Hello,my computer is ready and i am going to buy it today, the final specs are:Intel 2500k CPUZalman CPU coolerGigabyte GA-X68-USB3 Mainboard8Gb Kit (4G X2) CMX8GX3M2B1600C9 CL9 CorsairOCZ 60GB SSD Hard DriveWD SATA 3 WD1001FALS 1TR Hard driveGigabyte GTX560 TI 2GB DDR5 Video cardHontkey 600 Power adapterDVD-RW SonyCase Huntkywhat do you think? will it run smoothly? thanks!!

Looks good, but if you can stand to wait a couple more months there's new CPUs and GPUs coming. The Sandy Bridge and GTX 5 series generations are on their last legs right now. "Ivy Bridge" CPUs and the GTX 6 series will be the new stuff.

OC the processor and you will be fine. But if that SSD should be for FSX; isn´t it a bit small?

will it be worth it? i mean i am ding to play with a new computer my specs currently are terrible, BTW should i change something from the specs? or it's very good and will run it with airports addon's? thanks again(:

OC the processor and you will be fine. But if that SSD should be for FSX; isn´t it a bit small?

Hey. yes this is for FSX, and i don't know that what the computer technician recommended. by the way, is there any other processor currently on the market the someone of you recommend over the I5?

Edited March 5, 201214 yr by Daniel choen

Hey. yes this is for FSX, and i don't know that what the computer technician recommended. by the way, is there any other processor currently on the market the someone of you recommend over the I5?

Only i7 :D.

Looks good, but if you can stand to wait a couple more months there's new CPUs and GPUs coming. The Sandy Bridge and GTX 5 series generations are on their last legs right now. "Ivy Bridge" CPUs and the GTX 6 series will be the new stuff.

Oh dear. That means i have to start being nice to the wife again.

Only i7 :D.

and you said it doesn't worth the extra money right? oh oh and what about the i7 950, is he good?

Hi Daniel,I have ran the i7 920 for two years on FSX without any real problems.I have it OC'd to 3.8 GHz on water, but it can easily be acheived on air with a descent cooler.You may find very early, like tomorrow .. that your will need more than 60GB HDD space for FSX depending on how much addons you have so I recommend you either pay rediculous amounts for a 120GB -240GB SSD or just stick with a 1TB 7200rpm HDD and partitiion it or buy a Velocity Raptor 300GB at 10000rpm.The 560ti should run ok but its not leaving you any head room for future developments which will only increase in CPU / GPU demmands...The 580's now are only an extra $150 or extra and I recommend at least the GTX580 if you wish to run AS2012 at an ORBX / Aerosost / UK2000 / FlightBeam or FlyTampa/ Airport in the NGX.8GB of RAM should suffice.Would recommend at least 750wt PSU for a little head room.With saying that though, I fully unserstand what its like to be keen to get the new computer and it should run FSX / NGX nicley in some airport environments, so good luck with what ever you do and if need be, simply upgrade in the future when new stuff is released and older stuff comes down in price.Regards

thanks for the kind help, i will probably upgrade for more SSD after that thanks! today is the big day(:

The i5 2500K is the chip you want, not an i7. The i7s have Hyperthreading, which most games can't really use - it increases heat and limits your overclocking maximum. You can turn off HT to eliminate that but then you effectively have an i5 and could have saved $100.

Looks like a good setup, I have an i7-2600K, P8Z68-V from Asus, GTX 560 Ti (1GB), 4x2GB Corsair Vengeance, it works pretty decent, not overclocked yet :smile:So you should be fine in my opinion.One question, is the SSD really giving a good performance increase to FSX? Second, better to put FSX on SSD and Win 7 on HDD or the opposite way around is the best?

Looks like a good setup, I have an i7-2600K, P8Z68-V from Asus, GTX 560 Ti (1GB), 4x2GB Corsair Vengeance, it works pretty decent, not overclocked yet :smile:So you should be fine in my opinion.One question, is the SSD really giving a good performance increase to FSX? Second, better to put FSX on SSD and Win 7 on HDD or the opposite way around is the best?

i wondered the same thing, can someone help please?

Hey. yes this is for FSX, and i don't know that what the computer technician recommended. by the way, is there any other processor currently on the market the someone of you recommend over the I5?

I have 240 GB SSD and I use about 140 GB of it. (With REX, many Airports, GEX, ...) ... and OS!

I bought an Alienware recently and the specs are great, but i still needed to tweak and find the right way to run FSX. I just want to make that clear for you

if i will put the SSD in aside, will it run smoothly in spite it? it's very critical right now, i delayed the purchased, for tomorrow and i really need to make my mind. thanks.