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I thought I might expand on my suggestions if you don't mind.
Here is a sample best bang for the buck flight simming system for
around $1000 (or about $1250 including the yoke and rudder pedals.)
Buy it, Build it, Fly it.
I am currently using some of these components or very similar
components so I can verify that they are pretty darn good. The price on the
x800 xl is higher than it was when I bought one (mine was a Rosewill brand).
You could skimp on the video card if you wanted. An ATI x700 would do fine
and so would a nVidia 6600 GT. But the PCI-E x800 xl offers 16 pipes and
256MB of GDDR3 for less than comparable cards. Don't skimp on the power
supply. The one here has 34amps on the 12v rail. I have one. It is rock
solid. The dvd burner burns dual layer +r disks at 8x. I got one and for
$46 it can't be beat. The SATA II hard drive is hard to beat at 160GB for
$86. The DFI board is the foundation of this system and it is one of the
best boards out there. I've got one and I love it. This nForce 4 Ultra
board has two PCI-E slots but it is not a SLI enabled board. But this is
good news if you'd rather buy two cards and have them running two or three
or four monitors (hey this is a flight sim pc we are talking about here! we
all know how nice it would be to have three monitors displaying a wrap
around outside view (ala surround gaming) and another monitor displaying
your panel.) Plenty of usb ports, firewire, integrated gigabit lan, support
for SATA II, room for 4GB of ram (if you ever needed it) and integrated 7
channel sound plus backup bios and diagnostic led's and onboard power and
reset switches. This is an overclockers dream board. The Venice core can
be overclocked to around 2.8GHz if you are lucky. If you are unlucky it
will "Only" overclock to around 2.5GHz. Yeah if that's the worst you could
do then you are doing pretty dang good. The Corsair ram is fast and
reliable and uses Samsung TCCD memory chips. (I bought G.Skill memory that
uses Samsing TCCD chips - slightly more expensive but it is a little faster
and has better timings - I love it) It runs at 275MHz or DDR 550 also known
as PC4400. Since the venice core's max multiplier is 9 that means you can
overclock it right off the bat to 2.475Ghz without lowering ram timings or
using a 2T command rate or raising the voltage to your ram or running the
ram faster than stock. You may have to raise your cpu voltage from 1.38 to
1.425 but this increase is negligible and ,with the cooler and fan I suggest
and arctic silver 5, will not raise temperatures at all. Expect idle temps
around 30c and load temps around 40c. (you could raise the voltage another
..1v very comfortably if you wanted to overclock higher (around 2.6 to 2.8).
Which means you end up running your chip at speeds that would have cost an
additional 2 or 3 hundred dollars, money that you saved and put towards a
yoke and rudder pedals and maybe another graphics card and another monitor
or two.
Hope this helps,
Roy
CD/DVD Burners (RW Drives)
Qty. Product Description Unit Price Savings Total Price
Update NEC Black IDE DVD Burner Model ND-3540A - OEM
Model #: ND-3540A Black
Select An Optional Extended Warranty Plan 1 Year Service Net
Replacement Plan -- $9.99 2 Year Service Net Replacement Plan -- $14.99
Remove Save Move To Wish List $45.99 $45.99
ATX Computer Cases
Qty. Product Description Unit Price Savings Total Price
Update RAIDMAX ATX-208 Beige Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer
Case - Retail
Model #: ATX-208
Remove Save Move To Wish List $20.75 $20.75
Internal Hard Drives
Qty. Product Description Unit Price Savings Total Price
Update HITACHI Deskstar T7K250 HDT722516DLA380 (0A31637) 160GB
7200 RPM Serial ATA II Hard Drive - OEM
Model #: 0A31637
Select An Optional Extended Warranty Plan 1 Year Service Net
Replacement Plan -- $14.99 2 Year Service Net Replacement Plan -- $19.99
Remove Save Move To Wish List $86.00 $86.00
AMD-compatible Motherboards
Qty. Product Description Unit Price Savings Total Price
Update DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4
Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
Model #: LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultr
Select An Optional Extended Warranty Plan 1 Year Service Net
Replacement Plan -- $29.99 2 Year Service Net Replacement Plan -- $39.99
Remove Save Move To Wish List $129.00 $129.00
Video Cards & Related Devices
Qty. Product Description Unit Price Savings Total Price
Update connect3D 3028 Radeon X800XL 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16
Video Card - Retail
Model #: 3028
Select An Optional Extended Warranty Plan 1 Year Service Net
Replacement Plan -- $39.99 1 Year Service Net 1 Peripheral Onsite Plan --
$39.99 2 Year Service Net 1 Peripheral Onsite Plan -- $49.99 2 Year Service
Net Replacement Plan -- $59.99 3 Year Service Net 1 Peripheral Onsite
Plan -- $59.99
Remove Save Move To Wish List $285.00 $285.00
Power Supplies
Qty. Product Description Unit Price Savings Total Price
Update ASPIRE ATX-AS520W SILVER ATX 520W Power Supply - Retail
Model #: ATX-AS520W SILVER
Select An Optional Extended Warranty Plan 1 Year Service Net
Replacement Plan -- $14.99 2 Year Service Net Replacement Plan -- $19.99
Remove Save Move To Wish List $55.00 $55.00
Fans, Heatsinks (Case, CPU, Chipset)
Qty. Product Description Unit Price Savings Total Price
Update THERMALTAKE SilentCat 9cm 90mm 1 Ball 1 Sleeve Cooling
Fan - Retail
Model #: SilentCat 9cm
Remove Save Move To Wish List $7.49 $7.49
Update THERMALRIGHT XP-90 Heatsink - Retail
Model #: XP-90
**This item may only be returned for a replacement of the same
make/model.
Remove Save Move To Wish List $36.99 $36.99
CPU Thermal Paste / Grease
Qty. Product Description Unit Price Savings Total Price
Update Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound - OEM
Model #: ARCTIC SILVER 5
**This item may only be returned for a replacement of the same
make/model.
Remove Save Move To Wish List $7.99 $7.99
PC Gaming Controllers
Qty. Product Description Unit Price Savings Total Price
Update CH Products 300-111 Pro Pedals - Retail
Model #: 300-111
Select An Optional Extended Warranty Plan 1 Year Service Net
Replacement Plan -- $29.99 2 Year Service Net Replacement Plan -- $39.99
Remove Save Move To Wish List $103.00 $103.00
Update CH Products 200-615IL2 Flight Sim Yoke - Retail
Model #: 200-615IL2
Select An Optional Extended Warranty Plan 1 Year Service Net
Replacement Plan -- $29.99 2 Year Service Net Replacement Plan -- $39.99
Remove Save Move To Wish List $112.00 $112.00
Memory - System
Qty. Product Description Unit Price Savings Total Price
Update CORSAIR XMS 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 550
(PC 4400) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model
TWINX1024-4400C25PT - Retail
Model #: TWINX1024-4400C25PT
Select An Optional Extended Warranty Plan 1 Year Service Net
Replacement Plan -- $39.99 2 Year Service Net Replacement Plan -- $59.99
Remove Save Move To Wish List $216.00 $216.00
Processors
Qty. Product Description Unit Price Savings Total Price
Update AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Processor
Model ADA3000BPBOX - Retail
Model #: ADA3000BPBOX
**This item is warranted through the product manufacturer only.
Select An Optional Extended Warranty Plan 1 Year Service Net
Replacement Plan -- $29.99 2 Year Service Net Replacement Plan -- $39.99
Remove Save Move To Wish List $146.00 $146.00
Subtotal: $1,251.21
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