New PC

[PaulC]

Hello Chaps.

I've been offline for a while due to a house move but back up and running now.

I think it's time for a new PC- mine is 8 years old and whilst it's had a few upgrades it's showing its age.

I use it mainly for airline flying and run FSX with ORBX Global and Eng and Scotland. I use ASN.

My aircraft include QW 757 and 146, FS Labs Concorde X and a few older Capt Sim stuff.

I don't have a flowering money tree so what should I be looking to get?

Thanks

Paul

[Vc Ten]

Hi Paul
In a similar situation Ever striving for realism without a slideshow, my rig is due a rebuild. Will keep the drives and memory but upgrading the motherboard :
http://www.ebuyer.com/746072-gigabyte-g ... gaming-sli
and cpu if funds allow :
http://www.ebuyer.com/538278-amd-fx-959 ... 590fhhkwof
I recently replaced the graphics card to an NVidia gtx 970 although saw little improvement from the ati 6800
Just hope I can upgrade the motherboard without windows falling over Full reinstall methinks
Atb
Dale

[blanston12]

If you want to recycle your memory and you have at least 8gb then that's not a bad idea.
FSX is very CPU intensive but not very GPU intensive so you don't have to go nuts there, a latest generation i5 or i7 should be plenty fast for FSX. If you ever plan on trying P3D then go for the top end video card (gtx 1080) but if not then save money and go for a mid level card, was looking online recently and saw a gtx 1050 with 4gb for around 140$US which should be pretty future proof.

I usually look at upgrades as the opportunity to clear out all the detritus that has built up in the main drive. I would get a new SSD main drive (250gb to 500gb min), probably a new 2-4gb spinning drive for extra data and put your old hdd in a USB box so you can copy off all the old information.

[PaulC]

Gents,

Having a peruse- how does this sound?

CPU AMD FX-4350 Quad Core CPU (4.3/4.2GHZ - 4MB CACHE/AM3+)
Motherboard ASUS® 970 PRO GAMING/AURA (DDR3, USB3.0, 6Gb/s, CrossFireX/SLI)
RAM 8GB Kingston DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1050 - DVI, HDMI
Hard Disk 500GB SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 16MB CACHE
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/
Cooling STANDARD AMD CPU COOLER
Sound Card ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
System Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc DVD & LicenceOperating System

Paul

[DaveB]

Hardware has moved on so much, I'd not know where to start. One thing though.. should you ever consider going to P3D, I'd look at a 4gb rather than a 2gb card

ATB
DaveB

[blanston12]

Hardware has moved on so much, I'd not know where to start. One thing though.. should you ever consider going to P3D, I'd look at a 4gb rather than a 2gb card

ATB
DaveB

Agree completely, about 4+ years ago I upgraded to a high end gaming laptop and skimped on the video card, getting a 2GB card rather than the expensive 8GB card and am really kicking myself for that now.

[Vc Ten]

I agree that if you want to move onto pd3 or use dx10 on fsx then 4 gig graphics would be best investment
I run my phemom at a shade under 4ghz and to see any worthwhile improvement would need to be running nearer to 5 The amd piledriver will clock to that but at nearly 250watts that's a lot of heat to get rid of Amd prices are falling at the moment because of the soon to be released Zen processors, so if you want a bit of soon to be previous generation cpus now is a good time to buy How Intel compares I'm not certain an i5 generally clocks slower and I don't think hyperthreading helps much in fsx But wattages are much lower and maybe more efficient chip architecture means you don't need to clock as fast to get the same results
Atb
Dale

[Aharon]

Your package looks good but get 16 GB ram and 4 or 6 GB dedicated video ram.

You might want to go for 1 TB 7,200 rpm if you are using fancy ground textures.

Regards,

Aharon

[Vc Ten]

Yeah 1 or 2 Tb drive for the sim and as is always recommended, a separate ssd drive for windows. Make it at least 120Gb I have a 64gig ssd for windows 7, and when first installed, took up about 17gig I now struggle to stop it from growing nearer 50gig
Atb
Dale

[robbie]

I have decided to take the plunge also, I'm having a new system built, I've decided to keep my GTX970 rather than going for the 1080, if it doesn't work out I can always upgrade later.

Processor: Intel i7 7700K Quad Core overclocked up to 4.8 GHz
Motherboard: ASUS ROG Maximus IX Hero
Memory: G.SKILL Ripjaws V F4 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4 - 3000 MHz
Primary Hard Drive: ADATA Ultimate SU800 512GB 3D NAND SSD Drive
Secondary Hard Drive: Western Digital Hard Drive 2 Terabytes Black
Video Card: Nvidia GTX 1080 8GB
Audio Card: 7.1 Integrated Surround Sound
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNova 1000W Power Supply.

Any other suggestions guys before I go ahead with the build?

Robbie