Simviation Forum - How's This For A Computer? Good Enough For FSX?

Sep 13^th, 2008 at 2:55pm

LA95 Offline
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My Specs

Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Processor Q9300 (6MB Cache,2.50GHz,1333FSB)
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium w/ Digital Cable Support SP1
4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz - 4 DIMMs
640GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™
Dual Drives: 16x DVD-ROM Drive + 16x DVD+/-RW w/ dbl layer write capable
No Monitor
Radeon ATI HD 2600 XT 256MB
Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeGamer (D) Sound Card
No speakers (Speakers are required to hear audio from your system)
Dell USB Keyboard
Dell Optical USB Mouse
No Floppy Drive or Media Reader Included
No Modem Requested
My Software & Accessories
McAfee SecurityCenter 15-months
Microsoft Works 9.0

My Service
1Yr Ltd Hardware Warranty, InHome Service after Remote Diagnosis
Dell Online Backup 2GB for 1 year

Also Includes
Windows Vista™ Premium
Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 9.0 Multi-Language
Dimension XPS, Specialized Support
No Entertainment software pre-installed
No ISP requestedCompatibility Alert
Recalculating Price

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Reply #1 - Sep 13^th, 2008 at 3:25pm

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The overall specs are good, but the video card can be improved.

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Reply #2 - Sep 13^th, 2008 at 3:38pm

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SubZer0 wrote on Sep 13^th, 2008 at 3:25pm:

The overall specs are good, but the video card can be improved.

NEEDS! 256mbs won't get you anywhere. You can pick up an 8800GT or GTX for dirt cheap nowdays. You will be much more please with a 512mb+ card than a 250.

&&http://352photography.webs.com/

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Reply #3 - Sep 13^th, 2008 at 3:52pm

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Operating system Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 (32-bit) edit
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Quad processor Q9450 (2.66GHz) edit
Memory 3GB DDR2-800MHz dual channel SDRAM (2x1024,2x512) edit
Graphics card 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 9500GS, DVI-I, VGA, HDMI edit
Hard drive 640GB RAID 0 (2 x 320GB SATA HDDs) - performance edit
Networking 802.11 b/g Wireless LAN card edit
Primary CD/DVD drive LightScribe 16X max. DVD+/-R/RW SuperMulti drive edit
Front Productivity Ports 15-in-1 memory card reader, 2 USB, 1394, audio edit
TV & entertainment experience No TV Tuner w/remote control edit
Sound Card Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer edit
Productivity software Microsoft(R) Works 9.0 edit
Security software Norton Internet Security(TM) 2008 - 15 month edit
Speakers HP stereo speakers (2.0) edit
Keyboard and Mouse HP multimedia keyboard and HP optical mouse edit
Your additional options:
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Power and Surge Protection HP Surge Protector, 6 Outlet edit

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Reply #4 - Sep 13^th, 2008 at 3:53pm

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I agree on the vid card.... but more importantly... price?

Check out my PAYWARE quality, FREEWARE release of DominicaX.

HP HDX 16 | Centrino2 2.26Ghz | 4GB DDR2 | Nvidia GT130 1GB DDR2 | 500GB HDD

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Reply #5 - Sep 13^th, 2008 at 3:56pm

LA95 Offline
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$1400

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Reply #6 - Sep 13^th, 2008 at 4:10pm

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For a pre-built... its kind of reasonable i would estimate. Just find a good vid card to switch over to after u sell the 256, which you should.

Check out my PAYWARE quality, FREEWARE release of DominicaX.

HP HDX 16 | Centrino2 2.26Ghz | 4GB DDR2 | Nvidia GT130 1GB DDR2 | 500GB HDD

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Reply #7 - Sep 13^th, 2008 at 7:52pm

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LA95 wrote on Sep 13^th, 2008 at 3:52pm:

Operating system Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 (32-bit) edit
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Quad processor Q9450 (2.66GHz) edit
Memory 3GB DDR2-800MHz dual channel SDRAM (2x1024,2x512) edit
Graphics card 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 9500GS, DVI-I, VGA, HDMI edit
Hard drive 640GB RAID 0 (2 x 320GB SATA HDDs) - performance edit
Networking 802.11 b/g Wireless LAN card edit
Primary CD/DVD drive LightScribe 16X max. DVD+/-R/RW SuperMulti drive edit
Front Productivity Ports 15-in-1 memory card reader, 2 USB, 1394, audio edit
TV & entertainment experience No TV Tuner w/remote control edit
Sound Card Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer edit
Productivity software Microsoft(R) Works 9.0 edit
Security software Norton Internet Security(TM) 2008 - 15 month edit
Speakers HP stereo speakers (2.0) edit
Keyboard and Mouse HP multimedia keyboard and HP optical mouse edit
Your additional options:
Click edit to modify. NOTE: These items are in stock and will ship immediately.
Power and Surge Protection HP Surge Protector, 6 Outlet edit

9500 won't get you anywhere. If you can't get an 8800GT GTS(newer one) GTX or ultra then don't get a card and buy it afterwards. Nothing less than a 9600GT.
Also get AVG for security. Norton = Security of no return just DON'T do it.

&&http://352photography.webs.com/

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Reply #8 - Sep 14^th, 2008 at 5:39pm

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If I may, it's worth it to ditch the Norton and pay $40 for NOD32 by eset. FSX will love you for it.
-Jim

Rampage II Gene, i7 965 4GHz
Mushkin Redline DDR3 1600
XP x64 SP2
ASUS Matrix GTX285

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