Planning on building a new budget gaming rig for P3D and a few others. My question is that are flight sims still traditionally CPU dependent or have they required the use of a good GPU as well? Planning on upgrading my i7-4790k to an i7-8700k or i9-9900k (mostly to get the DDR4 memory from moving to the LGA1151 socket). My main issue is the GPU. A quick search on ebay provided me with 1080ti's selling for their original retail price or higher, and the same story for 2070's and 2080's. There's no way I'm spending those prices on used GPU's. I have a 1060 6GB in my current rig i can use but that will bottleneck any newer i7's. Will P3D suffer with the 1060 in the new build? Would it be more logical to pair it with an i5-8600k or similar? Or should i just keep my current rig? I sim on a 1080p monitor and little to no payware scenery like ORBX and stuff.

so i recently got a new (to me) laptop and i've heard that p3d can make full use of your ram and cpu unlike fsx. i wanna upgrade to p3d but i don't know if my laptop has the specs necessary as i don't have the funds for anymore than a budget gaming laptop, or a laptop that's several years old but was one of the best spec wise when it came out, like this laptop.  current living situations prevent me from owning a desktop rig.

specs:
intel core i7-4810mq 4c/8t at 2.8 GHz, though it clocks well above 3 ghz most of the time
24gb 1600 mhz ddr3l memory
amd firepro m6100 2gb gddr5 clocked at 1100mhz (benchmarks put it just below a desktop class gtx 750ti in performance)
17.3" 1080p display
500gb hdd (plan on upgrading this to an ssd in the future)

american truck simulator runs fine at almost max settings with these specs but i lnow p3d is a different animal. also i will play p3d with vanilla scenery and textures, as i only spend money on payware planes (it's a flight simulator, not a scenery simulator)

any feedback will be appreciated.

thanks,

christopher

Congrats Andrew!

Hello one and all. I'm getting a new laptop in a couple days and wanted to make the switch from FSX to P3D, but I wanted to know if said laptop's specs would be enough to run it. Keep in mind that I will have payware aircraft like PMDG and so forth, but leaving it mostly vanilla apart from that.

Specs:

AMD Ryzen 7 3750H quad core 2.3 GHz boosting to 4 (most reviews I've seen say that it clocks in the mid to high 3's 99% of the time)

Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti 6GB GDDR6

16GB DDR4

256GB SSD + 1TB HDD

Any feedback would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Christopher

Congrats Harry and Chuck!

Congrats Zack!