Trying to buy a pc for £550 that can run Microsoft Flight Sim

[Chris Beard]

Lots of comprimises here I really, really didn't want to make. The other thread with the £700 machine is waaaay better:

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Intel Core i3-12100F 3.30GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-6AS-IN) = £109.99
• 1 x Asus Prime H610M-E D4 - Intel H610 DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-6HP-AS) = £85.99
• 1 x **B Grade** Aerocool Glider Cosmo Midi Tower, Tempered Glass - Black (SKU: BG-04F-AE) = £28.79
• 1 x Kolink Modular Power 500W 80 Plus Bronze Modular Power Supply (SKU: CA-04H-KK) = £34.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan Z T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (SKU: MY-0AK-TG) = £50.00
• 1 x Palit GeForce GTX 1660 StormX 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-04R-PL) = £199.99
• 1 x Crucial P2 250GB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 NVMe Solid State Drive (SKU: HD-06Y-CR) = £28.99

Total: £550.44 (includes delivery: £11.70)​

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Haven't had a chance to check compatibility.

 

[Heliocentric]

I feel like most of these systems are bidding low with the CPU, its a very CPU hungry game, like, legendarily. I guess the budget is an issue. I know I'm going to upset people, but at this budget i think xbox series x might be your best bet... i know what I'm suggesting.... I know!

 

[Chris Beard]

I feel like most of these systems are bidding low with the CPU, its a very CPU hungry game, like, legendarily. I guess the budget is an issue. I know I'm going to upset people, but at this budget i think xbox series x might be your best bet... i know what I'm suggesting.... I know!

MSFS is very single-thread bound. This makes it well suited to low end Alder Lake chips. 12100 to 12400 in single thread is a few perecentage points (for example).

//edit:- agree on console recomendation at this price point though.

 

[mickyflinn]

MSFS is very single-thread bound. This makes it well suited to low end Alder Lake chips. 12100 to 12400 in single thread is a few perecentage points (for example).

//edit:- agree on console recomendation at this price point though.

Op has a revised budget of £700 , post 14.

 

[Defy Belief]

Second hand place on the high street has some really well priced rigs, but you'll have compromises...warranty is there though

Example HP 30L GT3, (3700x (8 core), 16gb ram, 512gb ssd, RTX 3070) - £700 - Buy some vouchers off 'other' forums @ 85% face value, makes it £595 all in.

Being an OEM pre-build, it'll likely have an average psu, OEM motherboard, a crap cpu cooler and thus temps probably not being brilliant either, but for £595 it's not bad.

other options;

i5-9400F/16GB DDR4/1TB HDD+256GB SSD/RTX2060 6GB - £400 / £340 with buying vouchers.

Acer PO3-620/i7-10700/16GB DDR4 Ram/1TB HDD+512GB SSD/GTX 2060 6GB - £475 / £405 ish with vouchers.

 

[Chris Beard]

Op has a revised budget of £700 , post 14.

Yup - they raised another thread for this however - https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/trying-to-get-a-pc-for-700.18958363/