On 8/12/2017 at 10:11 PM, Lenny777 said:

Several tests I've seen the i7-7700k is still king over this cpu particularly in gaming.

Thanks Lenny777, I've been doing alot of research and seems like the 7700K might be better choice. There doesn't seemed to be a lot of confidence with the X299 boards at this point anyways. Thanks for your input.

On 8/13/2017 at 0:07 AM, Egbert Drenth said:

If I where you, I would go with a i7 that has less cores but a substantial higher base clock frequency. Like the 7700K 4.2-4.5Ghz.
Half the price and most likely for P3D equally as fast, if not faster. 
Even more, the price difference I would definately spend on a GTX 1080i instead of a 1070
But I'm not a CPU specialist, maybe others can chime in.
 

 

Yes, I'm starting to lean more in that direction of the 7700K, but the 1080 probably not. I just purchased the 1070 a few months ago.

Just made the move to P3d V4 and like Mcdonalds says " i'm luving it" 

Upgraded to a 7700k and GTX 1080TI and working really well,

Just some observations that i have come across.

 

1. PTA and ActiveSky4 are a must. P3d V4 has a very annoying haze issue because Volumetric Fog cannot be turned off ( i made a post a few months ago about this) Having the fog turned on when at high altitudes makes the sky look awkward ( a large ring of haze in the sky which looks unattractive to say the least). The Vol Fog in v3 can be turned off without turning the sky into a hazy milky color . with proper PTA and ActiveSky settings ( which took me hours to find the sweet spot) the sky and atmosphere looks like it did on v3.

2. Most of my old sceneries work well ( even old FSX) stuff. Tested with the PMDG NGX and so far ( knock on wood!) don't see any crashes or performance decrease. This is a big time YMMV. You need to test out and if you suffer any crashes or significant performance loss , then ditch the scenery as it does not play well with v4.

3. P3d is still CPU limited when it comes to autogen settings. Setting you draw distance to max ( although looks great) eats FPS significantly. I have all my autogen settings a Dense and draw distance at High. Still looks better than v3 and provides a minimal FPS hit.Having a good GPU is essential to lighting and shadows. a 1080TI will handle high settings with ease.

4. Lighting in v4 is a treat! All my ORBX lights, aircraft lights ,etc look amazing. More robust and realistic compared to previous versions. Dynamic lighting works good as long as you use max 8XMSAA. Any supersampling will cause even a 1080ti to struggle.

5. TEXTURE_SIZE_EXP=10  is a sight to behold as long as you have plenty of VRAM.

6. NO OOM"S!!!!!

 

 

1 hour ago, troyboy66 said:

Thanks Lenny777, I've been doing alot of research and seems like the 7700K might be better choice. There doesn't seemed to be a lot of confidence with the X299 boards at this point anyways. Thanks for your input.

Then again Coffeelake's 8700K could be in my future. Seems to be promising.

On 8/14/2017 at 1:31 PM, troyboy66 said:

Then again Coffeelake's 8700K could be in my future. Seems to be promising.

Hey I'm forever it seems chasing the numbers and fps game. If you can put together a system which can give some more tangible and real gains ping me as I'm not one to hold on too long to anything tech wise.

 

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