no, i´m travelling to USA within 3 weeks, so i´m bringing it from there. 

From where in the U.S.? Will there be a microcenter near by?

From where in the U.S.? Will there be a microcenter near by?

orlando, but i´ll buy it on amazon and ship it to th hotel

i found this laptop on the web. do you recommend it?? 

Processor 3.4 GHz Core i5-3570K RAM 8 GB DDR3 Hard Drive 1024 GB SATAIII Graphics Coprocessor AMD Radeon HD7750 1GB Graphics Card Ram Size 1024 MB Number of USB 2.0 Ports 5 Number of USB 3.0 Ports 3

 

Other Technical Details

Brand Name CyberpowerPC Series CyberpowerPC Item model number GXi450 Hardware Platform PC Operating System Windows 8 Item Weight 29.1 pounds Item Dimensions L x W x H 19.10 x 8 x 16.80 inches Color Red/ black Processor Brand Intel Processor Count 1 Computer Memory Type DDR3 SDRAM Hard Drive Interface Serial ATA-600 Hard Drive Rotational Speed 7200 RPM Optical Drive Type 24X DVD±RW Dual-Layer Super-Multi Drive Audio-out Ports (#) 2

It's not a laptop:

 

http://www.overstock.com/Electronics/CYBERPOWERPC-Gamer-Xtreme-GXi450-Intel-i5-3.4GHz-Gaming-Computer/7401927/product.html

 

It would only run FSX well, with no add-ons.

It's not a laptop:

 

http://www.overstock.com/Electronics/CYBERPOWERPC-Gamer-Xtreme-GXi450-Intel-i5-3.4GHz-Gaming-Computer/7401927/product.html

 

It would only run FSX well, with no add-ons.

what do you consider "well"?? i´m satisfied with 15 fps on the ngx on ground.

To the OP for the last time. with FSX there is no Midas touch!

If you are interested in flight sim save your money for something decent.

There is no satisfactory compromise below about $2000. You are 1/5 of the way there.

You could do very nicely with used parts. With a lot of people upgrading to Haswell, there are bound to be used i7 3770k's on ebay. With lots of gamers and simmers upgrading to GTX 780 there will be lots of perfectly good GTX580 and GTX 680 up for grabs at half the original retail price. Patients and research is the key here! Nothing good happens fast! If you have a limited budget you have to be creative. And your money will go a lot further with used parts from ebay. Not that I am trying to sell you my old stuff but I can barely get $200 for my GTX 580's or $100 for my golden i7 920 that OC's to 4.85Ghz. I have means and ###### I could drop $4000 or $5000 if I had to on an FSX rig. However, I also respect money so I looked at what I wanted and $2500 got it for me. If I could not have afforded a top shelf Haswell build I would have been looking at an I7 3770K build with used part and done an IHS mod. I f you are on a budget you have to think outside the box. Don't let the $450 burn a hole in your pocket! Stick with FS2004 and enjoy it and save for what you will need to have an at least satisfactory FSX experience. Take it or leave it. I like to give advise so that others don't make the mistakes I have made. Some people like to give advice so that others make exactly the same mistakes they made!

To the OP for the last time. with FSX there is no Midas touch!

If you are interested in flight sim save your money for something decent.

There is no satisfactory compromise below about $2000. You are 1/5 of the way there.

You could do very nicely with used parts. With a lot of people upgrading to Haswell, there are bound to be used i7 3770k's on ebay. With lots of gamers and simmers upgrading to GTX 780 there will be lots of perfectly good GTX580 and GTX 680 up for grabs at half the original retail price. Patients and research is the key here! Nothing good happens fast! If you have a limited budget you have to be creative. And your money will go a lot further with used parts from ebay. Not that I am trying to sell you my old stuff but I can barely get $200 for my GTX 580's or $100 for my golden i7 920 that OC's to 4.85Ghz. I have means and ###### I could drop $4000 or $5000 if I had to on an FSX rig. However, I also respect money so I looked at what I wanted and $2500 got it for me. If I could not have afforded a top shelf Haswell build I would have been looking at an I7 3770K build with used part and done an IHS mod. I f you are on a budget you have to think outside the box. Don't let the $450 burn a hole in your pocket! Stick with FS2004 and enjoy it and save for what you will need to have an at least satisfactory FSX experience. Take it or leave it. I like to give advise so that others don't make the mistakes I have made. Some people like to give advice so that others make exactly the same mistakes they made!

You seem to think that large amounts of money is the only answer. There are other ways to get a good fsx computer. Not everyone can afford a 2000 dollar fsx computer. By the time that I could, FSX would be a thing of the past. FSX can run quite well on a lower end computer. Take a look at what some people use. Not everyone has top of the line everything, and most people can get a happy 30fps. 450 would be hard to get a good computer for, but 750 without the monitor or os is not that bad. For 4 years I played with an intel pentinum at 2.7GHZ. It ran fsx locked at 20 with a carenado plane in ORBX scenery. It cost me 500 dollars. I am still unsure why you think that an fsx computer must be 2000 dollars. In FSX we are lucky because fsx can make no use of a 780. A 650ti boost works quite well. Along with the fact that FSX has no use for 16gb of ram, or a hex core processor. That is what is nice with FSX, it is possible tho get a respectable computer for 1000, and a pretty good one for 750.

 

 

i found this laptop on the web. do you recommend it?? 

Processor 3.4 GHz Core i5-3570K RAM 8 GB DDR3 Hard Drive 1024 GB SATAIII Graphics Coprocessor AMD Radeon HD7750 1GB Graphics Card Ram Size 1024 MB Number of USB 2.0 Ports 5 Number of USB 3.0 Ports 3

That would work well at first, and would leave a lot of room to upgrade. You could get it now, and a couple years down the road, get a 760, or similar card, and overclock the machine with a good cpu cooler. You would see immediate improvement now, and you could see incremental improvement, through little upgrade as time goes on.

How about for "flying the 737 NGX into aerosoft zurich or oslo?"

For excellent FSX performance you should consider a clock speed of 10 GHz; unfortunately the real world can't provide what Microsoft was expecting!

 

 

For excellent FSX performance you should consider a clock speed of 10 GHz

With only two cores, and it should be in every household computer by the year ......................................Most likely never.

I was going to get an XPS 8700 the other day, and decided not to, because although the specs are definitely enough, I wouldn't have spending money for the PMDG 777, Aerosoft Airbus X A318/A319 and other addons I "need."

 

My computer, at only 2.33GHz runs the PMDG 737 NGX on the ground at 20 FPS and in the air at 30, locked. My graphics card is only 256MB, which doesn't even meet the NGX requirements.

 

I don't quite understand why everyone says you NEED a 4.0GHz + computer, and a GTX 680 and this and that to play this when what I have runs the NGX well, even though I don't use addon airports and other things of that nature.

I get the same performance as many people do that use addon airports, but my computer cost a fraction of what they paid, and I'm not throwing my money at addon airports either.

On a $3000 PC FSX will look something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e77HkogyUWc

 

One a sub $1000 PC it will look something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKh9SyW4fxs

 

 

On a $3000 PC FSX will look something like this:
https://www.youtube....h?v=e77HkogyUWc
 
One a sub $1000 PC it will look something like this:
https://www.youtube....h?v=tKh9SyW4fxs

I think that you must of made a mistake. My PC cost 1200 dollars, and somehow I can take off with full settings (every slider but some of the different traffic settings, but still with 70% ai) from Mega Airport Helsinki with the NGX and GSX, and get close to 30fps all of the time. I don't have the fps limiter on, so I don't have the average, but a good estimation would be 25fps. You don't have to spend 3000 dollars, you just have to spend your money wisely. You should check out the site pcpartpicker.com, and spend some time on the list of proposed builds in the forums, it will teach you how to pick out a good computer. You also should listen to the people who have posted, with computers that are fairly slow by todays standards, but are still loving the NGX. Along those same lines, the OP wants 15fps with the NGX, most computers can do that for 650 to 750 dollars.

Sometimes I feel like people are throwing money out the window for FSX... they go way overkill because they think that's the only way to get any good performance.

It is if you want to use some high fidelity add-ons or have sliders full right.

 

It isn't if you want to use a stock FSX or if you want to adjust sliders accordingly.