advice for overclocking FSx PC

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hi

my dad plays FSX Flight Simulator but no other games - he just uses his PC for surfing, playing music and playing FSx for an hour or so every night

he wants to upgrade his PC

we are currently choosing:
AMD 955 Black Edition 3.2Ghz x4
2 x 2Gb Corsair RAM 1333Mhz
nVidia GTX 460 768Mb edition
320Gb Spinpoint F4
Gigabyte mobo
Arctic Freezer Pro7 rev2 cpu cooler
Corsair PSU
Windows 7 Home Premium 32-Bit

he also wants a new 24" 1920x1080 monitor

he wants a desktop case to put it all in, weve been advised to overclock the machine if using FSx - im familiar with overclocking but not really done it throughout the entire machine - i overclocked my friends 1333Mhz RAM to 1600Mhz by ramping up voltage slightly and changing the multiplier then running gurn in test ( - it was under guidance from someone on another forum) - apart from that i know the basics of it but would like some advice about this build and overclocking it. - the budget was limited hence components + 320Gb hard-drive, but its also the fastest disk hard-drive out and 3 times faster than his current 5 yr old WD 160Gb so will improve on FSx load times - his current acer PC is XP, 1Gb, Pentium 4 3Ghz + HTT, nVidia 6200GS, he plays FSx on that so should get quite a bit more scenery and detail from the upgrade

I understand that a desktop case is likely to be tightly packed and not much airflow which is ill-advised for OC - he was wanting a silver brushed aluminium desktop case but we cant find it anymore

im using competitor to buy the parts

any advice about how to overclock the AMD, GPU, RAM etc would be great
 
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try somthing like from ocuk! :)

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sorry - it was advice about overclocking i was after, not where to buy the parts - i mean it is called overclockers after all - i didnt know it was an 'online store' too - someone linked me to the forum
 
Doesn't FSX benefit greatly from quad core? Ignore, I thought it was only a tri-core you had listed.

Also I seem to remember seeing something that FSX practically plays the same fps with a 8800GT as it did with a GTX285. Not sure how the 4xx series fair and whether it is any improvement.

Nvidia cards are definitely better for FSX but would definitely get a quad core. Also I'm pretty sure that Intel is far superior to AMD where FSX is concerned but I;m sure somebody will come along and correct me if I am wrong.
 
like i mentioned, money was an issue - the 955 is a quad core - FSX only uses ONE CORE - it uses up to 3 others for some textures and scenery loading but the core of FSX only runs on one thread - so speed over cores is the thing to do with FSX - but both with also benefit you but not as much as you would expect

the 955 gives the most bang for buck on quad cores - an i5 of similar benchmark was £160 - the 955 is £106 - my dad has limited budget hence no i7's etc

if you have the money to spend then INTEL is the way to go - we dont have the money to spend
 
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