New PC Hardware

Hey there, I am considering purchasing a completely new PC system, I was wondering what hardware you would recommed to run FS2004 well at full speed.

I am interested in a good CPU, graphics card, RAM, monitor, etc.

Thanks,
Jarred

Are you buying it, building it, and what do want to spend.
Monitor, LCD or CRT.

I am interested in building it myself, and having an LCD monitor.

Money is not a concern.

Thanks, Jarred.

Hi ya

I would go for the PCI-Express motherboard. You would want at least a 3ghz processer and a min of 1024mb of ram. try these sites

UK Store

US store

PCI-E motherboards come in socket 775 for intel and socket 754 & socket 939/940 for AMD. If your going to overclock check out the ASUS mobo's. I would try and go for water cooling as the price's have come down abit in the last 6 months.

I'd go for the new SLI boards, but you can only use 1 card now for this edition of the flight sim, it's not made to use two. The next one probably will and you can add the other card then.

A minimum of 2 gigs ram, I would get 3.
Water cooled would be ideal, if not fans fans fans, to take cool air in and hot out.
A Philips LCD monitor is top of the line.
For a video card.
http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20050524/vga_charts-07.html
The new boards only take nvidia, but Intel has one that will use ATI.
A Antec power supply, 600w would handle all the top of the line hardware you have, if you get a cheap brand the power usually isn't there even though they say it is. You get what you pay for.
A good case like LIAN-LI.

What country are you in so we can give you websites to look at.

Hey there,

thanks for your information you have provided me with.

I live in New Zealand by the way.

Thanks,

Jarred

Sorry, I don't know of a good supplier down there.

I hope that you get that computer together for the sim, you'll really enjoy it you fly on a top grade machine.

Let us know if we can help with anything else and let us also know how it's coming along.
Good luck!

When you get a processor, go for AMD, they seem to have more raw power for the money than Intel does. But I hear Intel is better for a work-PC as well.

My dad says the next computer we get we will build it ourselfs, that way we'll get everything we want. And it he thinks I'll learn alot from it too.