No Ivy Bridge or Sandy Bridge for me, I'm waiting until Intel sells the Brooklyn Bridge!

If Flight is the bottleneck holding back your purchase, then Intel's most future CPU could be the: Bridge to Nowhere. actually, I have it from highly unreproducible and unreliable sources, that MS is waiting for the Alaskan runway-to-nowhere to be finished in order to get an aerial HD photo of it for their box covers' pics before the golden shower release. aol

I'm not planning to buy a new computer any time soon. If flight (or any other upcoming sim) doesn't run well on my current system, I will stay with FSX.

Absolutely not. I finally have a system that can run FSX. If Flight is so poorly optimized we have to wait for years to be able to run it decently, I won't be buying. But I kind of doubt that if MS learned anything from the last release. Cheers

yes, this is totally me. I've planned system upgrades around FlightSim for at least a decade now.

After Flight is released, I'll start a thread about how CPU and GPU demanding it is, and build my computer based on the information I get. Do you guys think it'll fully utilize 6 cores?

Do you guys think it'll fully utilize 6 cores?

A six-core processor? Never heard of those!

A six-core processor? Never heard of those!

i7-970, i7-980, i7-980X, i7-990X, i7-3930K, i7-3960X and there are a few by AMD as well.

I guess I haven't been keeping up!

I am. Are you? If so where are Intel at with their latest chipset release? What motherboard / processor are you looking at? Obviously i'm going to try and get the best performance for my budget at the time of Flights release in 2011 / 2012. Will we be beyond the i3, i5, i7 stage by then and onto something new from Intel?

The short answer her is 'Yes'. I won't be buying a new PC until Flight is released and if it proves to be a dud version of Flight Simulator I'll have all the more PC hardware to run FSX. Flight is my marker for an upgrade as I'm happy with FS9 for now.

I'm not waiting for Flight; I think it's safe to assume that Flight will utilize system resources much more efficiently. Therefore, I think any high-end system built with an Intel Sandy Bridge, Gulftown, or Westmere processor, and current AMD or Nvidia graphics technologies, will provide all the power needed to enjoy Flight to a high degree. Well, at least that's the idea... =) However, I'm a systems builder, so, I always have the latest computer technology at my finger tips. If this wasn't the case for me, I would more than likely hold off until Flight was released before building a system.

At release I'll have my current system: i7 2600K @ 4.5 GHz8 GB DDR3 RAMGTX 570 1.2 GB RAM However, down the road I might look into their upcoming Skylake chip (2015 I believe). However, since Flight was rumored to be less CPU intensive and have SLI and such, I might not need a super powerful CPU and rather just a good GPU. Who knows. You know since FSX was made around the time when multi-core was just coming out? Well with Flight, if it's properly optimized, we won't need 5 GHz chips in order to run it well.

yes, i am waiting. i probably wouldn't update my "old" 2007 dual core system yet even if Flight wasn't coming. There still isn't a system on earth that FSX (with detailed add on scenery) can't bring to its knees. I decided that until that system was available I wouldn't upgrade. The quad core Ivy Bridge being released next year looks good now, but I'm not convinced that will be an FSX tamer either, and who knows, Flight might take full advantage of six cores. Anyway, as someone else pointed out, even if Flight turns out to be a disappointment, by then the hardware will be that much better for FSX.

yes, i am waiting. i probably wouldn't update my "old" 2007 dual core system yet even if Flight wasn't coming. There still isn't a system on earth that FSX (with detailed add on scenery) can't bring to its knees. I decided that until that system was available I wouldn't upgrade. The quad core Ivy Bridge being released next year looks good now, but I'm not convinced that will be an FSX tamer either, and who knows, Flight might take full advantage of six cores. Anyway, as someone else pointed out, even if Flight turns out to be a disappointment, by then the hardware will be that much better for FSX.

Ummm, just so you know. FSX doesn't bring my system to its knees. Just saying.

There still isn't a system on earth that FSX (with detailed add on scenery) can't bring to its knees.

HelloI have one here and it is not particularly special as far as systems go, smooth as silk with the PMDG into any addon scenery I have tried.

HelloI have one here and it is not particularly special as far as systems go, smooth as silk with the PMDG into any addon scenery I have tried.

Yes, as long as you have set your sliders to reasonable positions, that is entirely possible.