investorofmercy
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My business is gearing up in mid to late April and it seems prices are dropping about the same time...this means...Mo money, less cost!
I pretty much only play Flight SimX and I'm so waiting on DirectX10. I think that with the new Ati cards, I will be able to take full advantage of it. Here is what I want...I'll let you guys put it together.
CPU.....E6700 $550 shooting for $350 late spring...I may need something a little faster to run FSX at full settings its a cpu driven game.
GPU.....x2800xtx.......looks like it will blow everything out of the water $600-$650
Ram.....something in 1000-1200 mhtx range...I'm thinking 2 gb but maybe more? not sure if needed.
MOBO...something that can handle the Ram and something that can handle dual cards for the future.
Case...I'm pretty much sold on the Antec 900. As for cooling. with the c2d and the ati cards with some type of cooling(I will not be overclocking...will I?) I don't think I'll need extra cooling except for some good paste.
PSU.....Something that can handle everything without all the bells and whistles...no frills just solid power.
dvd burners.....one 1 dvd burner, 2 cd burners. Nothing fancy. My kids play music and make alot of cd's.
HD...a smallish 10k unit for the os and a 500 gb 7200 for everything else.
Operating system. ... I have heard it said that it takes Vista to get everything out of FSX. My question is......when will Vista be bug free enough to not give me headaches? and which Vista is enough to use the aero feature and get full access to DX 10? I don't know much about Vista.
I would like to stay under 2k if possible...if not, then somewhere close.
as for the Keyboard, Monitor, speakers and other periphials...I can handle those.
I pretty much only play Flight SimX and I'm so waiting on DirectX10. I think that with the new Ati cards, I will be able to take full advantage of it. Here is what I want...I'll let you guys put it together.
CPU.....E6700 $550 shooting for $350 late spring...I may need something a little faster to run FSX at full settings its a cpu driven game.
GPU.....x2800xtx.......looks like it will blow everything out of the water $600-$650
Ram.....something in 1000-1200 mhtx range...I'm thinking 2 gb but maybe more? not sure if needed.
MOBO...something that can handle the Ram and something that can handle dual cards for the future.
Case...I'm pretty much sold on the Antec 900. As for cooling. with the c2d and the ati cards with some type of cooling(I will not be overclocking...will I?) I don't think I'll need extra cooling except for some good paste.
PSU.....Something that can handle everything without all the bells and whistles...no frills just solid power.
dvd burners.....one 1 dvd burner, 2 cd burners. Nothing fancy. My kids play music and make alot of cd's.
HD...a smallish 10k unit for the os and a 500 gb 7200 for everything else.
Operating system. ... I have heard it said that it takes Vista to get everything out of FSX. My question is......when will Vista be bug free enough to not give me headaches? and which Vista is enough to use the aero feature and get full access to DX 10? I don't know much about Vista.
I would like to stay under 2k if possible...if not, then somewhere close.
as for the Keyboard, Monitor, speakers and other periphials...I can handle those.
