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Answer» For my upgrade I have saelected the Asus Crosshair which has an AM2 socket. It supports a wide selection of AMD processors allowing me to start with around 4500+ and upgrading later. I don't do much multi-tasking but I play a lot of flight sim and CASINO games. My question is do I opt for a dual core now or single core. Also, your comment on selecting AM2 socket or 939 on a different board.It SOUNDS like you have already selected an AM2 socket board. Nothing really further to discuss is there?Wrong. I have not finalized on anything and that's why I am asking these questions. But thanks for your input.Quote [highlight]For my upgrade I have saelected the Asus Crosshair which has an AM2 socket[/highlight]. It supports a wide selection of AMD processors allowing me to start with around 4500+ and upgrading later. I don't do much multi-tasking but I play a lot of flight sim and casino games. My question is do I opt for a dual core now or single core. Also, your comment on selecting AM2 socket or 939 on a different board. It sounded that way, don't you think?Thats funny GX1!Quote Thats funny GX1!Where do you come in on this? :-? @ donsor - what's your budget?first of all, whats your budget. Secondly, how much flight-sim do u play? I'd recommend single-core but that all depends on you.New ATX case, mobo, cpu, MEMORY (1 gig to start), video card about a grand. I've been flight simming since FS98. I have the FSX now and my existing PC just does not have the performance. to have a fairly decent FPS, I had to slide my graphic and scenery settings low.A grand? $1000 US? $1000 Canadian? £1000 GBP? You want a new case, a new motherboard, a new cpu, new RAM and a GPU for that, right? Might be a bit tight.Grand is an AMERICAN slang for a thousand dollars. I don't know what it meant in Canada or in England. Unless I downgrade a bit with my choices of hardware, it will be more like $1600.00 by the time I get the rig TOGETHER. I know a grand is a thousand, I was asking what currency it may be in. $1000 US is about £2000 GBP, so quite a difference. I think that to play FSX, you're definitely looking at around that sort of budget. Unfortunately I'm not in America so I can't advise as to prices, only on components. I'll check some out for you later on though, using about £500 as an estimate.Wrong way round, $1000 is £514You're right. Sorry about that, got my exchange rates confused. I must learn to read through the post and check it makes sense . . . I think what I meant was £1000 is ~$2000. Anyway, thanks for correcting me. |
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