After many years of building and upgrading my own PC's, I finally ordered one from Dell. I'm an avid gamer and was getting tired of not being able to run my favorite games with the graphics fully enabled. My "old" system was a AMD 1.4 ghz with a gig of Sdram memory and a 128 meg Nvidia Ti4200 video card. It performed ok for most functions but I really like to fly using FS2004.<br />I recently acquired a lot of add on planes and scenery for the flight sim but could not enjoy them due to the "slow" 1.4 ghz system.<br />I ordered a Dell 4600 system running a Pentium 3.06 Ghz processor with Hyper Threading technology on a 533 front side bus, 512 of DDR memory at 333 mhz and a 7200 rpm hard drive. I put the Nvidia video card in and loaded the flight sim game. The Dell came with a "free" 17" LCD display also. Anyways, WOW, what a difference. I set the graphics at different levels in the game and am getting from 20-60 fps.<br />The old system was 6-20 fps. I installed the latest video drivers, Direct-x, and a utility called GameXP, to enhance the system. <br />Prior to starting the game I use kill-it-all to shut down any unnecessary programs running to give the game all the PC resources.<br />The visuals are stunning, the photographic scenery is like you are there. <br />The system was 800 dollars shipped to the door. I priced the components to build a similar system myself, it was close to a thousand dollars.<br />Anyways, I believe this system will last for a few years technology wise before any upgrades are necessary.<br />Maybe a new super geewiz video card will help even more but for now it rocks. My Ti4200 card now uses the full AGP 8X speed it is designed for.<br /><br /> 
