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    New machine or upgrade to play Flight Simulator 2020

    Good to know.. I had only seen the 3600x and 3600xt at Microcenter. They apparently don't have any 3600 CPUs at my local store. They sell them as bundles with a board for $250-300. I don't buy everything at Microcenter but it is convenient. Anything I should be watching out for with the mother...
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    New machine or upgrade to play Flight Simulator 2020

    In case anyone finds there way here looking for answers. My rig doesn't seem to be the problem. As a matter of fact, once I am off the ground, I am able to fly in full screen mode at 2560 x 1080 on low settings and possibly higher as I haven't tried. The issue appears to be with Microsoft or a...
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    New machine or upgrade to play Flight Simulator 2020

    I guess I'm not alone. Sounds like a bug in the sim. View: https://www.reddit.com/r/flightsim/comments/icb9tt/flight_simulator_2020_using_100_of_cpu_but_only/
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    New machine or upgrade to play Flight Simulator 2020

    This is what I am seeing a lot of the time. The GPU temp and percent is pretty low. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rOL1Iqe8kt3sJpFFKfKofjnwKMYbk_Wx/view?usp=sharing Hopefully you can see this but if not, all 3 CPU cores are at 100% and one is at 98% with temps ranging from 58-63c and the...
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    New machine or upgrade to play Flight Simulator 2020

    I tried to fly today and it is choppy even in windowed mode at 30 fps. I think the CPU on this machine is the bottleneck. When I play the game, the GPU usage sits anywhere from 3-30% but the CPU is pinned at 100% the entire time. I ran a benchmark on the CPU and it is in the 29th percentile for...
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    New machine or upgrade to play Flight Simulator 2020

    I don't think Dell and Lenovo had double slot GPUs in mind when they built these I'm sure they were thinking more about deploying hundreds of them to offices. i bought both of them used on eBay for very little money. I was thining the same thing about propietary connectors and stuff, not to...
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    New machine or upgrade to play Flight Simulator 2020

    Thanks! I will check it out. It is good to see that I am not the only one that has these issues. He makes a good point that Flight Simulator X ran terrible at the beginning too and now my old laptop can run it at the highest settings. I'm glad that they pushed the envelope. I haven't really...
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    New machine or upgrade to play Flight Simulator 2020

    Here are the specs of the PC which I am using for Flight Simulator because the card I bought fit it. It is a prebuilt machine. Lenovo Thinkcentre M73 SFF Intel Core i5-4570 3.2 GHz 8 GB DDR3 RAM 1333 Mhz Gigabyte Geforce GTX 1050 Ti OC Low Profile 4GB GDDR5 Graphic Card 512 GB SATA SSD Intel...
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    New machine or upgrade to play Flight Simulator 2020

    Thank you! This is very helpful and interesting. After doing some research on the flight sim boards, I think that GPU manufacturers are going to be bringing in some cash with all of us flight sim guys having to upgrade our GPUs. My initial thought was that I would upgrade the GPU in my...
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    eGPU Recommendation for Flight Simulator 2020

    Ok done. I cleaned it up a bit and posted it to a new thread. You are welcomed to remove my response and this response if you'd like. Thanks!
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    New machine or upgrade to play Flight Simulator 2020

    I am pretty sure I know the answer to this but I thought I'd get opinions. I am not a gamer or at least a modern gamer. Until now, I have never given much thought to graphics cards but then Microsoft relased the new flight simulator which has a high spec requirement. My kids didn't need to go to...
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    Processor questions for Flight Simulator 2020

    How is the game running? I am not a gamer but I bought a GTX 1050ti and installed it in the only machine that i had that would fit it which only had a i5-4590 and 8 GB of RAM which puts me right around the minimum spec. As you'd expect, it runs like poo but it does work on the lowest settings...
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    eGPU Recommendation for Flight Simulator 2020

    I had a similar predicament. I have a pretty good business desktop with onboard graphics (i5-8500 etc) but it is small form factor PC and I discovered too late that I could not fit a PCI video card in the case. It has 2 slots but the single 16x slot is on the left side so a double slot card...
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