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Pc Spec - your thoughts on this set up please!

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GoldDust
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 6:52 am 

Hi all, im thinking of purchasing the belwo PC spec from Del.
i wanted some feedback as to what you would change on the list or if the list below is good for FSX running at max with add ons scenery etc..



PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ 2 Quad-Core Extreme Processor QX6850 ( 3.00GHz, 1333Mhz FSB, 8MB cache )

OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium -

MEMORY 3072MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x1024+2x512]

HARD DRIVE 1TB Serial ATA RAID 0 Stripe (2x500GB 7200rpm drives with DataBurst™ cache)

OPTICAL DRIVE VISTA ONLY - 16X DVD+/-RW Drive

GRAPHICS CARD SINGLE 768MB nVidia® GeForce® 8800 GTX graphics card

SOUND CARD Sound Blaster® X-Fi Xtreme Music PCI Soundcard edit

whats your thoughts on this setup?


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Cheeks
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 7:07 am 

I think its very good Wink
Please direct your complaints to the moon, they might care there.
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GoldDust
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 7:08 am 

price £1,799.86 from dell...

Obviously i havnt included the extras like monitor and warrenty. is this a good price for the setup above?
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Tailhook
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 7:19 am 

That looks like a lap top... do you have a link?
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CRJCapt
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:16 pm 

Great desktop setup that should run FSX very well. I don't think you'll be able to run FSX with every possible feature at maximum, I don't think any present day computer can. A nice setup, don't think you could get much better. Here are some hardware charts for reference.
Arrow http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_2007.html?modelx=33&model1=430&model2=464&chart=168
Arrow http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics_2007.html

This may also be of interest, GFW's Ultimate Gaming Machine
Arrow http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3156027
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