May 29, 20188 yr Hi! I want to migrate to P3dv4 from FSX, but Mrs HomoPrintus will not be very happy, if I'll spend a ton of money to buy new PC. Right now I have I7-2600K, 8GB RAM, GTX550 Ti (1GB) and 2TB HDD. Now I get 15 FPS in P3D v4 without any eye-candy addons. So I have 2 questions and hope for your help: 1) Doing stage-by-stage upgrade, where should I start - buy new GPU, or SSD, or CPU? 2) My motherboard only support PCI-E 2.0, would it damage the perfomance of new GPU (I want to go to 1070, for example)? Thanks in advance!
May 29, 20188 yr A modern GPU will give you the most improvement in P3D, assuming the 2600K is overclocked and can feed it properly. The 2600K isn't going to come close to saturating the PCIe v2 bus, so no problem there. You'll need to make sure your power supply is up to the task, though, as a 1070 (or better, a 1070Ti) is going need more power than that old 550. Regards Bob Scott | President and CEO, AVSIM Inc ATP Gulfstream II-III-IV-V Sys1 (MSFS20+24/XPlane12+11): AMD 9800X3D, water 2x240mm, MSI MPG X670E Carbon, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, nVidia RTX4090FE Alienware AW3821DW 38" 21:9 GSync, 2x4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2x2TB Samsung 990 SSD, EVGA 1000P2 PSU, 12.9" iPad Pro Thrustmaster TCA Boeing Yoke, TCA Airbus Sidestick, Twin TCA Airbus Throttle quads, PFC Cirrus Pedals, Coolermaster HAF932 case Sys2 (P3Dv5/v4): i9-13900KS, water 2x360mm, ASUS Z790 Hero, 32GB GSkill 7800MHz CAS36, ASUS RTX4090 Samsung 55" JS8500 4K TV@60Hz, 3x 2TB WD SN850X 1x 4TB Crucial P3 M.2 NVME SSD, EVGA 1600T2 PSU Fiber link to Yamaha RX-V467 Home Theater Receiver, Polk/Klipsch 6" bookshelf speakers, Polk 12" subwoofer, 12.9" iPad Pro PFC yoke/throttle quad/pedals with custom Hall sensor retrofit, Thermaltake View 71 case, Stream Deck XL button box Sys3 (DCS/P3Dv4/ATS/ETS): AMD 7800X3D, MSI MPG X870E Carbon, Noctua NH-D15S, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, EVGA RTX3090 Alienware AW3420DW 34" 21:9 GSync, Corsair HX1000i PSU, 4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2TB Samsung 970Evo Plus, TM TCA Officer Pack, Saitek combat pedals, TM Warthog, TM RS300 FF wheel/pedals, Coolermaster HAF XB case
May 29, 20188 yr Agree with Bob, right now your bottleneck is surely the GTX550. My MSFS 2020 repaints: Flightsim.to - Profile of HStreet Working on MSFS 2024 versions.
May 31, 20188 yr Agree with the above What speed is your 2600k at? | My Liveries | FAA ZMP | PPL ASEL | | Windows 11 | MSI Z690 Tomahawk | 12700K 4.7GHz | MSI RTX 4080 | 64GB 6000 MHz DDR5 | 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD | 2x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 | EVGA 850W Gold | Corsair 5000X | HP G2 (VR) / LG 27" 1440p |
May 31, 20188 yr Author I don't remember, but I'm pretty sure I overclocked it slightly after purchasing (it was 7 years ago, no changes after that). After some calculations and thoughts about my budget I decided to start with replacing HDD with SSD and adding some more RAM (up to 16 GB), and I'll try to stick with FSX. As for GPU, I think that it's still too weak for FSX since it wasn't king of the hill at times when FSX has been released, But I'm not sure that I coul afford 1070Ti right now so maybe I'll stick with 1050ti instead. What do you think?
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