Dear All,

 

I've been running FSX with a bunch of addons with an HP Laptop with i7 4700mq for some time, but I've finally grown tired of lack of performance and I'm looking to get a new desktop, probably solely for FSX and using my current laptop for everything else. I have a budget of around £1000-£1400, and am looking for some advice.

 

I've looked at purchasing from Chillblast and there seem to be two options for me;

 

Fusion Hurricane 5 - https://www.chillblast.com/chillblast-fusion-hurricane-5-flight-sim-pc.html?category_id=417

 

or

 

Fusion Status 2 - https://www.chillblast.com/chillblast-fusion-stratus-2-flight-sim-pc-designed-by-matt-davies.html?category_id=417

 

I like the idea of the overclocked CPU on the FH5, but the 6GB GPU and the 1TB SSHD of the FS2.

 

If I re-configure the FH5 with the higher memory GPU and the SSHD  it still comes out cheaper that the FS2.

 

I guess i am asking a few questions;

 

i) Does anyone have any experience of Chillblast?

ii) Does anyone have any experience of these particular models?

iii) If i were to just change these things would there be anything else I would have to change? (I'm rather suspicious of the fact that if I       just reconfigure the FS2 to include overclocking it is more expensive than doing by changing the GPU and drive on the FH5)

iv) Is it worth spending an extra £133 for the i7 - 7700k (the default for both is the i5-7600k)

 

 

If anyone could offer any advice it would be greatly appreciated, though I appreciate this wold involve maybe having to and play around with re-configuring of these desktops.

 

Thanks,

 

Andrew

Avoid, they are well over the odds, with some absolute rubbish components.  For instance, the Aerocool PSU is junk, and the 2133mhz RAM is totally low end

 

https://www.scan.co.uk/3xs/configurator/flight-simulator-pc-microsoft-fsx-intel-core-i5-nvidia-geforce

 

is much better