Okay. So it is my mom's old computer (probably 2 years old I think).  It is an old dell inspiron desktop computer.  I'm not sure about the technical parts of it, but I was just wondering how good these computers were with the flight simulator games and what all is easily changeable for someone who has no real good idea about the technical parts of a computer. I don't really know how else  to describe the computer.. It is not the newer silver one. It is one of the black and gray ones... I doubt that helps at all.... Like I said, I don't know much about the system and haven't used it for a little bit since I am in college now.  I do know that it has quite a few programs and is kind of slow now because of two little sisters that play on it also.  But if I could get it away from them that would probably be the starting point of a computer for me. So if there is any ideas please let me know!
Thanks ya'll

HookEmHorns wrote on Nov 25^th, 2008 at 4:03pm:

Here are your full specs.
http://reviews.cnet.com/desktops/dell-dimension-4600c-pentium/4507-3118_7-305574...
For a free computer, not bad. You should be able to run FS9 OK but you may want to consider getting a new graphics card. For that computer you could find a good cheap one somewhere. It has an 80Gb HD...not that much, but there are plenty of utilities to clean it up.
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