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For MS's Flight Simulator X, you need at least a quad core, and a relatively high end graphics card. It also depends on the resolution of your screen.
IMHO, $600 is a little too low for a system that's capable of running FSX smoothly. You should be looking at around $1000 rig 
Reply to yomamafor1
FSX is the most CPU bound gaming title available today. It demands as much CPU horsepower as you can afford to throw at it. FSX frame rate is ~ 85% dependent upon CPU Cores and overclocking, so an i7 @ 4.0 Ghz yields responsive frame rates.
Although FSX runs best on mainstream nVidia GPU's, it also runs best on a single GPU, rather than SLI / CF / X2 GPU's, since multiple GPU's divert valuable CPU interrupts, which has the effect of actually reducing frame rates.
See Tom's Gaming Graphics Charts Q3/2008 - http://www.tomshardware.com/charts [...] ks,30.html
I've been a Flight Sim enthusiast for 15 years, so I've built all my PC's over the years as dedicated FSX rigs.
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Message edited by CompuTronix on 10-01-2009 at 10:21:24 AM
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