Just now, Ianrivaldosmith said:

I run xplane too, and gsync completely eradicated screen tearing. Allows for an unlocked FPS. 

Understood.

I have a 9900k and a 1080ti msi lightning z
 

which now with. Dx12 it should be running quite well.

even for msfs 2020 

i don’t see why people feel the need to upgrade every year lol for a small gain.

i myself upgrade every 4 years.

Each  to their own I guess.

mike

4 hours ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

My cpu is 9900KS @5GHZ. Would it still be a bottleneck? 

Now you're just bragging 😅

I'm following this thread with interest, I'm using a GTX1070 and a i7 7700k @ 4.8Ghz...my plan was (is still?) to wait for MSTS to do an upgrade but I'll be interested to see if anything in P3Dv5 makes it worthwhile to expedite it.

7 minutes ago, regis9 said:

I'm following this thread with interest, I'm using a GTX1070 and a i7 7700k @ 4.8Ghz...my plan was (is still?) to wait for MSTS to do an upgrade but I'll be interested to see if anything in P3Dv5 makes it worthwhile to expedite it.

I think you're ok to run MSTS...  😉
 

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You can update your PC, but why now when the MSFS hardware requirements have not been revealed?
IMO, that potentially puts you in a position where you've upgraded for v5, and may need to subsequently upgrade further for MSFS.
Only my opinion, however.

6 hours ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

My cpu is 9900KS @5GHZ. Would it still be a bottleneck?

I have a 8086K at 5.3ghz and a 2080ti and they are very well balanced.

Unless you want to do the kind of tweaks Rob does I wouldn't spend

a $1000 to go from a 2080ti to a Titan RTX.

That's a $1000 that could be far better spent on lets say quite the VR headset for example.

The question remains. Why does Rob do those tweaks?

I'll guess the answer is because he can.

I am CPU bottlenecked I know in test but will what till later this year as I may go strait to the 490 motherboard and CPU, but will wait to see them tested first that should be in may-June . 

6 hours ago, micstatic said:

I suspect VRAM is going to be a big deal in the future for our hobby.  

I've always been of the mind that VRAM was of prime importance for us.  I've felt that way and built rigs for people with that philosophy, if the machine was going to be used for FS, anyway.

 

2 hours ago, F737NG said:

I think you're ok to run MSTS...  😉

LOL oops, yes I think I’m actually over qualified for MSTS.

2 hours ago, F737NG said:

You can update your PC, but why now when the MSFS hardware requirements have not been revealed?
IMO, that potentially puts you in a position where you've upgraded for v5, and may need to subsequently upgrade further for MSFS.
Only my opinion, however.

It’s a solid opinion and most likely the path I’ll stay on.  

For now and for a while to come 11GB of VRAM is plenty.😁

hah.  Yeah.  Makes sense.  

1 hour ago, Rob_Ainscough said:

A trick question!  😉  Only you can really answer it.  If you have the disposable income, go for it as Flight Simulators (MSFS, XP, P3D) can be made to use more than 11GB VRAM provided you have the CPU to feed it.

I agree and some are hopping the new 30 series will be cheaper, I don't about the same I would say at least.

2 hours ago, Rob_Ainscough said:

I have no idea and have asked that question many times.  VRAM really isn't that expensive and the GPUs can use and address it ... here are 2019 prices for DDR6 VRAM.  $55-$75 for 8GB, $110-$150 for 16GB, $220-$300 for 32GB VRAM ... 2080Ti 11GB $1200 ... Titan RTX 24GB $2400 ... how did 13GB of extra VRAM cost $1200 when it's actually only about $100 more??

If it looks like..........and smell like........................It is.....................!😂

2 hours ago, Rob_Ainscough said:

two waters please 🙂

Awesome! a flight simmer who can get a date.🤣

3 hours ago, Rob_Ainscough said:

A trick question!  😉  Only you can really answer it.  If you have the disposable income, go for it as Flight Simulators (MSFS, XP, P3D) can be made to use more than 11GB VRAM provided you have the CPU to feed it.

I have no idea and have asked that question many times.  VRAM really isn't that expensive and the GPUs can use and address it ... here are 2019 prices for DDR6 VRAM.  $55-$75 for 8GB, $110-$150 for 16GB, $220-$300 for 32GB VRAM ... 2080Ti 11GB $1200 ... Titan RTX 24GB $2400 ... how did 13GB of extra VRAM cost $1200 when it's actually only about $100 more??

Possibly, they want people to buy their next card.  Many people (not necessarily any of us reading this at AVSIM, because we're the 1%) would have less impetus to buy new video card.

Take, for example, the 2080ti.  It ships with 11GB VRAM.  What if it instead shipped with 16GB?  You can bet a lot of people would not bother upgrading later this year.  *We* probably would, because that's how we are... 😁  ...but I can see a lot  of people not bothering, or delaying it, if these cards shipped with more vram.   Planned obsolesence, if you will.   Just a random thought of mine as I read everyone's posts about this...

 

14 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

That's fine if you prefer wide-aspect to high res. Purely personal thing. I haven't even bothered about GSync. At 30fps everything seems fine. Maybe it's needed for games but as I don't play them it's not a concern.

Gsync is not just about getting high fps, more than it is for smoothness.  Your 30 fps can drop down to 15 when gpu and monitor go out of sync...

2 hours ago, Rob_Ainscough said:

Shhhhh ... don't tell my wife!

Cheers, Rob.

My God! A flight simmer with a wife! You must have kept it a secret until she married you! 😆