Hello everybody,

 

this is my first post and I am not a native speaker, so please be kind :-)

 

I am planning to build up a gaming rig after years. One of the things, besides other games, I wanted to play is FSX (have a Gold Edition somewhere), now I learned that P3D is a better starting point if I start from scratch.

As I am no finalizing my PC config (appr. 1000€/$), I have some questions regarding P3D:

 

- GPU: In FSX times the advice was: Go for Nvidia, AMD/ATI was a no-go. Is this still true? (I somehow prefere the G9 390 8GB, but would change to a GTX970 if P3D would not run on it)

 

-CPU: My original plan was to get a Xeon E3-1231v3 to save some money. No I am reading that an OC-i7 would be so much better as FSX/P3D is always maxing out one core. Is this still true in P3Dv3? And would the performance surplus justify the additonal 250 bucks for a 4790k+z-mobo? I know this is a though question, but how much is the difference? How can I imagine the difference (e.g. FHDvs4k)?

 

Thanks and greetings from Germany,

Jan

 

PS: I am really looking forward to fly again.

The rest of the rig should work fine, I hope (ssd, 16gb RAM,...)

 

 

Hi Jan,

Try and get an overclocked CPU, the faster that runs the better for P3D.

Nvidia are still the best for flightsims.

 

With a 4k montior you will need a good GPU 980Ti so I would go for a 1080 and then you can have a cheaper card. 970 is fine for 1080.

 

That's the very basic's.