Hi all,
Well I was REALLY close to buying a new computer but the one I wanted…on sale last night, sold out now.
So continuing to shop around, I found this one on Newegg’s website. Please let me know your thoughts on this.
CPU Type: Ryzen 3
CPU Speed: 3.6GHz
Graphics GPU/VGA Type: AMD Radeon RX 580
Memory Capacity: 16GB DDR4
Storage - SSD/500GB
My budget is approximately $500-$600.
Generally speaking when looking at graphics cards that are better, I assume the higher they are, the better?? In other words, minimum requirements for Flight Simulator are:
Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 770 | AMD Radeon RX 570
Recommended: Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 970 | AMD Radeon RX 590
I assume that performance from an AMD Radeon RX570 to RX590.
Please feel free to suggest other options. I’m not looking for anything extravagant and over the top, just something that runs nice and smooth with the new flight simulator. Thanks!
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Hello TrimericOdin622, and welcome aboard!
I’ve moved your post to the appropriate category, and given it it’s own title.
I would expect you will get a good response here!
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Woops! My apologies. Thank you!
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Personally I would never buy anything from Newegg. But that’s just me
**correction: not requirements, but what it has, do you think that’s a good fit?
Thets a pretty low end system. You won’t get good performance. For your budget range you’d be better off with a Xbox series X.
No, sorry to say it’s not good enough. That would give you very limited performance likely worse than Xbox S. it’s not really enough of anything.
PC’s are pretty expensive these days so I’d think you need to double your budget as a starting point. At least.
This is just marketing talk. There is no way even that would handle anything approaching decent performance and settings. I guess they forgot to update it!
Ive played on an xbox series s, you could try getting that until you save up for a better pc. Thats what I did.
Maybe check out the HP victus line. I’d suggest an I5 12th gen with a Nvidia RTX 3050 might get you close to the $600 range but probably closer to $700. That would get you something decent to run on medium settings. Go to the HP store and do some searching and customize. They had some pretty good deals over the holidays. I have a HP pavilion gaming laptop for the past 3 years. It has an i5 9th gen and GTX 1650. I’ve been pretty happy with it and it looks pretty decent. Got it on a Black Friday deal for $450. It’s low end by today’s standards but you can get a looking pretty good. Recently bought the Xbox Series X and I love it. 4K and runs smoothly. Was on sale for $349. PCs are going to start you at a low of $650. For something decent over a grand.
No no, get the series X. They’re on sale now at Walmart and Amazon for $349. Don’t waste your time on the S. The X is 10 times better.
Lol, just depends on how much you want to spend on a temporary system, both are more than adequate.
Well, if you live in the Midwest/Great Lakes area, you can buy my old system. 
with that budget don’t get a PC. Get an Xbox X, the sim runs well enough on it.
I hate to say this, but my graphics card alone cost more than twice that, and I still have issues getting smooth high-fidelity gameplay with some aircraft is some locations.
This sim is VERY demanding. With your budget I’m going to join the folks who are suggesting an Xbox X (not S)
I have to agree with the others posting above that your $600 budget is insufficient. I did a quick parts list on pcpartpicker.com with an i5-12600 cpu and RTX3060 GPU and the total adds up to about $1400 (before tax). And this doesn’t include any monitor or flight controls which is at least another $1000. So perhaps the Xbox is a good solution at that pricepoint.
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/RML6N6
Wow! Thank you so much for taking the time and finding this for me. I really appreciate it!
No problem. Good price. I think it would be a good starter gaming PC for you. Flight sim should run fine at medium to high settings. It’s upgradable. Might want to throw another 8 GB RAM in there. Good luck.
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It depends on what you expect.
If you are obsessed with low level VFR and detailed views over a city prices get very expensive.
But if you want to master IFR in the dark, through clouds, real ATC clearance, flight planning and poor weather you won’t look out the window much.
Then you need popped out windows to fly properly.
I use an old Xeon server from work (free) and a 2nd hand GTX1080TI, plus extra memory up to 20GB.
I get 28fps with PFD, ND, EICAS and ECAM popped out.
I think a 15.6in HD screen with the fixed popped out instruments are mission critical because thats what real pilots see.