Simviation Forum - Best PC for FS 2004

Nov 11^th, 2004 at 8:01pm

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What would all of you recommend to buy as far as a pc for fs 2004 and what sould the spects be for it . ???

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Reply #1 - Nov 11^th, 2004 at 8:58pm

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Brown,

If you look arouind the forums.... this one and the general fs2004 one... you'll find TONS of threads devoted to this topic.

Bottom line....... however much moeny you have on hand.... spend it. Wink

And MORE.

best,

.....................john

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Reply #2 - Nov 11^th, 2004 at 11:15pm

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Money isn't the bottom line. You can put together a great system reasonably cheap.

Mainboard chipset is a primary consideration, it will support either AMD or Intel CPU's. Your choice.

Consider Researching the socket 754 and socket 939 AMD chipsets such as the nForce 3.

The fastest CPU you can buy will help.

ATI 800 series or nVidia 6800 series for your video card.

Ram should be 1024mb minimum and is chipset specific, don't get rubbish, get decent low latency ram.

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Reply #3 - Nov 12^th, 2004 at 9:32am

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Congo,

I was being a bit "flip".... since this topic comes up about every third day Wink

. There are TONS of people's opinions on this subject here if one takes the time to look at the existing threads.

And the "money" reference was intended to mean that there is just about no machine available yet that is really "too much machine" in order to actually to get the full performance available out of fs2004.

best,

.............john

« Last Edit: Nov 12^th, 2004 at 3:13pm by JBaymore »

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Reply #4 - Nov 12^th, 2004 at 2:26pm

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Teh 'best' I think would easily be http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/full_systems.html. The bottom one! Spend what you have got... lol...
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Reply #5 - Nov 14^th, 2004 at 5:20am

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I guess what I was trying to say was that you can throw a lot of money away and still not really know what you have. Hopefully it would do the job right.

There really is no substitute for knowledge when it comes to putting together a top end rig. It's a bit of a long road however, and not everyone has the time or inclination to to go there.

You could buy something like a top of the line Alienware product, but you WILL pay a premium for it.

If you do decide to put one together yourself, some us here can assist, just ask.

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Reply #6 - Nov 18^th, 2004 at 12:23pm

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You might goto this site if you want to configure your own pc..They have really decent prices and if you dont want the OS they can ship it without..Try www.Ibuypower.com...Good people. Just purchased an AMD 3000 GHZ w/ 1 GB RAM / Nvidia FX5700 w/ 256 Ram/ 80 Gb Serial HD / 16X DVD / DVD/CD Read/write drive with 6 in 1 Media card player and 420 Watt power supply for 875. shipped..You can go higher or lower depending on your needs..Also got a keyboard and infra red mouse but no OS and no monitor as I have them..

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Reply #7 - Nov 18^th, 2004 at 8:16pm

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Thanks

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Reply #8 - Nov 19^th, 2004 at 11:41am

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As far as specs go, try to aim for at least a 3ghz CPU or equivalent in a quality processor, not the cheaper versions.

1024mb of decent RAM

An excellent video card, a NV6800 series in any flavour, depending on your budget. Don't skimp on the video card, a good one will give you the performance you are after.

Mainboard: Asus P5K-Premium, CPU=Intel E6850 @ x8x450fsb 3.6ghz, RAM: 4gb PC8500 Team Dark, Video: NV8800GT, HDD: 2x1Tb Samsung F3 RAID-0 + 1Tb F3, PSU: Antec 550 Basiq, OS: Win7x64, Display: 24" WS LCD

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