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EHM-1199 Philip:
I'm going to be buying a new computer in the next couple of months to enjoy Euroharmony's new launch with better quality sim experience.

So, which CPU:
P4 3Ghz with HT technology ... or ...
AMD XP3000+

And, which graphics card:
128Mb ATi Radeon 9200 ... or ...
128Mb GeForce FX 5200

Once was a time when I was teccy enough to know but work and life has got in the way and I'm feeling slightly left behind so all advice greatly appreciated.

Also, these CPU and Graphics cards are taken from off the shelf units at PC World. I know ... not the best place to go. If I went to a build what you say guy who has his own shop, what sort of spec. machine would I buy for 900UKP and what features are you folks recommending for a good flight sim experience?

Thanks again for any advice received.

Phil

EHM-1328 Willem:
I used 2 years a AMD, the last XP2000+ with Geoforce. bad performing on heavy applications.

So AMD+Geforce Its a bad combination.

Better is Intel P4 with  ATi 9600XT or SE(cheaper), or Geforce 9600

The Geforce5200 and  ATi9200 are also bad choices.

I use  intel P4-2,6-FSB 800mh, memory 1GB, 2 HDD 120GB. and ATI9600,

The best card is ATI 9800-256 but its expensive.

Willem.

EHM-0240 Joe:
Well I've got an AMD XP2800+ with 128mb GeForce4, and I've never had any problems with it. But then I don't exactly use it for anything very demanding. The most demanding thing I probably ever do is fly online in FS2002. So if thats all you will use it for, then AMD plus Geforce is probably ok. If you are going to use it for anything else more demanding then I can't really say.

EHM-1328 Willem:
I will believe that , if i run FS2002 on my old systeem its ok with the framerates.
But if I run FS9 the video card must be capable of dirextX 9. , the cards geforce 5200 and 5400 and ati 9200 and 9400 cant handle directX 9 they have a littlebit  better performance than your Geforce MX4 card and thats not enough with FS9 running PMDG 737 or A320PIC or learjet 60.
There are more things that affect the performance, special in windows XP en FS9.
The Gauges witch are used can make that there is dramatical dropdown of framerate,
The use of real weather and clouds in FS9 will do so to.
Airplanes design with GMAX  perfom also better.
So there is a list off things that what will affect the frame rate/perfomance.

But if you must buy new,  minimum is 128Mb,  capable directX 9, and high ramdac freq.

Willem.

EHM-1199 Philip:
Thanks for the information - this is all good and useful for me.

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