Dear allI identified and am poised to buy the following as a potential purchase to hopefully run FSX smoothly in 3DI'm more into eye candy than technical realism but when I tried running FSX in anaglyph 3D my 4 year old PC couldn't cope.I am now addicted to using FSX in 3D mode - hence the upgrade. I'm also getting the Nvidia 3D Vision bundle and a BenQ 3D monitor.The specs below are advertised at a very competitive price but can be configuredCPU: Intel Core i7 2600K @ 5Ghz CPU Cooler: Corsair H60 Water Cooler Operating System: Microsoft® Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68X-UD5 Memory: 16.0GB Corsair 1600mhz Vengeance (4x 4GB)Hard Drives: Corsair 60GB Force3 SSD S-ATAIII 6.0Gb/s 2nd hard drive: WD Caviar Black 1TB S-ATAIII 6.0Gb/s Optical Drive: 10x Blu-Ray RW S-ATAGraphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 3GB Sound card: Onboard 7.1 Audio PSU: 850W Corsair HX ModularI'll be running FSX with stock aircraft plus Aerosoft's Airbus and German photoscenery.Thanks for any suggestions adviceJulian

Dear allI identified and am poised to buy the following as a potential purchase to hopefully run FSX smoothly in 3DI'm more into eye candy than technical realism but when I tried running FSX in anaglyph 3D my 4 year old PC couldn't cope.I am now addicted to using FSX in 3D mode - hence the upgrade. I'm also getting the Nvidia 3D Vision bundle and a BenQ 3D monitor.The specs below are advertised at a very competitive price but can be configuredCPU: Intel Core i7 2600K @ 5Ghz CPU Cooler: Corsair H60 Water Cooler Operating System: Microsoft® Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68X-UD5 Memory: 16.0GB Corsair 1600mhz Vengeance (4x 4GB)Hard Drives: Corsair 60GB Force3 SSD S-ATAIII 6.0Gb/s 2nd hard drive: WD Caviar Black 1TB S-ATAIII 6.0Gb/s Optical Drive: 10x Blu-Ray RW S-ATAGraphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 3GB Sound card: Onboard 7.1 Audio PSU: 850W Corsair HX ModularI'll be running FSX with stock aircraft plus Aerosoft's Airbus and German photoscenery.Thanks for any suggestions adviceJulian

I have a 2600K running at 4,6 Ghz and GTX 580 in 3D Vision with al the eye candy you wish to have with iFly737 PMDG 737 Level-D 767 at 30fps.The only showstopper is offset of lights ans runway lights in 3D

HiThanks for the response.I've gone ahead and purchased and hope to have my new setup in a couple of weeks. I figured I've bought a powerful enough system to run FSX reasonably smoothly in 2d but wasn't sure if running it in 3d would halve frame rates as it did with my old system. So I take it from what you've said that the sim should be quite smooth with my new setup. I find using the virtual cockpit in 3d very immersive and hopefully it'll be even better now in full colour with the 3d vision glasses rather than my cheap plastic red and green ones.I fly in 3d mainly through the Horizon and Aerosoft photo sceneries of the UK and Germany - it's particularly good flying through the Welsh mountainsWhat monitor do you use?

HiThanks for the response.I've gone ahead and purchased and hope to have my new setup in a couple of weeks. I figured I've bought a powerful enough system to run FSX reasonably smoothly in 2d but wasn't sure if running it in 3d would halve frame rates as it did with my old system. So I take it from what you've said that the sim should be quite smooth with my new setup.I find using the virtual cockpit in 3d very immersive and hopefully it'll be even better now in full colour with the 3d vision glasses rather than my cheap plastic red and green ones.I fly in 3d mainly through the Horizon and Aerosoft photo sceneries of the UK and Germany - it's particularly good flying through the Welsh mountainsWhat monitor do you use?

I have a 23,9" LG 3D Vision monitor. If you can afford it, go for 27 inch... and last but not least, go for Track-IR to make the near real experience complete...