studentpilotjourney Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Hi all, this is my first post so be gentle haha. So I'm a real life Commercial pilot student looking to build a flight sim to help keep my recency between flights. I'm not a PC wiz but have done a lot of research on the topic. I have landed at a build that I think looks pretty descent. I would really appreciate your help on whether it's suits the purpose and is all compatible etc. Here's what I'm wanting to achieve. 1. This is a dedicated flight sim PC only. Nothing else. I'll probably be using mainly FSX but may go to x-plane if I can work it out. 2. Budget isn't as important as a quality build that's going to last but I'd like to keep it under $3000 so probably no Tytan cards etc. 3. This will be built by Umart in Australia, not myself. 4. Whilst I won't initially OC I'd like to have the option in the future. 5. I want to run 3 x 27inch LED monitors. Ok, so here is my component list: CPU - Intel Core i7 4790K Quad Core LGA 1150 4.0GHz Unlocked - $499 GPU - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980 G1 Gaming 4GB Video Card - $749 MOBO - Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK1 - $345 RAM - Corsair 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 Vengeance Pro Black - $189 SSD - Kingston 120G HyperX SSD SATA 3 - $95 HDD - Western Digital Black 1 TB - $99 Power - CoolerMaster 1000W Silent Pro Platinum - $249 Cooling - Cooler Master Seidon 120V Plus CPU Water Cooler - $75 Optical - Asus DRW-24D3ST SATA 24X DVD-RW Black - $23 Case - CoolerMaster RC-942-KKN1 HAF X 942 Black - $225 OS - Microsoft Windows 7 Pro 64bit OEM - $189 Thanks in advance for your opinions / assistance. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnost Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Looks to me like pretty much state of the current art in computer hardware available to us mortals. Cannot make further recommendations except to suggest a full size tower case with plenty of fans. You can get quieter bearing fans for a few extra dollars. Good luck - and let us know how it works out. CPU I7-960 @ 3.8 Ghz, Asetek Water Cooler Asus P6T X58 MB, 6Gb RAM Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600Mhz EVGA nVidia GTX 570, 1.28Gb DDR5 RAM 1 Tb SATA II HD, Kingston 128Gb SSD (FSX only) Apevia 800W PS, Win 7 64-bit Acceleration OrbxFTX Global BASE, OrbxFTX Global Vector, OrbxFTX open LCEurope, FS Genesis World Mesh, DX10 Fixer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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