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dkt3 First Officer


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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:46 am Post subject: best computer for fsx with a good price |
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does anyone know what the best computer to buy... in perfromence and price my comp performed really bad when fsx was on it. so can somone give me a great comp for fsx
kind reagrds
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RadarMan Chief Captain


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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 1:39 am Post subject: |
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How much do you want to spend and do you want a monitor with that.
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dkt3 First Officer


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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 1:51 am Post subject: |
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| around 1500$ with monitor |
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RadarMan Chief Captain


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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 3:33 am Post subject: |
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Check out www.dell.com and www.gateway.com .
For that price you could build your own nice machine.
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dkt3 First Officer


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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 4:05 am Post subject: |
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| thank you for the advice. i just might build my own |
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RadarMan Chief Captain


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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 4:34 am Post subject: |
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| dkt3 wrote: |
| thank you for the advice. i just might build my own |
Check the posts in the FSX General forum, there's some good advice there.
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dkt3 First Officer


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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:18 am Post subject: |
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| what kind of computer? do you have? |
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RadarMan Chief Captain


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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:27 am Post subject: |
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| dkt3 wrote: |
| what kind of computer? do you have? |
Bought late last year.
Core 2 Duo E6700 (2.66GHz 1066MHz FSB 4MB cache non-HT)
4096MB PC5300 DDR2 667MHz SDRAM (4-1024MB modules)
500GB 7200rpm Serial ATA II/300 hard drive w/Raid 0(2-250GB)
7-bay BTX Tower Case
700-Watt Power Supply
ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Ed. 512MB (2)
Sound Blaster X-Fi PCI Card
Logitech X-530 5.1 70 Watt Surround Speakers with Subwoofer
16xDbl Layer MultiFrmt DVD Wrtr DVD?/R?RW/CD-R/RW (2)
24" Widescreen monitor
Logitech G5 mouse
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dkt3 First Officer


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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:45 am Post subject: |
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| WOW!!!!!! |
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DrBogger Trainee


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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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Wow is right, my brother computer runs FSX just fine with everything on ultra high, and his specs are a little less than yours (Minus the gfx card)
His specs are:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 2.6GHz Dual Core CPU
2GB DDR2 533 Ram
320GB SATA3 Hard Drive
But his video card is better than yours, his is a nVidia 8800GTS 320MB Card.
And he got about 20-30 FPS in the air, except at LAX, he only got about 8-10 FPS on the ground there, not sure what he got in the air.
Sooo, if im not mistaking, you may just need to format your hard drive, and install a fresh copy of windows on it, and get a new video card (something like the one i mentioned above should do fine, but if you can afford it, get the best card you can afford. |
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belgeode Chief Captain


Joined: Jun 22, 2007 Posts: 1634 Location: Pittsburgh PA
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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Your brother's specs sound real close to mine except i have a smaller hard drive and the a gfx card (next step down i believe 87something). I regularly get 30 fps, except in thunderstorms... i like my clouds at 100% _________________
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DrBogger Trainee


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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 6:12 am Post subject: |
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Okay, yeah, i think im going to wait for the new 8800GT video card to come out, and ill be getting that, its suppose to be released on 29th of october, so another 9 more days  |
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Cheeks Chief Captain


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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 6:36 am Post subject: |
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Okay, yeah, i think im going to wait for the new 8800GT video card to come out, and ill be getting that, its suppose to be released on 29th of october, so another 9 more days  |
Yeah, i'm getting it too  _________________
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DrBogger Trainee


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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 2:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Cheeks wrote: |
| DrBogger wrote: |
Okay, yeah, i think im going to wait for the new 8800GT video card to come out, and ill be getting that, its suppose to be released on 29th of october, so another 9 more days  |
Yeah, i'm getting it too  |
Awsome  |
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