Spec a rig for fsx

[damadom0]

Hello been a long time since I last posted, hope you all had a good christmas.

My dad is wanting to play flight sim X and is in need of a computer he hasn't got a budget as such, just something that will play it on the best settings if possible.
He will need a case everything inside, the only thing he won't need is monitor keyboard and mouse, speakers and hard because I have a 500gb spare. I presume windows 7 is the best os around so will stick with that thank you for the help.

Matt

 

[ExRayTed]

You may have a hard drive spare but he'll benefit from a decent SSD

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1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 G1 Gaming 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £289.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £179.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £103.99
2 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £86.99 (£173.98)
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £79.99
1 x Kingston HyperX 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Red (HX21C11BRK2/8-OC) £67.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £49.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £46.99
1 x Be Quiet! Shadow Rock Slim £33.95
1 x LG 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM GH24NSC0.AUAA10B £13.99
Total : £1,055.86 (includes shipping : £12.50).

 

[damadom0]

Yeah I thought that a SSD would be a good idea, will run the price buy him but that might be abit much he doesn't really know what things like this cost really. Maybe £500 if that doable.

Matt

 

[ExRayTed]

£500? Hmm

Providing you clock the absolute nuts out of the CPU this would be closer to your budget.

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1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 280 Dual-X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £145.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £79.99
1 x MSI Z97 PC Mate Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £64.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED38G2400HC11CDC01) £59.99
1 x Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £53.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £49.99
1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower Black/Black £29.99
1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler - Black £14.99
1 x LG 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM GH24NSC0.AUAA10B £13.99
Total : £534.43 (includes shipping : £17.10).



The obvious compromises are the CPU, GPU and no SSD

 

[!bluetonic!]

ssd is a must. It quickens loading the Sim and scenery.

Also check out the FSX thread in the games section.

 

[Doomedspeed]

Its not going to be easy on a £500 budget. The reason being FSX is (quite obviously) a physics based game that means its heavily CPU based. Also it is slightly single threaded.

This means, really, the 4690k is the best CPU to go for.. With a big OC it'll be epic. The pentium K is a nice budget option but FSX can be guilty of preferring the extra cores (even if they not used all the time).

GPU wise, you can go quite light, no need for a 970 or anything like that. Check the £100 7950s because they'd be ideal (high level GPU). Otherwise look at secondhand options, 760's are a pretty good shout...

An SSD would be handy too but the budget is a bit tight for that.

 

[WhiteHawk77]

The reason it's so CPU intensive is because the thing is based on very old code from previous versions, slightly single threaded? That's an understatement, it can be forced to use a little bit of a second core, that's it, it's also 32Bit and if you put a some nice fancy addon scenery and planes in the mix it can run out of memory and crash, I like FSX but it runs like crap and needs to be updated, not something Dovetail seem to be doing at least not right now with the Steam version. It is something Lockheed are doing with it but at a price with Prepar3D.