drpeirson

I would stick to i5/i7, While FSX released with limited core use and memory limits the latest FSX:SE has both service packs letting you make a little better use of more cores & memory. From my expeirence you will also get to enjoy other games & general desktop use outside of FSX. Limiting yourself to a G4560 just for FSX? He will be shooting yourself in the foot, especially if he ever wanted to move into VR/P3P/XP. I imagine there will be a clean devide, It's like asking for advice on an "audiophile" forum

He should switch to XPlane and save himeself the trouble of trying to squeeze frames out of FSX I've been here before! Any good scenary pack is avaliable on XPlane & mods etc. However, Matching hardware for that kind of game is really difficult. If you have no option but to go with FSX I would go i7/16GB ram for a base. SSD/NVME can speed up the game exponentially when it comes to extra/addons but the costs are high. I have a decent rig with FSX/Xplane/VR/Sim sticks so any questions welcome.