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hello folks out there i will be building a computer to run FSX flight sim and i have read several articles and threads on this matter.

i will be using the Q660 chip, and i plan to overclock it, never really done any overclocking before .

but with that said i really need to know what good mother board will do the job and what do you recommend as a god vid card and hard drive, and ram.

i will have about 1300 bucks to spend.

as for the case i probably will go with a water cooled system for i have built them before.

im more concearned about the quad core , ram and hard drive, and vid card.

i want the right equiptment to get the most out of FSX.

Thanks..............Robert

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Well, I actually just built a system with a Q6600 and a GTX 260 and i'm quite happy... I also used a Seagate 500Gb HDD. The only thing that I would have done differantly, is gotten the 216 instead of the 192core. ( I don't think the performance level is much differance, but its like, well I spent that much money, I might as well had spent a little more or something) For my Mobo I used a Asus P5Q pro...i'm really not sure how good it is, but from what I've heard, its a tight little overclocking board for a good price, and I'm happy with it.
IDK I hope some of that helps you out there.

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$1300 would allow you to get a much better CPU than a Q6600. Give me 5 minutes and I'll crank out a Newegg list for you.. brb...

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^+1
you can get q9550 in that budget
i personally have q6600@3.4ghz on aftermarket air and I'm a happy camper, will pass on current i7 cpus and wait for 32nm to come

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Honestly every things looks good on serpents list except the video card. FSX runs significantly better with nvidia products due to their drivers and product support. I would also invest in another hard drive to run raid 0. Don't forget to leave some cash to purchase a yoke and some rudder pedals. happy flying.

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