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Thread: Thinking of getting a new PC
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04-12-2013, 12:52 PM #11
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Re: Thinking of getting a new PC
Been looking around but haven't found an answer yet. I am building a new rig, but need to purchase incrementally. With an i5 or i7 processor will the onboard graphics run fsx at all?
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04-12-2013, 02:14 PM #12
Re: Thinking of getting a new PC
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04-13-2013, 06:14 AM #13
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Re: Thinking of getting a new PC
I think its meant to have an ATI card as apposed to the onboard card. roger on AMD being cack as apposed to i5 boards...... Are the companies you see advertising systems in pc pilot magazine any good?
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04-13-2013, 04:05 PM #14
Re: Thinking of getting a new PC
Got to agree with Sean here - don't touch AMD with a barge-pole. Their top-end performance on a single core - which is what MSFS needs above all else - is nowhere near a match for Intel CPUs. And faster Intel chips (those that can be clocked much faster, that is) are cheaper.
3rd generation Core i5 chips are fantastic performers, but in truth on a single core they are only slightly faster than the 2nd generation Sandy Bridge chips. The Core i5 2500K is still probably the best price / performance ratio CPU on the market today, even more so because it's getting cheaper as it gets older. My strong advice would be to go with an Intel chip and only with one that has an unlocked multiplier (K or X series).
Cheap md-range graphics cards are fine for an FSX or FS9 setup these days - neither will use the full capability of today's top-end cards, because there's nothing being handed off to the GPU other than simple rendering. In my experience, only single-core CPU performance, RAM speed and HDD speed are important to running FSX at close to its full potential.
YMMV as always
UPDATE: Bah, didn't read the full thread before posting... but I'll leave this here just in case anyone finds it useful.
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04-13-2013, 04:53 PM #15
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Re: Thinking of getting a new PC
This will do the job nicely
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04-14-2013, 05:10 AM #16
Re: Thinking of getting a new PC
Agreed. Chillblast do put together good PC's.
If you're looking for somewhere to do a comparison, then this company used to win a lot of awards for their PC's too.
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