Hardware Upgrade

[goose55]

Hi all, this question strays off the flightsim subject a bit, but I want to upgrade my system for FS9. Im trying to get several opinions before I buy anything. I want to change out my mobo, chip and ram. I have always been partial to Asus boards and I would like to get a 800fsb board, can someone recommend a good mobo? Also if you can give me some ideas for chips and ram. I would like to get at least a 2.8ghz intel chip and 1 gig of ram, (at least 400fsb).

Thanks

[petermcleland]

I'm in the process of building a "leading edge" system with the following specs:-

Case.

Liam-Li PC-6089A

Power Supply

Zalman ZM400A-APF

Motherboard

Gigabyte GA-8KNXP

CPU

Intel Pentium IV 3.2Ghz 800 khz with Hyperthreading

Graphics

Gainward GeForce FX5900 PowerPack Ultra/1600XP
Golden Sample 8xAGP[FX5900 Ultra 256MB 2.2ns
DDR DVI VIVO]

Hard Disks

2 off..Seagate Barracuda Serial ATA 120 GB

built into a RAID 0 Array

Memory

Kingstone KVR400X64C3AK2/1G 400Mhz DDR Non-ECC CL3 (3-3-3) DIMM (kit of 2)

Monitor

22” Iiyama HM204DT 0.24 Pro

Max Res 2048x1536@85Hz

NONE of these components are cheap but the motherboard is reviewed as the real "Emperor of Motherboards" here:-

http://tw.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/...s_release1.pdf

[aafuss]

Buy a 82865G, and with a AGP slot -because these have Intel Extreme Graphics 2 which will give you quite good graphics, and is better than the 82845G/GL series.