Hi everyone it's been a couple years since I've upgraded my PC and am hoping to do so in the coming months, I'm looking at building my own or if I can find a great deal will be glad to purchase a machine already built. After quickly searching craigslist for anything I came across this particular post: http://lasvegas.crai...3091058873.html It sounds like an amazing deal and the owner who clearly took a lot of time to list the systems attributes sounds like a pretty trustworthy guy stating he served in the military and his past experience creating machines. Anyways I was wondering if someone could give some information on how this particular system would handle FSX and hopefully set new standards to my flightsim experience. Thanks everyone.

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DO NOT BYE AMD!!!!!! take a i7 3930 instead its much better.

Yeah get Intel, AMD are poo right now.

DO NOT buy a prebuilt computer. I repeat, DO NOT buy a prebuilt computer. Unless you want to get ripped off.

 

Build your own, it's way cheaper and you can make sure you don't make any mistakes while building it (you don't know if everything if all the parts work ok when you buy a prebuilt computer).

Hi everyone it's been a couple years since I've upgraded my PC and am hoping to do so in the coming months, I'm looking at building my own or if I can find a great deal will be glad to purchase a machine already built. After quickly searching craigslist for anything I came across this particular post: http://lasvegas.crai...3091058873.html It sounds like an amazing deal and the owner who clearly took a lot of time to list the systems attributes sounds like a pretty trustworthy guy stating he served in the military and his past experience creating machines. Anyways I was wondering if someone could give some information on how this particular system would handle FSX and hopefully set new standards to my flightsim experience. Thanks everyone.

 

You can buy a pre-built computer for sure, but be prepared to pay handsomely for something done very well and w/ highest quality parts. Therein lies the incentive to build it yourself. Here is a link to some vendors who specialize in high end gaming machines--I have no idea how reliable the reviews are but you'll get an idea what sort of pricing will incentivize you to do it yourself:

 

http://computers.toptenreviews.com/gaming/

 

Noel

Hi everyone it's been a couple years since I've upgraded my PC and am hoping to do so in the coming months, I'm looking at building my own or if I can find a great deal will be glad to purchase a machine already built. After quickly searching craigslist for anything I came across this particular post: http://lasvegas.crai...3091058873.html It sounds like an amazing deal and the owner who clearly took a lot of time to list the systems attributes sounds like a pretty trustworthy guy stating he served in the military and his past experience creating machines. Anyways I was wondering if someone could give some information on how this particular system would handle FSX and hopefully set new standards to my flightsim experience. Thanks everyone.

 

Stay away from that one

 

Listen to others here.

 

:)

 

Good luck

 

Manny

Best bang for buck:

 

i5 3570K

GTX670

850 Watt PSU

256GB SSD

8GB DDR3 2400

Listen to guys here. Read my guide. Do yourself a favor.

Thanks a lot everyone for the information, I'm definitely going to be building a computer then. I do have some questions though regarding what hardware to get. An i7 3770k is definitely on my wish list along with the GTX 670 that Ben mentioned in the post above, however both pieces of hardware are so high on the totem pole in cost combined with a relatively high end motherboard I'm looking at getting I'm torn between what to get. I've been told FSX is more influenced by ones CPU which makes me think it's be smarter to shell out the couple extra bucks for the processor and buy a GPU not as luxurious as the 670 but I'm still basically in the middle. What do you guys think? And thanks a lot Srdan I'll definitely read it.

Take a look at this thread. Then give us your budget..what you plan far and your dead limit.

 

http://forum.avsim.n...omputer-advice/

 

IMO, CPU = Intel i5-3570K ($230) is a good deal. No Multi Thread..not required for FSX. The only thing is, one of the cache is slughtly smaller than the one in 3770K. Not sure how much negative impack that has on fSX. but $120 difference,

 

 

IMO, For $1000 you can get one of the finest fsx pc (almost top of the line in performance for FSX, MB, CPU and Memory) where you have not painted yourself into a corner. For $1500 you can have a system with the GTX670 and an SSD.

 

 

Manny

Manny, I'm looking probably at $1000 but if I have to go over it won't pain me too much. The thread you cited has a lot of componets I was looking at and is really helpful thanks a lot.

An i7 3770k is definitely on my wish list

Why?

 

If you just want bragging rights, then fair enough, but this is probably not the best place for that sort of showing off. If you want it for reasons other then FSX, you should let us know what they are or the advice you get will not be appropriate. Even the price premium for an i5-3x70k over an i5-25x0k is hard to justify in terms of performance for FSX.

Honestly I just want to be sure that I can have FSX running with most of the sliders on high with the NGX in virtual cockpit and still have smoth frames.