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I see a lot of you are raving about P3D v3.  I've decided I will take advantage of this move and the rebuild to move over to P3D.  My current system specs are below in my sig.

I'm itching to build a new system for my new build and sim software and transition the current one to my MIP.

I'm looking for advice on the following, keeping in mind that I want to run P3D v3 on the system and I want a minumum of 40FPS over add-on airports with traffic and weather.

-CPU
-Motherboard
-RAM
-Graphics card(s) (to output 3 x Projectors, 1 x Lower DU).  SLI???
-Cooling

Thoughts?

Current PC:

Intel Core i7-3770K Ivy Bridge Quad-Core 3.5GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 77W BX80637I73770K Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics

CORSAIR Hydro Series H60 (CWCH60) High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler

MSI Z77A-G45 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

G.SKILL TridentX Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2400 (PC3 19200) Desktop Memory Model F3-2400C10D-16GTX

Galaxy 67NQH6DN6KXZ GeForce GTX 670 GC 4GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

XFX PRO850W XXX Edition Semi-Modular 80 Plus Silver Certified 850 Watt Active PFC Power Supply

A quick recommendation would be that you might not get the performance out of the 670 graphics card you desire.  We recently purchased a Radeon W8100 to drive 4 projectors.  We like it a lot, but still only get 30 fps in dense environments.  Also, we are seeing texture loading delays with it since it has just 8 gig of video memory.  You may want to consider going to a card that has 16 gig.

It's my understanding that SLI does not really get you the rendering performance most expect in P3D.  I have been told that the SLI configuration is great for CAD work and high GPU "computing" needs, but not so good for pure rendering tasks. All hear-say, so your own experimentation would need to be done.

Jim