November 4, 201213 yr Howdy Team! I am building a new flight sim rig and here are my specs: Asus Sabretooth Z77 Motherboard Core i7 3930K processor - liquid cooled Corsair Dominator 16gb Ram Nvidia GeForce GTX680 2GB Velociraptor 600gb 10K RPM Hard Drive 1 Velociraptor 300gb 10K RPM Hard Drive 2 Windows 7 Pro 64bit 1200 Watt Power Supply Please - I am accepting any input or recommendations. This rig will be focused on running FSX and X-Plane X. Thanks! Dennis Sincerely, Dennis D. Müllert System Specs: MoBo: MSI MAG X870 Tomahawk WiFi ATX AM5. CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Memory: 128GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5-5600 CL-40. GPU: 24GB Asus TUF Gaming OC GeForce RTX 4090. Monitor: LG UltraGear+ 45" curved OLED. Power Supply: Corsair 1500 Watt 80+ Platinum ATX. HD: 2TB Sabrent Rocket NVME SSD. Windows 11 Pro. Flight Sim Hardware: Joystick: Thrustmaster T16000M. Rudder Pedals: Thrustmaster TPR Pendular Pedals. Yoke: Honeycomb Alpha. Throttles: Honeycomb Bravo. Controller: XBox Controller
November 4, 201213 yr Wow !!! Great rig !! Would run fsx great !!! Jus one suggestion...maybe throw in a ssd in the mix to improove the boot time and keep fsx on the hdd...otherwise a great machine. Clinton Royston Fernandes. Vabb-Mumbai India.
November 4, 201213 yr Commercial Member 1. Drop CPU to i7 3770K and overclock it 2. Drop RAM to 8GB 3. Drop power supply to 750w 4. Drop drive 2 and use drive 1 as backup drive 5. With money saved from 1, 2 and 3, buy a Samsung 830 SSD (512GB) for OS/FSX/XPX. The above are just some suggestions if you want to save some money and put that into improving other aspects of the system. Otherwise, if money is not a concern, stick with what you have PLUS still add a SSD drive. Regards, Efrain RuizLiveDISPATCH @ http://www.livedispatch.org (CLOSED) ☹️
November 4, 201213 yr Yup on Drop CPU to i7 3770K and overclock it and buy a Samsung 830 SSD And 8 GB of memory 2400 memory is better. Manny Beta tester for SIMStarter
November 6, 201213 yr I've also written some suggestions in my guide, both software and hardware, definitely worth reading, located here.
November 14, 201213 yr I'd like to add something I learned today... Get the fastest memory you can put on the systemboard! My ASUS P9X79 Deluxe had Corsair Vengeance 1600 memory on it and it wouldn't over-clock past 4GHz using the "auto-tuning" facility on the system-board... So, as an experiment, I replaced it with G.Skil 2133 memory and BAM! It now auto-overclocks to 4.8GHz... 30% performance increase and the memory was £40 more than the corsair.. (£99 instead of £60) But make sure you have some serious cooling goin'on.... Got 16GB of corsair 1600 memory for sale now lol Richard... Amateur Pilot and UK Web Hosting Guru 🙂
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