Hello,I'm considering purchasing a new system. After a little research I have found the following on the internet. I would appreciate your thoughts as to how FS2004 would perform - I would hope that I would be able to run FS9 pretty much maxed out.I have no interest in running FSX but may consider Flight if and when it's eventually released. I know there is no such thing as 'future proof' in terms of IT but would welcome your views on potential performance if such an estimate can be made given information available.http://www.aria.co.uk/Systems/Gaming+Range/Gladiator/Gladiator+Evolution+H20+Intel+Core+i7-2600K+3.40GHz+%40+4.60GHz+DDR3+Gaming+PC+?productId=46343&rqcType=r#rqcCPU professionally Overclocked up to 4.60GHz*• Intel Core i7-2600K (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor• Corsair H60 Water-Cooling CPU Cooler• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 1536MB GDDR5 DirectX 11 PCI-Express Graphics Card• 16GB Mushkin Blackline #996995 (4x4GB) DDR3 1600MHz 9-9-9-24• Crucial m4 128GB 2.5" SATA-III Solid State Hard Drive• 1TB Seagate Barracuda Green ST1000DL002 3.5" SATA II Hard Drive• ASUS P8Z68-V Intel Z68 (REV B3) Socket 1155 DDR3 PCI-Express Motherboard• 850W Corsair TX850 V2 ATX2.3 SLI/Crossfire Compliant Power Supply• BitFenix Survivor with USB3.0 Midi Tower Chassis• Samsung SH-S222AB/BEBE DVD ReWriterThanks very much in advance.

That is really overkill for FS9. FS9 will never fully utilise 4 cores let alone 8 threads so maybe a 2500k so you can still do some OCing on the CPU side.

That is really overkill for FS9. FS9 will never fully utilise 4 cores let alone 8 threads so maybe a 2500k so you can still do some OCing on the CPU side.

I had thought that the response to my query might be that the system would be overkill. The truth is that it will be used for other things in addition to simming - unfortunately it will be a shared computer much as I would love to have something dedicated to flight simulator.So I guess my original question still stands?Thanks

In that case it depends on what those other things are. FS9 runs on a single thread.And 16GB of RAM is a lot of RAM so again depending on what other applications you'll be running it's overkill or not.No doubt it's a great rig. Didn't know about that case

In that case it depends on what those other things are. FS9 runs on a single thread. And 16GB of RAM is a lot of RAM so again depending on what other applications you'll be running it's overkill or not. No doubt it's a great rig. Didn't know about that case

It will be used for video editing, some CAD work in addition to flightsimming and other traditional family uses.When you say fs9 only uses a single thread do you mean that performance would suffer on this system?Thanks

It will be used for video editing, some CAD work in addition to flightsimming and other traditional family uses.When you say fs9 only uses a single thread do you mean that performance would suffer on this system?Thanks

No, not at all. It will run FS9 like a dream. And if you ever decide to switch to FSX it will handle that tooWill you overclock it?

No, not at all. It will run FS9 like a dream. And if you ever decide to switch to FSX it will handle that too Will you overclock it?

I don't think so - not at first at least. I have absolutely no experience of overclocking so it would be a bit tricky I think!Thank you very much for your help