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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: gondwana on July 28, 2011, 04:38:49 am

Title: newbie question Pc specs pls take a look
Post by: gondwana on July 28, 2011, 04:38:49 am

Hi all,  i have a new system coming would like some input on how it would run on FSX!


|HITACHI 1.5 Tb 7200 rpm hardrive

G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB DDR3 1600

ARCTIC COOLING ACFZ13 92mm High Performance CPU Cooler for Intel

MSI Z68A-GD65 (B3) LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor

EVGA 012-P3-1571-KR GeForce GTX 570 HD w/Display-Port (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

23'' widescreen 1080p monitor HP

Windows XP pro 32-bit


Would i benefit using windows 7?

Looking to overclock to 4.0 ghz.

How would this run?

what cpu cooler would you recommend?

Title: Re: newbie question Pc specs pls take a look
Post by: PUP4ORD on July 28, 2011, 06:42:45 pm

Looks like you're in excellent shape their..... :o 8)

Title: Re: newbie question Pc specs pls take a look
Post by: feer on July 28, 2011, 11:14:53 pm

hik, gondwana you are good to go you specs are  exellent  you must setup fsx cfg use external pfs_limiter and voila good there with fsx regards feer.. ;D