• Intel Core i7-2600K Unlock Quad Core 3.40GHz CPU
• Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3 1155 Motherboard
• 8GB DDR3 1333MHz
• LG 24X DVD+/-RW Double Layer SATA
• WD 1TB 7200RPM Blue SATA Hard Drive
• Sapphire HD-6570 1GB DDR5 PCI Express x16 version 2 Graphic Card
• 7.1 channel Audio, Gigabit LAN
• Mid Tower Case with 650Watts Power Supply

Grand total is 788 $ How would this be for FSX ?

What cabinet and PSU brand ?

Coolermaster HAF 912 and a Corsair TX650

Looks a tad unbalanced to me with a top of the range i7 CPU, and a quite frankly crap graphics card. Swap the i2600k for an i2500k and get a GTX460 or similar nvidia based card. EDIT - Also are you planning on an aftermarket CPU cooler?

Coolermaster HAF 912 and a Corsair TX650

Ok, and what RAM brand ? System looks good but i5 2500 k is cheaper and gives performance in FSX. judging from all the posts and reviews.And you would want to add the Nvidia 560ti for FSX,

Gskill ram and this is a computer that someone else built and is selling new.I was wondering if this is a good buy for a FSX system and a future Flight system.

Gskill ram and this is a computer that someone else built and is selling new.I was wondering if this is a good buy for a FSX system and a future Flight system.

On your siggy you already have the system for fsx.

Dont take it. Crap. That GPU will bottleneck that thing terribly. Everything else is almost top spec, but mixed with a pretty average card like that is silly

What's wrong with the rig you show in your signature? That looks pretty good to me. Get yourself a good CPU cooler for around $30.00, OC that 2500 and you are good to go.

What's wrong with the rig you show in your signature? That looks pretty good to me. Get yourself a good CPU cooler for around $30.00, OC that 2500 and you are good to go.

+1 on that.

What's wrong with the rig you show in your signature? That looks pretty good to me. Get yourself a good CPU cooler for around $30.00, OC that 2500 and you are good to go.

Already asked him, it just does not make sense to buy a new one when you have the perfect setup already. And talking about the future flight sim , Flight has not even come out with anything except snapshots which look like FSX. @momoshakeel, It's entirely upto you if you want to buy a second machine , but as I said the 560ti would sync in better than the HD 6570. FSX uses .dds format which is native to Nvidia.

Okay guys thanks for the input. I should of mentioned that this computer is not for me but rather a friend who wants to run FSX. My system currently is top of the line well atleast for me and I get my hyper 212+ tomorrow so up to 4.5 GHZ it goes.

Okay guys thanks for the input. I should of mentioned that this computer is not for me but rather a friend who wants to run FSX. My system currently is top of the line well atleast for me and I get my hyper 212+ tomorrow so up to 4.5 GHZ it goes.

Ok , but change to Nvidia.

But just asking with this system what can he be getting in terms of frames per second?

But just asking with this system what can he be getting in terms of frames per second?

I would say you should be able to get a decent performance. And those two GFX cards in crossfire mode will not give anything extra as FSX does not support SLI or crossfire. But he can try this utility ATI CFX Xtension to try and make fsx use cfx but no guarantee if it will. And if the i7 has Hyperthreading would advise you to switch it off for fsx. He can upgrade to a 560ti later if he/she wishes.