August 17, 20178 yr In the latest edition of PC Pilot there is an article by Jessica Bannister-Pearce describes her new custom-built PC. She describes the current state of her four-year-old flight Sim computer and the upgrade process she has recently followed. It's a reassuring article and what I like most is that she is not afraid to say that she upgraded it to a SECONDHAND 980 video card (or was it 960 - I'm away from the article now) and seemed delighted with the results so far! Not all of us can afford to spend £2,000 plus on new machines with the latest video cards and I wanted to thank Jess for the insight. What would be useful Jess (if you're reading this) is if you could give an outline of roughly how much the original system was (four years ago) and how much this upgrade cost. The point is those of us looking for a new flight Sim system over the next few months can have an idea of what to buy now and then have a idea of what to plan for over the next four years! Great article thanks. UK P3DV5 and Xplane 11 SimmerPilotEdge I11, CAT11, A-Z (ZLA), A-Z (WUS) System details: Gigabyte P57v7 CF2 17.3" laptop. Kaby Lake i7 7700HQ CPU (averaging 3.4mhz). NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8mb (laptop version), 16 GB of DDR4-2400 RAM, SSD - Samsung 970 Evo 500GB M.2 NVMe, 1TB HDD 7200.
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