That's a cool system spec there !.....Bruce.

Hi Tom,Yes- what Bruce S. says. However- my thoughts are that they may need a greater attendance to be financially able to repeatedly do this. Then again, I know nothing about the successful break-even point of a conference. There's so many parts, not the least vendors, that alter the "bums-on-seats" basic measurement.Tom- let me know if there's anything that I can do for you if you ever come back to the mile-high city. It would indeed be a pleasure to have you guys back here.Bruce.

That's a suggestion =) I certainly have nothing that nice at this time. Ignoring the video cards and OS it should clock in at under $1,000. The video cards will pop $350-400 each and the OS will be.. well, you know. Ouch.I purchased the following system last year: 3200+ AMD 64, 2GB DDR RAM, DFI Lan-Party Ultra nForce 4, GeForce 6600 GT, Seagate 200gb SATA drive, with case for $730. And that's what I am using now.Updated the video card two months later for $600 (7800 GTX). Which was a rather bad investment. I should have waited another month.

Tom,If AVSIM elects to come back to Denver in the future, you are probably better off dealing with FTI (Flight Training International). They subcontract sim time on the United birds.The one really big plus of this years Denver conference was the access to the UAL facility. Remember the last conference -- KSFO, night time only, escorted everywhere, couldn't do what you wanted... etc.With FTI, we got a multi-day ID badge that gave us free access to the entire facility, including their resource center. We got into the sim and it was anything we wanted to do. Do an "at the gate, pushback, engine start sequence, taxi using tiller, takeoff, etc." that was fine with them. Wanted to fly out of Hong Kong, okay. Wanted to fly under the Golden Gate Bridge... well, okay. Day, night, not an issue. Ping me a private if you want contact info at FTI.