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DVA9047
First Officer, A330-300

Joined on September 21 2010
50 State Club
Triple Century Club
Online Century Club
Toulouse Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

Deltona, FL

352 legs, 676.6 hours
109 legs, 176.0 hours online
351 legs, 675.8 hours ACARS
1 legs, 1.4 hours event

Posted onPost created on March 02 2013 09:56 ET by Justin Caughenbaugh

hello, im looking to buy a new pc, im tried of running FS9 with rex and many airports scenery upgrades and payware aircraft at an avg FPS of 15, i would like to get some basic info for a gaming pc, for example the best brand, and its specs to run fs9 or even fsx very smoothly and im on a budget of 800, i could spend a little more but its really meant for Fs9?

Justin Caughenbaugh

First Officer, A330-300

Posted onPost created on March 02 2013 10:32 ET by Justin Caughenbaugh

this is what i have now,

HP
AMD Athlon II X4 640 Processor 3.00 GHz
4.00 GB
64- bit
Windows 7

Justin Caughenbaugh

First Officer, A330-300

DVA6761
Captain, B777-200
OLP

Joined on December 07 2008
50 State Club
Globetrotter
US Coastal Club
Everett 250 Club
US Mountaineer Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Million Mile Club
Commuter Conquest
Online Double Century Club
Millennium Club

Belchertown, MA USA

1,027 legs, 2,988.3 hours
228 legs, 363.9 hours online
1,014 legs, 2,941.0 hours ACARS
4 legs, 7.9 hours event

Posted onPost created on March 02 2013 11:41 ET by Kevin Sullivan

Focus on the highest clock processor you can afford. I would go for a Core i7. Get at least 8, if not 16GB of Ram. You can worry about the graphics card after that. Go with the best you can afford. There are a bunch of threads on this forum talking about builds; check them out too.

Kevin Sullivan (DVA6761)

Posted onPost created on March 02 2013 12:32 ET by Justin Caughenbaugh

so after some reasearch i came up with these to computers in my bugdet

from cyborg power pc

CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-3570K 3.40 GHz 6MB Intel Smart Cache LGA1155 (All Venom OC Certified)
HDD: 1TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 32MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Drive)
MEMORY: 8GB (4GBx2) DDR3/1600MHz Dual Channel Memory (Corsair or Major Brand)
MOTHERBOARD: [CrossFireX] GIGABYTE GA-Z77-HD3 Intel Z77 Chipset DDR3 ATX Mainboard w/ IRST, Ultra Durable 4 Classic, 7.1 HD Audio, GbLAN, 2x Gen3 PCIe x16, 2x PCIe x1 & 2 PCI (Extreme OC Certified)
SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 1GB 16X PCIe 3.0 Video Card (Major Brand Powered by NVIDIA)

or dell alienware

Alienware X51
Operating System Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64Bit, English
Processors 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i5-3330 (6M Cache, up to 3.0 GHz)
Memory 8GB (2 X 4GB) Dual Channel DDR3 up to 1600MHz
Keyboard Alienware Multi-Media Keyboard
Monitor No Monitor
Video Card NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 640 1GB GDDR5
Hard Drive 1TB SATA 3Gb/s (7,200RPM) 32MB Cache
Chassis Color Matte Stealth Black with Dark Chrome Accents
Mouse Alienware Optical Mouse, MG100
AlienFX AlienFX Color, Quasar Blue
Adobe Reader Software Adobe® Acrobat® Reader
Optical Drive Slot-Loading Dual Layer DVD Burner (DVD±RW, CD-RW)
Wireless DW1506 Wireless-N WLAN Half Mini-Card
Power Supply 240W External Power Supply

about $20 difference between the two

Justin Caughenbaugh

First Officer, A330-300

DVA2887
Senior Captain, A320
OLP, 737-ATP, VFRADV
E-MAIL

Joined on January 30 2006
50 State Club
Globetrotter
Tri-Jet Triumph
US Coastal Club
Millennium Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
US Mountaineer Club
Toulouse 250 Club
Online Eight Century

Charlotte, NC

1,284 legs, 1,794.0 hours
838 legs, 1,045.6 hours online
1,266 legs, 1,772.0 hours ACARS
31 legs, 49.6 hours event
3 legs dispatched, 2.5 hours

Posted onPost created on March 02 2013 14:42 ET by Andrew Vane

Above recommendations are great if you've got the dough. I recently, on a very limited budget upgraded to a desktop from my laptop.

I'm getting 30+fps with almost everything turned on full.

Core 2 Duo 1.86Ghz
2GB RAM
80GB Hard drive
Radeon 6670 (pci express)

Its by no means a system worth bragging about but only set me back $200. HP Refurbished DC7700 with a brand new video card and I'm good to go. I installed FSX but the frames are below 20 on average with no other traffic. Still unplayable without a major upgrade to my system ($500 or more).

As cool as FSX is, I'm settling for FS2004 with all the bells and whistles turned on.

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

Posted onPost created on March 02 2013 17:04 ET by Justin Caughenbaugh

any other comments on the specs before i choose one or the other and if someone tell me what the major differences are in the two for an extra 20-40 bucks

Justin Caughenbaugh

First Officer, A330-300

AFV744
Senior Captain, B747-400
OLP

Joined on April 27 2012
Diplomatic Mission
Globetrotter Extraordinaire
50 State Club
The Penguins Of Madagascar
Online Five Hundred Club
Event Century Club
Double Millenium Club
Historic Quadricentenary Club
Five Million Mile Club

Wellington, NS Canada

2,468 legs, 10,374.5 hours
752 legs, 1,426.3 hours online
2,468 legs, 10,374.5 hours ACARS
238 legs, 466.0 hours event
3,528 legs, 15,773.5 hours total

Posted onPost created on March 02 2013 17:20 ET by Bill Gardiner

The first system has a much better CPU, and it is a "K" series so you can OC it. I would go a better video card if possible, here is a high end one, but expensive. Or even a step down from this...

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130771

And memory is pretty cheap, you can get 1800 or 2166 for almost the same price as the 1866.

Bill Gardiner

Senior Captain, B747-400

AFV519
Senior Captain, B737-800
OLP
E-MAIL

Joined on May 01 2010
International Tourist
50 State Club
GVA 5 Year Anniversary
Diplomatic Mission
Online Triple Century Club
B737 Two Fifty Club
European City Bash
Quinticentenary Club

Copenhagen, Denmark

535 legs, 1,751.0 hours
393 legs, 1,166.1 hours online
504 legs, 1,634.5 hours ACARS
10 legs, 55.7 hours event
848 legs, 2,955.2 hours total
51 legs dispatched, 85.9 hours

Posted onPost created on March 02 2013 19:12 ET by Mathias Lund

if you have the time to build it yourself instead of buying a manufactured one you will probably end up with a better computer, which fits your specific needs, for less money

Mathias Lund (AFV519)

DVA10131
Captain, MD-11
E-MAIL

Joined on August 29 2011
50 State Club
Century Club
Online Century Club

"If it's not Boeing, I'm not going"
Charleston, SC USA

136 legs, 473.3 hours
123 legs, 428.0 hours online
130 legs, 451.7 hours ACARS
11 legs, 38.5 hours event

Posted onPost created on March 02 2013 22:09 ET by Robbie Johnson

I would strongly recommend building it yourself, it is really simple and will save you money while giving you a overall better system. If you would like to build it yourself let me know your budget and I will get a parts list together for you. If you are unable to build it yourself, I would go with the cyberpower one, It should be ok as is but I would up the GPU to at least a 660Ti if you plan on gaming other than FS, but for FS only the 650 or 660 should be fine.

Robbie Johnson (DVA10131)

AFV313
Senior Captain, B737-800

Joined on June 11 2010
Diplomatic Mission
Pushing Tin Club
Online Millenium Club
Globetrotter Extraordinaire
The Penguins Of Madagascar
Double Millenium Club
50 State Club
Boeing Buckle Down
Four Million Mile Club
GVA 10 Year Anniversary

"Come fly with me, lets fly, lets fly away!"
Howick, KwaZulu-Natal ZA

2,941 legs, 9,560.6 hours
1,901 legs, 5,926.6 hours online
2,853 legs, 9,199.0 hours ACARS
58 legs, 272.0 hours event
350 legs dispatched, 155.5 hours

Posted onPost created on March 03 2013 03:47 ET by Robert Armstrong

Build it yourself, you'll be able to get a much better system for the same amount of money!

DVA9545
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP, 737-ATP

Joined on March 03 2011
50 State Club
Globetrotter
Quad-Jet Quartermaster
US Coastal Club
US Mountaineer Club
Million Mile Club
Events Double Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Toulouse 500 Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Online Twenty Century

"YUPIIIII"
Goiás Brazil

2,496 legs, 5,046.5 hours
2,325 legs, 4,768.1 hours online
2,488 legs, 5,016.9 hours ACARS
271 legs, 683.8 hours event

Posted onPost created on March 03 2013 09:12 ET by Thiago Braga

Justin,
I`am willing to sell mine for $800 here is mine aspecs:

*Inter Core i5 CPU 750 @2.67 OC to 3.31GHz
*4.00 GB
*ATI Radeon HD 5850
*700 Wts of Power Supply
*Gigabyte Mother board
I also have Flight Simulator X Standard CD-rom

There is no brand as I built it. Mid Tower and lots of FANs.
The only thing I can`t add is the HDD.

Let me know and I`ll send some pictures.

Thiago Braga (DVA9545)

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