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Originally Posted by 99th_Flyby
I'd like to wait until the sim is released, but life goes on and another sim is on the near horizon (Black Shark, where a good card will need plenty of texture fill rate power, even on an old engine like that one). Then there's KOTS, and a few other combat flight sims coming out. If I held true to waiting until Sow_BoB comes out...well who knows when that's gonna be? I have to replace a fried system one of these days, and well it might be nice to be given a hint. Ya know? Just a little sum~n sum~n. Oleg's probably sticking to the old credo of having the most powerful desktop pc there is, then turn down the settings until you get an acceptably playable experience. So i might as well withdraw my request, and go for what I can. 
Flyby out |
I was recently in the same situation. I just had to get a new rig. I went for the best Mother board I could afford (XfX 790i Ultra) with 2 Gigs of DDR-3 RAM (Smallest ammount I could get), a e8500 CPU (now over clocked to 3.8GHz on the stock intel cooler) and a 9800GTX Graphics card.
The idea being that latter on I could add more RAM and the fastest Quad core that I can afford, and extra graphics cards when they comes down in price and when BOB comes out.
I know the best advice when buy computer hardware if you can wait (Moores law is great for hardware buyers!) BUT at some stage you just have to bite the bullet and upgrade.
It's good to have a plan for the future!
Hopefully I've made the right choices???????