Build for flight sim

Mdanger

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My friend is looking for a pc to play flight sims.
He is looking to spend around £600 ish.
He will need everything except a monitor.

Many thanks :)
 
Everything everything? or just a tower+OS?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2300 2.80GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £149.99
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 460 Superclocked *** 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (01G-P3-1363-KR) £119.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £79.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £61.99
1 x XFX Pro 550W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £52.99
1 x Gigabyte H61MA-D3V Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £44.40
1 x Bitfenix Outlaw Gaming Case - Black £33.98
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU) £31.19
1 x Sony Optiarc AD-7280S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
Total : £603.10 (includes shipping : £10.50).

 
B grade GFX card (90 day warranty), but a better board,

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2300 2.80GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £149.99
1 x **B Grade** OcUK GeForce GTX 560 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £99.98
1 x Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard REV 1 £84.98
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £79.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £61.99
1 x XFX Pro 550W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £52.99
1 x Bitfenix Outlaw Gaming Case - Black £33.98
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU) £31.19
1 x Sony Optiarc AD-7280S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
Total : £623.68 (includes shipping : £10.50).

 
Depending on the sim, I think really an i5 2500K and a 2 GB gfx card could be more appropriate, but obviously its all down to budget. If I had to choose, I would go with a 2500K now, and maybe settle for a 6850.
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 460 Superclocked *** 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (01G-P3-1363-KR) £119.99
1 x Saitek X52 Pro Flight Controller And Throttle Joystick - PC (PS34) £109.99
1 x Intel Core i3-2120 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £93.59
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £79.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £61.99
1 x OCZ ZS Series 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £46.98
1 x Gigabyte H61MA-D3V Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £44.40
1 x Bitfenix Outlaw Gaming Case - Black £33.98
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU) £31.19
1 x Sony Optiarc AD-7280S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
1 x Logitech MK120 Desktop Set (920-002552) £15.98
Total : £667.56 (includes shipping : £11.25).



It is similar to stulids spec but the CPU is the i3 and the PSU is slightly cheaper. I did however manage to get a nice HOTAS flight stick and a cheap (out of stock though) desktop keyboard and mouse in the spec.

I would advise avoiding FSX. It will run on the i3 but it's an incredible pain to get the sim running well. There are so many patches and tweaks to make it's unreal. I would suggest looking at DCS's sims. I play AC-10 and blackshark on my htpc and that's a 3.8 ghz phenom2 X2 CPU with a 460 GPU (@900mhz) and it looks great. These sims also allow the use of a second screen if you would like the MFD or instruments on it. There is a mod to use touchscreens as well......quick video preview coming up ;)


ok the eyefinity is a bit much that would need a very good single AMD GPU, or two cheaper ones in Xfire or nvidia cards in SLI on the appropriate mobo....however that touchscreen could be added later to his setup and you could dual screen happily on one GPU. Seeing as windows 8 will have touchscreen support the screen would see more than just use in the sim eventually. Guess it depends how seriously he wants to take the hobby :)

Hope this helps, any queries or problems with the build, you know where we are hiding ;)
 
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stulid said:
Everything everything? or just a tower+OS?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2300 2.80GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £149.99
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 460 Superclocked *** 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (01G-P3-1363-KR) £119.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £79.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £61.99
1 x XFX Pro 550W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £52.99
1 x Gigabyte H61MA-D3V Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £44.40
1 x Bitfenix Outlaw Gaming Case - Black £33.98
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU) £31.19
1 x Sony Optiarc AD-7280S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
Total : £603.10 (includes shipping : £10.50).

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Yeah everything bud.
 
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