Help with spec: £400 for MS Flight Sim

Airalith · 15 Nov 2013 at 13:09

Hi guys,

A friend of mine is training to be a pilot and wants to build a machine to run MS Flight simulator 2012. He has a budget of around £400, could anyone help out with ideas?

Sorry to be a pain but I have no idea what represents good bang for your buck at this price range, everything I try and build comes in way over budget...

Cheers

Air

GhostWKD · 15 Nov 2013 at 13:12

Need os / monitor / joystick etc?

Not that i'm too good at building specs for people, but it's what the others who are will ask

DaleTheWhale · 15 Nov 2013 at 14:27

GhostWKD said:
Need os / monitor / joystick etc?

Not that i'm too good at building specs for people, but it's what the others who are will ask

You'll get the hang of it, once you learn which components are decent for what types of price range. Always good to have a little look into them as well, little features which may be included on some etc.

Doomedspeed · 15 Nov 2013 at 19:53

Is an OS needed?

This is a good starting point..

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A8-5600K Black Edition 3.60GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD560KWOHJBOX) £71.99
1 x Sapphire PURE Platinum A85XT AMD A85X Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £68.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLYD38G2400HC11CDC01) £65.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £47.99
1 x BitFenix Merc Alpha Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x Thermalright True Spirit 120 REV A [BW] Performance CPU Cooler £24.98
Total : £377.02 (includes shipping : £11.75).

FSX plays pretty well on APU's (even mobile ones):

Ethermaster · 15 Nov 2013 at 20:28

Its a little over and you will have to use the iGPU but this game loves raw CPU horsepower!!! and for that reason you can't really go wrong with the Intel Core i5 4670K at a later date he could get a graphics card and aftermarket cooler.

With the cooler he could then overclock the CPU to get even more POWERRRR in the words of Clarkson.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £79.99
1 x Adata XPG Gaming v1.0 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-16000C9 2000MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AX3U2000GC4G9B-2G) £59.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £47.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 400W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £37.99
1 x Black Widow Mesh Gaming Case Black/Blue Interior USB3 12cm Blue LED Toolless £24.95
Total : £442.90 (includes shipping : £10.00).

Doomedspeed · 15 Nov 2013 at 20:43

POWWWEEERRR!!!!!!!!!

BinnsY · 15 Nov 2013 at 21:01

If you go for the AMD apu range I'd reccomend this build. The 6800k should be quite a big jump up from the 5600 posted earlier.

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-6800K Black Edition 4.10GHz (Socket FM2) APU Richland Quad Core Processor (AD680KWOHLBOX) £107.99
1 x ASRock FM2A75 Pro4 AMD A75 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £68.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLYD38G2400HC11CDC01) £65.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £47.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 400W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £37.99
1 x BitFenix Merc Alpha Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x Thermalright True Spirit 120 REV A (BW) Performance CPU Cooler £24.98
Total : £401.02 (includes shipping : £11.75).