Planespotterpro Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 Hello, I have been planing to build a new pc for a time now that i will play Prepar3D and FSX on. I don't wanna put to much money into it so I wonder if this pc build would work on realtivley high settings without any lag? http://www.inet.se/kundvagn/visa/9121911/2016-02-06http://www.inet.se/files/img/tiny/forum-divider.pnghttp://www.inet.se/kundvagn/bild/9121911/2016-02-06 Please tell me what I should change or if it's to bad. I have a budget of around 600 USD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amberdog1 Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 your setup should do fine, tho I would get a larger power supply, 450W is light for this rig. I would consider 600/750w if possible. I have a HP laptop with a i3 core @ 1.9ghz, 6gb ram, 750gb hard drive. Built in intel HD graphics @ 1gb with an additional 1gb using the ram. Works very well at 20fps in FSX. I don't yet have Prepar3D as I can't yet afford it. Is this rig going to be for the flight sims only? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSkorna Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 That CPU is going to be a bottleneck for that video card. http://www.air-source.us/images/sigs/000219_195_jimskorna.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 That CPU is going to be a bottleneck for that video card. Yes & no. It's not optimal by any means but should be adequate. Raw CPU speed is what really makes a difference in FSX performance. I usually recommend 4GHZ but many people are happy with their performance with less CPU speed than his 3.8. I'm much more concerned about that 450w PSU. Even if it doesn't appear to have a problem right away, there will probably be serious issues keeping good voltage on the motherboard with only 450watts. Low voltage equals high heat in everything attached to the motherboard. And high heat equals short service life on everything that gets too hot. Being an old chopper guy I usually fly low and slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jorgen.s.andersen Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 When I was back in the Philippines I ran FSX on a 3.3 GHz i3 with 8 GB of DDR3 RAM under Windows 8 and 8.1 and got reasonably good performance. But I had 3 hard drives, one for the OS, one for my photoscenery and one for the rest of FSX. Jorgen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
judeb Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 If at possible, get an i7 4790K processor, that's the standard machine build right there,the graphics should really be a GTX970 with 4GB RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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