Which Joystick would you recommend?

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Sure this has been asked quite a bit already.

Back when I played IL-2 I had a microsoft sidewinder FFB1, it worked great for me. However with windows 7 it doesn't really work well (nor the FFB) because of the lack of supported drivers and things.

So I recently got rise of flight to tide me over til CoD is out here in the states and I REALLY am going to have to get a joystick for both games, just no question about it.

I was looking around searching for them. I'd like to get a FFB that works under Win7, but it seems that there's not any that really competes in terms of the price that the sidewinder was. All of the current ones that offer it are pretty expensive.

So scratching that I was first looking at Saitek's x52, but heard a lot of people complain that the precison was off a bit in the middle and the quality is a bit lacking.

Then comes the two i'm stuck at right now. The CH Fighterstick, and the TM Cougar.

Which one of these would you suggest? I heard something about needing to mod cougars or do something? don't really have the time or patience for it, are they not good out of the box?

CH seems to be good quality (lot of people saying they last forever without breaking/problems) but the design looks a little old, but I don't care if it's a good stick and works fine with everything.

So, can't decide lol.