i7-4770s GPU advice

[Flion 0]

Thanks guys! I'll probably go with GTX 1060 or eventually 1070 if I find a good deal as it seems it handles OpenGL games much better. 

 

5 hours ago, Flion said:

I will certainly buy an SSD. Since we already touched the SSD topic I would love to buy an M.2 however seems that the MB doesn't support it. Can anyone confirm that? Do I have any choices except SATA?

Any suggestions for the SSD? No M.2 on motherboard? 

[Luke 782]

18 minutes ago, Flion said:

Any suggestions for the SSD? No M.2 on motherboard? 

The only place you notice M.2 or NVMe is in the pocketbook. I upgraded from a SATA 850PRO to an M.2 NVMe 970PRO. No perceived difference.

Cheers!

[dbw1 444]

My 4770 is the K version. It is unlocked.Whatever cpu you go for think about getting a K version.

Dave

[mpw8679 428]

19 hours ago, Flion said:

Thanks guys! I'll probably go with GTX 1060 or eventually 1070 if I find a good deal as it seems it handles OpenGL games much better. 

 

Any suggestions for the SSD? No M.2 on motherboard? 

Nothing wrong with the Samsung drives.  I have used Crucial and Samsung  and have been very satisfied.  My Crucial is one of the earlier models and it is still going strong.  

[mpw8679 428]

19 hours ago, Flion said:

Thanks guys! I'll probably go with GTX 1060 or eventually 1070 if I find a good deal as it seems it handles OpenGL games much better. 

 

Any suggestions for the SSD? No M.2 on motherboard? 

Nothing wrong with the Samsung drives.  I have used Crucial and Samsung  and have been very satisfied.  My Crucial is one of the earlier models and it is still going strong.  

[Flion 0]

I eventually ended up with MSI GTX 1060 AERO ITX 3G OC and Crucial MX500 500 GB SSD. I'm very keen to try the whole setup however I'm out of my hometown for another 3 weeks which makes me increasingly impatient to find out if it will be able to sustain a playable framerates. What are your thoughts? How should I tweak the settings for this configuration?

Also I will install Win 10 from scratch. I read that FSX should be installed to C:\FSX. Any other useful suggestions?

[jmdriskell 178]

I'd put FSX on a separate SSD.

 

Jim Driskell

[vortex681 806]

18 hours ago, jmdriskell said:

I'd put FSX on a separate SSD.

 

Jim Driskell

Why? The old advice about keeping FSX separate was more for HDDs to prevent the drive becoming fragmented and slowing down loading the sim. Modern SSDs are so fast that it's not a problem (assuming there's enough space) having everything on the same drive.

Edited January 25, 2019 by vortex681

[jmdriskell 178]

You may be right but I've got an old box with a 1 G HDD so I installed a SSD for FSX. And the SSDs aren't very expensive.

 

Jim Driskell

[stans 702]

21 hours ago, vortex681 said:

Why? The old advice about keeping FSX separate was more for HDDs to prevent the drive becoming fragmented and slowing down loading the sim. Modern SSDs are so fast that it's not a problem (assuming there's enough space) having everything on the same drive.

Quite true, so long as you have space on a SSD.  With SSD's, the only reason to put FSX on a separate SSD is for drive space consideration.