Carpe Diem

Thank you all for your replies to my first question. Does anyone have any ideas for the second part?

You sussed me McGraw I do also work with PSD's as well as AI and sometimes huge InDesign files. In truth that is what the machine is for (as far as the wife is concerned), if it just happens to be well suited to FSX as well....... What a coincidence :wink:

I had not planned on it certainly not at the moment. This chip will apparently step itself up to 4.4GHz if needed with no input from me, so I don't see any real point. What do you think?

Sorry it will have a 1Tb data drive I just did not bother mentioning it as it will just be for data. I also do a little work with graphics so it will be used for that as well.

Hi All I am starting on a project to dramatically improve my FSX experience and will do it in two parts, any help on either would be really appreciated. The first stage is a new main computer, the specs I am thinking of are: Intel I7-4790K 4.00GHz Asus Z97-A motherboard 500Gb Sansung 840 Evo SSD 16Mb Kingston HyperX fury - Black Edition MSI GTX970 Twin Frozr 4GB I am also thinking of a "be quiet Pure Rock BK009 CPU Cooler", Is this good enough for this spec of processor? Will this do the job? Is it overkill? Is there anywhere I can save a pound or two? The second part of my project is to use my old computer networked to my new one to run weather and the likes, the specs on that one are in brief: 2.33 GHz Intel Core2 Quad Gagabyte G31m-S2L GeForce GT640 4Gb Memory Does anyone have any experience of networking a second machine to run the add-ons? What is the best way to configure the machines? Which applications should I put on each machine? Thanks in advance for any help or even reading this far