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AFV803
First Officer, A320
Joined on May 04 2013
"I Wanna Fly Now "
Dublin, Ireland
8 legs, 12.5 hours
6 legs,
8.6 hours online
8 legs,
12.5 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
November 23 2013 13:05 ET by Jack Moran
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I have
Athlon 64 x2 dual care processor 5000+ 2.60GHz
RAM 2.0GB
The graphics card is Nivdia nForce Serial ATA Controller (I think thats the graphics card)
What should I upgrade to run aersoft airbus A321 ?
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AFV313
Senior Captain, B737-800
Joined on June 11 2010
Diplomatic Mission
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"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
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Posted onPost created on
November 25 2013 07:52 ET by Robert Armstrong
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To be blunt... Everything...
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AFV803
First Officer, A320
Joined on May 04 2013
"I Wanna Fly Now "
Dublin, Ireland
8 legs, 12.5 hours
6 legs,
8.6 hours online
8 legs,
12.5 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
December 24 2013 11:54 ET by Jack Moran
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| I know not fantastic. My pc needs so much work that I might as well by a new pc (I think I will do that)
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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
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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
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Posted onPost created on
December 24 2013 12:35 ET by Bill Gardiner
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You might get some really good Boxing Day deals on components.
Bill GardinerSenior Captain, B747-400
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DVA9545
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP, 737-ATP
Joined on March 03 2011
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"YUPIIIII"
Goiás Brazil
2,495 legs, 5,044.8 hours
2,324 legs,
4,766.4 hours online
2,487 legs,
5,015.2 hours ACARS
271 legs,
683.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 24 2013 14:57 ET by Thiago Braga
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Jack,
Don`t buy new PC. Buy the components to build on your own. Its more reliable and sometimes cheaper.
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AFV803
First Officer, A320
Joined on May 04 2013
"I Wanna Fly Now "
Dublin, Ireland
8 legs, 12.5 hours
6 legs,
8.6 hours online
8 legs,
12.5 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
December 25 2013 08:19 ET by Jack Moran
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| That sounds good ill have a look on amazon and places like that and see what I can find. Thanks for all the help
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DVA7897
Captain, B767-300
Joined on October 14 2009
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Bezau, Vorarlberg AT
363 legs, 1,291.5 hours
331 legs,
1,160.2 hours online
343 legs,
1,173.5 hours ACARS
2 legs,
12.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 25 2013 11:56 ET by Mathias Ratz
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Hey Jack,
If you want to Build a new PC the most critical point is your Budget, if you give us a rought Budget we could give you the best advise 
Greetings from Austria and a merry Christmas to everyone,
Mathias
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AFV803
First Officer, A320
Joined on May 04 2013
"I Wanna Fly Now "
Dublin, Ireland
8 legs, 12.5 hours
6 legs,
8.6 hours online
8 legs,
12.5 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
December 29 2013 14:09 ET by Jack Moran
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| What I think I might do is buy parts online as I need them for my pc instead of building form scratch so what im buying first is 3.00ghz processor then buy some extra ram I think I'm okay with the motherboard any suggestions for a processor are welcome
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DVA4229
First Officer, B767-300
OLP
Joined on March 19 2007
"Sink rate. Sink Rate."
Southeastern United States
54 legs, 100.9 hours
47 legs,
87.7 hours online
53 legs,
98.4 hours ACARS
7 legs,
11.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 30 2013 07:26 ET by Lawrence Woodworth
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Jack, the Serial ATA card controls any SATA drives (hard drives, optical drives, etc.) you may have. For general info, nVidia's "nForce" devices relate to their motherboards and their Geforce devices are the graphics cards/modules.
You'll read elsewhere where people have stated that more than 4GB of memory is unnecessary because FSX is only a 32-bit program. (32-bit operating systems can only address up to 4GB of memory.) That advice would be perfectly fine if FSX was the ONLY program you run on the computer, but I don't know of anyone who doesn't have additional programs and add-ons tying into FSX on any given flight. In my case, ActiveSky, REX, TOPCAT, Navigraph, and PFPX are typically running in addition to FSInn and fsCoPilot.
Here's another reason to think about going for 64-bits of CPU/operating system and lots of memory: Your graphics card has memory installed on it that needs to be addressed by the CPU. Graphics card memory takes the available addresses at the end of addressable memory and works backwards. For example, a 32-bit CPU with 4GB of installed RAM gets a shiny new graphics card installed that has 2GB of graphics RAM onboard. When the computer is rebooted after the card is installed, the computer only has 2GB of RAM available to work with, because the graphics card reserved the highest 2GB of addresses for its memory. Now take this SAME graphics card and put it in a 64-bit computer with "only" 4GB of memory. (From Wiki:) "a processor with 64-bit memory addresses can directly access 2^64 bytes (=16 exbibytes) of byte-addressable memory". The 64-bit computers we can buy and build right now aren't made to address that high, but 128 GB is a pretty common figure these days so we'll use that number for our example. When that graphics card is installed in the 64-bit computer, it reserves the addresses from 126 GB through 128 GB for its graphics memory and the CPU still has its fully-addressable 4GB of memory down on the low end to work with.
Finally, memory is cheap. I just built a new computer from scratch before the holidays and 16 GB of DDR3 RAM cost a paltry $120. (For the record, my nVidia Geforce GTX 770 graphics card has 4GB of built-in RAM so I HAVE to have a 64-bit operating system).
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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
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Posted onPost created on
December 30 2013 14:10 ET by Robbie Johnson
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Jack Moran wrote:
That sounds good ill have a look on amazon and places like that and see what I can find. Thanks for all the help
Realistically you should first get a plan together for what exactly you will be doing; it matters. The first purchase will probably the most expensive and you would need to get a new mobo, CPU, RAM, and if you want a new case that would be the best time to get it. It's also probably a good idea to go ahead and get a new PSU with that purchase. After that you would have the basic stuff for a starting point in a current generation PC and you can start looking into a new GPU, SSDs, and other things.
If you could get us a budget for at least the first wave of the upgrade we can figure out the best course of action for you.
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