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Once again, thank you for your help, much refreshing just having someone else's second opinion after grinding through tons of research on all sorts. Back to some more number crunching

PieEater Thanks again for the input. Whoopser, I forgot to swap that Blueray out of the shopping list name column, It's actually referring to a £10 DVD drive which will get my software installed. Unfortunately I'm lumbered with having to use wireless to get the new rig connected to my router otherwise the cables would need to be almighty long. Cooler Initially i'm definitely not going to be overlocking although if it's not as daunting as it used to be, I'll not rule it out (however) would a cooler not be something I could add later? PSU Just had a look, and found a CoolMaster VS650 Plus 80 Gold for nearly 1/2 price of the Corsair 750 80+ Gold. Is the quality of CoolerMaster PSU good to go with? Thanks again

Sorry, (my bad) , I didn't included some of the components from my shopping list that i've budgeted for :- updated & full version of list below. (Although I'm probably not going to be overlocking the CPU - one of the reasons i've gone for the I7 with a factory speed of 4.00 Ghz) I'm still trying to figure out how to slash cost down possibly another £300, without sacrificing performance. That lot below comes to £1270 (without the SSD) and I'm re-considering the monitor just now as I'm thinking the Asus VG248QE 144Hz LED 3D is possibly a bit of an overkill. Is an SSD vital, or will FSX / P3D run fine without. I know I could add one at a later date, but i have a feeling that would be a bit of a pain to do. Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H Processor: Intel I7-4790K 4.0GHz GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 4GB ACX Edutuib Card RAM: (Edited) Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR3 1866MHz Dual Channel Hard Drive: Seagate 7200.14 1TB SATA III 3.5 SSD:Crucial MX100 2.5" 256GB SATA III SSD ? PSU: Corsair RM Series 750W 80+ Gold Cooler: Cool Master Hyper 212 EVO CPU Cooler Tower: Carbride 200R Gaming Black Network Card: Belkin Surf Plus 300Mbps USB2.0 WIFI Optical Drive: CH12NS30 OEM Blueray Monitor: Asus VG248QE 144Hz LED 3D 114 Gaming Monitor

Thanks for this Andy, Really glad you mentioned this as once I plan to run Active Sky and also experiment with other add ons that are just not possible to run on current config. Lee.

Hi there folks, thank you very much for all your input and advice, much appreciated. At the moment from the advice here and also from some research I have done I have decided to go with the GTX970 4GB, My budget will not allow me to stretch to a GTX980. however since it seems that FSX will run great with even a 670gtx, then its probably a safe guess GTX 960 might work OK, however I've decided that it's probably best to go for overkill so that my system can handle anything that FSX is capable of and even possibly P3D With that GTX 970, paired up with an I7- 4790K I've gotta be honest, i'm expecting to see a massive improvements to what I have been used to, running FSX on an iMac with (Intel Core i5 Quad Core 2,7GHz 4GB RAM and an AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512 MB GDDR5) Once again, appreciate the input you guys have put into my query which has helped me with some of the decisions that have helped me shortlist following components (hopefully to purchase later in the week) to build myself that dedicated FSX rig that i've promised myself for so long now. (Any comments of advice, please feel free to chip in and let me know) Processor = Intel I7-4790K 4.0GHz Motherboard = Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H GPU = EVGA NVida GeForce GTX 970 4GB RAM = Corsair Vengeance Performance 8GB DDR3 1866MHz HD = Seagate 7200.14 1TB SATA III 3.5 SSD = Crucial MX100 2.5" 256GB SATA III SSD Monitor = Asus VG24QE 144Hz 24" LED 3D 144Hz Gaming Monitor (Not decided totally yet) + CD/DVD Drive / Network Card / Tower / keyboard & mouse

Just compiling a list of components for a new build. It is will be my first dedicated FSX computer. and I've been looking at Graphics Cards and wondering what the benefits of getting a GTX 970 4GB graphics card is over a GT960 2GB graphics card. and whether FSX will make use of the extra 2GB of VRAM and whether the extra 2GB is really worth and extra £100 (or so) Look forward in anticipation to hearing your advice.