FS2020: Hunt For A Budget £700 PC For MSFS & Performance | Xbox Simmers Might Want To Watch This!

At long last, I have upgraded my ancient PC to a more modern (but still very much 'budget') one. £700-ish was my budget and in this video I show you what I bought and its performance - PCs really don't have to cost and arm and a leg!

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⌚Timestamps⌚
Introduction: (0:00)
My PC Buying Decisions: (4:04)
My new PC arrival & packaging: (10:46)
Performance test of my new PC: (13:08)
Conclusion & Recommendations: (21:36)

#FS2020BudgetPC #MSFS£700PCGuide #FS2020BudgetPCGuide

[Flyawayin]

Thank you James, a very helpful video - Your new system sounds very much like what I'm running - the 4060 works for me and keeps me at about 50 fps, with two monitors at 1440. Let's put it this way, it is better than my wifi connection. I did replace my old CAT5 cable with a CAT6 which made a benefit in achieving greater bandwidth. Congratulation on your new addition. See you in the air!

[iantroup]

Thanks for posting this Huddison, it gives me food for thought (since mt last rant!) It just shows that you don't need to sell a kidney to buy a decent spec PC for MSFS2020/24

[SoupGuyy]

The performance already looks super smooth! Happy that you’ve upgraded and I’m sure you’ll have a blast now. You’ll probably be able to get about 70-80 when MSFS 2024 with the performance improvements!

[mattyiow]

Thank you so much for this! I’ve been struggling over whether to replace my Xbox X with a pc for months but as my budget is only around £1000, I haven’t taken the plunge - thinking that whatever I bought wouldn’t be up to the job. I think I’m one step closer now! Mind you, I haven’t owned a pc for 25+ years and seem to remember spending more time dealing with problems than actually enjoying using it so it does scare me a bit!

[goalski]

i’ve never struggled more to get a stable frame rate with any other game/sim as much as i have with msfs. i’m hoping the technology improvements they talk about with msfs24 come true. i have a pretty decent system and i still struggle at times, but i do generally fly the gps hungry airliners and i’ll have pacx, navigraph, batc, gsx and others open at the same time!

thanks for the video, i always enjoy your content.

[glennkendall]

Very nice! And it's really encouraging to see that sort of performance at that price point. Thank-you.

[nicholasfarrow]

This is a great video delivered in an honest style. Thanks very much! The vr dabble sounds intriguing too...

[BobSmith-pk]

That's a nice upgrade.
I know everyone is FPS crazy these days, but I'm of the opinion that a flight sim looks fine with 30fps.
Good luck with the new rig!

[ZenonZolek]

Your quality always looks good 👍 thank you 👍

[briancrawley]

Great video thank you. I went all out with my build and have since doubled the RAM to 64GB. Also added another SSD in preparation for FS2024. It’s amazing the performance you are getting with the budget price.
I see you have the same muddy look under all the bridges in London too. I wondered if that was a bug with ORBX clashing with the new update.

[ArtG-]

Excellent video. I plan on purchasing a new PC coincidental with the release of MSFS 2024. Current PC was purchased when MSFS 2020 was released and performance has seemed to continually degrade with each and every SIM and /or World update. Your new hardware and tweaked graphic settings certainly appears to be more than capable of handling the current demands of the sim and you didn't have to rob a bank to purchase it 🙂

[Ian_Livesey]

Very helpful this. I'm looking at getting a new PC very soon in preparation for MSFS2024. Will give the guys at AWD-IT a look.

[mikecoffee]

GOOD JOB BRAVO for Team GB in the Olympics

[WheezinGeezerTV]

What I've been playing isn't much better than what you've been playing on. R7 1800X, GTX 1080ti, 32gb ram. However, I did spend that fortune you speak of, and it's all in boxes in my living room. I know, I need to get on it. I was going to go through a builder site, but after picking my parts I couldn't believe where I was at and that was just on parts. On parts alone iBuyPower wanted $4, 700 dollars, and that doesn't include building it, just the parts. So, I went to amazon to check on the prices there and the same parts would have only cost me $3, 100. So, I decided to build it myself and even upgrade my gpu from my original build. I even paid $1, 000 dollars on a new monitor. Not bragging, just excited, for me and for you. I've watched you for a long time and have watched those choppy graphics, but we've always enjoyed your company.
I'm not going to bore you with my parts list, and many wouldn't have their drool towel handy anyway.
Absolutely wonderful upgrade!

[adiedri]

Nice, people can comment and are welcome to. But you got what you wanted to and could afford. Congratulations

[DarkGT]

Great new rig Mr. Huddison. I will personally go for Ryzen 7 7600, the prices must go down because of the newest gen Ryzen 7 9xxx. If I'm on a budget I will get some of the AMDs GRE edition cards, somewhere near the RTX4070 at much lower price.

[musefan]

Ah I'm delighted for you. I recently upgraded my PC too, so I know exactly how you must be feeling about it. Best of luck with it dude!

Also, I'm interested to hear that you got a VR headset. What did you go for? I had an old Oculus Quest 2, but just last weekend I broke the bank and ordered a Pimax Crystal Light lol

[LeShark]

With my job I sit in front of my multi screen system in the home office or in 'the office' managing projects, building new tools and presentations with excel and power point etc. I'm actually the go to guy in the office if anyone is having any technical issues with their system. Believe me, the last thing I want to do at the end of the day is switch on another bloody PC to do what I love doing the most. For me a PC is work, my gaming consoles (my PS5, XSX, Switch, Mega Drive, Astro City) are total pure escapism.

Now, that isn't a rant but my reaction to friends in the past has been quite funny apparently. "You need an gaming PC.", "The last thing I want to do is spend another 5 hours sat in front of a PC at the end of a working day, it's like asking someone who works at Dominos if they want Pizza for their fecking tea!" Lol.

[MagnumMike]

Glad to see you got a significant improvement in performance for the "Budget Build" 👍. I've always wondered if your Huddison C 182 RG Livery is available anywhere. 🤔

[ClouDAction.]

You can generally check the performance at 1440p. Just set the render scaling to 140. (: