Will this get it done?

[Danziger]

I know very little about computers. My home PC has a decent CPU with 8gb memory and a mediocre 1gb nvidia GPU. I can play RoF on it with low settings but adding eye candy drops the fps quickly. I settled for good looking planes and bad looking terrain. I'm a truck driver and will soon be getting a laptop to take with me on the road. I want to get started in BoS/BoM with this also. There is no way my wife will let me spend a grand on a computer since we have to buy a new car. So I was looking at this and wondering would it be good enough or if anyone has any better suggestions. http://www.newegg.com/Product/index?itemnumber=N82E16834152743

Thank you for any help and thank you devs for these awesome sims. And thanks again JG5 Custard for your generous gift!

Bad link this is it.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152743&FM=1

[LLv44_Mprhead]

Most likely it will struggle. It has dual core cpu and gpu is more for multimedia than gaming. This on the other hand would do the job, but it might not fit in your budget? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152739R

[Bando]

Ì disagree.

I think the laptop Possumkiller wants to buy is a good one and can run this sim just fine. Not with all bells and whistles, but it'll run. 

Problem is perhaps the joystick, TrackIR and rudder pedals, but what the heck.

 

I also believe this processor has 4 cores and not 2.

Whatever you buy PK, I wish you good luck on your travels.

[LLv44_Mprhead]

I also believe this processor has 4 cores and not 2.

 

http://ark.intel.com/products/78929/Intel-Core-i5-4210H-Processor-3M-Cache-up-to-3_50-GHz

[Danziger]

That one for 950$ is awesome. I will see how much my wife will let me spend. I don't have to run it on highest settings. I just want to finally get in on the action. Also I use a twist rudder stick

 

Thank you for the helpful replies

[Dakpilot]

Strongly suggest you don't invest money on a dual core, it WILL disappoint, 4 core is minimum especially if you are buying something specifically, rather not spend money on outdated tech when a little more will yield a higher satisfaction than the extra spent

 

** when you find the one that you want/will do, wait one month and spend your beer money on getting the next higher model/best upgrade  always sound advice  **

 

 

Cheers Dakpilot

Edited June 29, 2015 by Dakpilot

[Danziger]

Ok so the wife said no way to a thousand dollar laptop. So I told her she can have the five hundred dollar laptop and I'll take the desktop with me. The desktop has a good quad core CPU that gets something like 3.6ghz and has 8gb RAM. The weak point is the garbage GPU geforce 610gt 1gb. I can probably squeeze a couple hundred for a new one but what would be the best for that much? Also is this something I can swap out myself or do I need to take it to the shop? Also thinking about expanding RAM to 16gb.

[Scarecrow]

Don't bother investing in more RAM for this sim 8GB is more than enough. An Nvidia 960 is the bang for buck card and is the one you should be buying regardless of cost. You might need to get a new power supply if yours is weak. You don't have to take it to the shop for any of this but  if you watch a couple of Youtube tutorials you can judge wether or not you want to try.

Edited August 11, 2015 by Scarecrow

[LLv44_Mprhead]

Check what kind of power supply you have. Depending of your budget and power supply good options are Nvidia GTX960, GTX970 and Radeon R9 380. good thing about GTX960 is that it requires only 400W power supply and one 8pin connection. Radeon will need 500W and 2 6pins and I think same goes with GTX970. If your PSU is not up to this and you don't want to change it, then you have option of getting GTX750ti, it's not as powerful as the others, but it runs on really low power and doesn't need extra power supply but takes all it needs from PCIe-connection and it is good enough to run BoS at low and most likely balanced settings. You should be able to change the card yourself.

[Danziger]

Thanks guys