New Gaming Build - Advice Needed

[E6BAV8R]

That being said, the main driver for an SSD decision is overall performance. Since you use this system as your "daily driver" (read work and general usage), it is a no brainer choice IMHO. If this were a strictly gaming only system (like if you had a Macbook or something that you used for everything else), then the balance would shift to the GPU.

While you are correct that this is my "daily driver", and you make a good point about overall performance, the entire goal of me upgrading my PC was for FSX. I have a laptop solely for work and my desktop PC is perfectly fine for the work tasks I do on it.

Since you stated that - strictly for gaming purposes that the balance shifts to the GPU - do you now feel that a better GPU would provide better performance? Being that I could increase the GPU cost up to around $340, I'm not sure what cards would throw in that realm to be worthwhile. It seems all the high-end GPUs are in excess of $400+.

 

[mfenn]

~$340 would be GTX 670 country. It's a decent bump in performance for intensive games, but I can't really say what it means for FSX. People don't really benchmark that anymore.

 

[E6BAV8R]

Thanks for the help.

I got all the parts in and put it together today. She is running fine and everything is currently stock at the moment. Time to get into some overclocking!

Thanks again.

 

[Torn Mind]

Hope you like it. And don't kill your chip. XD

 

[mfenn]

Glad that the build went smoothly and you like it!