Fangio

THANK YOU for the replies.... I really still am not clear on what all the different things mean, but I did buy a PC based on the recommendations. I purchased a PC built to spec from ibuypower.com. Here is what I got.... tell me if something is a real mistake! Cyber Monday Intel X99 Case 1 x Thermaltake Versa H35 w/ Window Gaming Case Processor 1 x Intel® Core™ i7 5820K Processor (6x 3.30GHz/15MB L3 Cache) - Intel Core™ i7 5820K [$40 INSTANT OFF] iBUYPOWER PowerDrive 1 x PowerDrive Level 1 - Up to 10% Overclocking Processor Cooling 1 x Asetek 510LC Liquid CPU Cooling System [sOCKET-2011] - Free Upgrade to Corsair Hydro Series H55 120mm Liquid CPU Cooler Memory 1 x 8 GB [4 GB x2] DDR4-2400 Memory Module - Corsair or Major Brand - **Free Upgrade to 16GB DDR4-2800 ADATA XPG** Video Card 1 x NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980Ti - 6GB [Free Upgrade to EVGA Superclocked] - Single Card Free Stuff 1 x [FREE] - 802.11AC Dual Band Wireless USB Adapter - FREE with iBUYPOWER Desktops Free Stuff 1 x [FREE Game Download] - Intel Gaming Bundle: Just Cause 3, CSGO, and World of Warships - free w/ Intel Processors Motherboard 1 x ASUS X99-A -- - *Free upgrade to ASUS X99-A/USB 3.1 and Free ASUS ROG Mouse Power Supply 1 x 750 Watt - Thermaltake SMART SP-750M - *Free Upgrade to 850W Thermaltake TPG - 80 PLUS Gold, Fully Modular Primary Hard Drive 1 x 128 GB SanDisk Z400S SSD -- Read: 546MB/s, Write: 342MB/s - Single Drive *Free Upgrade to 256GB SanDisk Z400S SSD* (Single Drive Only) Data Hard Drive 1 x 1 TB Hard �Drive -- 32MB Cache, 7200 RPM, 6.0Gb/s - Single Drive Optical Drive 1 x 24x Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW - Black -- Free Upgrade to 14X LG Blu-ray Re-writer Sound Card 1 x ASUS Xonar DGX -- 5.1 Channels, 96KHz/24-bit Network Card 1 x Intel Pro 10/100/1000 Network Card USB Expansion Card 1 x PCI-Express USB 3.0 Expansion Card (2x External Port + 1x Header) Operating System 1 x Windows 10 Home + Office 365 Trial [Free 30-Day !!!] - (64-bit) *Newest Microsoft Windows* Mouse 1 x iBUYPOWER Standard Gaming Mouse Warranty 1 x 3 Year Standard Warranty Service Rush Service 1 x No Rush Service (Usually Ships in 10-15 Business Days) With the Cyber Monday discount code it came to $1,831, Ouch. I sure hope this thing does the job and lasts a long time!

Hello! Decades ago I was an internet fighter pilot. That seems so strange to write, I have gotten old and the internet has grown up. I played Airwarrior on AOL and then the Warbirds beta back in 1995 and was very active in Warbirds through 2001 or so but after that life got busy and I did not play any flight sims or online games. But being a history freak and lifelong WWII aviation nut when I saw info about the oculus rift it peaked my interest in the state of WWII online slight sims. This of course lead to DCS. So I want to fly again. I am starting from absolute scratch. I have no experience with PC hardware and all of the different names, numbers, model references and such are nothing but gobbledly goop to me. Do I need a quadruple lindy Nvidia Gflop Terra-X double stroke 90XM videa card with 16QGB of modulus K490 RAM? How would I know? So rather than spend weeks reading and learning all about how a 2015 gaming PC works and all that I need... I figured it would be much faster and simpler to ask those who may already know and be willing to help. I want to play DCS and other high end flight simulators. I also want to play high end online racing games. I want to be able to run the graphics at the highest possible settings (or as close as I can afford to get) and I want to play on a 65" 4K UHD 120hz flat panel TV. I want the PC I buy to be fully able to drive the oculus rift for best performance when it comes out. I would like to spend $1500 or less. I might spend up to $2,000 if the extra money made a huge difference in game immersion... I tried to spec out a machine on the ibuypower.com site but have no clue whether what I put together is viable or not. With Cyber monday deals tomorrow and wanting to receive the machine before Christmas I am hoping to order tomorrow. Any suggestions or help is greatly appreciated.

Sorry for such a slow reply, life got busy! I was not in the kickstarter. I was massively into online flight sims like air warrior and warbirds back in the latter 1990s and was looking around at the state of the WW2 flight sim market thinking of getting back into it. The oculus rift is very intriguing. The market seems a mess. Is Aces High still the best thing online? DCS seems great but no persistent online world with a war going on is weak. Aces High seems the same as over a decade ago. I dream of a super realistic virtual reality high fidelity true simulation that lets WW2 get re-fought without the politics, death and destruction. I mean really, whats better than war without all the unfun bits and consequences?

I have been following this for some time and read some about the big upheaval and team change last year but I cannot find any kind of developer updates or status updates at all anywhere. Based on what I can find here, there are a lot of folks playing this game and enjoying it and there is plenty of hope relative to future development but there is no evidence that any ongoing development effort is taking place at all. No dev updates.... no screenshots... no videos... nothing. Supposedly a WW2 map with a new graphics engine EDGE is being developed but I cannot find anything from any actual developers about this anywhere that is not close to a year old. If there is any actual evidence that any actual development is taking place, please share. I do not want to lay out a bunch of $$$ to buy a new gaming PC spec'd out for a game that is not actually being developed any longer. Thanks! Fangio