Ceddy

Thanks for all of your hard work at PMDG, it is really appreciated the work that you put into making your product the finest on the market. Despite peeps grumbling it shows you how keen they are to get their hands on the latest updates.My download and install worked a treat but I am still ploughing through the first tutorial and will be some time off no.2 but it looks brilliant.

Hi Guys,Thanks for your advice. Do you have any suggestions as to whether the I7 overclocked would be better than the I5 overclocked?

Thanks for the advice so far guys (although the nitty gritty of the graphics card went well above my head :Thinking: ). I would probably be able to stretch to a GTX 570 if the general consensus is it is better.Other than the card does the rest of the system seem okay?The machine is going to be bought from PcSpecialist.co.ukAll thoughts and suggestions gratefully received.

Hi all,As a newbie to FS and these forums I was greatly impressed by the amount of skill and knowledge members have and I would be very grateful if you could review and recommend a system from the two options that I have detailed below (I do not want to make a mistake for the sake of a few quid). I will ultimately want to fly the PMDG 737NGX using yoke, pedals and displayed on 1 or 2 monitors.System 1: I5 2500K overclockedCase: COOLERMASTER CM690 MKII ADVANCED CASEOverclocked CPU Overclocked Intel® Core™i5-2500k Quad Core (3.30GHz @ max 4.60GHz)Motherboard ASUS® P8Z68-V/GEN3: PCI-E 3.0 READY, SLI, CROSSFIREXMemory (RAM) 8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (2 x 4GB KIT)Graphics Card 1.25GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti 448 CORE (Ltd Edition Superfast Card)Memory - 1st Hard Disk 120GB INTEL® 320 SERIES SSD, SATA 3 Gb/s (upto 270MB/sR | 130MB/sW)2nd Hard Disk 1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm) Drive 24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAMMemory Card Reader INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORTPower Supply CORSAIR 650W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX650 V2- PLUS® BRONZE (£72)Processor Cooling COOLIT ECO II A.L.C ADVANCED LIQUID COOLER (£59)Thermal Paste ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)Sound Card ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)Network Facilities 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCsUSB Options 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARDOr I7 2600 OverclockedCase COOLERMASTER CM690 MKII ADVANCED CASEOverclocked CPU Overclocked Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core (3.40GHz @ max 4.80GHz)Motherboard ASUS® P8Z68-V/GEN3: PCI-E 3.0 READY, SLI, CROSSFIREXMemory (RAM) 8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (2 x 4GB KIT)Graphics Card 1.25GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti 448 CORE (Ltd Edition Superfast Card)Memory - 1st Hard Disk 120GB INTEL® 320 SERIES SSD, SATA 3 Gb/s (upto 270MB/sR | 130MB/sW)2nd Hard Disk 1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE 7200rpm)(1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAMMemory Card Reader INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORTPower Supply CORSAIR 650W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX650 V2- PLUS® BRONZE (£72)Processor Cooling COOLIT ECO II A.L.C ADVANCED LIQUID COOLER (£59)Thermal Paste ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)Sound Card ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)Network Facilities 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCsUSB Options 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARDFirewire & Video Editing 3 Port IEEE 1394a Firewire PCI Card (£9)Operating System Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & LicenceI will also be using Gen x scenery and Rex2 weather gen.Money is tight so I do not want to spend money where I will not necessarily gain any benefit.Many thanks to all those who can help.Ceddy