Build me a new rig for MS FS

SamMillarF1

SamMillarF1

SamMillarF1

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Hi All,

I have a budget of about £2,500. Was wondering if you guys to build me a new machine for the anticipated Microsoft Flight Simulator. They recently released the min specs, recommended specs and 'ideal specs'.

https://assets.vg247.com/current/2020/04/flight_simulator_specs-1.jpg


I have a dual 4k monitor setup, would ideally like to put the sim across both monitors but not fussed eitherway.

Thank you
 
Hows this?

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £2,042.10 (includes shipping: £13.20)​
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At the moment, you want a fast overclockable Intel chip, and as powerful an Nvidia card as you can afford for flight simming. This may change with FS2020. Personally, if Flight Simming us your main use, I'd be hanging fire until MSFS2020 comes out.

It may well be that cores is king with fs2020, rather than clock speed like fsx/p3d. Ryzen 4000 may prove to be king. The recommended specs for fsx 10 years were a 2ghz cpu, 1 gig ram, and 128mb graphics card, and there isn't a pc on earth still that can max it out. Take the recommended specs with a very large pinch of salt. The proof is in the pudding.
 
While I agree that you still need a monster of a PC to run FSX on Max sliders, a lot of that was to do with poor optimisation and use of available of the shelf tech that the engine was built on. P3D which is practically off the same engine is night and day in terms of optimisation as well.

Bear in mind they released 'minimum req, recommended and then IDEAL'.

I'm without a machine just now entirely so I would like to have something built and waiting for it's arrival (while using it for other stuff).
 
Without divulging too much info. I have a 3900x, and am VERY glad I have ;)

FSX is FOURTEEN years old. Any advice taken from the performance of that is so irrelevant today. FS20 will make use of lots of cores without a doubt.
 
SamMillarF1 said:
How do you reckon it will fair when the likes of PMDG come along and scenery developers?
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That's going to be a difficult one to call. I think scenery wise, will mostly be add-on airports, but as you may have seen from some of the public screenshots, some of the default airports have some pretty decent scenery already, as well as cities full of 3d buildings, none of which are effecting performance much as it is. I think PMDG will bring a performance hit as they're obviously very complex planes. But at the same time, if they can make use of the CPU cores I don't think the performance hit will be anything like as bad as what we're seen in P3D or XP11.
 
Question is will they go a subscription for flight sim I wonder? I imagine they won’t do it as a simple one off purchase price, or if they do you won’t get access to the bing 3D mapping
 
VaderDSL said:
Question is will they go a subscription for flight sim I wonder? I imagine they won’t do it as a simple one off purchase price, or if they do you won’t get access to the bing 3D mapping
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They're already confirmed it wont be subscription :)


Just to be helpful to the OP, making use of the entire budget! You can swap out the case and storage to suit your needs.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £2,532.83 (includes shipping: £0.00)​
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Curious as to why the two gents who have made a build up for me have gone the AMD route. I'm way out of the loop when it comes to building but is AMD leading the way just now over Intel or is AMDs equivalent a better CPU?
 
No point in this thread. New AMD CPUs and NVidia GPUs may be out first. Even if they aren’t, I would wait.

No way I’m buying a pc right now and I’m also anticipating MSFS 2020.
 
SamMillarF1 said:
Curious as to why the two gents who have made a build up for me have gone the AMD route. I'm way out of the loop when it comes to building but is AMD leading the way just now over Intel or is AMDs equivalent a better CPU?
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Way better value for money. At the top end, Intel has a 5-10% lead in gaming at the most, but is trounced by AMD in anything productive and AMD is very competitive for less money, plus giving users an upgrade path.
 
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