Gaming Computer

[Luke]

Hey

I'm doing a project for the RAF (building a flight sim), and I need a powerful gaming computer that will run FSX.

I'd like it to have:
GFX with 2 outputs
Silent (if possible) components
Quad Core

I can probobly spend about £600-£700 on this (doesn't need a monitor).

FSX is a very resource hungry programme, and need a bloudy good computer ;p

If anyone can come up with list of components (ebuyer or amazon preferably) Id be grateful.

Many Thanks
Luke

[Jahova]

AMD dragon platform or do you prefer intel?

[Recursion]

FSX will work better on an Nvidia card rather than ATI just fyi.

And if it's the RAF surely they could stretch our *ahem* their money a bit further than £700 :P

[xxMATTGxx]

FSX will work better on an Nvidia card rather than ATI just fyi.

And if it's the RAF surely they could stretch our *ahem* their money a bit further than £700 :P

It only for cadets. I'm sure the RAF would be using their money on equipment, training etc. :P

[Stephen!]

Best processor for FSX would be an i7.

[Tomm]

Would be quite difficult with that budget though.


Best processor for FSX would be an i7.

[N!ck]

Flight sim is CPU intensive. Get a decent Intel quad core. i5 maybe?

[N!ck]

eBuyer:

http://grab.by/KQe

Maybe change the 1156 i5 to a 1156 i7?

[Stephen!]

I would think that the hyperthreading on the i7 would help out alot. On the other hand it may damage performance you'll have to find some benchmarks with FSX

[Luke]

AMD dragon platform or do you prefer intel?

I've personally never used AMD, but I can change


FSX will work better on an Nvidia card rather than ATI just fyi.

And if it's the RAF surely they could stretch our *ahem* their money a bit further than £700 :P

I have £1300-400 to buy
Decent gaming computer
4 22" monitors
Tripple head 2 go

That'll form the base of the sim.


Best processor for FSX would be an i7.

Bit costly


eBuyer:

http://grab.by/KQe

Maybe change the 1156 i5 to a 1156 i7?

That looks like a good system, thanks for time!


I would think that the hyperthreading on the i7 would help out alot. On the other hand it may damage performance you'll have to find some benchmarks with FSX

Don't think could afford it to be honset ;p

[N!ck]

Drop the triple head to go and just use 2 graphics cards.

You'd need a beefier PSU though.

[Luke]

Drop the triple head to go and just use 2 graphics cards.

You'd need a beefier PSU though.

Well, i find the th2g easier, because we've got one @ RAF Linton (similar to what Im doing), and it does the exact thing I want it too ;p

[N!ck]

Well, i find the th2g easier, because we've got one @ RAF Linton (similar to what Im doing), and it does the exact thing I want it too ;p

Better performance for around the same price my way though.

Or there's the new ATi/AMD cards that allow more than two monitors on a single card without a dual/triplehead2go.

[Luke]

Better performance for around the same price my way though.

Or there's the new ATi/AMD cards that allow more than two monitors on a single card without a dual/triplehead2go.

Hmm, yeh i saw them, i'll look into SLi

Thanks
Luke

[N!ck]

Hmm, yeh i saw them, i'll look into SLi

Thanks
Luke

No, not SLi. That's two cards running as one and only allows 2 monitors. You'd need two cards running on their own accord not in SLi.

Or get eyefinity. http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/eyefinity/Pages/eyefinity.aspx

[Tomm]

Current Eyefinity cards (5xxx series) only support 3 active display ports at a time (Even though it has 4 connectors, you can only have either two dvi or one dvi and hdmi along with the display port) so you'll need to wait till they bring out the 6 display port model and use display port compatible monitors. Also expect it to blow at least 2/3rds of your budget on a card of that calibre.


No, not SLi. That's two cards running as one and only allows 2 monitors. You'd need two cards running on their own accord not in SLi.

Or get eyefinity. http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/eyefinity/Pages/eyefinity.aspx

[Luke]

Ok, because of budget and compatability issues and such (FSX aircraft), I've decided on using flight simulator 2004 over FSX, thus the build doesn't have to be as high specs.

Anyone advise how this would run:
http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/526/ebuyerspecs.png

Many Thanks
Luke

[Firehorse]

if you're only going to use fs2004 you may aswell just spend £350 on a second hand computer and get a £50 graphics card which will easily max it out.

[Luke]

if you're only going to use fs2004 you may aswell just spend £350 on a second hand computer and get a £50 graphics card which will easily max it out.

Its gonna be using all the payware addons however, and i want the best framerates -
with this computer, i cant still afford 4 22" screens and tripple head 2 go, and the money would go back to RAF so, might as well spend it - as long as it works xD

[Recursion]

if you're only going to use fs2004 you may aswell just spend £350 on a second hand computer and get a £50 graphics card which will easily max it out.

Hmm, with addon scenery, terrain, planes, weather etc it soon begins to lower the frames, bad idea of yours there.

[Chippiewill]

Ok, because of budget and compatability issues and such (FSX aircraft), I've decided on using flight simulator 2004 over FSX, thus the build doesn't have to be as high specs.

Anyone advise how this would run:
http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/526/ebuyerspecs.png

Many Thanks
Luke


By not spending the full budget then you can get some good accessories to go with it...

[Luke]

By not spending the full budget then you can get some good accessories to go with it...

Yeh, but the budget, is specifically for the comp
There will be another budget, for like, joysticks, perhiperals, controls etc

[N!ck]

Again, drop the tripplehead2go and use two cards. Make sure you get a motherboard with two PCI-E x16 sockets.

[Luke]

Again, drop the tripplehead2go and use two cards. Make sure you get a motherboard with two PCI-E x16 sockets.

IOh yeah, forgot about that, fair doos, ill get two cards, instead, be cheaper ;p

Thanks

+rep to all if i can.

Luke

[pg.security]

ASUS CG series
windows vista home premium
9gb
500mb
intel core quad
made for gaming literaly
$800 usa I think that's like £750 or £700 something like that

If you do get that get this computer get it protected as soon as you get it cause as soon as mine got infected it started freezeing, blue screens, exc but I finally fixed

Hope I helped

[Firehorse]

ASUS CG series
windows vista home premium
9gb
500mb
intel core quad
made for gaming literaly
$800 usa I think that's like £750 or £700 something like that

If you do get that get this computer get it protected as soon as you get it cause as soon as mine got infected it started freezeing, blue screens, exc but I finally fixed

Hope I helped

Why vista? infact thats probably the worst choice for gaming since its a very heavy load on the system. Choose Windows 7 imo.

[The Professor]

Agreed with this guy ^ Now 7 is out there's no need to use vista at all.

[Recursion]

Why vista? infact thats probably the worst choice for gaming since its a very heavy load on the system. Choose Windows 7 imo.

Uhh if the RAM was needed Vista would free it up, not heavy on system resources at all, got more FPS in Vista than I did on XP too

[Markeh]

Uhh if the RAM was needed Vista would free it up, not heavy on system resources at all, got more FPS in Vista than I did on XP too

I always found XP to be quicker on games.

However, 7 should be even quicker than that.