tecto Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Hello everyone, I’m going to built a workstation to fly with FSX or P3D (not decided yet). I have quite big doubts what should I choose. Currently I’m interested in the following components: CPU: Intel Core i5-7400 Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170-HD3 (Socket 1151) RAM Memory: GOODRAM PLAY Red 16GB [2x8GB 2133MHz DDR4 CL15 DIMM] Graphics Card: Gigabyte GTX 1060 Mini ITX OC 6GB DDR5 I’m interested also in following addons: FS Global 2010, FTX Global & Regions, FTX Trees HD, PMDG 737, REX 4 Texture Direct With Soft Clouds, ORBX regions and few more. My goal is to make it as real as possible and as smooth as possible (at least 30-40 FPS). Do you think that hardware will able to handle that on 1920x1080x32 resolution with all settings/sliders on MAX? Will be the difference between FSX and P3D in the performance? Currently I don’t know, which to buy. Please help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 No! According to what I read on the Intel site your i5 has a max turbo speed of 3Ghz. 3Ghz will run fairly well, but even a 4Ghz chip has trouble running at near max settings. As to FSX versus P3D, there are lots of fans of each so you can have forty answers and in the end you'd probably have responses pretty equal for each. I have each but prefer FSX. Speed wise, again it's your pick and your choice, I've seen lots of claims in favor of each. But frankly no matter how hard I try, I can find no real speed winner either. I haven't even put most of my addon software onto P3D because I don't much like it. Others say that exact same about FSX. To each there own! :cool: Having said that, I just backed out and looked at forum viewer numbers of FSX and P3D. As of about a minute ago 236 people were viewing this FSX forum and 14 were viewing the P3D forum. That's a 16 to 1 ratio which tells me FSX is at least 15X more popular than P3D. I've tracked these numbers day in and day out for months. And I've found any trend it's that P3D now has less viewers than it did when I first started checking. Also be aware that P3D, according to their own site is software for "training," and not "gaming" software at all. Unless someone is actually using it to flight train rather than play a sim game, they're probably using P3D illegally. Being an old chopper guy I usually fly low and slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrzippy Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Ditto to what I said on the "other" site! Your Sim feels the need.....the need for speed!;) Still thinking about a new flightsim only computer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lnuss Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 That's a 16 to 1 ratio which tells me FSX is at least 15X more popular than P3D. Or that there are 15X more people having problems with FSX. Forum posts tend to be problem related, and you can't judge popularity by the number of people on the forums, alone. However I'll grant you that there are lots more folks running FSX, but many of us find that P3D gives better overall performance on the same hardware (it makes much better use of the graphics card), and adds desirable features such as cloud shadows and volumetric clouds, plus a lot of other stuff (see the P3D web site). As to FSX versus P3D, there are lots of fans of each so you can have forty answers and in the end you'd probably have responses pretty equal for each. I have each but prefer FSX. I fully agree with your first sentence, and I'll say, "I have each but prefer P3D." which will balance us out. Nels has, of course, asked that we not discuss the licensing so I'll pass on that aspect. But to the OP's original question, I'm not sure there is any PC, even today, that can handle FSX with everything maxed when you get around large cities. Some recent systems might handle max when out in the country, though. Larry N. As Skylab would say: Remember: Aviation is NOT an exact Science! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 But to the OP's original question, I'm not sure there is any PC, even today, that can handle FSX with everything maxed when you get around large cities. Some recent systems might handle max when out in the country, though. Larry, you're exactly right on that statement!! :cool: And sadly, the more good stuff we find to add on, the more correct it is!!;) As to the P3D license issue, I believe it's something a newbie should be aware of before the cash is spent. Frankly, I never thought about it then.:o:o Being an old chopper guy I usually fly low and slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Having said that, I just backed out and looked at forum viewer numbers of FSX and P3D. As of about a minute ago 236 people were viewing this FSX forum and 14 were viewing the P3D forum. That's a 16 to 1 ratio which tells me FSX is at least 15X more popular than P3D. I've tracked these numbers day in and day out for months. And I've found any trend it's that P3D now has less viewers than it did when I first started checking. The major flaw in this reasoning is assuming this site is an accurate representation of the entire flight sim community. For example, the P3D and X-Plane forums aren't as busy here as many of those users go elsewhere, such as the official Lockheed P3D forums. I do agree that FSX is probably still the most popular sim, but I wouldn't base that on forum posts from any specific forums. As for the OP, if you want a consistent 30-40 FPS with those add-ons, you should be looking at the i7 7700K. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jorgen.s.andersen Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Plus the OP should look into 2400 MHz DDR4 RAM. Jorgen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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