I must admit, getting a B550 board when they come out (anytime now), and throwing a 3900x in for the time being, until Zen 3 is released is looking a better and better option.  £100 for the board + £400 for the 3900x, is looking a far better option than £430 for the 10700k or £530 for the 10900k + £300 at least for a motherboard and another £100-£150 for a cooling solution for 10th gen Intel.

I have a friend who is on the Alpha for FS2020, and said it is fantastic on the 3900x.  I have a 2nd system with a Ryzen 3600 in it, and will have no qualms getting shut of my intel setup if Zen3 is as good as it's rumoured

Edited May 14, 20206 yr by Charlatan

I am open to the idea of jumping to AMD for my next computer build, which is loooooong overdue.

On 5/13/2020 at 6:58 AM, captain420 said:

If I stick with Intel's comet lake CPU which will require a Z490 motherboard that doesn't support the new PCIe 4.0 while AMD's motherboards does. And I heard that the upcoming ampere GPU's from NVIDIA will be PCIe 4.0, if that's the case, then getting a Z490 motherboard is a big waste of money.

That is not true. The motherboards DO actually support PCIe 4.0. Most of them do, anyway. What doesn't support it is the 10th gen chips. So with a 10900K you will only get PCIe 3.0 functionality. When they release the 11th gen chips, in a year, you should be able to drop them in your Z490 boards and the chip will enable the PCIe 4.0.

I think AMD maybe my choice also. First build - should be fun! Waiting on the B550's and may try rock a 3800x 🙂

Very early last year I swapped from a Xeon setup to a b450/r5 2600 setup and I recently swapped to a 570/3600 (mobo took a dump...).

 

i am happy with the performance as seen in my YouTube videos. For me, it was a cost to benefit ratio. Would a 5ghz 9900k give me more FPS? Of course. Is the difference in FPS vs the difference and cost worth it to me? No it wasn’t. If it was double the FPS, in things I play (P3D, xplane, dcs, il2 etc) I could have made the argument it was worth it to me but as it stands, I used the price difference to buy more stogies and other hobbies.

 

i will most likely grab a 47xxxx when they release the ryzen 4000’s.

Ive been using intel cpus for flightsim since the core 2 duo days, and intel has always been the fastest choice for flightsims by quite a large margin.  But with zen 2 that gap has closed quite a bit, and based on the rumors regarding zen 3 I would be very surprised if the ryzen 4900 does not take back the performance crown at least when compared to the 10900k.  If my 6600k wasnt so awful I would have waited for zen 3, but Im doing a 10900k build now because I simply don't enjoy simming with my 6600k anymore and there is always something better around the corner.  If I had an 8 core intel cpu with I would definitely not upgrade to the 10 series, with a 6 core it would depend on the experience but still most likely not.  If you are desperate like I am going with an x570 3900x build could be a good choice too, as you can keep the board but upgrade to zen 3 down the road, which really should be a great flight sim cpu unless intel surprises us with rocket lake.  

At this point it seems to me what setup we are most comfortsble

Take ur pick Intel vs AMD

for me personally sometime I'm July will be buying my new computer liked I said from 3770k oc 4.5 ghz. Niividia 780gtx

I have been loyal to intel for the last 20 yrs just waiting now to see some actual test results with FSX and of course flight simulator 2020.

 Right now I plan on going with a 10700k and 2080 super overclocked.

The real problem I am dealing with, and no I am not going to wait any longer till end of july,  since my computer crashed in feb. Yes for 10700k will be great for FSX , but then when flight simulator 2020 comes out let's say around Thanksgiving day,  how will the demographics change , will there be greater emphasis on the computer or more dependent on the graphic card?

AMD made it real difficult as of right now

Look I have a budget for 2,200 lot less when I purchased this computer with a intel 980

Also I saw the requirements for simulator 2020, but what happen we purchase all these new addons, airports, scenery, weather, etc etc

What requirements will we need then?  I know with FSX all these little extras can start making the sim look like a slide show. Help me out on this one

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm not sure at this point about going with the i9-10900K anymore. I feel like AMD is going to be the future. Anyone know when the Ryzen 4000 chips will be out?

4 hours ago, captain420 said:

I'm not sure at this point about going with the i9-10900K anymore. I feel like AMD is going to be the future. Anyone know when the Ryzen 4000 chips will be out?

No, not for certain but I am expecting them between now and Christmas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5X-8vZtml8

Worth watching.

6 hours ago, captain420 said:

...I feel like AMD is going to be the future...

It’s possible, but I’m not so sure. It is incredibly difficult to write code that allows a single application to take full advantage of really high core counts unless it is predictable activity, such as encoding a video or something similar.

Edited May 18, 20206 yr by Hyperfocal

14 hours ago, captain420 said:

I'm not sure at this point about going with the i9-10900K anymore. I feel like AMD is going to be the future. Anyone know when the Ryzen 4000 chips will be out?

My guess is september/october based on what Ive been seeing