Spec flight sim pc.

John_V85

John_V85

John_V85

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Hi

Looking to put together a pc for x plane. Thinking about spending c£1k for the box, ex monitors, keyboard, operating system, etc. The budget has some flexibility depending on the incremental benefit of spending more/less.

Specific requirements.
- Dual screen capable.
- Quiet.
- The smallest case I can get away with. Not something with windows, lights, etc.

Otherwise I'm open to anything really.

Thanks in advance.
 
Thanks so far. I have a pilots license already (james_2k) so this is a case of time for a new pc generally, but also getting a good sim setup that will aid with instrument rating training.

I'll take a look at some of the cases later as that may influence motherboard choice. Equally I'm kind of tempted by three monitors. I can see this having an aviation like budget already!
 
Having had a look around I think the prodigy case is actually a good compromise between size and space so will probably go with that. I'm also thinking a tripple display setup would be good. With that in mind is 1000 the correct ballpark budget? Where is the bottleneck, if any?
 
Thanks.

Do these 670 cards fit into the Prodigy case. Description infers dimensions up to 240mm, but unless I'm reading it wrong the cards are 270mm?
 
Ok, thinking of the following:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus GeForce GTX 670 DirectCU II 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £359.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £184.99
1 x Samsung 128GB SSD 830 Desktop Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC128D/EU) £89.99
1 x Antec Kúhler H2O 920 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM2+/AM2+/AM3+) £84.98
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVI316G160C9K) £71.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) £59.99
1 x PC Power & Cooling Silencer Mk III Series 600W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply - White £53.99
1 x Samsung SH-224BB/BEBE 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
Total : £932.90 (includes shipping : £10.00).



Then combined that in Mini-ITX or Micro-ATX format with:

1 x BitFenix Prodigy Mini-ITX Cube Case - Midnight Black £64.99
1 x ASRock Z77E-ITX Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard £123.98

or

1 x Lian Li PC-V355B Aluminium Micro ATX Cube Case - Black £94.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77M-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £86.99

I intend the end product to run 3x Dell 2412M monitors.

Questions
Does this all work together?
Any better combinations for the same sort of money? Particularly have little idea with regard to motherboards and what features I need. I'm not going to be tinkering with every little thing, but if I can get a slight overclock out of the cpu it seems a waste not too.
Any obvious bottlenecks, or where by spending a little more I'd get something much better?
Is the cooler really acquired? £85 seems a lot for a cooler.
Anything i've missed (Window's aside) to get the thing put together?

Many thanks
 
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