I have been searching the internet/forums/reddit for pc builds for fs20 but the best responses I find are from September where people say wait until new components come out.
I have never built a pc but it looks pretty straightforward from youtube videos. My problem is figuring out the components to buy, commenters make it sound like it’s easy but as someone who doesn’t know the difference between a cpu and a gpu, I am feeling overwhelmed. I was wondering if anybody here was willing to help me build a pc capable of playing fs20 on a budget. I’m not concerned about ultra graphics, I want the game to play so I can work on flight training. I plan to use VATSIM to help with my communications as well.
My goal is to get the realsimgear g1000 and the honeycomb yoke and then some pedals. Is this doable with a $1,000 build?
$1,000 just for the PC. I have peripherals including a 23” monitor, not a gaming monitor or anything. I would probably plug into my 55” TV also if that makes any difference.
$1,200 is doable IF it is worth that extra $200, which is different to everybody. I don’t know anything about computer parts so I need to take your word, if that makes sense. In total I will be spending a lot so I’m looking for places to save.
Thanks! I looked at a few completed builds. I searched for flight simulator and found a couple people who built their pc with fs in mind, which is great but I still don’t really know how it all comes together.
Which is why I brought it up here, since MSFS benefits a lot from single core performance (the main thread), and depending on the targeted resolution it might not be the same for MSFS as for other games (at 1440P you might get more out of the 5600X than you might get from the upgrade to a 3000 series GPU). For general gaming I would totally agree though.
So the 5600x would save me some money and its sounds like I wont have a performance hit since I’m not going 4k, is that right? Can I just swap that gpu and everything is still compatible?
Depends on what you’re comparing the 5600X against (it’s a CPU btw). If it’s against the 5800X or 5900X, then yes, I would suggest going with the 5600X for sure. The extra cores you get on the 5800X or 5900X will not be leveraged by MSFS at all. Those will only bring you extra performance in productivity workloads like rendering or video editing. The 5600X is the update to the 3600 CPU that’s currently listed in that pcpartpicker list posted above.
Don’t confuse the 5000 series CPU’s (Ryzen) with the 5000 series GPU’s (Radeon). AMD should really have made bigger differences between GPU and CPU naming schemes. It can get rather confusing if you only look at the numbers
GPU wise; the 3000 series from NVidia are mostly beneficial at 4K resolutions. Just check availability though. They are pretty hard to get your hands on. Some older 2000 series cards are still pretty expensive. So it might be worth wile to wait for availability on the newer cards: Don’t spend almost as much or even more on a 2000 series GPU as you would spend on a 3000 series card if they were available.
iJ0HNwall, dumb question here: Is your budget meant to include the yoke, pedals, and G1000 you mentioned? What about the flight sim itself? You said that “peripherals” were covered but that seemed to refer to the monitor/tv you already had.
