November 16, 201411 yr Commercial Member I spent certainly 800 to 900 dollars on addons, and that doesn't hurt at all. It hurts a lot when I think how many weeks/months I spent tweaking this damn thing, and I just don't want to know how many exact days of my life I've lost in FSX, tweaking or flying, or trying to fly. Better to spent that tweaking time to learn something useful, I would be nuclear physicist by now. Current system: ASUS PRIME Z690-P D4, Intel 12900k, 32GB RAM @ 3600mhz, Zotac RTX 3090 Trinity, M2 SSD, Oculus Quest 2.
November 17, 201411 yr Oh my , now my head hurts just thinking about it. But here it goes , i spend much of my time upgrading an selling some part before it gets to old. I have 3 computers in my home, 2 have fsx install. When i used the new upgrade for about 5 months i then consider selling the GPU an purchasing a new one or build a next rig. On add on i have spend over 1,000 or even more, computer upgrades 3,000. An with this new rig i am building i don't even want to think about the total price. Lets just say i like this hobby so much that i love testing an building a new rig each year for FSX an other purposes. Now with intel i7 5960x an 16GB DDR4-2133 i would say this rig cost would be 2,400 dollars. I hope this rig will at lease last me over a year or two then consider an upgrade in the future . I know is pretty crazy to upgrade all the time but i enjoy it very much. I like to custom building computer for a hobby an i also enjoy fsx as a hobby too. Mr Leny CPU I7 8700K @ 5.0GHz , MOBO -Asus Maximus X Hero (WiFi AC),GPU - GTX1080 TI , RAM - CORSAIR Vengeance RGB 16GB DDR4 3600MHz SSD -Crucial MX500 1TB (P3D Install Only)OS- Samsung 960 EVO 500GB (Window 10 Pro 64)
November 17, 201411 yr I probably spent more in the past year than I have in the previous ten since so many great products hit the market last year, but my rate of spending is much lower now than it was when I started this hobby back in the late '90s and was a compulsive buyer of add-ons and controllers. These days I only buy something if it gets stellar reviews and I know I'll be taking it for more than a couple spins. My employer pays for my computers so I've not had to buy hardware other than graphics cards (but that means I have to settle for an adequate but suboptimal FSX platform) so I'm fortunate in that regard. Richard P. Kelly
November 17, 201411 yr $1900 computer. FSX ActiveSkyX GSXEvery Orbx airport in Australia. Orbx Queenstown & Milford Sound & a few in the UK FTX AU, EU, NZ, NA. FTX Global. PMDG 747X PMDG MD11 PMDG JS4100 PMDG 737NGX PMDG 737-600/700 PMDG 777-200LR PMDG 777-300ER Majestic DH8D Leonardo MD80 Realair Lancair Legacy Realair Beechcraft Duke Turbine A2A C172 A2A P28A Flight1 Super King Air Flight1 Britten Norman Islander Lots of Aerosoft Scenery, including Amsterdam, Paris, Venice, Munich Lots of FSDT Scenery including Zurich, Dallas Ft Worth, Los Angeles, Kennedy, Chicago O'Hare. Lots of FlyTampa scenery including Vienna, Boston, Geneva Lots of UK2000 scenery including Heathrow, Gatwick, London City, Manchester, Belfast City... Other scenery from other producers including payware covering Mumbai, Kansai/Osaka, Adelaide, Sao Paulo and Rio Di Janaero, San Fransisco, and probably plenty I'm forgetting. = $$$$$ Trent Hopkinson, 2015 Crewmember of www.mangrove.com.au WorldFlight sim Youtube channel www.youtube.com/user/musicalaviator
November 17, 201411 yr I’ve been simming for only 1 year, and I had some money put aside for it: £1100 Quad Core Overclocked PC £120 Three reconditioned monitors £700 Saitek Yoke, Pedals, Throttle, Panels etc £30 iPad apps £2000? Software –Just a guess …. Total: around £4000 – now I understand why I get twitchy when I get some unexpected PC or FSX error … - Paul Elliott http://www.avsim.com/topic/450607-amy-johnson-london-to-australia-attempt/
November 17, 201411 yr Commercial Member Been spending on average $2000US a year since I started in this hobby with FS2002! And to me it has been worth every penning. Great hobby - great community. Intel i9-12900KF, Asus Prime Z690-A MB, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, (3) SK hynix M.2 SSD (2TB ea.), 16TB Seagate HDD, Gigabyte GeForce 5080 RTX, Corsair iCUE H70i AIO Liquid Cooler, UHD/Blu-ray Player/Burner (still have lots of CDs, DVDs!) Windows 10, (hold off for now on Win11), EVGA 1300W PSUNetgear 1Gbps modem & router, (3) 27" 1440 wrap-around displaysFull array of Bravo, Saitek and GoFlight hardware for the cockpit. Varjo and HP VR headsets for mixed reality.
November 17, 201411 yr N, where N is a large number. John Rig: Gigabyte B550 AORUS Master Motherboard, AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT CPU, 32GB DDR4 Ram, Gigabyte RTX 2070 Super Graphics, Samsung Odyssey wide view display (5120 x 1440 pixels) with VSYNC on.
November 17, 201411 yr PC was about $1800-2000 Addons: HTTP 404 Internal Server Error: Checking account could not be found. Peripherals: X52, Saitek yoke, Then My current X55- About $600 David Zambrano, CFII, CPL, IGI I know there's a lot of money in aviation because I put it there.
November 17, 201411 yr Commercial Member Addons: HTTP 404 Internal Server Error: Checking account could not be found. awesome Current system: ASUS PRIME Z690-P D4, Intel 12900k, 32GB RAM @ 3600mhz, Zotac RTX 3090 Trinity, M2 SSD, Oculus Quest 2.
November 17, 201411 yr I am estimating about $3000 in software and hardware, not including my PC build, over the past 3 years. 2 weeks ago I moved to P3D, and have spent 60 on the sim, 30 to upgrade my A2A Cherokee, and 50 on the new A2A 182. Fortunately, about 75% of my FSX investment will be used in P3D. Look forward to blowing the bank again in 2015! Bring it on 3PD's!!!! Aaron Thacker
November 17, 201411 yr Averaging about $1500 USD per year, which is $125 per month. As hobbies go, that doesn't seem too bad... Barry Friedman
November 17, 201411 yr Wow. I'm on my 4th computer. 3rd monitor. 5th mouse. same keyboard though. Have 2 full versions of 3ds max. photoshop cs5. tons of orbx, a2a, fsdt, flightbeam, ut2 ect ect. 12k to 14k. probably. 3ds max and photoshop are pricy but worth it when doing a lot of models and scenery. Ouch now my head hurts. Darn this hobby. I love it.
November 17, 201411 yr Probably somewhere in the neighborhood of $8-9k. That's if were are talking everything. David Graham Google, Network+, Cisco CSE, Cisco Unity Support Specialist, A+, CCNA
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