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Originally Posted by Rattlehead

I've always been a big believer of video card, then ram, then cpu...in order of importance for gaming.

This is true of FPS. Flight sims suffer from a slow CPU (it really is the bottleneck in what we are concern).

So for flight sims, always buy the fastest CPU you can afford. Presently its the i7-2600K, followed closely by the i5-2500K. Remember that the newer i5 & i7 are faster clock for clock than the previous generation. See here:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...m-ii,2926.html

So get the best CPU with a good overclocking motherboard, then if you only run 1 GPU, you can live a less than 600W PSU, if you plan on running SLI/Crossfire go with a 750+ PSU.

In you case the last thing to upgrade should be the video card (GPU). Oleg's game seem to favor Nvidea. Don't know why? I prefer AMD myself. Here look here and decide.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...-590,2912.html