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Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | i think i just fried my old Q6600 rig help on this new upgrade?

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Posted onPost created on May 13 2013 15:21 ET by Adrian Garcia

ASUS P8P67 PRO (REV 3.1) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Intel Core i5-3570K Quad-Core Processor 3.4 GHz 4 Core LGA 1155 - BX80637I53570K

will that be a good match to run fsx on decent settings
and if u can please advice on what can i add to this.
soo far i got the budget for this two items.

Adrian Garcia

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DVA4215
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Posted onPost created on May 13 2013 16:14 ET by Kyle Hatch

Those should work. I'm running the same mobo but have a i5-2500k instead. I OC'd it to 4.5Ghz and it handles anything I throw at it (NGX, REX, ORBX, FSDT, and the list goes on and on) I would suggest having 8GB RAM. Yes, FSX can only use 4 but that leaves another 4 open for windows and other programs.

Kyle Hatch (DVA4215)

Posted onPost created on May 13 2013 16:36 ET by Adrian Garcia

thanks kyle i forgot to mention i had just bought a radeon 7750 2g ddr3 for my previus rig but i was kind of messing with clocks and now it wont power up just for a split second then shuts down again. i think this card will be okay would you think?

Adrian Garcia

Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on May 13 2013 16:47 ET by Kyle Hatch

I'm not familiar with ATI Radeon cards so I can't help there, sorry. I'm sure someone else will chime in that knows the Radeon cards well.

Kyle Hatch (DVA4215)

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Posted onPost created on May 13 2013 22:27 ET by Robbie Johnson

You should go with a Z77 motherboard

Robbie Johnson (DVA10131)

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Posted onPost created on May 14 2013 02:16 ET by Alan Barber

+1 on the Z77. Gigabyte UD range seem pretty bulletproof

Alan Barber

Senior Captain, B767-300

Posted onPost created on May 14 2013 14:37 ET by Robbie Johnson

Adrian Garcia wrote:

thanks kyle i forgot to mention i had just bought a radeon 7750 2g ddr3 for my previus rig but i was kind of messing with clocks and now it wont power up just for a split second then shuts down again. i think this card will be okay would you think?

I'm assuming you were messing around with the clocks on the GPU? If you were if you fried anything unfortunately it would most likely be that video card as opposed to your other components. The easiest way to test this would be to drop it in another working system and see if it works properly, if not you would just need to replace it.

Robbie Johnson (DVA10131)

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