Can my PC run P3D?

I am a newbie to flight simming; I am considering buying Prepar3D and OrbX England + the A2A C172SP to go with it.

I built my PC in September 2016 and it cost me around £500.

Here are the most important (I would think) specs:

CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 860K 3.7 GHz

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A78M-HD2

Graphics Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 Superclocked - 3 GB VRAM, 1280 MHz core clock

RAM: 2 x 8 GB (16GB) Kingston HyperX Fury 1600 MHz DDR3 DRAM 240-pin

PSU: EVGA 500W 80+

I have heard that P3D is very reliant on the CPU. I would like to avoid swapping this out as much as I can, as it would mean changing the motherboard as well to get a decent Intel CPU. I also find working with parts to be very tedious.

Regards,

Patrick

It should work alright. All Sims are largely CPU dependent. Whether that be FSX, FS2004 or P3D. Typically, you want Intel. CPU speed has a factor, but so does architecture.

In FS, you should get a MOBO, RAM and CPU that supports overclocking. That way you can get as much power out of the CPU as possible.