@WestlandScout what gpu have you got as a reference for the psu?
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Thought I try for Ā£3K budget. I appreciate this is out of the range of a lot of squadrons, but will certainly do the job and then some:
Horizon 5 AMD RTX 3080 Gaming PC @ CCL computers - Ā£1744
Warthog HOTAS controls @ Amazon - Ā£402
Flight Pedals @ Logitech - Ā£140
Meta Quest 2 VR headset @ Currys ā Ā£399
Samsung 4K 32" monitor @ Amazon - Ā£299
Total Ā£2984
You might need some extras such as a long USB3 cable if your wifi isnāt up to driving the Quest 2 wirelessly, and a keyboard and mouse, but even without building any fancy cabinet, that is going to do a very good job of on-screen and VR flight. I know, as thatās basically my build and I drive 3 widescreen monitors with a 3080 at 45 to 60fps in MS Flight Simulator (I donāt use AMD, but my i7 is 6 years old).
Note if you arenāt bothered about using the PC for anything āPC likeā, a cheap 50" LCD TV will give a much more immersive picture for sim flying than a smaller monitor.
A spare GT1030 with the faster RAM
What were you thinking of running for reference?
Actually, it probably can on low graphics
X-plane 11 for now.
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No urgency
Just playing about with a few ideas. From a Squadron angle we have a few PCs that are not upgradable to Win 11 (which weāll have to move to at some point) which Iād like to be able to run some form of sim on. So I might treat this build as a prototype as it were
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Thank you, now just need to convince OC Home Command to let me have the extra Ā£20