Quick question, is a third generation i5 processor plus a dedicated graphics card enough to run FSX with add-ons and reasonably realistic scenery plus ATC?

Easily especially if you get the 'K' (unlocked) CPU so you can overclock it a bit. A lot of people did this when Sandy Bridge first came out and saved themselves about $100 on the CPU. Look down in our Hardware Forum where they have the experts who can provide you more advice. This is a common question down there.

 

Best regards,

Jim

Everyone's definition of "reasonable" is different. Take my wife's definition for example... (Just kidding honey)... Gotta go...

Great point and good example!

 

Best regards,

Jim

I have an i5-2500K which easily over-clocked to 4 Ghz and an older nVidea GTX260 video

card running under both XpPro x32 and Win7 Pro x64 (dual boot).

 

All my sliders are pretty much all the way to the right and frame rate locked at 30 fps.

In mulitplayer with several other aircraft in close formation (mostly A2A Accu-Sim B-17G's)

I have no issues at all.

 

For the purposes of running FSX, an i7 is wasted money, IMO. AIR the selling point

there was something to do with multi-threaded environments or some such that did

not come into play with FSX.

 

As was stated, you can save yourself $100 or so and get excellent performance in FSX.

 

Paul

Thanks guys and especially Paul, really useful info.

I just upgraded my motherboard, cpu and added 4 Gig of ram..

 

I got a gigabyte board for around $140, I5 K chip for $230 ... I use a corsair H50 cooler ( best $ ever spent )

 

Opened the gigabyte over clock app.. picked the button for 4 GHz and never looked back.. Fully loaded temps 70 C Idles at 28 ..

 

Cheapest pc upgrade I have ever done with the best performance as well.

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