Hi folks,

There are so many options and combinations that are way above my pay-grade and your help is greatly appreciated for building a new PC for my son running P3D and the new MSFS2020.

 

This is what was suggested and the price is no object:

 

 

Motherboard:

MSI MEG Z490 GODLIKE WIFI

 

 

Processor:

INTEL CORE i9 10900k 10C/20T 5.3GHz

 

 

Memory:

(4x16GB) G.SKILL TRIDENT Z NEO- DDR4 3600MHZ MEMORY 64GB

 

 

Memory Watercooling:

Watercooled Memory

 

 

Power Supply:

1200W PLATINUM POWER SUPPLY

 

 

Sound Cards:

Onboard Audio

 

 

Graphics Card:

NVIDIA RTX 2080Ti 11GB GDDR6 WATERCOOLED

 

 

m.2 SSD:

XIDAX PERFORMANCE NVME M.2 1TB

 

 

 

CPU Cooling:

Xidax CPU X-Block Watercooling

 

 

Reservoir 1 - Strand 1:

Phanteks Glacier R220 RGB Reservoir

 

 

Thank you!

That is going to be one heck of an expensive rig.... and should run any flightsim release as well as can be done with current hardware..

Edited July 1, 20205 yr by Bert Pieke

Thanks Bert, I'm trying to do my homework.

38 minutes ago, killthespam said:

Thanks Bert, I'm trying to do my homework.

You said that the budget is is of no concern, but this is a very expensive system..

I'll let others weigh in..

Bert, that's fine, I'm looking for advice. All what I want is not to get something that I pay lots of money and is not good.

Thanks.

Edited July 2, 20205 yr by killthespam

Conventional wisdom suggests having multiple SSDs, one for OS, one for flight sim sw, and maybe even one for scenery outside of the flight sim Drive.  Some folks put XP, FSX, P3D, etc on different drives.

19 minutes ago, ncngrr said:

Conventional wisdom suggests having multiple SSDs, one for OS, one for flight sim sw, and maybe even one for scenery outside of the flight sim Drive.  Some folks put XP, FSX, P3D, etc on different drives.

With SSDs that matters a lot less..

31 minutes ago, ncngrr said:

Conventional wisdom suggests having multiple SSDs, one for OS, one for flight sim sw, and maybe even one for scenery outside of the flight sim Drive.  Some folks put XP, FSX, P3D, etc on different drives.

Is any reason for that?

Thank you!

6 hours ago, killthespam said:

...and the price is no object:

Now this is what will make this thread irresistable to many folks! 👍

The MSI MEG Z490 Godlike is a brute of a motherboard!  All top notch, but are all those bells and whistles required for a simming machine?  Techspot recently had a short article on some of the better Z490 motherboards... might be useful in nailing down what will work best for the application(s).

The Trident Z NEO is a bit of a mystery... the CAS Latency is important to determine if it is truly performance memory.  However, being a G.Skill customer for some years I'd be willing to bet the NEO is slower than the regular Trident Z at near the same price point.  The NEO has pretty lights, the regular Trident Z has better performance.

What pump is Xidax proposing to put in this system?

Finally, the 2XXX series GPU... no doubt you know the 3000 series is planned for later this year.  Possibly within a month or 3.  Decisions, decisions...

Good luck with the build and have fun!

Greg

Thank you Greg!

Thank you Rob,

Re mem timing they have only 16-18-18-36 and only watercooled, while Titan RTX 24GB VRAM it''s not. I found out that my system with NVIDIA RTX 2080Ti 11GB would be better served with some cooling system on video card. I guess time to find another vendor.

Save some money and go with the ASUS Z390 APEX Motherboard the master of OC so much so the top benchmarkers use this board as it can be used for LN OC.

That`s my next MB i have a Formula at the moment.

Edited July 2, 20205 yr by G-RFRY

Thank you Raymond!

A 1200W PSU is beyond overkill, too.  With no spinning HDDs and a single GPU, there's really no reason to go that heavy.  That's the kind of PSU you'd use with a triple-SLI rig with a five-drive RAID array from days gone bye.

Something in the 800W range would answer the mail with plenty of headroom still.

The 1TB SSD will be great for flight sim. But I would add another 500GB drive just for the OS. Then when FS2020 comes out get another 1TB drive for that. You will need the space once you start downloading additional scenery.