Bah... all that power and you'll get like.. 5 FPS more MAYBE if you are lucky.   They don't care how much power your video has, not even P3D to a certain point.   We ned 10ghz processors to have all our cake and eat it too!

"10ghz processors " +

That's right, VRAM doesn't stack.

 

3 way 980 is a 4gb card.

I was looking at major Computer company's new "Gaming PC" configuration.

 

GPU:Triple NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 980 graphics with 12GB total GDDR5 (3x 4GB) GDDR5 -NVIDIA SLI® Enabled

1500 Watt Multi-GPU Approved Power Supply

 

CPU:Intel® Core™ i7-5960X (8-cores, 20MB Cache, Overclocked up to 4.0 GHz w/ Turbo Boost)

 

Memory:32GB Quad Channel DDR4 at 2133MHz

 

Hard Drive:512GB SSD 6Gb/s Main + 4TB 6kRPM SATA 6Gb/s Storage

 

 

I wonder how will it effext FSX or P3D :unsure:

 

BTW other GPU choose option was:Dual NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX™ Titan Z graphics with 24GB total (2x 12GB) GDDR5 - NVIDIA SLI® Enabled

Yep...you were looking at Dell's Alienware Area 51's top factory configuration.  It's ok...you can type it, lol.

Honestly. A waste. I built my rig, and in gaming and anything but video editing/rendering, it would take it for a ride cost/performance wise. 

 

All that power and a 6k rpm HD? 

 

I don't mean to be ______. Fill in the blank. But for the money, you can do better. 

 

I think that PC is more suited to playing the latest FarCry on a 4k triple screen setup.

 

Also, if you are running into 32 bit Ram limitations with your current setup(which honestly sounds really good for FSX), then you will run into them again $5000 later, after buying a new machine.

 

Take a good look at your FSX setup(since you mentioned you fly the PMDG 777, switching to P3D is out).  Look hard for things you can edit out of the scenery cfg, etc... maybe try that demo of that thread optimizing program.
 

Good luck

 

 

I think that PC is more suited to playing the latest FarCry on a 4k triple screen setup.

 

I totally agree with you....I mean c'mon, THREE 980's in SLI?   Good for modern happenings, but not present flight sim coding.....

 

Love the CPU, though.....(I wish!).

I was looking at major Computer company's new "Gaming PC" configuration.

 

GPU:Triple NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 980 graphics with 12GB total GDDR5 (3x 4GB) GDDR5 -NVIDIA SLI® Enabled

1500 Watt Multi-GPU Approved Power Supply

 

CPU:Intel® Core™ i7-5960X (8-cores, 20MB Cache, Overclocked up to 4.0 GHz w/ Turbo Boost)

 

Memory:32GB Quad Channel DDR4 at 2133MHz

 

Hard Drive:512GB SSD 6Gb/s Main + 4TB 6kRPM SATA 6Gb/s Storage

 

 

I wonder how will it effext FSX or P3D :unsure:

 

BTW other GPU choose option was:Dual NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX™ Titan Z graphics with 24GB total (2x 12GB) GDDR5 - NVIDIA SLI® Enabled

Those 8 cores aren't gonna help performance any and neither will those 980s in SLI I have a 4790K and GTX980 and can manage 40 FPS in almost any situation with less than (30%GPU load). If I were you I'd pick up a 4790K and one GTX980 and use the rest of the money on flightsimming hardware or really good monitors.

David,

 

I think that is the way to go.

GTX 480- single overclock to 800 /1900/1595  FSX:46.8 fps  ORBX NA SCENERY with VANCOUVER+ and ACTIVE SKY WEATHER enabled 2048 clouds.

I7 950 overclock to 4.1ghz custom scenery con fig files.

 

LOG here:

  FSUIPC4, Version 4.937 by Pete Dowson *********

Reading options from "C:\Program Files (x86)\Games_Raid_00\Flight SimulatorX\Modules\FSUIPC4.ini"

Running inside FSX on Windows 7

Module base=672B0000

User Name=""

User Addr=""

FSUIPC4 not user registered

WIDEFS7 not user registered, or expired

      406 System time = 14/12/2014 08:27:50

      406 FLT path = "C:\Users\Paul\Documents\Flight Simulator X Files\"

      421 Trying to connect to SimConnect Acc/SP2 Oct07 ...

      437 FS path = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Games_Raid_00\Flight SimulatorX\"

      640 LogOptions=00000000 00000001

      640 SIM1 Frictions access gained

      640 Wind smoothing fix is fully installed

      640 G3D.DLL fix attempt installed ok

      640 SimConnect_Open succeeded: waiting to check version okay

      640 Trying to use SimConnect Acc/SP2 Oct07

    11794 Running in "Microsoft Flight Simulator X", Version: 10.0.61637.0 (SimConnect: 10.0.61259.0)

    11794 Initialising SimConnect data requests now

    11794 FSUIPC Menu entry added

    11810 C:\Users\Paul\Documents\Flight Simulator X Files\FTX-BRITISH COLUMBIA.FLT

    11810 C:\Program Files (x86)\Games_Raid_00\Flight SimulatorX\SimObjects\Airplanes\Aerosoft OV-10 CDF\OV-10B.AIR

    12824 Weather Mode now = Custom

    15226 ASE with WX requester detected

    20156 C:\Users\Paul\Documents\Flight Simulator X Files\CYYJ-CYVR_VFR-26LOV-10 BRONCO.PLN

    67221 System time = 14/12/2014 08:28:57, Simulator time = 08:28:04 (16:28Z)

    68220 Starting everything now ...

    71698 Advanced Weather Interface Enabled

   394901 Sim stopped: average frame rate for last 328 secs = 46.8 fps

   398614 C:\Users\Paul\Documents\Flight Simulator X Files\CYYJ-CYVR_VFR-26LOV-10 BRONCO.PLN

   398614 C:\Users\Paul\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX\Previous flight.FLT

   407506 System time = 14/12/2014 08:34:38, Simulator time = 08:28:03 (16:28Z)

   407506 *** FSUIPC log file being closed

Average frame rate for running time of 328 secs = 46.8 fps

G3D fix: Passes 17324, Null pointers 0, Bad pointers 0, Separate instances 0

Memory managed: 147 Allocs, 147 Freed

********* FSUIPC Log file closed ***********

I would invest those $5K in some home cockpit hardware instead of a machine that would give you an average of 5 fps more then your current rig.