FS9 and New PC

[EHM-2309 Joshua]

Hi  Everyone,

I am in the process for saving up and buying a new pc. I want it to be able to run FS9 smoothly and with the EuroHarmony planes as well. I have the UK2000 Xtreme range (although my Gary cannot find any history of my purchase...) and would like to be able to run this as well.
Would the following be adequate for running everything? (And what sort of visual settings would I be able to run smoothly?)

AMD Phenom X4 9650 AM2+
Coolermaster Hyper TX2
Foxconn 6100M61-PMV
500GB S-ATAII 3.0Gb/s
20x DVD+/-RW DL
Nvidia Geforce 9500GT 1GB
Windows 7

Thanks,

Joshua

[EHM-0654 Murray]

IMO: with FS9, you'll easily be able to max all the sliders with that rig and get good (30+ fps) frame rates, no probs... Only warning I'd give is don't whack on loads of AI and you'll be grand...

[EHM-2309 Joshua]

Just what I wanted to hear. lol.
I didnt want to buy a proper gaming machine as I only really play FS9 and the other games that I have run smoothly on my current PC (which is suprising...).
The pc with the above spec's is classed under the office/home pc section of the website I was looking at, and it was the 2nd out of 2 that where running AMD processors (which is what I wanted.). So from what you just told me, I am very happy with that PC then. I just need the money to get it now...

[EHM-2309 Joshua]

Ummm, another quick question. I might be swapping the AMD Phenom X4 9650 Quad Core processor for an AMD Phenom II X3 720 processor. This is due to the faster speed of the processor (over 0.6GHz). Would this be advaisable? Or would it not make much difference?

Thanks,

Joshua

[EHM-0654 Murray]

Deffo go for the faster processor. Sure, you're losing a core, but there's very little that properly uses multi-core (esp. FS9).

[EHM-2309 Joshua]

Thanks Murray for your replies. What setpu have you got for running FS9? (assuming you use that, rather that FSX)
And would having a HDD just for FS9 be a good idea?

[EHM-0654 Murray]

Nope, I'm running FSX; but I'm on a Core 2 Quad Q6600, 4GB, ATI HD4850 and 2x500GB RAIDed stripe (Windows 7 X64 Ultimate)

I can't see a separate partition or drive for all your FS stuff being a bad things, it'll be a little easier to keep that well defragged.