jaclanton
09-02-2013, 03:21 PM
Hello all,
I am very pleased to have found this forum and begin my journey into the wonderful world of flight sim! I am just getting back into this world after a long pause. I got my first flight sim back in college and loved it. Things have for sure come a long way since then!! I have been operating in the laptop and Ipad world since college and played a few sims on them but it really wasn't the same. Then I came across the realistic build outs and creative ingenuity of cockpit simulators and totally found my new hobby! I have been doing extensive research on flight simming and building sim cockpits for several months now and am just about to jump in and get back in the saddle. I will be working from zero (including the cpu) which I feel is a great place to start. There is so much information out there on individual setups and "personal preferences" in regards to processors, hard drives and graphics cards to increase frame rate and provide "realistic" flight experiences that it can put your mind in a tailspin. I have found a company in Florida that builds CPU's specifically for FSX and seems to have a fairly reputable name amongst flight simmers. I am leaning towards beginning my journey with them. While the cost of their mid range CPU is a little over 2k (overclocking above 3.5Ghz, DDR3 ram, NVIDIA card, 1TB of RAM etc.) I am wondering if I am overshooting to get my initial set up going?? In other words, I would like to start with this CPU to initially run FSX. As I upgrade with add on's and instrument hardware I would like to transfer FSX to a more elite CPU system (SSD hard drive, better GPU, etc) and use the old CPU for add ons and other programs such as Ifly, Vatsim, etc. and network the two together. Does this seem like I am on the right track here? Any suggestions on start up would be most appreciated.
Thank you,
JC
I am very pleased to have found this forum and begin my journey into the wonderful world of flight sim! I am just getting back into this world after a long pause. I got my first flight sim back in college and loved it. Things have for sure come a long way since then!! I have been operating in the laptop and Ipad world since college and played a few sims on them but it really wasn't the same. Then I came across the realistic build outs and creative ingenuity of cockpit simulators and totally found my new hobby! I have been doing extensive research on flight simming and building sim cockpits for several months now and am just about to jump in and get back in the saddle. I will be working from zero (including the cpu) which I feel is a great place to start. There is so much information out there on individual setups and "personal preferences" in regards to processors, hard drives and graphics cards to increase frame rate and provide "realistic" flight experiences that it can put your mind in a tailspin. I have found a company in Florida that builds CPU's specifically for FSX and seems to have a fairly reputable name amongst flight simmers. I am leaning towards beginning my journey with them. While the cost of their mid range CPU is a little over 2k (overclocking above 3.5Ghz, DDR3 ram, NVIDIA card, 1TB of RAM etc.) I am wondering if I am overshooting to get my initial set up going?? In other words, I would like to start with this CPU to initially run FSX. As I upgrade with add on's and instrument hardware I would like to transfer FSX to a more elite CPU system (SSD hard drive, better GPU, etc) and use the old CPU for add ons and other programs such as Ifly, Vatsim, etc. and network the two together. Does this seem like I am on the right track here? Any suggestions on start up would be most appreciated.
Thank you,
JC