Flight Simulator X - 3 monitor setup new build

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APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: Immediately

BUDGET RANGE: $1500-1800 Max CAD

SYSTEM USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT: Microsoft Flight Simulator X ONLY

PARTS NOT REQUIRED: keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers, OS

PARTS PREFERENCE: Intel

PREFERRED WEBSITE(S) FOR PARTS: Bestdirect.ca, Newegg.ca, or any site, more interested in parts as I can do my own price shopping

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Canada

PARTS PREFERENCES:

OVERCLOCKING: No

SLI OR CROSSFIRE: Yes

MONITOR RESOLUTION: Building for a friend, he has 3 19” LCD if that helps.

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Update: The budget has had a significant increase to as high as 1800, but would like to come under for more profit for building :)



Hey guys,

I am having a hard time working out a system that will handle FSX on 3 monitors as I have never dabbled in a flight sim ever, nor mutli monitors setup.

I do know that FSX is extrememly demanding on both GPU and to a lesser extent GPU, so right off the bat I am thinking 5850 and Phenom X4 at the very least for this???

I'd love to get some feed back

Thanks in advance!
 


Thanks man,

I think for the budget purpose I will stick with the Kingston unless you can suggest a better at the same price point? Maybe even 30G will suffice as FSX only requires 14 or 16 at the max.
 
@ jbakerlent... I don't remember posting about how to reduce the size of Windows 7 installation (or I did it while sleeping :) )

I believe what you are talking about is how to "Ghost" a drive on a SSD to allow programs to maintain the SSD's load times but don't take up the physical space of the SSD, which can allow one to get a smaller SSD for example. Here is the video I remember positng about.


[flash=480,385]http://www.youtube.com/v/Za_2g4H7RjM&hl=en_US&fs=1&[/flash]


If this wasn't what you speaking about, I'll see if I can review some more of my old post to jog my memory some more!!

 



Elaberation- The Hyper 212+ is 20-30$ shipped.

It outpreforms anyhting in its preice range, and 90% of the tings signifgantly out of its price range.
 


Thanks. I was worried about the clearance of the unit with RAM heatsinks. Some people had issues, some did not. I wish there was a sure way to know. Depends on the mobo I guess.