Right now I have a dual-boot system running Windows 7 on a 1.5TB SATA drive and XP running on a Samsung 640 SSD for FSX, an Athlon 64 X2 Dual core 3600+ 1.9GHz, a Gforce 210 video card, and 4GB memory installed in a M2-MPV-vm mb. The mATX system is in an HTPC case (monitor on top) which is a setup I’m kind of stuck with due to space limitations. I run Microsoft FSX maybe one hour roughly once a week. I get fairly good performance with FSX, but I can’t max out the settings without slowing the frame rate significantly. It would be great to buy a new setup with a medium performance i5 quad core system and a medium performance video card but these things are really power hungry. The system stays on at least 12 hours per day. I calculate at $.20 per kWh running a 200w system is going to cost about $170 per year just for the electricity!
Can someone suggest some low-power components that will significantly improve my performance? Thanks.
Can someone suggest some low-power components that will significantly improve my performance? Thanks.