I am finally planning out my gaming rig.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Tchocky

For most gamers the i7 is simply not something they will ever use. Video-editing, rendering, that kind of stuff is where you want the multi-threading and so on.

It might squeeze out a little, a tiny little bit, more from a sim like FSX that after so many incarnations still did not benefit from GPUs (somtimes I think it were idiots working at Microsoft, that sometimes they have done the same mistakes in the franchise again and again and again and again), but I doubt it is worth the additional cost. With "Prepar3d" it might be better, but I have no solid information to what degree Lockheed Martian have optimised the old FSX code for real multi-CPUs. In principle the sim's potential and performance should go right through the ceiling when it could use 4 cores for sure.

But from own experience I must say that an i5 is really enough to run FSX with PMDGs and voluminous clouds from weather addons and with complex airport sceneries. It works, plain and simple.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by Skybird

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[Skybird]

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[Red October1984]

Cool. Thanks guys. I am shooting for something good next summer. I have a windows 7 disc that came with my laptop, it says that it will only work on samsung PC's. Can i use that or will i need to buy a new operating system disc?

[Herr-Berbunch]

Hard to say, some discs will indeed work in another machine, most won't.

At work we've a corporate license for x amount of PCs of any M$ OS from XP up. We only have an upgrade disk for Win 7 (actually, we don't, but the boss doesn't like us doing things the easy way when he may need to reinstall whilst working at home!), so if it's a borked drive I have replaced then I stick an old Dell XP recovery disc in, install XP and then Win 7. Technically we're illegal for a couple of hours whilst I do this, but it is only temporary.

Even if it worked, your license is only for one install so unless you destroyed your laptop install, or bought a separate license, you'd be illegal too. But not temporarily for a couple of hours.

I'd recommend budgeting for a new OS, and I'd recommend the Pro over any Home version. I honestly can't recommend spending extra on Ultimate. Pro here is running at about £100 (~160 usd).

[CCIP]

What's your disc and where'd you get it?

A lot of the windows installs are OEM, and are meant for one-time install, but if you install them again or in another system, they usually work - just that they will pester you about "Your copy of Windows is not genuine!". AFAIK that will not prevent your system from working normally otherwise. You can get rid of that message, either by paying M$ or by doing some google searching. But unless they've changed their policy, that doesn't mean they'll be suing you the moment you see that message.

I still suggest that you get a Windows install with your new system though. If you're getting your system build by someone else, you can always get them to install it OEM for you rather cheaply.

[Red October1984]

I have a buddy who has the Windows 7 Ultimate disc(s), maybe i can use those. I dont know about this licence stuff, but the disc came with the laptop and says: OS Recovery Windows 7 Home Premium SP1. For distribution with Samsung Computers. This disc contains a 64-bit version of the OS.