A decent rig, please.

[JR128]

All new to this forum, hope to get alongside with you lot well. Anyway, enough of the dreary speech.

I am in the process of selling my current rig, once that sells, I intend to buy the parts and make my custom pc...

This is where you hopefully get involved, can you help me by making a specification with maximum £600 to £700. I'd mainly use it for gaming on FSX...

Thankyou for your time,

Jonathan.

 

[VonBlade]

E5200 (OC'd to hell), P45, 4GB DDR2, a 4870X2 or 275.

Although I've had an awesome result with a AMD 7750 Black, 4GB, and a 4870 which is mind-bogglingly cheap.

 

[theelusiveyoda]

i built a rig exactly the same as mine (see the sig) for 530

 

[Rastalovich]

FSX is very cpu and memory intensive, isn't it ?

Think Stuart plays it.

I'm think maximize the cpu performance, and/or plenty of cache, and 8g+ if it uses it.

Graphics I believe may just need to be good+.

 

[noobieocer]

http://www.microsoft.com/games/flightsimulatorx/product_info.html

requirements dont seem to be very high...

 

[themcman1]

They may not appear to be high but once you start ramping up the settings, which believe me, you want to, you'll need a beefy machine for it.

 

[AMDFTW]

i wuld go with AMD,have you got a case???,let me no and ile have a look £700 is a good budget to work with.

 

[lamboman]

An AM3 AMD chip is really the best route to go right now. However, can you tell us what you need in terms of peripherals, and how big your display is?

 

[AMDFTW]

yes and no as DDR3 isent that much quicker than ddr2 and the price does not justify itself

 

[meh]

I'm sure that ddr3 isn't needed with an AM3 chip...

 

[AMDFTW]

is he not after a AM3 mobo??? as that would be the better option if he chooses a AM3 chip

AMD P2 940 FTW

 

[iceie]

If your going for ₤700 budget, you can go with Amd phenom II x2 and buy a really good graphic card or spend a little bit more on processor and go with Amd phenom II x4 and buy a cheaper graphic card. Since Fsx doesn't require you a good pc

 

[lamboman]

Oops, my bad...the damn tired-talking of midnight caused me to confused myself...I wake up this morning and have a "wtf?" moment as I read what I typed yesterday. :damn:

Anyway, ignore the AM3 part. Go for a 940. However, we still need to know what you need.

 

[AMDFTW]

yer man p2 940's and the asus m3n-ht deluxe can be had for a steal

 

[Ghosthud1]

E5200 (OC'd to hell), P45, 4GB DDR2, a 4870X2 or 275.

Although I've had an awesome result with a AMD 7750 Black, 4GB, and a 4870 which is mind-bogglingly cheap.

+1 but you could change the cpu due too FSX being multi threaded and highly cpu demanding, put an extra £50 into the cpu and get a q9400 off ebay or something

 

[lamboman]

+1 but you could change the cpu due too FSX being multi threaded and highly cpu demanding, put an extra £50 into the cpu and get a q9400 off ebay or something

The Core 2 Quads and the latest AMD chips are pretty much on par (Intel will be slightly quicker, but not great value for money), something that a bit of overclocking can't fix. The price though...the Intel setup is going to be a bit more expensive, and hardly future-proof.

Anyway, we still don't really know the OP's requirements...

 

[Ghosthud1]

The Core 2 Quads and the latest AMD chips are pretty much on par (Intel will be slightly quicker, but not great value for money), something that a bit of overclocking can't fix. The price though...the Intel setup is going to be a bit more expensive, and hardly future-proof.

Anyway, we still don't really know the OP's requirements...

its the right time too get an intel combo due too the release of the p55 and i5 just think of the people making the jump, they will just flog there old intel kit for pennies

 

[lamboman]

its the right time too get an intel combo due too the release of the p55 and i5 just think of the people making the jump, they will just flog there old intel kit for pennies

That's true actually, if the OP is willing to wait for a month or so.

I guess we'll have to wait and see

 

[keenan]

In comparison i7 has no real performance gain in gaming over Phenom II's

So, I'd say go for this..

£500 budget

AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition

Asus M4A785TD-M EVO, AMD 785G Chipset, DDR3

OCZ 4GB PC3-12800 DDR3 Platinum (2x2GB) 7-7-7-24

Corsair 650W TX Series PSU

XFX Radeon HD4890 1GB PCI-E 2.0

500Gb Hitachi 7K1000.B SATA-2 Hard Drive

 

[Mul.]

I too would either take the AM3 route or wait for Core i5 / LGA1156. 4GB DDR3 kits can be had from around £45 and respectable AM3 boards from £70 up so at this stage I wouldn't particularly look at AM2+. I don't have figures to back it up but in my experience, FSX runs better with nVidia's and I've found the ATi's in particular to be a bit of a PITA when applying AA/AF settings for the game. It's a tad late and so I don't have links but this would be my vague choice of parts

AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition £145

Gigabyte MA770T UD3P £70

4GB DDR3-1333 £45

GeForce GTX 260 £120

If you're overclocking though, Intel's LGA1156 could well be the way to go and really I don't think it'd kill to wait a little longer for some more benchies to surface.