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Hello, I am thinking of getting into this business of building a FSX/Video Editing computer for myself and as a result I am doing some research on which components could be best to get the job done. Okay, my planned budget for the rig is $1,300 dollars and I only plan to have FSX, Sony Vegas, and Microsoft Office as the major programs for my computer. I am not much of a gamer outside of Microsoft Flight Simulator. My mindset for the computer is getting the best bang for the buck in terms of FSX and Sony Vegas performance. My initial research has led me to pick the following hardware components. AMD FX8350 Processor Clocked at 4.0 GHz (TurboCore up to 4.2GHz) AsRock 970 Extreme4 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti with 2GB of Video Memory Corsair Vengeance LP 16GB 240-pin DDR3 1600 RAM Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 60GB SSD (for Windows 8 installation) Seagate 1TB 7200rpm Drive (FSX, Office, and Sony Vegas will go here, may buy additional HDD for Sony Vegas use exclusively if warranted). Windows 8 64bit LG BluRay Drive Corsair HX750 750-Watt Power Supply Before finishing this write-up, I would like to explain why I went with AMD. Part of the reason is economics, I found very little difference between the AMD 8350 processor versus the Core i5K edition to justify the latter's retail price, and given AMD's reputation of being a good over clocker compared to Intel which open the door for expandability (I know that I will need an aftermarket cooler if I decide to over clock). The second reason for my initial AMD decision is that Video Editors like a lot of Cores to do rendering, I find that the AMD 8350 seems to be a good processor for that given its sheer core advantage over Intel's current generation solutions. Given that AMD is under a bad rap recently in the tech world, I would like to ask about the experience that other members of the AVSIM community have had with the AMD FX-Series processors and FSX and if I should expect to run FSX a High Settings (I know Maximum Settings in FSX is next to impossible even in current systems :( ) Also, I wonder if the NVIDIA video card will suffice for FSX? One last thing, I am not ruling out using FS9 on this computer as well given that this particular simulator is still going on strong even 10 years after its general availability. Thanks again for your assistance!
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