Good Flight Sim Build?

Flight sims are a real specialty use, and have been calling for some strong horespower for the most recent releases. I don't know that much about them, and if I did, I probably would not be real picky about how detailed or far away the images would be. Best recommendation is you look into what the community is saying and why these days. THB, IDK about the CPU power you want, and the newest GPU class is a quantum leap beyond anything. These changes at least give you choices to suit you. For normal gaming, the hybrid Intels are far stronger than before so that an i5 13600KF is a killer deal, but may not be best for flight sims. Likewise you should see what the recommendations are for multi- monitor performance. From what I hear, if it runs MSFS, it'll handle everything else.

We do have a few flight sim folks around here, but they may not show up all that often. Look at some enthusiast sites, and I'm they'll talk your language and be up on the latest performance recommendations. Sorry I don't know more. Good luck.

I bought a new DS rig in 2020 awaiting the release of MS Flight Simulator 2020. I have a 10850 CPU and an Asus Tuff Gaming RTX 3080 along with 32 Gigs of Ram.

Downloaded the game and all I got was constant stutters and crashes. After a couple of days of that, I uninstalled it and re-installed MS FSX.

I don't know if they have fixed it or not, I certainly hope so, but another factor that turned me off was there was no real external cockpit view as in all the previous iterations of MS Flight Sim. There are workarounds I hear, but I don't care for workarounds.

Flight Sims are notoriously hard on a PC. I looked at "Recommended Specs." for the latest MS 2020, and all I will say is that is a joke. You better have something a lot more powerful than that.

Like was mentioned earlier by Cretae, you need to do a lot of reading and see what others setups are and the performance they are getting. Then base your build on that.

Edited by fwfdfireman - 25 Feb 2023 at 1:15pm

Great advice here by all..

I'm an avid flight sim enthusiast running MSFS2020 as well as DCS, Prepar3D and X-Plane 12.

Waiting on delivery of a new Velox X built designed exclusively for sims and VDC modeling on a 49" Ultrawide 3K flanked by dual 24"s. Using Saitek HOTAS and pedals and planning to add VelocityOne Flight UCS shortly before the rig lands.

Things will get exciting in here pretty soon... Stay tuned!