I have ordered a pc with these specs

 

Graphics Card: nVidia Geforce GTX 650

 

OS: Windows 7 x64

 

RAM: 16.00gb

 

Processor: Intel Core i7-3770k (3.5ghz)

 

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

 

I was hoping to be able to use REX and some payware aircraft and also some freeware scenery is this a suitable PC?

Even without overclocking I think you should be ok, might struggle at large complex airports though without lowering some settings

The GPU is the weak spot. I'd go to a GTX670 or higher if necessary, depending on the resolution of your monitor.

What power supply? Case? Cooling? HDD?

 

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RAM: 16.00gb

 

THIS would be a MUCH better bang for buck.

 

 

Graphics Card: nVidia Geforce GTX 650

 

Upgrade to THIS instead... Trust me it will help alot with removing the GPU bottleneck.

 

 

 

Processor: Intel Core i7-3770k (3.5ghz)

 

The Core i5 3570K would be a much better value considering you are doing a budget build.

Newbie,

I just finished my first build with similar specs (using an i5-3570K). I also got the GTX 650 because I wanted a couple of months to play around with settings before dumping a bunch of cash into a graphics card. To date I haven't had any issues and have been able to run most settings on high/maxed without buggy frames. I admit I have yet to load any scenery add-ons, at which time I will probably start looking at a better card.

I have ordered this pc so I cant change anything however I just need to know if it will run. mostly real environment xtreme and some pmdg stuff

I have ordered this pc so I cant change anything however I just need to know if it will run. mostly real environment xtreme and some pmdg stuff

 

Yes you will be able to run most of your addons quite fine. You will just need to OC that processor if you want some seriosu performance gains.

I have thought about OC but it sounds a bit risky and Im not sure how I can do that

I have thought about OC but it sounds a bit risky and Im not sure how I can do that

 

To each his own but you're basically throwing away money and free performance by not overclocking your chip, which is designed for and marketed to overclockers. No one's suggesting you overclock to an unsafe level, but it would behoove you to at least investigate the possibility.

I have thought about OC but it sounds a bit risky and Im not sure how I can do that

 

It's risky only if you don't research (an hour or so), get greedy, or are fool-hearty about it. My old Core2 system (overclocked from 3.2 to 4.3GHz) is going on 6 years old. My friend, who I sold it to, is still using the system at that same overclock. The only thing to break since was the network card after a lightning storm!

 

I jumped into computer building and overclocking at 16 years old with not a bit of knowledge. After some tinkering and reading, I was "up to snuff" very quickly.

I have thought about OC but it sounds a bit risky and Im not sure how I can do that

 

Overclocking is actually quite easy. Just post here in the forum if you have any questions. It also will really help with your performance.

So I have thought about overclocking my cpu but does this require any more hardware adjustments like new parts or anything because I've heard it can get hot very quickly so yeah.

Yes you would want an aftermarket cooler....

 

Examples of quality ones:

 

Corsair H80/H100: http://www.corsair.com/cpu-cooling-kits/hydro-series-water-cooling-cpu-cooler/hydro-series-h100-extreme-performance-liquid-cpu-cooler.html

Noctua DH14: http://www.noctua.at/main.php?show=productview&products_id=34&lng=en

Hyper 212 (budget but still a great cooler): http://www.coolermaster-usa.com/product.php?product_id=3053

I run fine with Rex, PMDG 737NGX, Mytraffic 2013 at 35% Orbx PNW and thier airports at nearly full settings and it all works great till I get into seattle then I just drop my autogen to normal and it is smooth as silk. My case sucks being a stock hp case I'm going to cut a hole and wire a fan in because I have to run it with the side off as of now to keep it cool.

 

My specs HP p6310f upgraded with a

AMD Phenom X4 3.6GHZ Black Edtion

6GB Ram stock HP ram

1GB 256bit GTS250 with 738MHz core clock 2200 Mhz mem clock

1TB HD hp stock

Remember core clock and the bit of the card help me out I'm gonna upgrade it soon though since DDR3 is getting real old and the new stuff offers 6000MHz mem clocks