Flight Simulator Spec

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AntRid

Member
Hi All,

I’ve been reading through the forums and I think I have refined a spec for best x-plane11 experience! Could someone please comment on my work. I’ll be getting two 27” 1440px/144Hz to go with this setup. Thank you!

Case
CORSAIR iCUE 5000X RGB MID TOWER GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT Eight Core CPU (4.7GHz/36MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard
ASUS® CROSSHAIR VIII HERO WIFI (DDR4, PCIe 4.0, CrossFireX/SLI) - RGB Ready!
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3600MHz (4 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3060 Ti - HDMI, DP, LHR
1st Storage Drive
1TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 64MB CACHE
1st M.2 SSD Drive
1TB SEAGATE FIRECUDA 530 GEN 4 PCIe NVMe (up to 7300MB/R, 6000MB/W)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
1TB INTEL® 670p M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 3500MB/sR | 2500MB/sW)
Power Supply
CORSAIR 750W RMx SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
Corsair H115i RGB PRO XT Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Card
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Windows 11 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [KUK-00003]
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
 
3qtrsamericano

3qtrsamericano

Bright Spark
No expert (they'll come along shortly) but here's my 2p's worth:

1. Why not the Ryzen 7 5800x?
2. I think the MOBO is overkill.
3. Not sure if the 3060Ti is powerful enough to power 2 monitors?
4. I think you'll be fine with the 500GB Firecuda 530. Don't think you need 1TB.
5. I would up the PSU to 850W to future proof.
 
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AntRid

Member
3qtrsamericano said:
No expert (they'll come along shortly) but here's my 2p's worth:

1. Why not the Ryzen 7 5800x?
2. I think the MOBO is overkill.
3. Not sure if the 3060Ti is powerful enough to power 2 monitors?
4. I think you'll be fine with the 500GB Firecuda 530. Don't think you need 1TB.
5. I would up the PSU to 850W to future proof.
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Thank you for the quick response. I’ve made some tweaks:

Case
CORSAIR iCUE 5000X RGB MID TOWER GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X Eight Core CPU (3.8GHz-4.7GHz/36MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard
ASUS® CROSSHAIR VIII HERO WIFI (DDR4, PCIe 4.0, CrossFireX/SLI) - RGB Ready!
Memory (RAM)
16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3600MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3060 Ti - HDMI, DP, LHR
1st Storage Drive
1TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 64MB CACHE
1st M.2 SSD Drive
500GB SEAGATE FIRECUDA 530 GEN 4 PCIe NVMe (up to 7000MB/R, 3000MB/W)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
1TB INTEL® 670p M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 3500MB/sR | 2500MB/sW)
Power Supply
CORSAIR 850W RMx SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
Corsair H115i RGB PRO XT Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Card
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Windows 11 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [KUK-00003]
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
 
SpyderTracks

SpyderTracks

We love you Ukraine
AntRid said:
Thank you for the quick response. I’ve made some tweaks:

Case
CORSAIR iCUE 5000X RGB MID TOWER GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X Eight Core CPU (3.8GHz-4.7GHz/36MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard
ASUS® CROSSHAIR VIII HERO WIFI (DDR4, PCIe 4.0, CrossFireX/SLI) - RGB Ready!
Memory (RAM)
16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3600MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3060 Ti - HDMI, DP, LHR
1st Storage Drive
1TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 64MB CACHE
1st M.2 SSD Drive
500GB SEAGATE FIRECUDA 530 GEN 4 PCIe NVMe (up to 7000MB/R, 3000MB/W)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
1TB INTEL® 670p M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 3500MB/sR | 2500MB/sW)
Power Supply
CORSAIR 850W RMx SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
Corsair H115i RGB PRO XT Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Card
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Windows 11 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [KUK-00003]
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
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What's your max budget?

When you say 2 monitors, what would the second be used for?
 
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AntRid

Member
SpyderTracks said:
What's your max budget?

When you say 2 monitors, what would the second be used for?
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£2,000ish without the monitors. The second monitor is to extend the flight sim view across to the Co-pilot seat. Was actually considering 3 monitors but the other half put a stop to that.
 
SpyderTracks

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Martinr36 said:
The answer to that is ok dear I'll only buy 1
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That's crazy overpriced for the C49RG which is only 120Hz remember.

You can now pick it up most places for around £700.

It's definitely what I'd recommend without breaking the budget, it's 5120 x 1440 which is 2 1440p screens together but of course without the bezel. Makes flight sims uber immersive.

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If budget wasn't an issue, the the G9 is a better panel with higher brightness and 240Hz, but it's also a lot more expensive at £1100 and flight simming doesn't benefit from high refresh so much:


For the build, I would drop the motherboard to the Strix X590, no need for the one you've specced, up the RAM to 32Gb and add a wifi AX200 card.

I'd also suggest Windows 10 for now, upgrading to 11 is free, but there are still bugs that need to be worked out.
 
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AntRid

Member
SpyderTracks said:
That's crazy overpriced for the C49RG which is only 120Hz remember.

You can now pick it up most places for around £700.

It's definitely what I'd recommend without breaking the budget, it's 5120 x 1440 which is 2 1440p screens together but of course without the bezel. Makes flight sims uber immersive.

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If budget wasn't an issue, the the G9 is a better panel with higher brightness and 240Hz, but it's also a lot more expensive at £1100 and flight simming doesn't benefit from high refresh so much:


For the build, I would drop the motherboard to the Strix X590, no need for the one you've specced, up the RAM to 32Gb and add a wifi AX200 card.

I'd also suggest Windows 10 for now, upgrading to 11 is free, but there are still bugs that need to be worked out.
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Thank you for all your help with this. I think I have made the changes correctly (although I couldn’t find an X590 MOBO on the list - so assumed this was supposed to be an X570).

Question on the monitor side. I’d thought the recommendation here was to ensure the response time is 1ms or less and at least a 144hz refresh rate for a 1440px screen. If I go for the C49RG am I going to notice any issues in the image and is the GPU the right spec for this? I do like the idea of a bezel-less screen.

Case
CORSAIR iCUE 5000X RGB MID TOWER GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X Eight Core CPU (3.8GHz-4.7GHz/36MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard
ASUS® ROG STRIX X570-F GAMING (USB 3.2 Gen 2, PCIe 4.0) - ARGB Ready!
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3600MHz (4 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3060 Ti - HDMI, DP, LHR
1st Storage Drive
1TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 64MB CACHE
1st M.2 SSD Drive
500GB SEAGATE FIRECUDA 530 GEN 4 PCIe NVMe (up to 7000MB/R, 3000MB/W)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
1TB INTEL® 670p M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 3500MB/sR | 2500MB/sW)
Power Supply
CORSAIR 850W RMx SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
Corsair H115i RGB PRO XT Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Card
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT
Wireless Network Card
WIRELESS INTEL® Wi-Fi 6 AX200 2,400Mbps/5GHz, 300Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD + BT 5.0
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [KUK-00001]
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
 
SpyderTracks

SpyderTracks

We love you Ukraine
AntRid said:
Thank you for all your help with this. I think I have made the changes correctly (although I couldn’t find an X590 MOBO on the list - so assumed this was supposed to be an X570).

Question on the monitor side. I’d thought the recommendation here was to ensure the response time is 1ms or less and at least a 144hz refresh rate for a 1440px screen. If I go for the C49RG am I going to notice any issues in the image and is the GPU the right spec for this? I do like the idea of a bezel-less screen.

Case
CORSAIR iCUE 5000X RGB MID TOWER GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X Eight Core CPU (3.8GHz-4.7GHz/36MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard
ASUS® ROG STRIX X570-F GAMING (USB 3.2 Gen 2, PCIe 4.0) - ARGB Ready!
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3600MHz (4 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3060 Ti - HDMI, DP, LHR
1st Storage Drive
1TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 64MB CACHE
1st M.2 SSD Drive
500GB SEAGATE FIRECUDA 530 GEN 4 PCIe NVMe (up to 7000MB/R, 3000MB/W)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
1TB INTEL® 670p M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 3500MB/sR | 2500MB/sW)
Power Supply
CORSAIR 850W RMx SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
Corsair H115i RGB PRO XT Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Card
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT
Wireless Network Card
WIRELESS INTEL® Wi-Fi 6 AX200 2,400Mbps/5GHz, 300Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD + BT 5.0
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [KUK-00001]
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
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If you can post the configuration link we can see if we can optimise the build a bit.

Don't get too hung up on refresh rate and response times, refresh rate doesn't really mean much over 120hz but especially for flight sums, response yes stated are basically meaningless, you have to look at 3rd party reviews for real figures.
 
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AntRid

Member
SpyderTracks said:
If you can post the configuration link we can see if we can optimise the build a bit.

Don't get too hung up on refresh rate and response times, refresh rate doesn't really mean much over 120hz but especially for flight sums, response yes stated are basically meaningless, you have to look at 3rd party reviews for real figures.
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Thanks - here’s the link

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3qtrsamericano

3qtrsamericano

Bright Spark
If it helps, my spec is pretty close to yours and I'm using a AOC CU34G2X/BK 34".

It's my son's PC and he mainly uses it for MSFS 2020.

Most of the settings are on High or Ultra with FPS restricted to 60. Runs like a dream.
 
SpyderTracks

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AntRid said:
@SpyderTracks - you mentioned you would kindly take a look at my spec and 'optimise a bit'. Here is the link:

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Sorry about that, have had flueyness and just been napping most of the evening.

Just had a look through.

The only things I'd add would be:

Up the wifi card to the AX200, supports modern standards, the one you have selected is over a decade old now and most routers are using much more modern standards.

Personally, I would still choose windows 10 at the moment until they've worked out all the bugs. It's easy to upgrade and free, you just do it through windows update, so you can still do it at any time you like.

You can still amend the order after buying and it won't affect your place in the queue at all.
 
AgentCooper

AgentCooper

At Least I Have Chicken
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SpyderTracks said:
Up the wifi card to the AX200, supports modern standards, the one you have selected is over a decade old now and most routers are using much more modern standards.
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I need you to take a seat, I’ve got some terrible news. The AX200 has disappeared from the configurator. I don’t know for how long, or if it’s even coming back at all. Let’s all take a moment to pray.
 
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