Views on a new PC

[PaulC]

Morning Gents,

I've just got some quotes for a PC to run our new Flight Simulator at my ATC Squadron. Specs are;

• Intel i5 3.3GHz Quad Core Tower 650W PSU
• 8GB DDR Memory
• Twin Graphics ATI HD6570
• 256GB Solid State Hard Drive
• DVDRW
• Windows 7 64 Bit
• 23” HDMI LED Monitor x 3
• Keyboard and Mouse

This supplied and fitted for £1299.

What's your thoughts?

Cheers,
Paul

[TSR2]

My only thought is NVidia every time for FS. Otherwise that's almost identical to mine.

[speedbird591]

I thought Ben was going to suggest a second hard drive for FS. He usually does

Perhaps a smaller SSD for the OS would keep the cost down if you wanted to get a second drive.

Ian

[TSR2]

Hi Mate,

I usually do don't I.

Ian is correct, a small 64 GB drive for the OS would be grand, or at the very least, partition the drive they have specified. SSD's at that sort of size shouldn't be much more than £1 per GB

[Chris Sykes]

Hi Paul,

is that a ready build or self build? Seems quite high priced for an i5 system?

[PaulC]

is that a ready build or self build? Seems quite high priced for an i5 system?

Ready built by a local IT consultant who's done some network jobs for us before.

[Steve M]

Hi Paul
I recently upgraded my system to an i7 3770k overclocked to 4.4 ghz with an nvidia 660TI graphics card. I am still using a SATA 2 drive for the OS and a faster SATA 3 drive for FSX and in all but the heaviest areas it will run FSX at a steady 40 FPS with quick load times. As I understand there is nothing to be gained by twin graphics SLI setups in FSX and would agree a single decent nvidia card would be the better option. Either a 660TI or a 670.

The price of SSD's is still relatively high so I would be steered towards perhaps a small SSD for the OS and a large capacity 2 or 3 TB SATA 3 drive for FS and addons. You should be able to get an i7 syetem for the quoted price. It would also be worth a look at PC Pilot as they adverstise systems aimed at running FS.

Steve M

[Chris Sykes]

Hi Paul,

Seems high for an i5 price, like Steve said you should get an i7 for that. But then again the price would be up because its a local consultant and wants their cut... However whats their support on this as this could be a big difference from purchasing online/in store if they support it for a number of years for free/cheap?