Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Is this a good gaming computer for flight simulator any chages?

Motherboard





GIGABYTE GA-MA69GM-S2H AM2 AMD 690G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard-$74.99


Video Card








EVGA GeForce 8600GTS 256MB-$139.99

















Ram








2x G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 (so really 4gb) -$89.98 ($44.99 each)














cpu





AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Brisbane 2.6GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 65W Dual-Core Black Edition Processor-$94.99











Case





Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case -$99.99CD/DVD Drive





SAMSUNG Black 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 20X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA 20X DVD±R DVD Burner-$29.99

















Hard Drive





Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS (Perpendicular Recording Technology) 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive-$79.99Power Supply








Antec earthwatts EA500 ATX12V v2.0 500W Power Supply 100 - 240 V UL, CUL, FCC, TUV, CE, CB, C-tick, CCC-$69.99

Is this a good gaming computer for flight simulator any chages?
Overall it looks pretty solid, but if you're going to use it for gaming you might want to step up the video card a bit.


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...





And if you're getting 4G of ram, you'll need a 64-bit OS.


32-bit XP/Vista only recognize 3 - 3.5G
Reply:lol,,i dont know what lazys been smoking ,i have 4 gigs of corsair in my asus formula se mob with a q6600 go stepping and WINDOWS XP SP2 and it sees all 4 gigs,,anyhow back to you question, yah your setup sounds pretty good thats the same case i bought from tiger, no cooling problems,lots of air flow, but i would go for the 6400 if you want to stay with amd? i had one and liked it, and throw in abit more and get a 512 ati vid/card ,youll be alot happier,,i know its more money but,,you get what you pay for,,cant be too cheap with all your build..right?


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