New computer coming soon

[XLR8]

Well my wife wants a gaming computer. After years of prebuilt ones I building my own. She said I could build one for me and give her my old one or vise versa. So what do you all think.

NXZT Phantom case
i5 2500k
ASRock P67 PRO3 LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory
samsung spin point F3 hard drive 500gb
EVGA SuperClocked 012-P3-1572-AR GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support
Nave not decided on a power supply yet but looking at 700 watt or better. just don't know what brand yet.

How would this run FSX.

[gigabyte]

Well my wife wants a gaming computer. After years of prebuilt ones I building my own. She said I could build one for me and give her my old one or vise versa. So what do you all think.

NXZT Phantom case
i5 2500k
ASRock P67 PRO3 LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory
samsung spin point F3 hard drive 500gb
EVGA SuperClocked 012-P3-1572-AR GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support
Nave not decided on a power supply yet but looking at 700 watt or better. just don't know what brand yet.

How would this run FSX.

I think it looks pretty darn good, my only comment would be if you have the budget go for a second hard drive for FSX (and any other games that you use that do very frequent seeks). If you can use a seperate drive for Windows (not just a seperate partition on the same physocal drive) you should see a marked improvement in things like scenery loading and to an extent autogen. In my case I did not notice a huge jump in FPS, but it made the studders disappear completely when scenery had to load from the disk.

OH final thought, if the price is right and you want to go to Win 7 64 bit, 6-8 Gig of RAM will make a difference, 4 Gig will work, but 6-8 is worth the cost IMHO.

[txnetcop]

Why not spend that extra few bucks for the 2600k it is unlocked and is a mad over-clocker and runs very cool with a good fan/heatsink?
Ted

[XLR8]

I think it looks pretty darn good, my only comment would be if you have the budget go for a second hard drive for FSX (and any other games that you use that do very frequent seeks). If you can use a seperate drive for Windows (not just a seperate partition on the same physocal drive) you should see a marked improvement in things like scenery loading and to an extent autogen. In my case I did not notice a huge jump in FPS, but it made the studders disappear completely when scenery had to load from the disk.

OH final thought, if the price is right and you want to go to Win 7 64 bit, 6-8 Gig of RAM will make a difference, 4 Gig will work, but 6-8 is worth the cost IMHO.


I have read about the 2 drives, but don't know how to set that up. Its a good maybe if my budjet stay where its at. I supose it can be done later?

The 4 GB of ram keeps poping up when I start looking at other builds. More is recomended for photo editing and so forth.But I agree. Will check into more ram.

Do you know of a good PSU for under $100 .I think 700 watts should be enough.

Thanks.

[XLR8]

Why not spend that extra few bucks for the 2600k it is unlocked and is a mad over-clocker and runs very cool with a good fan/heatsink?
Ted


From the review the 2600k is a better multitasking/photo editing cpu. Plus its about $100 more. I took that $100 and placed it to the Gforce 570.

I forgot to post the cooler. Its a COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus.

[txnetcop]

From the review the 2600k is a better multitasking/photo editing cpu. Plus its about $100 more. I took that $100 and placed it to the Gforce 570.

I forgot to post the cooler. Its a COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus.

Well not a bad idea but the 2600k is a mad gamer CPU as well...in our test at TechCorp it ran CRYSIS2, FARCRY2, and CALL OF DUTY Black OPs almost as fast as the 980X when OC to 4.2GHz however I understand your reasoning.
Ted

[Meshman]

Do you know of a good PSU for under $100 .I think 700 watts should be enough.

http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=58&name=Power-Supplies

Each of the past two "FSX" systems have had Thermaltake PSUs, 750w. My old "FS9" computer had a TT 450w. I gave it to a friend and it's still plugging along after 4-5 (?) years.

Simple advice? Don't go cheap on the PSU! Overspec'ing is not a bad thing. Something good has to feed that hungry CPU and GPU, doesn't it?

[XLR8]

Thanks guys. I found this one at newegg. It has very good reviews.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371026

[OleBoy]

Other good choices

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139006
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182067
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171053