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Video: New Flight SIM PC Build for my Dad

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8 hours ago, jcrider said:

Dad

Much appreciated and yes, a humble gesture. As @DAD 🙂 and for dads. Mine isn’t into gaming but I still help him configuring his IT especially after he broke it. Needless to say that he never touched anything. Just „tried some things“ he read somewhere 😬

Phil Leaven

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JCRider, That's a very touching gesture on your part and I applaud you. I'm almost 80 years old and last Nov. instead of building  a PC for  me, I built one for my son, who's  28y/o. I feel blessed that I still have the faculties and hand coordination to do so. BTW, I had built one for me a year earlier..Anyway, great job and it's obvious your dad is most appreciative. Best to you and yours..

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10 hours ago, jcrider said:

the new PC I've built for my Dad

poor mother, did she get at least an  x-box?

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AMD 7800X3D, Windows 11, Gigabyte X670 AORUS Elite AX Motherboard, 64GB DDR5 G.SKILL Trident Z5 NEO RGB (AMD Expo), RTX 4090,  Samsung 980 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD 2 TB PCIe 4.0, Samsung 980 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD 1 TB PCIe 4.0, 4K resolution 50" TV @60Hz, VR: Pimax Crystal Light + HP Reverb G2 @ 90 Hz, Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant, be quiet 1000W PSU, Noctua NH-U12S chromax.black air cooler.

60-130 fps. no CPU overclocking.

very nice.

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12 hours ago, sonny147 said:

well done young man , maybe dad doesnt know what your talking about regrding the the PC spec but hat doesnt matter really nice thing to do for for old man iam touched !

Thank you sonny147, it is really appreciated 🙂

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9 hours ago, Mace said:

Yes..yes..I like what you've done here (as an old college prof once said)

13600K + 4070ti -- that's a good landing spot, you are not spending $$$ for excess cores and you're getting into Frame Generation with the 4070ti.

Thanks Mace 🙂

I am delighted with the combination of the components and how the build has gone. The resulting experience with Microsoft Flight Simulator is exactly what I wanted to achieve for my Dad.  I'm looking forward to getting a VR headset for him and will post a video of this once we have it (in the near future).

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9 hours ago, DAD said:

Much appreciated and yes, a humble gesture. As @DAD 🙂 and for dads. Mine isn’t into gaming but I still help him configuring his IT especially after he broke it. Needless to say that he never touched anything. Just „tried some things“ he read somewhere 😬

🙂 thanks @DAD it's much appreciated. Given the video it probably goes without saying, but flight sim's are the only 'gaming' my Dad is interested in.

However, his old PC was a huge restriction where he was just about getting by with FSX.

This is leaps and bounds ahead!

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12 hours ago, Simtech95382 said:

JCRider, That's a very touching gesture on your part and I applaud you. I'm almost 80 years old and last Nov. instead of building  a PC for  me, I built one for my son, who's  28y/o. I feel blessed that I still have the faculties and hand coordination to do so. BTW, I had built one for me a year earlier..Anyway, great job and it's obvious your dad is most appreciative. Best to you and yours..

Thank you Simtech95382 that means a lot to me! 🙂

I just read out your comment to my wife and we both agree it is extremely impressive you are still building PC's (for yourself and your son)!  The cabling in particular can be awkward to fit.

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12 hours ago, turbomax said:

poor mother, did she get at least an  x-box?

haha that made me laugh. My Mum is delighted as she now has the remote control for the TV back 😂

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