All - This is targeted to X-Plane 12, forget that, listen to his explanation on how the hardware is supposed to work. MSFS has some relationship to what he says, but, your internet speed/connection/server you are connected too, and possibly your local cache, might have as big an impact. YES, MSFS is different, too much internet interrelationship, but the hardware needs and does process all that data, so it’s important as well. I have not found a comparable video showing best MSFS hardware specs and truth have not looked. This one helps me parallel both sims for potential upgrading of my hardware down the road. Realize, the ship is moving all the time, Nvidia has not announced the rumored 4000 cards yet, if even that is the series number planned, but not this year, but next year something new, higher powered processors from AMD and Intel to be sure.
When MSFS released, I personally got the highest end gaming laptop I could afford at the time, because I knew, their “recommended specs” were not going to hold up for long, sure enough, think in SU3, some Nvidia 700/10 series cards were just invalidated for use in the game. And more powerful rigs for most part seem to not experience bugs or crashes as bad as medium to lower power systems do, exceptions exist presently. I have not experienced the many CTD/Downloading/installation issues other have, but experience has not been trouble free either.
So if in market for more PC, buy as close to top of line specs for your budget as you can afford. Especially watch his segment on DDR-4 versus DDR-5 memory, yes, again, correct, prices will come down as 5 comes more into marketplace but, is that 1 month or 36 months, based on costs.
If you are PC maker, at 2.5x higher prices for 5 versus 4, that makes a huge difference depending on my target audience, sure high end gamer rig, are targeting different folks than other users, especially if competitive gamer, that will make difference in that arena. Unless overwhelming reason DDR-4 should be good out 2-4 years from NOW. Stuff changes, so if you got the coin, have at it.
