December 29, 20178 yr Commercial Member Hello All! Here is my current setup for P3Dv4.1 If you had a budget of ~$400, what would you upgrade? CPU, GPU? i7-4770K O/C 4.2 GHz | GeForce GTX 780 | ASUS P8Z77-V LGA 1155 | Samsung 850 1TB SSD | Windows 10 x64 | 28" UH750 QLED UHD Monitor Thanks and happy holidays! Discord | YouTube | iFly Schedules 34" Odyssey OLED G8 175Hz | 3440X1440 | AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | PNY VERTO OC GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 16 GB | G.Skill Flare X5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 | Asus ROG STRIX B650E-F GAMING WIFI ATX AM5 | Samsung 990 Pro 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 | ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III 56.3 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler | Fractal Design North XL ATX Full Tower Case
December 29, 20178 yr Commercial Member Ah, funny you mention this as I had the same card as you. It handled P3Dv4 quite nicely whether I was using one display or three. But just before Christmas it bit the dust. So I bought myself an unexpected Christmas gift of a EVGA Geforce 1080 super-clocked (this time with a 10 year replacement warranty, ha!). Though my system is still on PCI Express 2.0, it made a big difference for me in those heavy congested 3rd party areas. So that's what I would consider... a GPU upgrade. Intel i9-12900KF, Asus Prime Z690-A MB, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, (3) SK hynix M.2 SSD (2TB ea.), 16TB Seagate HDD, Gigabyte GeForce 5080 RTX, Corsair iCUE H70i AIO Liquid Cooler, UHD/Blu-ray Player/Burner (still have lots of CDs, DVDs!) Windows 10, (hold off for now on Win11), EVGA 1300W PSUNetgear 1Gbps modem & router, (3) 27" 1440 wrap-around displaysFull array of Bravo, Saitek and GoFlight hardware for the cockpit. Varjo and HP VR headsets for mixed reality.
December 29, 20178 yr Author Commercial Member 16 minutes ago, Clutch Cargo said: Ah, funny you mention this as I had the same card as you. It handled P3Dv4 quite nicely whether I was using one display or three. But just before Christmas it bit the dust. So I bought myself an unexpected Christmas gift of a EVGA Geforce 1080 super-clocked (this time with a 10 year replacement warranty, ha!). Though my system is still on PCI Express 2.0, it made a big difference for me in those heavy congested 3rd party areas. So that's what I would consider... a GPU upgrade. Yea it runs very nice...even at 4K. What about the GTX 1070? I think I should wait till the new GPUs coming in 2018. Discord | YouTube | iFly Schedules 34" Odyssey OLED G8 175Hz | 3440X1440 | AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | PNY VERTO OC GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 16 GB | G.Skill Flare X5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 | Asus ROG STRIX B650E-F GAMING WIFI ATX AM5 | Samsung 990 Pro 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 | ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III 56.3 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler | Fractal Design North XL ATX Full Tower Case
December 29, 20178 yr GPU for sure, 1070's are most likely best bet for $400 budget. I ran one for quite some time at 4K, P3DV4. The new cards are going to be extremely high priced, from what I've seen. Greg G i7-9700K, MSI Z370, PNY 4070 Super, GTX 750Ti, 32GB GSkill, 43" curved Samsung, 32" BenQ, 11" LED, RealSImGear GTN750, Win10, P3DV5.4/P3DV6 and MSFS, several GoFlight modules, Saitek radio, Brunner CLS-E NG Yoke, Virtual Fly TQ6.
January 4, 20188 yr Author Commercial Member Here are some more details while flying the PMDG 777 in 4K. Discord | YouTube | iFly Schedules 34" Odyssey OLED G8 175Hz | 3440X1440 | AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | PNY VERTO OC GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 16 GB | G.Skill Flare X5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 | Asus ROG STRIX B650E-F GAMING WIFI ATX AM5 | Samsung 990 Pro 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 | ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III 56.3 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler | Fractal Design North XL ATX Full Tower Case
January 4, 20188 yr Easily the GPU. That Haswell i7 still has life in it but even something like a GTX 1060 6GB would be a noticeable improvement over that GTX 780.
January 4, 20188 yr Author Commercial Member 46 minutes ago, addman said: Easily the GPU. That Haswell i7 still has life in it but even something like a GTX 1060 6GB would be a noticeable improvement over that GTX 780. Thanks! Was thinking a GTX1070 8GB with my 4K res. Discord | YouTube | iFly Schedules 34" Odyssey OLED G8 175Hz | 3440X1440 | AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | PNY VERTO OC GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 16 GB | G.Skill Flare X5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 | Asus ROG STRIX B650E-F GAMING WIFI ATX AM5 | Samsung 990 Pro 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 | ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III 56.3 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler | Fractal Design North XL ATX Full Tower Case
January 4, 20188 yr GPU upgrade... Don't forget to look at at the 1070Ti Mike Mike Lab WIN10 / I7-6700K HT ON / GTX980 / 16 GB RAM / 3 x SAMSUNG EVO 1TB SSD / 1 X WD BLACK 2TB HDD / 32" 60hz Monitor @ 2560x1440 / P3Dv4.4 No AM, Locked to 59 FPS, VSync ON, Triple buffering enabled Process Lasso used to unload all other applications than P3D running on core 0
January 5, 20188 yr the pmdg 777 is smooth as butter on my 1800x and 1080ti,everyone says amd stinks for p3d, but it works great for me.
January 5, 20188 yr Commercial Member GPU to start. CPU probably next. Kyle Weber (Private Pilot, ASEL; Flight Test Engineer)Check out my repaints and downloads, all right here on AVSIM
January 5, 20188 yr Glad to see this as I’m also running a 4770k and gtx 970. I’m surprised at how well P3D v4 runs but I’d like to move some sliders to the right. Hello new GPU!
January 5, 20188 yr Yep definitely gpu the i7-4770K kicks butt. Cesar Martinez AMD 7800X3D RTX5080 NZXT N7 B650E | G.Skill 32GB DDR5 Samsung 980 Pro 2TB | Crucial MX500 (2×) | Crucial P3 Plus Monitor: Philips Evnia 34M2C6500 QD-OLED
January 5, 20188 yr Author Commercial Member 14 hours ago, Mikelab6 said: GPU upgrade... Don't forget to look at at the 1070Ti Mike What's the difference? This is the one I was looking at. https://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-GAMING-Support-08G-P4-5173-KR/dp/B06X3RBJLW/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&rps=1&ie=UTF8&qid=1515160367&sr=1-1&keywords=GTX%2B1070&refinements=p_89%3AEVGA%2Cp_85%3A2470955011&th=1 PS: I don't get all of the different types of cards.. Discord | YouTube | iFly Schedules 34" Odyssey OLED G8 175Hz | 3440X1440 | AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | PNY VERTO OC GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 16 GB | G.Skill Flare X5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 | Asus ROG STRIX B650E-F GAMING WIFI ATX AM5 | Samsung 990 Pro 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 | ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III 56.3 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler | Fractal Design North XL ATX Full Tower Case
January 5, 20188 yr Commercial Member At first, I too was considering the GeForce 1070. But I got the 1080 just before Xmas at $539 (Xmas pricing?), so I thought the price made it more easy to swallow going from 1070 to a 1080. Hey and I'm still running an i7-2600k at 4.8GHz. That ol' little sucker keeps chugging along. Intel i9-12900KF, Asus Prime Z690-A MB, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, (3) SK hynix M.2 SSD (2TB ea.), 16TB Seagate HDD, Gigabyte GeForce 5080 RTX, Corsair iCUE H70i AIO Liquid Cooler, UHD/Blu-ray Player/Burner (still have lots of CDs, DVDs!) Windows 10, (hold off for now on Win11), EVGA 1300W PSUNetgear 1Gbps modem & router, (3) 27" 1440 wrap-around displaysFull array of Bravo, Saitek and GoFlight hardware for the cockpit. Varjo and HP VR headsets for mixed reality.
January 5, 20188 yr 2 hours ago, Le Français said: What's the difference? This is the one I was looking at. https://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-GAMING-Support-08G-P4-5173-KR/dp/B06X3RBJLW/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&rps=1&ie=UTF8&qid=1515160367&sr=1-1&keywords=GTX%2B1070&refinements=p_89%3AEVGA%2Cp_85%3A2470955011&th=1 PS: I don't get all of the different types of cards.. re 1070ti vs 1070, they are very similar but differ in the following: it has 500+ more CUDA cores and has been demonstrated to shown an additional 10-15% performance improvement over the std GTX1070. Of course it's more expensive... $$$. I also did read it will do a better job of running 4K which your monitor has. Regards Mark SpoilerSystem specs: MFG Crosswind pedals| ACE B747 yoke |Honeycomb Bravo throttleNow built: P3Dv5.3HF2: Intel i5-12600K @4.8Ghz | MSI Z690-A PRO | Asus Dual RTX 4070 Super OC 12Gb| 32Gb Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200Mhz |Samsung 980Evo Pro PCIe 500Gb | WD Black SN850 PCIe 2Tb | WD SA510 4Tb |beQuiet 802 Tower Case|Corsair RM850 PSU | Acer Predator X34P 3440x1440pMark AldridgeMSFS2024 SU5 & P3D v5.3 HF2
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