Kt1578 Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 This is related to my last post. Is this a suitable build to run FSX smoothly? I used the Custom PC Builder site to construct this list. CPU: Intel I7 8700K Motherboard: Asus Z370 ROG Maximum X Hero ATX Motherboard RAM: Corsair Vengeance 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 3000MHZ CL15 Black - Red LED Storage Device: Samsung EVO 850 2TB 2.5†Solid State Drive, 5 Year Warranty -MZ-75E2T0BW External Storage: 500GB Samsung T3 Portable SSD USB 3.1 Type-C 450Mb/S Case: Corsair Obsidian 750D High-Airflow Edition - Windowed Full Tower Case Case Accessories: •NZXT Hue+ RGB LED Case Lighting Kit - AC-HUEPS-M1 •NZXT Hue+ Extension Kit •Thermaltake RiiNG Plus 12 LED RGB Radiator Fan TT Premium Edition (3 Fan Pack + Controller) Power Supply: Corsair HX-1000i 80+ Platinum Certified Power Supply, Fully Modular, 7 Year Warranty Optical Drive: LG Super Multi Portable 8x External USB 2.0 DVD Re-Writer - GP60NB50 CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 Multi Socket PWM High Performance CPU Cooler Monitor: LG 27'' 4K UHD FreeSync IPS LED LCD Gaming Monitor Network Adapter: TP-Link Archer T9E AC1900 Dual-Band Wireless PCIe Adapter Graphics Card: MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X TRIO Graphics Card Keyboard: Kingston HyperX Alloy FPS Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Speaker: Creative Sound BlasterX Katana 2.1 Speaker RGB Soundbar System Mouse: Logitech G903 Lightspeed Wireless Optical Gaming Mouse Sound Card: Creative Soundblaster Audigy RX PCI Express Sound Card I can buy the parts of other sites and stuff, but the site I am using says its currently costing $6987. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jorgen.s.andersen Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 The 8700 is overkill, as FSX will never use 6 cores. A 7700K will be more than enough. Jorgen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jorgen.s.andersen Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 I'm sorry that this comes in instalments, but why do you want 32 GB of RAM? Will your OS be able to utilise that? FSX only uses up to 4 GB, and cannot use more than that due to its 32-bit architecture. Usually, Asus motherboards also come with sound on board, so why a separate sound card? But I will say that those specs are impressive! Jorgen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amberdog1 Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 Overkill... 1 bad a$$ :eek: rig. There won't be much you can't do with it! Happy :pilot: Flyin... AD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRJ_simpilot Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 Yeah, that's waaaay overkill. You could build a decent system for way less. Maybe around $1,200. Note that the Kabylake and Coffelake CPUs require Winblows 10. I'd rather use 7 myself for the Sim. OOM errors? Read this. What the squawk? An awesome weather website with oodles of Info. and options. Wile E. Coyote would be impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rcca Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 Since W10 did it's major change, my fps almost doubled, example, before 40fps, now 70fps. Glad I did not spend thousands of $$$, got about $1500.00 us. My rig, CyberPower, I bought it right off the counter as a demo desktop, Fry's gave 50.00 from being a demo, then upgraded GPU, and so on, love my rig. CyberPowerPC Desktop Gamer Xtreme Liquid cool GLC3200F Intel i7-4790k 4.0 CPU Z97,NEW-GPU Gigabyte OC GTX1060 6GB ,128GB SSD W10 Home 64-Bit 1TB SATA III- SSD 850 EVO 500GB for FSX only,Force Feedback 2 joystick] Notebook MSI GP62MVR 7RFX i7 7700HQ 2.8/3.8 turbo- 16gb Memory-GPU GTX 1060 6 GB Memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrUnSavory Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 Nothing wrong with the rig. The flaw in the plan is using FSX. At Least get P3DV4 if you want to stick with the FSX family. Or maybe X-Plane if you want to start over but please do not waste that rig on FSX. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jorgen.s.andersen Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 Go with Windows 10. End of story. And there's nothing wrong either with running FSX on that rig, and it will be P3D-ready. Jorgen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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