Building/Buying a New PC for Cliffs of Dover? Read this!

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Just my 2cents - not very expensive and works well -CloD, ROF, X-Plane10
Decent rig for CloD - old rig updated
--- Old Parts -- from an Athlon 1800 HP machine repaired over the yrs
Mid-tower : Old HP
Joystick : Saitek EVO Force
Pedals : Saitek
Power supply : 600W OCZ
Hard Drives : WD 7200 SATA3 1 TB
WD 5400 rpm SATA 500 GB
--- New Parts -----
Motherboard : ASRock A55Pro2 AMD FM1 socket -SATA3 $ 74
CPU : AMD A6-3650 2.6Ghz $110
RAM : Gskil Ripjaws x Series 2x4GB DDR3 1600 $ 47
Sound : On-board
Cooler : Scythe SCMG-3000 $ 50
DVD drives : Lite-on SATA iHAS124-04 $ 17
Asus SATA 24B1ST $ 18
Video Card : On-Board -- Black Death Track FPS 8/34/16
Sapphire 6850 HD 1GB - BDTrack 19/57/42 $124
-- FPS in "Landscape Fly-by track high 50s mostly - VSYNC ON (set On at card)
Using most recent CCC 12.2
Most in-game settings High or Medium - Grass OFF & Forest Low
FPS - London sightseeing - mostly mid-30s to mid 40s under 1,000 ft
& upper 30s/40s over 3,000ft
Have had some game freeze-ups with the British Ground-attack mission in
Eastern France 4groups of 3 planes British - 4groups of 3planes German
- mainly if in-cloud and canopy begins to ice-up
This A6-3650 is multiplier-locked and not easily over-clocked as the FSB and video & memory transfer speeds all move together when you change the FSB which can easily be a problem. Some have gotten this stable to 3.4Ghz but I haven't tried any of that - still at 2.6Ghz.