ok, now I’m sold too! I’m gonna need to trade my MacBook Air for a gaming PC!

Haha you totally should. PM me for info. I’m totally into it.

One day, there will be a thumbs up button here...

If the purpose of it is a cool gee whiz gaming machine, rock on!

If it has anything whatsoever to do with "learning to fly" that's a lot of money that could go towards actual flying. Could be enough to solo in a glider plus a nice intro to powered, or enough flight instruction in powered to the pre-solo and intro to X-Country for when he's old enough to go for ratings. Any kid more interested in the graphics of how realistic it looks versus the actual realism of really doing it, for real, kind of proves its not about learning to fly even a little bit. And that's OK, as long as they understand that's what it is.

Just get a PS5, HOTAS and VR setup and play Star Wars Squadrons. Or a MUCH cheaper rig and one of the older, but still very very good, FS or X-Plane programs. But if the actual interest is real (which, if unsure, can be fleshed out with a simple "discovery flight") then blowing close to 3 stacks on a pretend machine is more of a hinderance than a help and is little more than an expensive Baby Einstein placebo.

I agree! When he asked my opinion I admitted I have no tech game in me at all, but an intro flight was the way to go! I’m starting to think he might be interested in the gaming computer for him and using junior as the excuse!

Thanks to all who have chimed in!

This is why we can’t have nice things.

I'll add to all of that there is a worldwide shortage of chips at the moment (cpu and gpu). It affects gaming companies (PC and consoles products) but also car companies and some others. The few chip manufacturers out there (TSMC and Samsung for example) can't keep up with the demand created by millions and millions of quarantined people who took video games as a hobby.
All of this created over inflated prices all over the market. MSRP only exits in brochure and actual prices for cpu/gpu are 1.5x or 2x what it "should" be.
The retail sellers dont expect the situation to improve before Q2/Q3 2020.

A 2500$ budget should get you a monster pc shredding any game easily for the next 5 years (assuming you wait a couple months to see parts closer to their intended MSRP +10% or so)

The A320 included in the base game is a bit underwhelming for hardcore simmers.
Check out this mod :
https://flybywiresim.com/

It's free, with a very active community including several A320 drivers who intend to replicate every single switch and FMS function eventually.

Happy flying !

Look into building with an AMD Ryzen Zen 3 and an nVidia GPU.

Newegg.com is a good place for this.

Choose the case wisely and don’t skimp on the power supply or cooling (I put a Noctua cooling fan system in my last build—the fan that comes with the chip is usually small).

The thing about building a machine is that you need to think about upgrading it in the future—so just plan for a big enough case and be sure the motherboard isn’t on it’s last version.

Love this thread, so who on pc is looking to play warzone or escape from tarkov? Been getting lots of time in now that I'm an affected pilot ... we need a delta pilots discord channel for sure

Too late to edit but i meant 2021 obviously.