mattj44

thank you very much for your informative post. I followed the suggestions and have now got a great system.. I am now umming and arring wether to get rid of FSX and switch over P3D...

Hi All, I have been a fan of flight sim for many years. I am in the process of bringing my PC into the 21st century.. My current pc specs are as follows. Windows 8.1 I7 3770 @ 3.40 GHZ 16g Dual Channel DDR3 @ 798 MHTZ NVidia GT545 1.5GIG graphics card. Lenovo Mother board. The pc is about 3 yrs. old, I feel the bottle neck is the graphics' card and ram when today you can get DDR at 2.5GHTZ, I know there is DDR4 but from what I have read FSX really relies on CPU power ( please correct me if I am wrong as I am not a PC Guru) What I am thinking of getting is the following, please feel free to tell me if this is really overkill. I7 6700 4GHZ Quad Core Gigabyte Z170 HD3 DDR3 Mother Board NVidia GTX970 4 Gig card New case and power unit 32 Gig DDR3 1600mhtz With the above upgrades would it be better to get the DDR4 version m other board, as I have heard DDR4 is over kill and has latency issues ? - google info can be harmful lol. I am running FSX standard edition with SP1 and 2, Vatsim, Active Sky, GSX, Aerosoft Air Bus Extended, plus other add ons from the file library. I have also just added but not installed FS Global.. I am currently getting anything from 50FPS then it drops to 7 or 8 then back up to 30 etc.. I apologise now if this in the wrong forum, I did look through them all and did not notice a specific thread or section for upgrades/Ideal system for FSX. Many thanks for any help or advice you can offer. Matt