1 x
Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7970 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £299.99
1 x
Intel Core i7-3820 3.60GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - OEM £235.99
1 x
Gigabyte X79-UD3 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £169.99
1 x
Samsung 250GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD250BW) £139.99
1 x
GeIL Black Dragon 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD316GB1600C11DC) **OcUK Exclusive** £89.99
1 x
XFX Pro Series 750W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £84.98
1 x
Antec Kúhler H2O 920 Series 4 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (LGA1155 / LGA1156 / LGA1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM2+ / AM3+) £77.88
1 x
Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £71.99
1 x
BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Case - Black £44.99
1 x
OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
Total : £1,233.78 (includes shipping : FREE).
a i7 on socket 2011 with a good liquid cooler, with a good motherboard that supports 16x16 crossfire if and when needed, with 16gb of fast ram.
1 256gb sdd for boot and programs with a 2tb hdd for storage
a i7 and extra ram will help with the flight sim, and a 3gb card will stop any slow downs, at a later date when budget allows you can always add another card if needed
option 2,
same as above but with no hdd, a pure sdd build using a samung 500gb sdd
1 x
Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7970 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £299.99
1 x
Samsung 500GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD500BW) £266.99
1 x
Intel Core i7-3820 3.60GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - OEM £235.99
1 x
Gigabyte X79-UD3 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £169.99
1 x
GeIL Black Dragon 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD316GB1600C11DC) **OcUK Exclusive** £89.99
1 x
XFX Pro Series 750W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £84.98
1 x
Antec Kúhler H2O 920 Series 4 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (LGA1155 / LGA1156 / LGA1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM2+ / AM3+) £77.88
1 x
BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Case - Black £44.99
1 x
OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
Total : £1,288.79 (includes shipping : FREE).
i also play flight sims. with the addons as well, also use the amd cards, have no problems what so ever tbh,
http://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php...-fsx-pc-pleasepleaseplease-help-me-fs-pilots/
many say nvidia is better with photoshop, flightsims etc or dual card gaming etc etc, it all depends on what site you base your reviews on, all say totally different things depending on there views or cards they have themselves etc.
for photoshop, a pro card will always be better than a gaming card, end of....
for gaming, including flight sims, both makes are fully supported, so go either way wont matter, for your budget your only option is amd as nvidia costs more for the same level of power etc, so unless you can increase the budget, something else would have to give.
a i5 for the flightsim, well you might as well stick with what you have got and overclock it, as i wouldn't swap 1 i5 for another either, but that's your choice and budget, enjoy the spec and also good luck whatever you choose.... ps (i'm not knocking any ones spec above either, just giving another opinion and choice/direction etc)
if this is your game of choice,
Scenery Patch,
Photo-Based Scenery Add-On UpdateCertain highly-detailed scenery add-ons that make use of large satellite images may not display correctly in Flight Simulator X.
Specifically, you’ll notice large rectangular areas that are black or dark blue, where the proper ground texture does not draw at all.
Microsoft has confirmed this issue to be a bug in the Flight Simulator X terrain display engine.
so not any card related, even though some website still say this is a amd problem, not true
Service Pack 1,
Service Pack 2,
Microsoft releases their second service pack for FSX. I includes graphical and performance enhancements.
so upto yet, not one standalone bug found for just amd cards
as all fixes are engine ones, small fixes for drivers etc, both that's for both sets....
quote"One of the drawbacks of using "Gaming" sites for FSX build info is, most "games" love:
top-o-the-heap graphics cards, RAID0, SLI, X-fire, and can utilize any fast multicore CPU with a decent OC.
Those folks builds and recommendations reflect that.
FSX is almost the opposite. It wants: The fastest CPUs available, OCd into the stratosphere, with single "good" video card.
Software RAID(0,1,5,10) uses clock cycles valuable to FSX. unless you have a dedicated $300+ Hardware RAID card, stay away.
SLI or X-Fire, can be a no-no, and is only recommended for ultra high resolutions on multi-monitors.
Intel's instruction set, and architecture, is superior to AMD for FSX, which is not always true in the rest of the gaming world.
Almost the same situation with nVidia vs AMD for FSX video card solutions.
The race is much tighter with AMD working quite well, but, not quite to the level of nVidia's equivalent solutions.
It gets closer yet when considering multi-monitor solutions, where, up until the GTX 6XX series, with nVidia you had to use two cards.
AMD still has a slight edge with Eyefinity for more than 4 monitor use, but, that scenario is a little much for even the staunchest FSXer.
As you can see FSX's wants and needs, are a little different than those of a general "Gamer".
While Flightsim.com is, by far, the best, there are other FS sites that offer good advice also.
Peruse those too, and you'll find almost identical advice to what you get here. "end quote
so the nvidia is better debate, for this game only is well muted or a draw at least, yes in some small ways it can be a % faster, but for the price paid for the extra % is it worth it? for me no, i'd spend the extra like i have above on better cpu and more ram etc (where there can be no debate, the i7 wins hands down), both which would help the game run better than a % increase that a nvidia card would do for the same money spent
stock i7 will be fine, but if you want to OC? cooler with spec will do a good OC as well, good guide below
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18476907
Surely you chose that by mistake? I don't even think that's as fast as 2x 6950s...
