I have never ran fsx on a desktop ushally I messed around with my laptop but now that I have got the hang of controls ect... and I am able to fly almost like a pro I was checking before I pay £983 that this set up would run fsx smoothly and with either ultra high or at least highish settings including add-ons ect..

Processor -(CPU) Intel® Core™i7-2600 Quad Core (3.40GHz, 8MB Cache) + HD Graphics

Motherboard - ASUS® P8P67 (NEW REV 3.0): USB 3.0, SATA 6.0GB/s, CrossFireX™

Memory - (RAM) 4GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 2GB)

Graphics Card - 1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti - 2 DVI,HDMI,VGA - DX® 11, 3D Vision
Ready

Memory - 1st Hard Disk 80GB INTEL® 320 SERIES SSD, SATA 3 Gb/s (upto 270MB/sR | 90MB/sW)

2nd Hard Disk 500GB SERIAL ATA 3-Gb/s HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (7,200rpm)

DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM

Power Supply - CORSAIR 650W TX SERIES (TX650) 80+ ULTRA QUIET PSU

Processor Cooling INTEL SOCKET LGA1155/1156 STANDARD CPU COOLER

Sound Card - ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

Network Facilities - ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON

USB Options - 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS)

Operating System Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit

cheers for the advice the 80gb ssd drive was for Fsx I hoped that that would be enough for the Fsx only part my budget wont stretch to another hard drive I don't think.. not sure on exact prices of hard drives and I was using a website recommended to me pcspecialist.co.uk to do this because they were the only site I found which would build custom pcs with  excellent reviews ect.. I changed my qoute to the 2600k and it added £20 so if it will help it is a small extra to pay

Get asus P8P67 Pro if overclocking.

And DDR3-1600.

And update processor cooling like Coolermaster Hyper 212+

Other than that you're good.

SSD's are massively faster than any hard disk, if you can fit windows and fsx on the drive then do that otherwise put either fsx or windows on a different drive like a raptor.

Right now my FSX drive has 106GB on it.  This includes GEX, FSG mesh, Scenery Tech landclass, FEX, and some misc addons like planes, airports, aicarriers.  I have another 600GB Vrap for photo scenery only and that has 287GB on it.  The free space I have left on both 600GB Vraps is reserved for more photo scenery that I want when it comes out.

Right now my FSX folder has 84GB on it, this includes FSG, ST and the addon planes and airports so I think that an 80GB SSD for FSX only is just to small, you will not be able to add anything.  When I said to get the 600GB Vrap I meant for you to put FSX on that.

My OS is on a 128GB SSD and right now I am using 50GB and this includes stuff that has to go on the OS drive and other programs that I just wanted to run fast so you should put your OS on the 80GB SSD and FSX on the 600GB Vrap.

You are on a budget and we get that, not everyone can spend what they want.

You really should OC your system after you get it and get everything installed and make sure that it is stable.  You get a lot better performance out of an overclocked system than one that is not.

The 2600K I recommended along with the P8P67 Pro motherboard / DDR3-1600 memory / Hyper 212+ that NNNG recommended are only needed for overclocking.  If you are not going to OC then you do not need them, stick with what you originally had, BUT I STRONGLY RECOMMEND YOU OC, it is not that hard and as long as you do not set your voltages to high you will not screw anything up.

You could stick with the original 500GB drive you had and put FSX on that and put your OS and everything else on you 80GB SSD.  Get the 2600K, P8P67 Pro and the Hyper 212+ then you can get the better DDR3-1600 ram later, it is easy to swap ram.

Here is a OC guide for a 2600K that you can read and see how it is done, there are many more out there, you can search the web and find them.

http://www.clunk.org.uk/forums/overclocking/39184-p67-sandy-bridge-overclocking-...

We are here to help and there are a lot of 2600K overclockers in the hardware forum at Avsim and I know they will be glad to help you.

You can also go to www.overclock.net in the Intel CPU section and read some of those threads, a lot of people are over there to that are always glad to help.

You also should think about building it yourself and the money you save can be used for better hardware.