Opinion on my PC Build

[justingm 0]

Cool Master Cosmos Case

Asus z97 Sabertooth Mark 1 Mobo         

I7 4790k plan to Overclock between 4.5 – 4.8GHz             

8GBs of Gskil Rijaws

Seasonic 850w power supply

EVGA GTX 970 4GB DDR5 Superclocked Graphics card

Corsair H110 Hydro 280mm twin fan liquid cool kit

1TB Western Digital Black Cavier HDD

Windows 7 on its on 64GB SSD

[ryanbatc 12,814]

Looks good.  I would suggest a SSD for the sim though.  Why buy all those parts and bottleneck it with a HDD?

 

Samsung's 840 Evo in whatever variety is good (now that their new firmware fixed the previous issue).

There's a 250GB for 120 bucks on amazon (they're just getting silly cheap now - the 500GB is 240 - I spent like 260 just a few months ago)

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-250GB-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-7TE250BW/dp/B00E3W1726/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416006113&sr=8-1&keywords=840+evo

[justingm 0]

Looks good.  I would suggest a SSD for the sim though.  Why buy all those parts and bottleneck it with a HDD?

 

Samsung's 840 Evo in whatever variety is good (now that their new firmware fixed the previous issue).

There's a 250GB for 120 bucks on amazon (they're just getting silly cheap now - the 500GB is 240 - I spent like 260 just a few months ago)

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-250GB-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-7TE250BW/dp/B00E3W1726/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416006113&sr=8-1&keywords=840+evo

 

I took your advice and bought the Samsung EVO for my FSX stuff. 

[ryanbatc 12,814]

Sweet.  Again hopefully it comes with the latest firmware, if not be sure to get it.  

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/us/html/support/downloads.html

 

Let us know how the build comes together.

[z06z33 763]

Sweet.  Again hopefully it comes with the latest firmware, if not be sure to get it.  

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/us/html/support/downloads.html

 

Let us know how the build comes together.

Does an SSD really make that much of a difference for FSX and P3D? is it just load times? If I get one is it work the $300-500 for it.

[frosty777 0]

Yes, it makes a huge difference in waiting for The Hog to load!

Do you experience the "6% load  waiting"? I go nuts waiting 10 minutes or more - so I bought two cheap Intel Series 335 240 Gb´s and made a Raid0 set-up with OS and FSX installed, blazing fast, try it.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167128

[ryanbatc 12,814]

I've got P3d on my hdd and FSX in my SSD.

 

I'd say FSX loads in 1/5 the time vs p3d.