marsvintage

Exactly what I needed. Thank you!

Thank you for the replies! I'm so excited to get a computer that will run this baby smoothly. After learning a little bit more about overclocking, I will definitely do it myself. The only thing holding me back from building the computer myself is my very limited knowledge of how to do it. My software engineer dad keeps telling me building is a pain in the butt, but everyone on this forum makes it seem quite easy. I'm not completely sold on having someone else build it, so we'll see. I will exchange the current memory for a corsair vengeance 8 gb. I wasn't sure if I needed to get the second hard drive or not, but I'm going to look into it now that you have made the recommendation.

I downloaded X-Plane on the Ipad for fun a few months ago and have become OBSESSED with flight simulation. I have been looking to purchase a new desktop, and I will be designing it with with FSX in mind. I plan to run it with saitek gear and a 42 inch plasma television. Can you help me decide if this setup will run FSX while maintaining a decent FPS simulation environment? This build will cost around 1700 dollars, and I already have the monitor and saitek gear. Please let me know what you think I should change while staying in the 1600-1800 dollar range. Case: * Coolermaster HAF-X Gaming Full Tower Case w/ 1x230mm Fan, 1x200mm Fans, 2xFront USB 3.0 Port [+124] CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-2600K 3.40 GHz 8M Intel Smart Cache LGA1155 (All Venom OC Certified) [+116] Freebies: None Venom Boost Fast And Efficient Factory Overclocking: Extreme OC (Extreme Overclock 20% or more) [+49] Cooling Fan: Corsair Hydro Series H60 High Performance Liquid Cooling System 120MM Radiator & Fan (Single Standard 120MM Fan) Coolant for Cyberpower Xtreme Hydro Water Cooling Kits: Standard Coolant Motherboard: [CrossFireX] Asus P8Z77-V LX Intel Z77 Chipset DDR3 ATX Mainboard w/ IRST, Lucid Virtu MVP, 7.1 HD Audio, GbLAN, 2x PCIe x16 (1 Gen3, 1 Gen2), 2x PCIe x1 & 3 PCI (Extreme OC Certified) Memory: 8GB (4GBx2) DDR3/1333MHz Dual Channel Memory [+18] (Corsair or Major Brand) Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 1.5GB 16X PCIe Video Card [+486] (Major Brand Powered by NVIDIA [-20]) Power Supply Upgrade: * 750 Watts - Corsair Professional Series CMPSU-AX750 Gold 80 Plus Power Supply [+143] Hard Drive: 1TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 32MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Drive) Optical Drive: 24X Double Layer Dual Format DVD+-R/+-RW + CD-R/RW Drive (BLACK COLOR)