Hi there everyone,

 

Its been two years since I touch my Flight sim however I am coming towards the end of my Uni years and have decided to go full out and purchase a very decent FSX PC.

 

I need a little help though before. I have looked at the PC specialist website and clicked on the "Flight simulator PC's" tab. I have edited it slightly and I am wondering whether this PC would be able to deal with high density scenery, complex aircrafts, weather etc at about 40 fps or above?

 

Here is the quote:

 

 

Case PCS MAELSTROM T900 BLACK GAMING CASE

Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7-2600 Quad Core (3.40GHz, 8MB Cache) + HD Graphics

Motherboard ASUS® P8Z77-V LX: USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs, ATI®CrossFireX

Memory (RAM) 8GB SAMSUNG DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 4GB)

Graphics Card 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti - 2 DVI,HDMI,VGA - 3D Vision Ready

Memory - 1st Hard Disk 80GB INTEL® 320 SERIES SSD, SATA 3 Gb/s (upto 270MB/sR | 90MB/sW)

2nd Hard Disk 1TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 32MB CACHE

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM

Memory Card Reader INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT

Power Supply CORSAIR 650W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX650 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE (£69)

Processor Cooling SUPER QUIET 22dBA TRIPLE COPPER HEATPIPE INTEL CPU COOLER (£19)

Sound Card ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

Network Facilities GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps PCI-E CARD (£16)

USB Options 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD

Modem NONE, I WILL BE USING BROADBAND

Operating System Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)

 

Thanks

 

Alexei

Apparently new hardware (from intel especially) is on the horizon so it will probably pay to wait a month or two.

If you are building an FSX rig, I wouldn't spend alot on the video card cause FSX just aint gonna properly leverage it. Even with my gtx470, FSX never uses more than 40% of it. Spend the saved money on SD drives.

Have you read the post on page 2 of this forum - "New Computer, Need advice"?

If you are building an FSX rig, I wouldn't spend alot on the video card cause FSX just aint gonna properly leverage it. Even with my gtx470, FSX never uses more than 40% of it. Spend the saved money on SD drives.

 

Sorry Im a bit confused on what the video card does. I do apologise, I have no idea about hardware and so on. Could you possibly show me the things that need altering? I have a restricted budget of about £1200. Also what is the advantage of having a SD drive?

 

Have you read the post on page 2 of this forum - "New Computer, Need advice"?

 

Will check it out now.

As you can see, "New Computer, Need advice" is now on page 1. You might like to read another post on page 12 of this forum - "Building New PC - Research Phase".

Sorry Im a bit confused on what the video card does. I do apologise, I have no idea about hardware and so on. Could you possibly show me the things that need altering? I have a restricted budget of about £1200. Also what is the advantage of having a SD drive?

 

FSX is largely dependent on CPU power rather than a good graphics card, so throwing a more expensive graphics card at it is less likely to get results than a faster CPU. FSX also doesn't utilize multiple cores all that well, so a higher clock speed (GHz) will deliver better results. Note that this doesn't mean you shouldn't regard the video card at all, just that that graphics card might be overkill for your needs.

 

A solid state drive (SSD) generally has faster read times, which is especially good for FSX because of the large textures that need to be loaded. This, in turn, helps performance. Of course, the caveat is that these drives are expensive, you need to buy a good (not cheap) one to really see the benefits, and the storage space is generally limited. Write speeds aren't anything special. You can use a combination of a hard drive plus solid state drive with FSX for a better cost/benefit; some choose to also install Windows on SSDs because it reduces boot times.

FSX is largely dependent on CPU power rather than a good graphics card, so throwing a more expensive graphics card at it is less likely to get results than a faster CPU. FSX also doesn't utilize multiple cores all that well, so a higher clock speed (GHz) will deliver better results. Note that this doesn't mean you shouldn't regard the video card at all, just that that graphics card might be overkill for your needs.

 

A solid state drive (SSD) generally has faster read times, which is especially good for FSX because of the large textures that need to be loaded. This, in turn, helps performance. Of course, the caveat is that these drives are expensive, you need to buy a good (not cheap) one to really see the benefits, and the storage space is generally limited. Write speeds aren't anything special. You can use a combination of a hard drive plus solid state drive with FSX for a better cost/benefit; some choose to also install Windows on SSDs because it reduces boot times.

 

Jon,

 

Thats really helpful thanks. So would install FSX onto the SSD drive and then all the rest on the hardrive for better results? Sorry going off topic here.