New Computer

[rockymountainfly307]

I'm in the market for a new computer & am looking for a solid rig to run the latest edition of Prepar3d. I've found a few on eBay but am not well versed in computer internals nor which components are most important for P3D specifically. Below are specs of the options I'm considering. #2 is $500 more...is it worth that?

#1
•Windows 7 Pro 64
•12GB DDR3L - 2 DIMM
•1TB 5400 rpm Hard Drive
•6th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ Quad Core Processor
•NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M 4GB Discrete Graphics
•Intel 802.11ac WLAN and Bluetooth(R) [1x1]

#2
•Windows 10 Home
•16GB DDR4 2666MHz
•8th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-8750H
•NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 VRAM
•Intel Wireless-AC 9560 802.11ac

[janvaane]

W10_Pro-i7-8700+; 16GB RAM-1TB SSD for w10+p3d or 2x 500GBSSD; MSI MoBo-370+; MSI-GPU-dx11+; 2TB HDD for misc; 4TB for backup etc. Look here: http://jetlinesystems.com/computers/ to know what the poss. are
Remember..it's a one time investment for the next 6-8 years;

[AnkH]

Those look like notebooks. I would definitively not go for a notebook as a primary computer to run P3D on, unless it is really not possible otherwise (for whatever reason...). The problem: while the turbo clocks of the notebook CPU usually still look fine, they have usually very harsh downclocking features due to heat. Means: after 30min or longer under full load, most notebooks can not cope with the heat anymore and the CPU starts throttling down. Just check the base clock of those CPUs, they are extremely low:

- i7-6700HQ: base clock is 2.6GHz, turbo is 3.5GHz. A "desktop" i7-6700 for example has a baseclock of 3.7GHz and a turbo of 4.0GHz...

- i7-8750H: base clock even lower, 2.2GHz, turbo 4.1GHz. A "desktop" i7-8700 has a baseclock of 3.2GHz and a turbo of 4.6GHz

And that is a potential issue: if your notebook can maintain the cooling and as such the turbo, those CPUs would be fine, but usually it can not. Unless it has very good cooling solution, but even then, it would be noisy like hell.

Long story short: go for a decent desktop computer instead. The one Jan Vaane suggested is just one of hundreds of possibilities (but a good one).