I get asked quite often what PC I have in the sim. I have two now, and here are the specs.

The newest PC runs the right and front monitors, all the streaming software, etc. It’s the main PC. It’s new, and it’s a Cobratype Venom Gaming PC – Ryzen 7 9800X3D, RTX 5070 Ti, 360mm AIO Liquid Cooler, 32 GB DDR5 RAM, 2 TB NVMe, Windows 11.

The older PC runs the left monitor and only serves as a “slave” machine running X-Plane for visuals directed by the main “master” machine (X-Plane 12 does this natively, and it’s great). It is a Computer Upgrade King CUK MPG Velox Gaming Desktop, Intel 16-Core i9-12900F Processor, 64GB DDR4 RAM, 1TB NVMe SSD + 3TB HDD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB, Windows 11.

The front monitor is a 65-inch 4k display, and the sides are the original 27-inch 1080p TVs from when I built the sim 9 years ago.

I usually get between 50 and 80 FPS on the master, and nearly 100 fps on the slave, with nearly-maxed settings. Different aircraft and graphic setups (TorqueSim SR-22, ORBX scenery, etc.) can reduce those. But I lock the frames on the master at 30 FPS and the slave at 60 FPS. This syncs well with the refresh rates of the monitors (60 hertz) and the streaming software and webcam (60 FPS). This makes for a very smooth streaming performance. For the front display I use the Lossless Scaling app to double the FPS from 30 to 60, and it’s smooth as silk.