After about a 4 year lay off form flight simming I'm returning to the fold.

My computer is about 9 years old and showing its age, Upon running FSX and Prepar3D I am getting program crashes with some planes, its not a new install of either program as I never uninstalled them.

I'm now thinking of getting a new computer, my budget is between £1000 - 1300 (i'm in the UK), the budget is for the computer as I will use my existing monitor,keyboard and mouse (will buy 2 new monitors later).

I'm not up to speed with the latest specs but must be able to run FSX and Prepar3D really well. I'm looking at a UK sourced pre  built or maybe custom built. What would others recoomed please?

I will only be running FSX or Prepar3D, undecided which at the moment.

You are going to get all kinds of answers. 

My suggestion would be to build it yourself. Before you say that you don't know enough about computers to do that, consider that you already know more than you might think. Sure, you need to get the right parts, but it isn't really "rocket science".  There are three main advantages.

1. You'll be able to get better parts and just the parts you need. You'll supply your own labor.

2. You'll know more about how computers work so that when something goes wrong you might have a chance at fixing it yourself.

3. the OS you install won't have all the extra stuff a commercial box will have. 

Don't worry about top of the line parts. They are outside your budget. The more ram, the better. Solid state hard drive. The best cpu and gpu in your budget.

Just some ideas.

This was recommended to somebody on here the other week, in the UK with the same budget

https://www.cclonline.com/pc/gaming-pcs/battlebox/ccl-battlebox-essence-gaming-pc/

Add a HDD for storage, and a better cooler, and thats as good as you will get for the money