard intel OC. See my sig for what I just built myself. I get 25 -30 FPS with the PMDG 747,FTX AU @ FTX YBBN with Active Sky, REX2 etc all running and most sliders full right on the scale. You should not be far off this, maybe better, I have suspicions about my CPU not being one of the better batches.

No I think you got a goodie with those results. In the pmdg 747 at that same airport from orbx with rex2 i get between 15 and 20 on the runway. Ive got an i7 2600k with a nvidia gtx580

No I think you got a goodie with those results. In the pmdg 747 at that same airport from orbx with rex2 i get between 15 and 20 on the runway. Ive got an i7 2600k with a nvidia gtx580

:( :( Yeah, it handles FSX well enough (50-55deg), but overheats when running OCCT, Prime etc benchmarks (70+ deg). 3DMark Vantage survived tho. Vcore never seems to go over 1.4V in FSX @ 4.6GHz, which is good as well.

Ok i overclocked my GPU, it runs at about 65C in the PMDG MD-11 Heathrow, settings maxed, full traffic. Will I be able to upgrade to a GTX 590 from the 6870 in the future, or will I Have to stay with AMD to upgrade my GPU.

Ok i overclocked my GPU, it runs at about 65C in the PMDG MD-11 Heathrow, settings maxed, full traffic. Will I be able to upgrade to a GTX 590 from the 6870 in the future, or will I Have to stay with AMD to upgrade my GPU.

No, not al all. Toss an Nvidia in there and you should be happy.

oh good, well time to start saving up $700 dollars :)

oh good, well time to start saving up $700 dollars :)

Unless you do a whole lot of other gaming, that $700 will be wasted on FSX because it's so cpu dependent. Money would be better spent on a GTX460 & some more addons That or a GTX 580 & fewer additional addons

Thanks and I only play portal and civ 5 so, yeah i guess it would be a waste.

^ "oh I guess it would be a waste having that $700 video card"....ahahha funniest open revelation I've ever seen. Ok but you should get GTX 570. No doubt 460 great value but will run outta the kick you need when playing new titles at 1080 and beyond.

Thanks