BEST CPU for Flight Simulators

NaFirinne

I'm looking to build a new PC for my Uncle.


His Current System is Running on an AMD FX 8350, 16GB Ram and a Nvida GTX770


He currently plays FSX - across 3 1920X1080 monitors.


In the new build I plan to setup X-plane 11 as well as fsx and he is probably going to be making the switch over to playing x-plane 11.


I'm not sure what CPU to Base the system on. Is it still better to go Intel for Flight Simulators - such as the intel 9700k or would a new build with a Ryzen 3700 be preferable.

K.O.Kiki

https://www.notebookcheck.net/X-Plane-11-Benchmarks.287550.0.html#toc-cpu-scaling

Seeing as 3*1080p is lower pixel count than 4k (6.2 million pixels vs 8.3), for 60fps at high settings you'd be grand with saving money on CPU & buying the best GPU budget can afford, e.g. a Ryzen 2600 for £119 paired with AMD RX 5700 XT (£380) or Nvidia RTX 2070 Super (£500).
Ryzen 5-3600 (£190) would be good too but it's still got some compatibility issues on cheap motherboards, and X570 boards are expensive/overkill.

Laphroaig52

Maybe you should hold off until there is some updates on Microsoft's new Flight Simulator which is supposedly due next year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReDDgFfWlS4

No tech specs yet but there is a lot of debate and speculation om the FS forums about whether you'll need to update your GPU or your internet connection!

NaFirinne

Laphroaig52 wrote: »

Maybe you should hold off until there is some updates on Microsoft's new Flight Simulator which is supposedly due next year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReDDgFfWlS4

No tech specs yet but there is a lot of debate and speculation om the FS forums about whether you'll need to update your GPU or your internet connection!

I wonder how that is going to work. I presume that Azure AI is going to be like an automatic Ortho process that you'd for x-plane to convert google maps or Bing into scenery.


I'd imagine if you can run it on an Xbox then it's either going to be part of a streaming service or current generation hardware such as a NVIDIA 2070 super(1080ti) should be sufficient.

NaFirinne

This is what I'm thinking at for the moment.

I already have an 800w corsair power supply so don't need that.

It's probably overkill but I want something that will last a while and also be capable of VR at some stage.

Anyone know the best places to buy parts are these days. I have used overclockers.co.uk in the past but find that they are expensive compared to the German shops.

Also I will probably need display port to dvi adapters for the monitors and wondering if passive ones would be sufficient or are active ones needed.


https://de.pcpartpicker.com/user/Slidingback/saved/#view=KnLjpg


AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor €349.00

Gigabyte X570 GAMING X ATX AM4 Motherboard €183.89

Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory €180.89

Samsung 970 Evo 1 TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive €198.90

MSI GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB VENTUS OC Video Card €529.90

be quiet! Silent Base 600 ATX Mid Tower Case €109.90

Total: €1552.48

K.O.Kiki

German shops pay less VAT than UK.
Also be aware many German shops don't ship to Ireland.

The 970 Evo is overkill for a gaming machine - plenty of cheaper drives will do just fine.

Nibs05

FSX runs out of memory if it goes over 8gb ram, it crashes because it’s 32bit programming. IPC is still important either in Xplane11 or Prepared3D (FSX 64bit jazzed up)
I’d recommend Intel unless he’s video editing or doing other tasks then Ryzen 3rd gen is good.
Saying that Xplane is moving to Vulcan soon so it could be better with AMD at that point.
SSD has a huge improvement on loading times on flight sim, but not with frame rate.

This guy gives a good idea on Ryzen

https://youtu.be/Ctgkv-4TIzU

I run both sims on a 9700K, 32gb ram, gtx1080, any questions let me know