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The 'Thud' and the F-4 would be great to fly in a state of the art sim. Especially in a Viet Nam era theater. Losses in the North were pretty substantial for both these airframes. So it would definately be a sim with 'pucker factor'. In the North 282 Thuds were lost, 192 F-4's and the USN lost 173 A-4 Skyhawks. These are just combat losses for NVN, not all in theater. Total in theater losses for the Thud were about 382 airframes, which amounted to 46% of the USAF F-105 inventory. They were gradually pulled from frontline duty starting in '86 as the F-4 Phantom II squadrons began deployment to SEA. However the Thud continued to fight on in SEA as a 'Wild Weasel' aircraft, again put into a role that subjected it to more combat losses since it was the first aircraft in and last out into hostile airspace. You have to commend the pilots that flew them as to their skill and courage as they attempted to complete their 100 sortie tours which only counted if they were flown into NVN.

Sounds like Sony's PS3 fiasco, which has occured 2-3 times now. I am so glad I never purchased a Steam game and they did not have my CC info, I only used Steam to play CoD which I purchased from UBI. For those of you who have CC with BoA, they have a utility called Shop Safe, it generates a fake CC number, you can pick the amount of $$ that its good for and the Expiration Date. You can then store this on a Steam or PS3 account, and even if its stolen its worthless. Check it out as its probably the only good thing that BoA has ever done for their customers.

Does crappy weather equal some 'drinking' perhaps, maybe some home brew/distilled spirits?

Hi jim, When chosing a cpu I start by referencing this webpage: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/ it lists the scores achieved by each CPU and allows you to compare them in a large group. You can then pick out 2-3 cpu's within your budget for the build and do further research. It also depends on the software, some of these sims are still CPU bound and some utilize the video card more effectively than others. So this adds another wrinkle, research and patience are your friend. Good luck!

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Interesting post on CoD http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpost.php?p=327835&postcount=1 The link for SimHQ http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3376003/Re_Commentary_IL_2_Sturmovik_R.html#Post3376003