In case you're going to sell it in parts, let me know. ;)

S!

Swiss, gonna pick them up from Finland? :D Damn happy with this rig. IL-2 is a bit picky but runs well enough for gaming while other games chug along very nicely :)

What, you don't have postal services in Suomi?
It's just the Cpu I might want. ;)
It sure would be fun to pick it up in person, unfortunately the temperature up there doesn't turn it into a top pick for holiday trips.
(I hate Switzerland for the climate)

[spoilsport] I’ll bet you FART in an elevator and then exit on the next floor ... LOL [/spoilsport]

Talking about system specifications, how green the grass should be, how the clouds look, the misspelling on a flight instrument, the proper color of an aircrafts insignia, the proper air pressure for the tailwheel tire or “spec comparing” is all good.

I was always afraid to build my own gaming computer; I was ignorant how easy it was. I had a friend build it for me, he owned a computer shop. One day he made me help him assemble my computer, I never looked back.

Reading threads that compare system specifications and talk about building gaming computers like this one might inspire some one to go that extra step.

In closing my rant about your rant here’s my new gaming computer I finished a few months ago. I can’t wait for CoD to hit the shelves.

MOBO: ASUS Crosshair III Formula,
RAM: 8GB G Skill DDR3 1333,
CPU: AMD 965 Phenom II - 3.4GHz Quad-Core,
Cooling: ZALMAN 9500AT plus (3)140mm and (1) 120mm Fans,
HD: (2) WD Black Edition, 500 GB operating system and programs and 1TB games,
GPU: EVGA GTX 470, (I’m going to give the 470 to my son and upgrade to a 570)
CD/DVD: LG with LightScribe,
Sound: Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty Pro,
PSU: Corsair HX Series 850HX Modular,
Case: Cooler Master Centurion 590,
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit,

I have the same motherboard here, with a 955 PhenomII @3.6GHz, liquid-cooled. It's good to see that it is capable of running 8 gigs RAM, although I'm only using 4Gb (OCZ 1600) at the moment.
Do you have all 4 DIMMs occupied, as in 4 x 2G sticks?
I'm running a 500GbB storage drive - but using a pair of 60GB SSDs for my operating system and games. My 1TB drive serves both myself and my wife via our network.
I went Ati about a hundred years ago (feels like) and I'm sporting a lightly overclocked HD 5870 at the present time. Both FB and RoF run very sweet and I'm hoping that it'll give me a good starting point for Cliffs of Dover.

B

I will upgrade to 64 bit Windows 7 so i can see all of my Ram (6gb). Also mayby looking at a ATI 6000 series card to replace my GTX 275.

Vista 32 bit
I7 920
6GB Ram
650 watt PSU
GTX 275

I'm a retired software engineer living all by myself, but in a very active and creative area of Montreal.
I used to fly Piper Cherokees when I was young (a while ago... when one hour flying with gas and insurance was $18...) and I've been building this system for a couple of months now: I went all out for CoD and DCS.

Antec 1200 case, Ultra 850w ps
Velociraptor 600Gigs
Intel i7 980x 3.46 GHz (not OC'd yet), Megahalem cooler
12 gigs Mushkin 6-8-6-24-1T 1600Mhz DDR3 Triple channel
EVGA gtx580 (currently at the airport, will be here tomorrow !!!)
EVGA X58 FTW3 Mobo
HP ZR24W 1920X1200 IPS Monitor
Trackir 4
Thrustmaster Hotas Warthog
Saitek Pro-Flight rudder pedals
Windows 7 64

No SSDs (yet), just one 580 (for now). So I hope to see most of the eye candy...

For those who have never assembled a system by themselves, for such a system you save about 50% as compared to the equivalent Alienware (Dell) for instance. This is not true for smaller systems. For budget systems it will cost you more if you do it yourself !

One could go ballistic (maybe one day !!!): As long as games are multi-threaded and 64 bits you can take advantage of this:

EVGA Workstation SR-2 mobo with two 6 core Xeons (that's 24 threads, the Xeon is functionnaly equivalent to the 980x but with double QPI).
2X12= 24 gigs of triple channel memory, which becomes 12 Gigs of hexachannel memory when driven by two CPUs.
Along with a RAID-0 array of SSDs this would be awesome to say the least, but currently about $10,000 (CDN) if you do it yourself. BTW the SR-2 is built to be overclocked...with triple gtx580 also OC'd, it should run flight sims (or a medium sized country) for a while...

Lou

Haha no, that is not it at all. It just doesn't interest me in the slightest, obviously from other peoples posts here there are people that are interested. My previous posts were fueled with some drink, so I will apologise for some trollish posts lol. I still feel the same though, so I will attempt to avoid these PC system threads and if I acidently open one I will just have to close my eyes ;) Oh and to make us equal I will put something you will find very boring in my sig :-P

Fair enough.

I'm gonna wait till I have the game. If i can't use med to high settings with my 2 year old cpu and graphics card i might upgrade..

I can play black shark and a-10 perfectly. Maybe a setting or two on med instead of high.

I only upgrade when and if I have an awsome game and I can't run it fluently. First i'll try and OC the cpu and graphics card. Only THEN i will upgrade. I mean... upgrading to overkill is a waste of money in my book.