April 21, 201313 yr Have a look at the chillblast Fusion Hornet: - 4.0GHz Core i5, 8GB, GeForce GTX 670, Small Form Factor Flight Simulation PC. I've just ordered one - less than £1200 Yorkshire
April 22, 201313 yr Have a look at the chillblast Fusion Hornet: - 4.0GHz Core i5, 8GB, GeForce GTX 670, Small Form Factor Flight Simulation PC. I've just ordered one - less than £1200 Yorkshire One of those computers would do the job very nicely. Ryan L.
April 22, 201313 yr is this a better cooler? Corsair H60 Watercooler Yes, I have a Corsair Water cooler (2 in fact as I have 2 PCs). I run Gigabyte Mobos and using Gigabytes "Ntune" (comes with mobo) with one click I had my 3770K running at 4.75GHZ. Simple. John Rig: Gigabyte B550 AORUS Master Motherboard, AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT CPU, 32GB DDR4 Ram, Gigabyte RTX 2070 Super Graphics, Samsung Odyssey wide view display (5120 x 1440 pixels) with VSYNC on.
April 22, 201313 yr hello fellow simmers, this is my first post after being a long term reader of the forum. i am going to buy a new system just for fsx. i had an old XPS710 and ran it smoothly but it died a few months back, hence the new machine. it will be a dell, i know building is better and cheeper but i will need to option of paying the system over 2 years as i dont have £900 to spare straight up on a desktop. i am looking at the dell XPS 8500 and alienware x51. xps 3rd gen Intel® Core™ i7-3770 Processor (3.40GHz, 8MB) Operating System Windows 8 64bit, English Monitor Display Not Included Memory2 8GB3 Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz Hard Drive 2TB Serial ATA (7200RPM) Hard Drive Video Card NVIDIA® GeForce GT 640 1GB DDR5 Graphics Card Optical Drive 16x DVD +/- RW Drive (read/write CD & DVD) Keyboard x51 Processor Intel® Core™ i5-3330 (6M Cache, up to 3.2GHz) Operating System Windows 8 64bit, English Monitor Display Not Included Memory4 8GB5 Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz Hard Drive 1TB Serial ATA (7,200 rpm) Video Card 1.5GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 660 Optical Drive Any help would be appreciated, other suggestions regarding dells are welcome. Grab an Aurora R4. I just bought one for the payment plans as well. Don't worry about adding anything other than an SSD if you wish. I love mine and I honestly haven't regretted buying it at all. Mine is the entry model with an added Drive. No need to go overboard on the upgrades. The 3820 is impressive and is nice and stable at 4.5 and the GTX 660 gets the job done. Chase Barnett
April 22, 201313 yr This is what I could build on the overclockers.uk site. Specification BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Case - White/Black Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM Stage 2: Overclock of CPU - 15% Overclock (Proceesor speed x1.15) Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard TeamGroup Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) KFA2 GeForce GTX 670 EX OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with a free copy of 3DMark advanced edition Samsung 250GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD250BW) ** Cash Back Promo ** Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) HDD OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM Onboard Sound Card (ZERO COST) Corsair 2013 Edition Gamer Series GS 600W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020063-UK) Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) Networking Not Selected Full Cable Management TT eSports Challenger Gamers Keyboard Gigabyte M6880 1600DPI Gaming Mouse BitFenix Spectre LED BLUE 120mm Fan Acer GD245HQ 23.6 Speakers Not Selected Game Controller Not Selected Accessories Not Selected Opt Out of FREE AV Software Standard Build Systems - Approximately 5-7 working days Ryan L.
April 22, 201313 yr Looks good but you'll want to overclock more than that, especially if you're paying them to do it since a 15% overclock brings that chip up to the stock Turbo speed of 3.9GHz, you don't even need to adjust voltage for an OC that low as it's within the chip's TDP limits even on stock cooling. Go for at least 30%
April 22, 201313 yr Author I should say I am only looking for 30fps and I will be mainly flying out of Glasgow to holiday destinations and in and around uk Paul BeQuiet Pure Base 500 FX - MSI Mag Tomahawk B760 - i9 14900KS - 32GB RAM - RTX 5070Ti 16GB - Kooui 34" Ultrawide Curved Monitor - TCA Officer Pack - Honeycomb Alpha Yoke - WINWING MCDU
April 22, 201313 yr Trust me, if you want to use complex add-ons and are going to use traffic then you need as much CPU horsepower as you can get. My 4.9GHz water cooled machine can get into the low 20's at times in worst case scenarios.
April 25, 201313 yr Author Intel Core i7 3770K 4.40GHz, Intel Z77 Chipset, 8GB DDR3 1600MHz, SSD& HDD Options, Corsair GS 600w PSU, DX11 GFX Options, Optical Drive Options, Onboard Audio, Corsair H80 Watercooler "Titan 350i Gelata" Intel Core i7 3770K @ 4.40GHz Overclocked Ivybridge Quad Core Gaming PC £504.19 1 £504.19 Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £44.16 1 £44.16 Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £69.99 1 £69.99 OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.16 1 £14.16 MSI GeForce GTX 660Ti Black Knight OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £184.99 1 £184.99 Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black £41.66 1 £41.66 Standard Build Systems - Approximately 5-7 working days £0.00 1 £0.00 24 MONTH WARRANTY - COLLECT & RETURN £0.01 1 £0.01 Asus Xonar DGX 5.1 PCI-Express Sound Card with built in Headphone Amp £20.82 1 £20.82 this ok? Paul BeQuiet Pure Base 500 FX - MSI Mag Tomahawk B760 - i9 14900KS - 32GB RAM - RTX 5070Ti 16GB - Kooui 34" Ultrawide Curved Monitor - TCA Officer Pack - Honeycomb Alpha Yoke - WINWING MCDU
April 25, 201313 yr That would run FSX very well. It's a more powerful system than mine (see sig) and I dont have an issue what-so-ever. Chase Barnett
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