OT :- wohoo!!

**stiz** · May 5th, 2012, 23:49

well, finaly bit the bullet and brought a new pc

not the best by far but better than my current one which is on its last legs!

Intel Core i7-3820 3.60GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor
Asus P9X79 PRO Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard
Kingston HyperX Genesis 8GB (4x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz C9 Quad Channel MemoryKit
GeForce GTX 550Ti 1024MB GDDR5
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache
Samsung SH-B123L/RSBP 12x BluRay ROM / DVDRW DL & RAM Lightscribe SATA-II Optical Drive
Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 750W V2 High Performance Power Supply
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit

moveing on from:-

Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 3.33Ghz
4GB ram (though xp only sees 3 of it!)
Geforce 9800GT 512mb

wensday seems so far away!!! :isadizzy:

**Naismith** · May 6th, 2012, 00:31

Always a good feeling. Now the hard part.... reinstalling all the sims.:isadizzy:

**stiz** · May 6th, 2012, 01:06

and all the programs, games etc etc! :isadizzy: allthough i'll prolly just swap over one of me existing drives and just do it that way

***Daube*** · May 6th, 2012, 04:40

Very good hardware choice. I'm a bit concerned with the video card, but it should be fine for FSX hopefully.
Good luck with the reinstall. Always start with Windows. First windows update, then all the libraries which are not handled by Windows update: C++ runtimes, Java runtimes, DirectX runtimes etc....
Then the additionnal programs.

**Stefano Zibell** · May 6th, 2012, 11:39

I think a GTX 460 would be a better choice if you're the nvidia only kind of dude.

**stiz** · May 9th, 2012, 20:37

well it arrived, and even with the less then best graphics card (its was a prebuilt so i didnt have much choice!) it runs FSX with all settings right at 30fps solid (locked), my old pc struggeled to run most fsx with most sliders fully left .. so yea .... i'm happy