Hi all. I'm sure this forum is riddled with this same question but I wanna go ahead and ask for everyone's opinion before I throw a chunk of money out there. Here's the setup I'm thinking about.

 

Motherboard- P8Z77-v

CPU- i5-3570K Ivy Bridge 3.4Ghz

GPU- GTX 650 TI-Boost 2GB

RAM- 8GB DDR3

 

Any recommendations to this are welcome, as long as I don't go over $1,200, setup i have now is $900. Thoughts?

I was about to pull the trigger on a brand new pc last week specifically for P3d v2 (only because i'm still running bloody Vista and Vista is below the minimum required specs for v2!!):

 

Asus Sabertooth Mobo

i7 4770k @ 3.5ghz

GTX 780 3gb

8gb 2400mhz RAM CL10

 

With the rest of the PC/kit (power supply/liquid cooler/case/W7 Home 64 bit etc) it was gonna set me back just short of £1500 sterling (ideally I wanted to go for a 780ti card but can't quite stretch that far - the missus is going bananas already!!).

 

I'm holding off now for a couple of weeks until the "hoo-ha" settles down - I have a sneaky suspicion I may be able to (or even need to) downgrade the Mobo or processor slightly in order to find enough cash to upgrade the card to the 780ti and that may actually run P3d v2 better......decisions, decisions!!!

 

With your proposed rig, might I suggest you "plough" all of the spare cash into improving the video card - it seems to me that the video card is where some of the early adopters seem to be suggesting any "bottlenecks" might be occuring rather than on the CPU like in FSX.

 

I can't quite work out also whether its pure card speed, or the amount of RAM on the card, thats gonna make the biggest difference?!?!?

 

Good luck with whatever you decide....and let us know!!

 

Regards

 

Steve

vortex95, on 26 Nov 2013 - 5:18 PM, said:

Hi all. I'm sure this forum is riddled with this same question but I wanna go ahead and ask for everyone's opinion before I throw a chunk of money out there. Here's the setup I'm thinking about.

 

Motherboard- P8Z77-v

CPU- i5-3570K Ivy Bridge 3.4Ghz

GPU- GTX 650 TI-Boost 2GB

RAM- 8GB DDR3

 

Any recommendations to this are welcome, as long as I don't go over $1,200, setup i have now is $900. Thoughts?

I would at least go with a 770 4gb or a 780 3gb. I've been seeing 2.25gb of usage with my 780.

I also want to clarify that I intend on running Prepar3d on this machine, which from what I've heard it takes a bunch of the load off the CPU. Is this true?