Hey guys I want to put together a cheap machie capable of running FSX smoothly for my nephew. I'd like for you guys to help me put a little something together. Give me some ideas on a processor, graphics card, motherboard, ram, power supply etc... now, I have about 500 to spend, I'll spend a bit more if necessary as long as fsx runs without a problem. Im most likely to buy some of the items used off of ebay. Thanks in advance.
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Help me put together a machine!
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, Mar 16 2015 11:47 AM
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Posted 16 March 2015 - 11:47 AM
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Posted 18 March 2015 - 03:19 PM
A whole system on 500 will be tight.
The system in my sig is solid and bang for buck is decent. With a good overclock on the CPU. I built this in 2013 so I bet you can pick up a i5 for dirt cheap on ebay. The won't need 16gb of RAM either, 8gb will be fine. You'll need an 1155 socket mobo for an i5 chip mine is a Gigabyte Z77X. My GPU is a GTX660, It's since this machine was built mainly for FSX the GPU is the fairly low priority.
No idea what that would add up to cost wise in US dollars.
Good luck.
The system in my sig is solid and bang for buck is decent. With a good overclock on the CPU. I built this in 2013 so I bet you can pick up a i5 for dirt cheap on ebay. The won't need 16gb of RAM either, 8gb will be fine. You'll need an 1155 socket mobo for an i5 chip mine is a Gigabyte Z77X. My GPU is a GTX660, It's since this machine was built mainly for FSX the GPU is the fairly low priority.
No idea what that would add up to cost wise in US dollars.
Good luck.
