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DVA8901
Captain, B757-200
OLP

Joined on September 16 2009
50 State Club
Globetrotter
Event Half Century Club
Piston Prop Professional
Two Million Mile Club
South American Samba Club
US Coastal Club
Flying Colonel
B757 100 Club
Online Fifteen Century
Everett Millennium Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary

NY

1,654 legs, 5,357.8 hours
1,591 legs, 5,198.2 hours online
1,645 legs, 5,321.5 hours ACARS
103 legs, 344.1 hours event

Posted onPost created on October 10 2011 20:21 ET by Kyle Richardson

Hey guys I decided to get a new desktop its down to either ( http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=417547 ) or ( http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=254044&srkey=syx%201088 ) it seems the only difference is the graphic card and I save $150 smile

Any input on the better choice or anything that I can change or add to make it better would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Kyle Richardson (DVA8901)

DVA3680
First Officer, B767-300
OLP

Joined on November 01 2006
Stock Car Racing Club
Century Club

Berthoud, CO

114 legs, 232.4 hours
97 legs, 212.8 hours online
106 legs, 215.1 hours ACARS
2 legs, 3.7 hours event

Posted onPost created on October 10 2011 21:53 ET by Kevin Williams

My vote would be for the Lenovo then get a better graphics card.

Or if your adventurous you can try to build your own. You can put together a pretty good one for $900.

Kevin Williams

First Officer, B767-300

Posted onPost created on October 10 2011 23:05 ET by Kyle Richardson

Kevin Williams wrote:

My vote would be for the Lenovo then get a better graphics card.

Or if your adventurous you can try to build your own. You can put together a pretty good one for $900.

Do you think these specs are better?

CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-2600K 3.40 GHz 8M Intel Smart Cache LGA1155 (All Venom OC Certified)

HDD: 1TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 32MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Hard Drive)

MEMORY: 8GB (2GBx4) DDR3/1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Module (Corsair or Major Brand)

MOTHERBOARD: [CrossFireX] Asus P8Z68-V LX Intel Z68 Chipset DDR3 ATX Mainboard LucidLogix Virtu and Intel Smart

Response Technology & 7.1 HD Audio, GbLAN, USB3.0, 2x SATA-III RAID,2 3 PCIe Gen2, 2 PCIe X1 & 2 3CI (All Venom OC Certified)

SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO

VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB 16X PCIe Video Card (Major Brand Powered by NVIDIA)

Kyle Richardson (DVA8901)

DVA2088
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP

Joined on January 13 2005
Online Century Club
Everett 250 Club
50 State Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Million Mile Club
Globetrotter
Eight Century Club

Seattle, WA USA

817 legs, 2,352.9 hours
192 legs, 620.9 hours online
673 legs, 1,872.6 hours ACARS
11 legs, 54.5 hours event

Posted onPost created on October 10 2011 23:18 ET by Eric Paul

If I were you I would downgrade to an I5 2500K CPU. Has same performance as 2600K except it does not allow for hyper threading which FSX does not support anyway. I would take that extra money and buy a SSD in addition to your your standard HDD. Use the SSD just for FSX and you'll see a huge improvement in overall performance.

Eric Paul (DVA2088)

Posted onPost created on October 10 2011 23:34 ET by Kyle Richardson

Eric Paul wrote:

If I were you I would downgrade to an I5 2500K CPU. Has same performance as 2600K except it does not allow for hyper threading which FSX does not support anyway. I would take that extra money and buy a SSD in addition to your your standard HDD. Use the SSD just for FSX and you'll see a huge improvement in overall performance.

What size would you recommend to get the best performance?

Kyle Richardson (DVA8901)

Posted onPost created on October 11 2011 00:51 ET by Kevin Williams

The Crucial 128 GB m4 SSD has great performance / price. If it's too much, get the 64GB version.

With the 128gb you should have enough room to install windows, browsers, anti-virus, adobe pdf (whatever else starts up with your computer), and fsx on it. The rest of the programs would run off of your 1TB drive.

I'm a little backwards with where my ssd goes. Word on the street is that SSDs won't improve fps but it will improve fluidity. I would rather have snappy overall computer performance since I only use fsx a couple of times a week, so I run windows off of my ssd and fsx and other programs on the 1TB hd... but that's just me.

Kevin Williams

First Officer, B767-300

DVA8574
Captain, B737-800

Joined on March 08 2010

Fitchburg, MA

89 legs, 139.3 hours
62 legs, 100.7 hours online
88 legs, 137.7 hours ACARS
1 legs, 1.3 hours event

Posted onPost created on October 11 2011 01:37 ET by David Garrison

Please, leave FSX on it's own dedicated drive.

Get the parts and do the build yourself, it's a great learning experience.. you can add me to MSN @ uberwagn@gmail.com and I will gladly help you with hardware.

David Garrison

Captain, B737-800

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