Will Parhelia run on my current PC ?

[Conker]

I am in doubt when it comes to AMD processors after reading about them in Flightsim.com - I am affraid that I will end up with a system that might be more future proof but won´t give me the same power as the Pentium 4 when flying FS2004 on a Windows XP ( 32 bit version )

[UtwigMU]

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1550793,00.asp

[Conker]

Thanks - I can see that it really deos make a difference.

[UtwigMU]

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1276894,00.asp

On medium detail it's a wash.

[Conker]

This is the new system I am looking into buying:

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3000+
Cooler: Thermaltake Alu Cooler, 21 dB
Board: ASUS K8V Deluxe, 8x AGP, 4x USB 2.0, 2x FireWire, SATA
RAM�_: Kingston 2 x 256 MB Dual PC3700
Graphics: Club 3D 256 MB Radeon 9600Pro
Harddisk: Maxtor 160 GB, 7200 RPM, silent, 8 mb cache
Net: Asus 3COM 10/100/1000 Mbit onboard
Sound: ASUS 5.1 Surround Sound, onboard
DVD�_: LiteOn 16x48 Speed
Kabinet�_: Artemis Miditower, 300W, USB front

[G400SG16mb]

Conker, the 3000+ can be a fair bit slower than the 3200+ because it only has 512kb of L2 cache instead of 1024kb. The price difference isn't great.

A 300W power supply unit is probably cutting it too fine.

[rylan]

Yeah you should be looking at a 400w power supply.