Spec me....
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SUPERB....!!!!! Thank you very much for taking to time to give me the above list.
your a star, and I will start doing my research and use the above list as a great guide to my new rig...
your a star, and I will start doing my research and use the above list as a great guide to my new rig...
Soldato
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Great to hear that you'll be building it yourself. You'll be getting much for you money this way.
Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
MSI GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £284.99
(£237.49) £284.99
(£237.49)
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor £194.99
(£162.49) £194.99
(£162.49)
Asus P8P67 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) £122.98
(£102.48) £122.98
(£102.48)
Lancool Dragon-Lord PC-K62 Mid Tower Case with Window - Black £87.82
(£73.18) £87.82
(£73.18)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £81.98
(£68.32) £81.98
(£68.32)
XFX Pro 650W Core Edition Power Supply £66.37
(£55.31) £66.37
(£55.31)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000528AS) £40.99
(£34.16) £81.98
(£68.32)
GeIL 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz VALUE PLUS Dual Channel (GVP34GB1600C9DC) £33.98
(£28.32) £33.98
(£28.32)
Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £26.53
(£22.11) £26.53
(£22.11)
Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.98
(£12.48) £14.98
(£12.48)
Sub Total : £830.50
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £13.75
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £168.85
Total : £1,013.10
As stulid says you can do this quite considerably under your budget of £1400.
I've not included a monitor as I haven't used any on this site before.
Few points
1) The Antec TruePower 650W is a very good PSU but is unfortunately out of stock on this site (& price has leapt up) - can be had for £59.99 from elsewhere.
2) I've chosen the Asus board as I've found Foxconn customer services a little underwhelming in the past. Asus will offer more regular driver and BIOS updates too.
3) Assuming this is mainly for FSX the GTX 570 may be a little overkill but would enhance the eye candy and effects seen with Real Environment Xtreme and shimmer.
4) Again assuming that FSX is the priority the motherboard unfortunately won't allow for adding in a second graphics card for SLI (or crossfire if you go down the route of ATI/AMD) but remember Nvidia cards tend to perform better and FSX doesn't utilize dual card setups.
5) Consider waiting for the GTX 560 (due to be released soon) as they should be priced around £200. (If you going to be gaming other than FSX I'd consider a motherboard which does SLI and up the PSU too).
6) Not included an SSD, but you could consider buying one if you wanted your operating system to boot quicker. Wont have any effect on FSX performance*.
7) Included two hard drives. Remember FSX should be installed on the first part of its own dedicated drive and half the drive to remain empty - boots texture loading times etc.
8) As to whether to go for i5 2500K over the i7 2600K is yet to be proven for FSX. Although many went for the i7 (1366) over the i5 (1156) and sweared it had better performance.
9) The key will be to overclock the processor to as higher clock speed you can. 4.5GHz should be easy and the cooler should allow you to push it further when you are comfortable with overclocking.
10) Case is personal preference but £80ish for this case seems good. (Although out of stock)
*Although a dedicated SSD to fsx would be amazing and textures would load smoothly this will add a considerable amount onto the system price.
Also remember to shop around too. For example the i5 2500K is £178.99 elsewhere and the Antec PSU can be had for £59.99
Been reading about the i7 2600K, not many people have FSX up and running yet on the new systems but I'd expect much more in the way of news and feedback in the coming weeks.
edit
As with the monitor, peripherals I've left to others and yourself.
What joystick do have out of curiosity? or even flight yoke?
Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
MSI GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £284.99
(£237.49) £284.99
(£237.49)
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor £194.99
(£162.49) £194.99
(£162.49)
Asus P8P67 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) £122.98
(£102.48) £122.98
(£102.48)
Lancool Dragon-Lord PC-K62 Mid Tower Case with Window - Black £87.82
(£73.18) £87.82
(£73.18)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £81.98
(£68.32) £81.98
(£68.32)
XFX Pro 650W Core Edition Power Supply £66.37
(£55.31) £66.37
(£55.31)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000528AS) £40.99
(£34.16) £81.98
(£68.32)
GeIL 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz VALUE PLUS Dual Channel (GVP34GB1600C9DC) £33.98
(£28.32) £33.98
(£28.32)
Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £26.53
(£22.11) £26.53
(£22.11)
Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.98
(£12.48) £14.98
(£12.48)
Sub Total : £830.50
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £13.75
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £168.85
Total : £1,013.10
As stulid says you can do this quite considerably under your budget of £1400.
I've not included a monitor as I haven't used any on this site before.
Few points
1) The Antec TruePower 650W is a very good PSU but is unfortunately out of stock on this site (& price has leapt up) - can be had for £59.99 from elsewhere.
2) I've chosen the Asus board as I've found Foxconn customer services a little underwhelming in the past. Asus will offer more regular driver and BIOS updates too.
3) Assuming this is mainly for FSX the GTX 570 may be a little overkill but would enhance the eye candy and effects seen with Real Environment Xtreme and shimmer.
4) Again assuming that FSX is the priority the motherboard unfortunately won't allow for adding in a second graphics card for SLI (or crossfire if you go down the route of ATI/AMD) but remember Nvidia cards tend to perform better and FSX doesn't utilize dual card setups.
5) Consider waiting for the GTX 560 (due to be released soon) as they should be priced around £200. (If you going to be gaming other than FSX I'd consider a motherboard which does SLI and up the PSU too).
6) Not included an SSD, but you could consider buying one if you wanted your operating system to boot quicker. Wont have any effect on FSX performance*.
7) Included two hard drives. Remember FSX should be installed on the first part of its own dedicated drive and half the drive to remain empty - boots texture loading times etc.
8) As to whether to go for i5 2500K over the i7 2600K is yet to be proven for FSX. Although many went for the i7 (1366) over the i5 (1156) and sweared it had better performance.
9) The key will be to overclock the processor to as higher clock speed you can. 4.5GHz should be easy and the cooler should allow you to push it further when you are comfortable with overclocking.
10) Case is personal preference but £80ish for this case seems good. (Although out of stock)
*Although a dedicated SSD to fsx would be amazing and textures would load smoothly this will add a considerable amount onto the system price.
Also remember to shop around too. For example the i5 2500K is £178.99 elsewhere and the Antec PSU can be had for £59.99
Been reading about the i7 2600K, not many people have FSX up and running yet on the new systems but I'd expect much more in the way of news and feedback in the coming weeks.
edit
As with the monitor, peripherals I've left to others and yourself.
What joystick do have out of curiosity? or even flight yoke?
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That is spot on, once again thank you.....!!!!!
If you get an expensive nvidia card make sure you get an evga as they have the BEST rma and warranty. Tgey allow you to overclock aswell. Id spend a bit extra and go for an 850w psu as this will save you money in the long runf and will help when you will need a new graphics card
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Don't forget FSX is 32 bit application so can not utilise more than 4GB of RAM. Having more than 4GB Ram, however, would allow FSX not to be limited by the amount of available memory as remember Windows would still be using some it. As to whether it will give you smoother flight I'm not convinced.
As above really, the GTX 570 would certainly be overkill for just FSX.
I upgraded from a GTX260 to a GTX470 only a short while ago. With the 260 I would be getting 99% gpu usage whilst with the 470 it rarely goes above 60-70%.
I would be waiting for the GTX 560 personally as it should perform at the level of a 470 roughly and be roughly £200.