FS2004 or FSX? What would you recommend?

[KCHAapproach]

Ryan,

I'm not ATC, although I wish I had made that career choice when I was still young enough to get into the program. I listen to the frequency while I do my real job, much like some people listen to the radio while they work :-)

[RyanbATC]

So it sounds like even with current decently high performance hardware I would be hard pressed to run FSX with add-ons (I like my AI traffic and airport environments to be very realistic) with the sliders to the right.

Is that fair to say?

Sliders to the right, say 80% on the right side, yeah, you'd need to overclock that rig of yours.