This is a very interesting topic. I have been tempted to spend a huge amount to upgrade to the "latest and greatest". I currently run P3D on a gaming laptop....Nvidia GTX 860m card, Intel i7-4710HQ CPU. Windows 10 Anniversary.

1) I have never experienced an "OOM" condition..

2) I use all the latest addons, AS16, AS Cloud Art, FTX Global, HD Trees.

3) I set my sliders to mid or normal position...

4) I always have a solid 20fps on the ground to 30fps when in cruise which is very fluid for me.

 

I think I will hold back after reading the issues experienced within this forum with high end rigs.

 

I understand the problems become evident when simmers push their high end rigs to the limit beyond the capabilities of the current platform.

 

Having "humble" equipment leads to more satisfying flying since we don't over exert our systems therefore keeping us within the boundaries of the P3D platform..

 

 

Just a thought.

 

Regards to all.

The big question, with any new hardware, are you happy with a smooth flight smooth turn with little compromise and use 30 FPS ? Or you want to chase FPS, because  for that there is no enough hardware because the program itself too old for that. So just to spend tons of money on a top end hardware just for FSX its .......Of course if you happy with a 20 or 30 FPS and smooth flight experience with smooth turns as well, you need to make some compromise. Dont go after some youtubers whos video has more post production than a Star Wars Movie  

 

I have 6800K 16GB ram 1070GTX and SSDs. Im using FSX-SE on a dedicated SSD, using Stevie"s DXD10 Fixer with NGX i have 30FPS on a normal airport with very heavy addon airport 25-29.

In the air i have 30FPS VC and 30 Outside fixed. Flight smooth even with a bad weather, but this is the maximum from that engine and with my hardware without doing too much compromise with quality. 

 

So if your goal is something like this, you can achieve with any I7 from the past two year, a good vga and ssd. the rest are placebo

I think we can all come to terms for the present that a super beast of a machine will not yield that much performance gain. But I will be upgrading from my ol 2500k just to get better stability, and smoothness/consistency. Its really more about upgrading for future, because eventually, these sims will have to make better use of multi cores more effeciently instead of relying so much on the single core bottleneck.  XP11 might do this in some ways, P3D would be stupid not to some how incorporate it in the next v4 build with its 64bit component, and DTGFS promised a focus on performance, so better use of todays power would also be a smart investment for them as well.

 

Its pretty crazy that us simmers have some of the most powerful computers in the gaming markets, yet we struggle alot. Sooner than later, this all has to be surmounted, perhaps not in leaps and bounds, but making better inroads than currently.

Because , all the addons are pushing the limits, and the foundation of a sim has to keep up or we will be forever in this loop.

 

I think good advice is to be smart about upgrades. Check your CPU and GPU hierarchy charts. Upgrades from a previous generation wont give that much boost but 3 generations away will overall in applications and what not.

My 2cents worth.