my new home built PC

[malvin]

Hi guys been shopping around online for my new PC. I am on a tight budget and have decided to build my own machine. Below are the components i have gathered can you please let me know if i have left anything out to run the computer soley for FS9 and FSX smoothly!

Below are the components:

1, ThermalTake Soprano VB1000BWS Black c/w 2x case fans +USB2 + +window NO PSU (CASTHEVB1000BWS)

2, 550W Quiet ATX PSU with 12cm fan 20 - 24 Pin Connector (PSUATX550DUAL)

3, Samsung DVD RW SH-S202N BEBN IDE 20x DVD ± R 16x DVD ± DL DVD+RW x8 / -RW x6 Lightscribe Black OEM (DVDSAMSHS202NB)

4, NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 512MB SLI PCI-E (VIDNVI7300GT512P

5, 160GB Hitachi Deskstar SATA II 300 Hard Disk Drive 8MB cache 7200rpm HDS721616PLA380 (HAR160HITSA72)

6, Xpro RF Optical Keyboard+Mouse Black/Silver (KEYXPRO036OPTB

7, Intel CPU Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66GHz 1333FSB LGA775 4MB cache Retail inc.Fan (3yr Manufacturers Warranty) (CPUIP4775E6750

8, Gigabyte GA-VM900M motherboard LGA775 VIA P4M900 Intel Core 2 Duo/ Pentium D/P4 PCI-e x16 micro ATX (MOTGIGVM900M

9 Samsung 1GB SODIMM DDR2 667MHz EZ3 For Notebook (MEMSODSAM1GBEZ3 by 2

10 17" Hanns-G HW173AB Widescreen TFT Monitor Silver / Black 8ms, 500:1 (MON17HGHW173


Looking forwad to hear your opinions!

Tufela

[Dan K. Hansen]

Just my opinion:

Notebook aren't in general good for running Heavy graphic applications.
I have the NVidia 7600GT and it is IMHO just about tho handle the load, so a 7300 seems a bit small.

1GB RAM would do, but the more the better....

A dual Core is almost a must for running FSX (I run a single Core) but the higher the frequency the better

550 PSU might be enough, but again here, a more powerful PSU might come in handy....

In general I would consider it in the lower end for running FSX, and in the middle for running FS9.

Others may have another view though ;-)

[malvin]

Hi DankH

thanks for pointing out these things too me. Before i was uisng a 4year old emachines 190....which was a intel celeron and had 512RAM. FS played like a slide show at high detailed airports. Therefore i want to avoid this.

As for the memory i made a mistake meant to get 2GB ram for a Desktop Computer. I will look into the Nvidia 7600GT(PRICE)

So do you recommend i should get maybe 600W or 650W PSU?
ALso does FS9 work well with windows Vista?

[Dan K. Hansen]

600W should suffy, but if you can afford it, why not 650....
2GB I would consider minimum, but then again, others may see it different.
For what I know FS9 shouldn't have any issues with Vista (if you can through the restrictions and access rights ;-))

Celeron is a NO-NO in general, only suites for an OS and a mail-client.....it doesn't have any powers, and is just a cheap product, that isn't suitable for normal use... ;-) I'm actually amazed it could run FS9 in the first place..!

[malvin]

dont be surprised..ny celeron would run fs9 btwn 5 and 10 FPS on non detail airports..this maybe because i had an ATI9250 graphics card "pretty old".

Guess i will be opting for windows vista.

thanks for the advise

[gus]

Hello,

Guess i will be opting for windows vista

Just one more advice .....

Keep WinXP CD under arm ..just in case ...

Vista is disapointing for many peoples .... !!!

Regards.

[malvin]

Always thought new versions are the best! Any will take your advise into consideration and the other reason is i am not going to buy FSX yet because of all the reports i am hearing about bad FPS. Therefore XP will be the most favoured. Other reason XP is cheaper too

Thanks for your opinion.