Looking to build a FSX system for about $2000 in a couple of weeks time. The spec is listed below.

 

OS: Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium

Monitor: Acer S240HLbid 24'' Full HD widescreen LCD monitor with LED Backlight (Price - £124.94)

CPU: Intel Core i5 3570K,1155, Ivy Bridge, Quad Core, 3.4GHz, 5 GT/s DMI, 650MHz GPU, 6MB Smart Cache, 34x Ratio, 77W, Retail (Price - £172.98)

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-L12 Low Profile High Performance CPU Cooler, Intel LGA2011,1155,1156,1366,775 and AMD FM1,AM3+/AM3/2+/2 (Price - £43.34)

GPU: 2GB EVGA GTX 680 SC Signature, 28nm, PCIe 3.0, 6208MHz GDDR5, GPU 1084MHz, Boost 1150MHz, Cores 1536 (Price - £376.42)

Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme 4, Intel Z77, S 1155, DDR3, SATA III - 6Gb/s, SATA RAID, PCIe 3.0 (x16), D-Sub/ DVI-D/ HDMI, ATX (Price - £106.52)

RAM: 8GB (2x4GB) Corsair DDR3 Dominator Platinum, PC3-19200 (2400), Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 10-12-12-31, DHX, XMP, 1.65V (Price - £106.46)

Power Supply: 850W Corsair Enthusiast Series 850TXV2, 85% Eff', 80 PLUS Bronze, SLI/CrossFire, EPS 12V, Quiet Fan, ATX v2.31, PSU (Price - £94.62)

OS Boot SSD: VTX4-25SAT3-256G - 256GB OCZ Vertex 4, 2.5" SSD, SATA 6Gb/s, Indilinx Everest 2, MLC-Flash, Read 560MB/s, Write 510MB/s, 120k IOPS Max (Already Bought)

Storage HDD: 3TB WD Red WD30EFRX, SATA 6Gb/SEC, 64MB Cache, Internal HDD For 1-5 Bay NA (Price - £122.76)

Case: Cooler Master HAF X V2, Black, Full Tower Performance Gaming Case inc Side Window USB 3.0,w/o PSU NEW VERSION (Price - £129.53)

DVD Drive: LiteOn IHAS124-04 24x DVD±R, 8x DVD±DL, DVD+RW x8/-RW x6, DVD-RAM x12, SATA, Black, OEM (Price - £12.98)

 

Total Price - £1290.55 ($2047.33)

 

All comments and feedback is greatly appreciated.

Yeah that will be nice. Are you putting FSX on the ssd? If you aren't and you're just buying one only for the OS you could easily go down to a 64-128 GB. If you're putting the OS and FSX on that 256... and you have payware... I'd try to spring for a 512 or 480 instead. I've got a 120GB for FSX only and it's almost completely full. I don't have any photo terrain.