FS9 PC - on a budget!

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I wonder if someone good point me in the direction of a reasonable spec PC for Flighstsim 9/2004. I'm kind of limited to £300ish which is probably no good but maybe you could help? I currently use it on a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop with could results but I like my weather and Active Sky and the traffic add ons are a bit of killer, averaging 10-20fps but near airports goes down to 8fps. If it helps I use Ultimate Terrain Europe, Ground Environment & Active Sky 6.5. Tried the VFR scenery but too blurry.
If I need to spend more (or less!) then let me know by how much.
Thanks in anticipation.
 
Did you need an operating system?

Anyway, my little effort,

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5830 Extreme 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **OcUK Exclusive** £85.98
(£71.65) £85.98
(£71.65)
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 840 "95W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £79.99
(£66.66) £79.99
(£66.66)
Coolermaster Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black (with 500w Elite Power PSU) £64.99
(£54.16) £64.99
(£54.16)
Asus M4A78LT-M 760G (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £49.99
(£41.66) £49.99
(£41.66)
OCZ Platinum 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Ultra Low Voltage Dual Channel Kit (OCZ3P1600C9ELV4GK) £36.98
(£30.82) £36.98
(£30.82)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500413AS) £30.98
(£25.82) £30.98
(£25.82)
Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.98
(£12.48) £14.98
(£12.48)
Sub Total : £303.25
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.00
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £62.65
Total : £375.90

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That will do it.

When I look at your post I though second hand Q6600 system with a ATI HD5770 would be enough and cheap second hand. But looking at the first reply dont bother with second hand when you can have that spec for just under £400.

I use to fly a lot on FS9, being a 2ic of a vitual RAF logistic squadron flying C5 and C130`s. Running every add-on under the sun even some shareware RAF airfields. My Q6600 was upto the task. But when I used the VFR scenery for LAPES drops It would grind to 15fps. Not very good when flying on a busy RAF sim server.

Never had much luck with VATSIM, GA wasnt my thing. Was bad enough spending all day saturday flying to Iraq with virtual spares in the back on full realisum with 2 escort tornados once we got into Iraq air space, doing a inflight refuel over the med. Ah the good old days. 12 hour flights on my day off work.

Do you fly online?
 
Thanks for the replies so far, something to think about.
I don't fly online, just getting (back) into flight sims again. GA is my thing with the odd classic jet. I think If I did a 12hr stint I'd be in bother with HQ!
 
Yep HQ clipped my wings had to step down.

I did build a TrackIR the free track version for £10 and a web cam I had about my desk. That made her a little happier than the £150 version.

Hope you find a good spec for the money.
 
same build, different gpu, not sure which is best for fs9, nvidia or ati, i cant remember which it works well with.

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erm like its been used in a display model and stuff, they still come with their full warranty, and im sure if there where any problems ocuk would sort it right out as they always do ;p
 
Correct i Fly FSX and Nvidia is best for Flight sim. How ever i have noticed one thing with your build, Only FSX supports Multicore CPU's (im 99% sure on this) so what you need is the highest clockspeed you can get. either that or that build would fly FSX nicely due to the Quad Core and FSX supporting multi threading.
 
also one more note flight sim is not very GPU intensive, I changed my GPU from a 9800GTX recently to a 480 and noticed very little difference maybe 2fps if that, its all about CPU power with Microsoft flight sim
 
danewesley said:
erm like its been used in a display model and stuff, they still come with their full warranty, and im sure if there where any problems ocuk would sort it right out as they always do ;p
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you couldn't be more wrong, the warranty is 90 days.

So for a extra £5 the one i listed has the full warranty, and all the parts will be present as B grade are customer return's which can have missing parts.
 
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Randall8686 said:
seems to be a little conflict here maybe OCuk can clear up Look at the description of this B Grade monitor Clearly says 3 year warranty

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BG-031-DE
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No confusion:D

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/announcement.php?f=117

What does "B-Grade" mean?
B-Grade items are manufacturer's repairs or items we are unable to sell as new, they may be subject to packaging damage or may be a brown box product. All B-Grade items come with a 90 day warranty and may be missing items such as driver CD's and cables. Unfortunately we are unable to provide you with the reason why this is B-Grade as each B-Grade item is different.
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but i had to look for that if i bought the product as described on the product page it clearly says 3 years.... you could see how that could mislead some one
 
Randall8686 said:
but i had to look for that if i bought the product as described on the product page it clearly says 3 years.... you could see how that could mislead some one
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OCUK have just lazily copied and pasted the description of the "new" product into the B grade section.
 
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