Touch screen TVs

[IslandBoy77]

Hi all. A guy I know is looking to purchase a large touch-screen TV for his flight sim rig, running FSX with SP2 on W7 64-bit. A question: would a touch-screen TV even interface properly with a PC? Is FSX actually usable in a touch-screen fashion? I know that there are touch-designed programs that can work WITH FSX, but I hadn't heard of anyone actually being able to use touch-screen technology with FSX itself (presumably to interact with the various aircraft cockpit controls, knobs, levers etc). Has anyone heard anything about someone pulling this off? In NZ?

Also, this same person is looking at buying a new FSX rig. His current one looks like this:
Intel Core i7-3930K 3.2Ghz LGA2011 CPU (1.5MB L2 Cache, 12MB L3 Cache, 5 GT/s DMI)
Kingston KHX2133C11D3K4/16GX HyperX Genesis 16GB DDR3 2133MHz PC3-17000 CL11 Quad Channel RAM (Kit of 4)
Gigabyte X79-UD3 Socket 2011 ATX Intel Motherboard
Asus GTX590 GeForce 590 3GB GDDR5 384-bit x 2 PCI-E 2.0 Dual-GPU Video Card
Intel SSDSC2CW180A3K5 520 Series 180GB SATA3 SSD
Corsair CSSD-F90GB3-BK Force Series 3 90GB SATA3 SSD
Corsair Professional Series CMPSU-1050HXAU HX1050 1050W 80 PLUS Silver Certified Modular Power Supply

Apart from bragging rights, does anyone think that spending another $2-$3k on a faster PC is actually going to improve the performance of FSX? He's currently getting FPS up to 120-180 in places and has all sliders maxed out. I've tried to explain to him that FSX is old technology and that the increases in performance are relatively small compared to relatively large out-lays of money. He's not a tech guy at all but has money to burn when it suits him. Myself, I can't see any point in getting a bigger, better system than what he has since he appears to be getting the best that FSX can do on modern technology as it stands. I'd like some feedback from others who might have bigger, better systems than this one with some real-world thoughts on it, as I rarely see gaming rigs even as powerful as the one above. Ta.

[husker]

I use a touch screen monitor in FSX (Dell 2220T 21.5inch, 1920x1080) - usings Windows 8, but works the same in Windows 7. To FSX is works the same as a mouse, so only a 'single touch' is allowed on a multi-touch screen.

Challenge is: can only produce a left mouse click, so any controls that require a right click or mouse wheel won't work via the touch screen, so depending on the aircraft can be a major problem with knobs in particular. You can also 'click and drag', so throttle controls, etc can work via the touch screen.

In terms of a 'touch screen TV' - first thing to check is that it can actually be a PC input device and drivers are available - rather than just supporting touch for it's own internal TV features. For example, the Dell touch screen monitor plugs in via USB as well as DVI, and acts as any other USB input device.

As far as the PC spec goes - I agree, you are unlikely to be able to improve on that spec - the only thing you could target is the 3.2Ghz of the processor as the raw 'single core' GHz is the only thing that can help FSX at that level of spec