HiThanks for the response.I've gone ahead and purchased and hope to have my new setup in a couple of weeks. I figured I've bought a powerful enough system to run FSX reasonably smoothly in 2d but wasn't sure if running it in 3d would halve frame rates as it did with my old system. So I take it from what you've said that the sim should be quite smooth with my new setup. I find using the virtual cockpit in 3d very immersive and hopefully it'll be even better now in full colour with the 3d vision glasses rather than my cheap plastic red and green ones.I fly in 3d mainly through the Horizon and Aerosoft photo sceneries of the UK and Germany - it's particularly good flying through the Welsh mountainsWhat monitor do you use?