£1300 ($2000) FSX Build

[Syzygy787 0]

Looking to build a FSX system for about $2000 in a couple of weeks time. The spec is listed below.

 

OS: Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium

Monitor: Acer S240HLbid 24'' Full HD widescreen LCD monitor with LED Backlight (Price - £124.94)

CPU: Intel Core i5 3570K,1155, Ivy Bridge, Quad Core, 3.4GHz, 5 GT/s DMI, 650MHz GPU, 6MB Smart Cache, 34x Ratio, 77W, Retail (Price - £172.98)

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-L12 Low Profile High Performance CPU Cooler, Intel LGA2011,1155,1156,1366,775 and AMD FM1,AM3+/AM3/2+/2 (Price - £43.34)

GPU: 2GB EVGA GTX 680 SC Signature, 28nm, PCIe 3.0, 6208MHz GDDR5, GPU 1084MHz, Boost 1150MHz, Cores 1536 (Price - £376.42)

Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme 4, Intel Z77, S 1155, DDR3, SATA III - 6Gb/s, SATA RAID, PCIe 3.0 (x16), D-Sub/ DVI-D/ HDMI, ATX (Price - £106.52)

RAM: 8GB (2x4GB) Corsair DDR3 Dominator Platinum, PC3-19200 (2400), Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 10-12-12-31, DHX, XMP, 1.65V (Price - £106.46)

Power Supply: 850W Corsair Enthusiast Series 850TXV2, 85% Eff', 80 PLUS Bronze, SLI/CrossFire, EPS 12V, Quiet Fan, ATX v2.31, PSU (Price - £94.62)

OS Boot SSD: VTX4-25SAT3-256G - 256GB OCZ Vertex 4, 2.5" SSD, SATA 6Gb/s, Indilinx Everest 2, MLC-Flash, Read 560MB/s, Write 510MB/s, 120k IOPS Max (Already Bought)

Storage HDD: 3TB WD Red WD30EFRX, SATA 6Gb/SEC, 64MB Cache, Internal HDD For 1-5 Bay NA (Price - £122.76)

Case: Cooler Master HAF X V2, Black, Full Tower Performance Gaming Case inc Side Window USB 3.0,w/o PSU NEW VERSION (Price - £129.53)

DVD Drive: LiteOn IHAS124-04 24x DVD±R, 8x DVD±DL, DVD+RW x8/-RW x6, DVD-RAM x12, SATA, Black, OEM (Price - £12.98)

 

Total Price - £1290.55 ($2047.33)

 

All comments and feedback is greatly appreciated.

[ryanbatc 12,821]

Yeah that will be nice. Are you putting FSX on the ssd? If you aren't and you're just buying one only for the OS you could easily go down to a 64-128 GB. If you're putting the OS and FSX on that 256... and you have payware... I'd try to spring for a 512 or 480 instead. I've got a 120GB for FSX only and it's almost completely full. I don't have any photo terrain.