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It’s fair to say that Chillblast is on Flight Simulator’s case. Head to chillblast.com and you’ll find 14 PCs tailor-made for flight sims, ranging from £760 to £4,900, and it’s had early access to Flight Simulator’s alpha and beta code to help fine-tune its offerings.
That said, the ingredients behind a flight simPC are well understood. First, you need as powerful a processor as you can afford, and that honour goes to the eight-core Core i7-10700K here. Next up, the graphics chip: the GeForce RTX 2080 Super shoulders this burden. And to complete the crew, two 16GB sticks of 3,200MHz memory, a fast 1TB PCIe SSD and a 4TB mechanical hard disk – the latter useful when trying to meet Flight Simulator’s heavy…
