4 minutes ago, jozeff said:

Thanks a lot!

 

Because of your advice I'm not planning on buying the reverb.

You convinced me I need a 2080ti and that is really not in my budget.

As I mentioned above I'm looking for the following to accompany my Rift S. Would that work?

i7 9700 k

MSI Z390-A PRO motherboard

Msi 2070 super

32gb 3200 Kingston memory

Thanks for your useful advice!!

 

A VR flight experience is for fun, a few hours a week. My wife gets hickups when she sees the 2080ti prices 😄😄

 

Jozeff

 

 

 

 

 

That's the reason why I bought a second hand Titan and on water I have near the same performance for 1/4 of a new 2080ti and without it, Bye,bye Reverb...

Edited October 6, 20196 yr by simba_nl

6 hours ago, jozeff said:

Thanks a lot!

 

Because of your advice I'm not planning on buying the reverb.

You convinced me I need a 2080ti and that is really not in my budget.

As I mentioned above I'm looking for the following to accompany my Rift S. Would that work?

i7 9700 k

MSI Z390-A PRO motherboard

Msi 2070 super

32gb 3200 Kingston memory

Thanks for your useful advice!!

 

A VR flight experience is for fun, a few hours a week. My wife gets hickups when she sees the 2080ti prices 😄😄

 

Jozeff

 

 

 

 

 

I think you will do very well what you have there should be a well matched Rift-S system for simulation. The 9700k is perfect (try to set up a system where you can overclock it) and you haven't wasted your money on a 9900k because hyperthreading is unnecessary on 8 cores.

You will need to supersample the Rift-S to 1.5 as joepoway says and that should be very doable with the 2070super because I could even dial in 1.5 on a 1080. The 2080TI is simply a rip off no question so avoid that.

The 8GB VRAM is good enough for the quality of the Rift-S display since you will still be restricting the scenery settings to suit the limitations of the Rift-S display (which will still be very very enjoyable experience) and so won't hit the memory wall.

The problem with the HP Reverb is that since it is just 110FOV with good clarity, you are very quickly going to get frustrated to compensate the sameness of the 110FOV experience so will start cranking up the scenery settings to appreciate the clarity of the screen and then you will quickly hit the wall again on only having 8GB VRAM and minimum spec GPU.

@jozeff,

     Well, I am going to go against the above advice ( because this is what is successful for me ) and say that a 9700K guaranteed to run at 5.0Ghz from SiliconLottery (  https://siliconlottery.com/collections/coffeelake-r/products/9700k50g?variant=12795305361494 ) , a CPU cooler like Corsair H115i PRO Liquid CPU Cooler, and an ASUS ROG Maximus XI Mobo. plus an RTX2070 (Super??) along with the clearest for flight simulation headset, the HP Reverb runs P3D, Aerofly FS2, IL-2, and Xplane11 at a steady 45fps with SteamVR reprojection=auto. This is with WIn 10 build 1903 with ALL KB fixes (and latest WMR Portal )  and SteamVR beta.

    I used as my test the Aerofly Q400 airliner (same results with the P3D QW787 ) and wanted to be able to clearly (no guessing) read the PFD in front of the right seat sitting in the left seat. I also wanted to be able to easily use the flight management CDU without leaning in. All text is clear as are the instrument panel graphics. Also, the terrain items - buildings and trees look like they do on a monitor. Yes, there are problems with clarity away from 50% of the FOV, but I just turn my head. I'm not going to discuss the other pros and cons - but just wanted to say that I am very satisfied with this newest VR experience because I don't fuss with SuperSampling - just set it to 2160x2016 (currently 96%). I just have an RTX2070 because I assembled this PC 6 months ago and the 2070 was "affordable" - I do overclock it to GPU clock of 2000 Mhz and a mem clock of 7800Mhz - runs fine and stays at 60 to 70 deg C with just air cooling. I really haven't had problems with 8gb of memory - I'm sure it depends on the complexity of the scenery. I like to fly ORBX scenery quite a bit.

 

Good luck in your choices - I'm sure you will end up with a much improved experience (I just focused on clarity - 2160x2160 RGB Stripe per eye )

 

Dave W.

 

 

 

Edited October 7, 20196 yr by whitav8