June 1, 201412 yr Water Cooling for the CPU & GPU, Air for Board & Hdd,s GPU: ASUS Radeon R9 290X DirectCU II OC 4GB Riche. Water cooling for CPU and GPU you say... so you intend to go for a full blown water-cooling loop, cooling both the CPU and GPU? If so there is regular maintenance to consider with such a set up. If not, and you meant an AIO water cooler for the CPU, don't be fooled into thinking CPU air coolers are inferior to all-in-one water coolers... they aren't! CPU air coolers like the NH-D14, and the Thermalright Archon still do a superb job, and cost less as well. It's only the top of the range AIO coolers like the H110 that just about beat the best air coolers. In addition, there's no way an air cooler will ever leak. AIO water coolers on the other hand, or a full blown water cooling loop, can and do leak.
July 1, 201411 yr Author Thanks to everyone for your kind advice. I have come up with two potential system builds for FSX, again with a budget of £600. Please note that this budget includes windows software, monitor etc. The two systems basically boil down to the following: 1) i3 4340 3.6Ghz, GTX 660, 8 GB RAM 2) i5 4570 3.2Ghz, GTX 750 Ti, 8 GB RAM 1) http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/6KcJmG 2) http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/mtQXYJ My question is which one of the two builds will provide better performance for FSX? Once again, I will not be overclocking the CPU and budget constraints mean that there is very limited upgrade potential to either of these builds. For example an i5 with gtx 760 will not be feasible. Thank you for your consideration William Zhou
July 2, 201411 yr Thanks to everyone for your kind advice. I have come up with two potential system builds for FSX, again with a budget of £600. Please note that this budget includes windows software, monitor etc. The two systems basically boil down to the following: 1) i3 4340 3.6Ghz, GTX 660, 8 GB RAM 2) i5 4570 3.2Ghz, GTX 750 Ti, 8 GB RAM 1) http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/6KcJmG 2) http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/mtQXYJ My question is which one of the two builds will provide better performance for FSX? Once again, I will not be overclocking the CPU and budget constraints mean that there is very limited upgrade potential to either of these builds. For example an i5 with gtx 760 will not be feasible. Thank you for your consideration Go find used i5 2500k or i5 3570k pc on craigslist or save your money get something better.
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