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Your dream PC to Run FSX (Read 14 times)

Jul 23^rd, 2006 at 5:34am

Ashton Lawson Offline
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Please write down the parts and stuff, ur dream FSX PC would be made of.

Motherboard: ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe
Processor:       AMD Athlon 64-bit FX
RAM:    Corsair 2GB Kit, XMS 2, DDR2 1066 MHz
GPU(s):    2 nVidia GeForce 7950 GX2
OS:    Microsoft Windows Vista
Accesories:    MATROX TripleHead2Go
   3 Widescreen High-Definition Monitors
   Saitek X-52 Joystick & Throttle

Only to dream...

&&FS Water Configurator+ has new modifications in the works, plus DirectX 10, Service Pack&&1, and Radeon HD 3+ Series support.

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Reply #1 - Jul 23^rd, 2006 at 5:52am

Daube Offline
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It's hard to tell.
Todays material will certainely no be enough for FSX, which is scheduled in at least 4 months.

I will choose in Decemeber. Only things I know for sure:
- Intel proc
- NVidia video
- Asus motherboard
The rest is detail...

Got bloom ?
Got mountains ?
Got damage ?

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Reply #2 - Jul 23^rd, 2006 at 6:16am

PisTon Ex Member

Depends really:
Core 2 Extreme Kentsfield (Quad core processor) or AMD K8L.
Two ATI X2900XTX in Crossfire
4GB DDR2-1000 memory
Twin Raptor 150gb in RAID 0
SB X-fi best version.
Matrox triple head 2 go
CH yoke and pedals
track IR
3x21inch 4:3 screens.

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Reply #3 - Jul 24^th, 2006 at 6:45am

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this is from www.wired2fire.com

Case: Thermaltake Shark (black)
Power Supply Unit: Enermax 600W Noisetaker
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 FX-60
CPU fan: Zalman Ultra Quiet CPU Cooler
Motherboard: Asus A8N-SLI SE Socket 939 PCI-Express
Graphics card: Dual Geforce 7900 GTXs 512MB in SLI (Available Now)
Memory: 2GB Corsair TwinX PC3200 Pro
Hard disk drive 1: Caviar SE 320GB S-ATA 150
Hard disk drive 2: Caviar SE 320GB S-ATA 150
Optical drive 1: 16x DVD-Rom drive
Optical drive 2: DVD+/-RW dual layer
Floppy Drive: 17 in 1 X-Pro Memory Card Reader
Sound Card: Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro
Monitor: Samsung SM930BF 19\" TFT Monitor (4ms response time)
Keyboard: Logitech Cordless Desktop MX5000 (Bluetooth keyboard & mouse)
Mouse: None
Speakers: Creative Gigaworks 7.1 S750 Speakers
Operating System: Windows XP Professional SP2
Warranty: Onsite Warranty (full parts and labour - 1 year)

Total : £3609.00

pretty sweet, huh

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Reply #4 - Jul 24^th, 2006 at 7:05am

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Put it like this... Direct X 10.... when X 10 comes out, graphics are suppost to change.... that will mean a whole new bread of cards, I know that the latest offerings from nvidia and ati will play fsx pretty well, but I would wait untill vista and fsx have been released and then see what hardware is available at the time, instead of buying before hand.
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Reply #5 - Jul 24^th, 2006 at 7:13am

PisTon Ex Member

Quote:

this is from www.wired2fire.com

Case: Thermaltake Shark (black)
Power Supply Unit: Enermax 600W Noisetaker
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 FX-60
CPU fan: Zalman Ultra Quiet CPU Cooler
Motherboard: Asus A8N-SLI SE Socket 939 PCI-Express
Graphics card: Dual Geforce 7900 GTXs 512MB in SLI (Available Now)
Memory: 2GB Corsair TwinX PC3200 Pro
Hard disk drive 1: Caviar SE 320GB S-ATA 150
Hard disk drive 2: Caviar SE 320GB S-ATA 150
Optical drive 1: 16x DVD-Rom drive
Optical drive 2: DVD+/-RW dual layer
Floppy Drive: 17 in 1 X-Pro Memory Card Reader
Sound Card: Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro
Monitor: Samsung SM930BF 19\" TFT Monitor (4ms response time)
Keyboard: Logitech Cordless Desktop MX5000 (Bluetooth keyboard & mouse)
Mouse: None
Speakers: Creative Gigaworks 7.1 S750 Speakers
Operating System: Windows XP Professional SP2
Warranty: Onsite Warranty (full parts and labour - 1 year)

Total : £3609.00

pretty sweet, huh

Awsome!
But twin X1900XTXs and a Intel core 2 duo would be better Wink

Wink

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Reply #6 - Jul 24^th, 2006 at 7:14am

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okies, thanks

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Reply #7 - Jul 24^th, 2006 at 8:21am

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MAC G5 Quad.

P4 2.5. massive huge 10 foot display.

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Reply #8 - Jul 24^th, 2006 at 9:56am

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You people have already forgot what M€$ admitted when FS9 went out in the shops three years ago, haven't you?

For those of short memory, way back then M€$ admitted that a PC powerful enough to make FS9 run smoothly did not yet at the time exist.

Do YOU really think that this time around things will be different? Lips Sealed

Lips Sealed

Undecided

Please.

Roll Eyes

There's but one real cure for human stupidity. It's called DEATH.&&&&At the moment mourning the assassination of sarcasm and irony for the good of the "higher".&&&&Proud FSIX user. Active user of FS98, X-plane and novice of Orbiter.&&&&Seen the GREAT service pack for FSX and its usefulness, really awaiting for FS11 to upgrade.&&&&AMD Athlon Xp 2400@2700&&MB Asus A7V8XX&&1Gb ram DDR 400 @ 333&&ASL Nvidia Geforce 6600gt 128Mb DDR3 AGP&&Creative Sound Blaster Live&&Windows XP Professional Sp2&&2 HD Maxtor 40Gb - 1 HD Maxtor 80Gb

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Reply #9 - Jul 24^th, 2006 at 10:00am

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M€$ ??????

ermmm, please say the word... its like saying M$ where as you could just simply say MS

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Reply #10 - Jul 24^th, 2006 at 10:04am

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Or simply M$...

Got bloom ?
Got mountains ?
Got damage ?

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Reply #11 - Jul 24^th, 2006 at 10:08am

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hmm, yeh, thats what i put... but i think a mod changed it ??? ??? ???

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Reply #12 - Jul 24^th, 2006 at 11:31am

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Quote:

You people have already forgot what M€$ admitted when FS9 went out in the shops three years ago, haven't you?

For those of short memory, way back then M€$ admitted that a PC powerful enough to make FS9 run smoothly did not yet at the time exist.

Do YOU really think that this time around things will be different? Lips Sealed

Lips Sealed

Undecided

Please.

Roll Eyes

Tell us something we DON'T know. Grin

Grin

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Reply #13 - Jul 24^th, 2006 at 1:06pm

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I'll probably do a major system upgrade at Easter 2007, once FS is out, and Vista is out, and DX10 graphics cards won't be as horrifically expensive!

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Reply #14 - Jul 24^th, 2006 at 1:45pm

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The one I allready have, see my sig

&&AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-60 Dual Core&&with HyperTransport™ Technology&&Genuine Windows® XP Media Center &&ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe Mainboard&&2048MB DDR 400 Memory&&600GB Serial ATA Hard Drive &&2x 512MB GeForce 7900GTX SLI&&

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Reply #15 - Jul 25^th, 2006 at 1:44am

PisTon Ex Member

Quote:

You people have already forgot what M€$ admitted when FS9 went out in the shops three years ago, haven't you?

For those of short memory, way back then M€$ admitted that a PC powerful enough to make FS9 run smoothly did not yet at the time exist.

Do YOU really think that this time around things will be different? Lips Sealed

Lips Sealed

Undecided

Please.

Roll Eyes

Read my post. K8L nor X2900XTXs are out yet.

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Reply #16 - Jul 25^th, 2006 at 1:44am

PisTon Ex Member

Quote:

MAC G5 Quad.

Why?
PowerPC archetecture isn't very good, plus tere isn't DX10 cards for it.

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Reply #17 - Jul 25^th, 2006 at 1:56am

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Hmmm... I'll definately want a computer that has an nVidia Geforce that has 10 terrabytes of memory on it and 100 terrabytes of RAM! Grin

Grin

At the moment my computer can't even run Pilots SR-71 because I only have 510 megabytes of RAM. And 512 is required. Tongue

Tongue

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Reply #18 - Jul 25^th, 2006 at 4:02am

machineman9 Offline
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hehe that sucks

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Reply #19 - Jul 27^th, 2006 at 3:20am

Ashton Lawson Offline
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Yah, I know all of you probably think waiting for DirectX 10 compatible Video cards are the best thing to do. It is! But I just want to know what you think would be the best with nowadays cards. Wink

Wink

&&FS Water Configurator+ has new modifications in the works, plus DirectX 10, Service Pack&&1, and Radeon HD 3+ Series support.

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Reply #20 - Jul 28^th, 2006 at 1:17am

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Something paid for

Asus P8Z77-V Deluxe
Intel I7 3770K w/ Corsair H100
Thermaltake Level 10 GT
Silverstone 1000W PSU
Corsair 120G Force 3
2 x Seagate Sata 3
16 G Corsair Meemory
2 x EVGA GTX 295
Windows 7 Ultimate

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Reply #21 - Jul 28^th, 2006 at 4:46pm

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Quote:

It's hard to tell.
Todays material will certainely no be enough for FSX, which is scheduled in at least 4 months.

I agree.

THe computers they were running the Beta on were still getting only 10 or so FPS at certain times Shocked

Shocked

C/SMSgt - Civil Air Patrol

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Reply #22 - Aug 8^th, 2006 at 12:18am

cheesegrater Ex Member

Pentium II 350 MHZ
64MB RAM
Voodoo 3

I wish it would run on this computer because that means it would run on my current computer. Grin

Grin

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Reply #23 - Aug 8^th, 2006 at 12:28am

Ashton Lawson Offline
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Don't we all wish that...

(if this could happen, we'd hav seriously cr@p graphics...)

(but excellent fps... Grin

Grin

)

&&FS Water Configurator+ has new modifications in the works, plus DirectX 10, Service Pack&&1, and Radeon HD 3+ Series support.

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Reply #24 - Aug 8^th, 2006 at 2:09am

PisTon Ex Member

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I agree.

THe computers they were running the Beta on were still getting only 10 or so FPS at certain times Shocked

Shocked

So? I get 5fps in fs2004 sometimes. Also, the game still needs to be optimized Wink

Wink

It WILL run fine on current hardware while still looking better than fs9. You will NOT be abled to max it out.

Oh, and current graphics cards can max fsX out (minus DX10).
http://www.gwn.com/news/story.php/id/10042/
LOL! 64x AntiAliasing.

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Reply #25 - Aug 8^th, 2006 at 7:45am

Ashton Lawson Offline
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Let's please stick to normal graphics cards please. Not great big, huge mad-house VGA things bigger than a comp power-supply...

Cuz, no VGA card can achieve FSX full settings on unlimeted frame rate.

&&FS Water Configurator+ has new modifications in the works, plus DirectX 10, Service Pack&&1, and Radeon HD 3+ Series support.

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Reply #26 - Aug 8^th, 2006 at 8:43am

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It might help if for once, microsoft were open and honest about what systems they use for development.

Example: latest video clip shows very good performance on a large display, jitter free and excellent resolution. Somehow it just strikes me that their systems might be very discreet and hence infinately more powerful than average commercial gear.

If the developers have nothing to hide, and can back their minimum spec statements then perhaps we could have some info on what they use?

This could save a lot of anxiety and frustration amongst their customer base.

I personally can see no reason why this cannot be done, and I am sure a lot of people would be very interested to know what microsoft use.

There is no such thing as forced hardware upgrades, so there should be no problem.

P4 2.5. massive huge 10 foot display.

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Reply #27 - Aug 8^th, 2006 at 9:21am

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They indeed told quite precisely what kind of config they were using for the beta shows, but I can't find back the info...surely saw it in some post on some other forum... arf, damned memory Tongue

Tongue

Got bloom ?
Got mountains ?
Got damage ?

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Reply #28 - Aug 8^th, 2006 at 11:18am

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Dream PC
Socket AM2 dual-dualcore with at least 4GB memory and the fastest GEForce available

Reasonable choice
Fastest dualcore that fits my board, and 1GB extra

Russian planes: IL-76 (all standard length ones), Tu-154 and Il-62, Tu-134 and An-24RV&&&&AI flightplans and repaints can be found here

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Reply #29 - Aug 13^th, 2006 at 12:04pm

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hmm, my new dream (and i will get it because its only £1.3k)

oooh and its a pro gaming laptop:

HP - INTEL CORE DUO T2500 PROCESSOR 2GHz LAPTOP

Processor: Intel Core Duo T2500
RAM: 2048 MB RAM
GPU: nVidia GeForce Go 7600 (although i plan to upgrade it to Geforce Go 7900 GTX
HDD: 200gb
O/S: windows XP SP2 or if VISTA has come out, i will get that

also has 1years warranty lol

available from PCworld yee haw!

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Reply #30 - Aug 13^th, 2006 at 3:22pm

cheesegrater Ex Member

Alright, here is my dream system:

TYAN Tomcat K8E-SLI Grin

Grin

AMD Opteron 180
2x Gainward 7950GX2 (4 GPUs) Grin

Grin

OCZ EL Gold GX XTC PC3200 2X512MB DDR400 CL2-2-2-5
Western Digital 10000RPM 150GB SATA
Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
Hiper Type R 580W

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