July 15, 20205 yr My build is a few years old: i7-6700K, GTX 980 TI, 16GB ram, a bunch of 256 GB SSDs, BenQ 4K monitor For MSFS 2020, the specs are right around what they're recommending, but I'd like to upgrade in the next year. If I were to upgrade now, I'd be looking at: CPU: 10700K, 10900K, or Ryzen 3900X GPU: 2070 Super 16-32 GB Ram 1TB SSD Sounds like it might be worth waiting for the 3070/80 (or for the prices to drop on the 2070/80). I could also wait for prices to come down on the Intel chips or for the Ryzen 4000 series. Any thoughts? I could get a larger SSD now, and wait on everything else. Or just upgrade the CPU/mobo now and wait on the GPU.
July 15, 20205 yr 49 minutes ago, nyfirefly11 said: Sounds like it might be worth waiting for the 3070/80 (or for the prices to drop on the 2070/80). ^^^ Yes -- and these are slated to come out in Sept/Oct so I'd wait on the vidcard. Newer sims are using the gpu a lot more than in the past, so, gpu is more important than ever for us. Rhett 7800X3D ♣ 96 GB G.Skill Flare ♣ Gigabyte 4090 ♣ Crucial P5 Plus 2TB
July 15, 20205 yr Wait for the 30xx card because benchmarks show an insane increase in performance compared to the current 20xx cards.
July 15, 20205 yr 18 minutes ago, YVRDXBLHR said: Wait for the 30xx card because benchmarks show an insane increase in performance compared to the current 20xx cards. I would take that with a pinch of salt, no real benchmarks have been released. Raymond Fry.
July 16, 20205 yr I'm in the same boat, same cpu with 16gb memory and a GTX 2060. Am thinking of upgrading to the i9 10900k with 32 GB and keeping my video card. Any thoughts?
July 16, 20205 yr Just upgrade your computer and use a bit of common sense. Sure, if there's a new thing coming out tomorrow, then maybe wait 24 hours, but all this 'Dude, wait for the new sex bomb 9000 to come out, it'll be awesome' stuff which people suggest all the time is just a load of b*ll*cks. If you wait for the latest thing these people suggest, by the time that's out there'll be another 'latest thing' which they're then suggesting you should wait for. If you listen to all that cr@p, you'd never buy anything ever again. Edited July 16, 20205 yr by Chock Alan Bradbury Check out my youtube flight sim videos: Here
July 16, 20205 yr Author Thanks all, appreciate the thoughts (Chock, I hear you 🙂 What about the 3900X vs the 10900K? I’m guessing we don’t have real benchmarks for MSFS 2020 yet, but looking at other benchmarks, and reading Anandtech, I’m not sure the best way to go (the review says the 3900X is close to the 10900K in single thread, beats it in multi thread, lower in power consumption, and easier to cool). Let me know if this has been covered in another thread...
July 16, 20205 yr https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/intel-to-share-‘something-big’-on-september-2nd.html Raymond Fry.
July 17, 20205 yr 15 hours ago, nyfirefly11 said: What about the 3900X vs the 10900K? I’m guessing we don’t have real benchmarks for MSFS 2020 yet, but looking at other benchmarks, and reading Anandtech, I’m not sure the best way to go (the review says the 3900X is close to the 10900K in single thread, beats it in multi thread, lower in power consumption, and easier to cool). Likely depends on what you need your PC for. For mostly single-threaded games like all flight sims seem to be the 10900K is going to come out on top in terms of absolute numbers. But it costs considerably more than a 3900X. The 3900X will deliver more productivity gains but you'd need to decide if that's something that actually matters to you. If you're going AMD and purely just gaming not sure you'd need to go with the 3900X as something like the 3700X would get you very similar actual game performance for considerably cheaper which you could then direct towards more RAM, better GPU, etc. Also AMD will probably be delivering Zen 3 CPUs some time this year so going with a cheaper Zen 2 could save some money towards upgrading later next year if you wanted to upgrade now. At least if you decide to upgrade now with AMD and get a X570 or B550 mobo you can be sure that you can drop a Zen 3 processor into it next year if you do want to refresh with an even better CPU - this is what I did anyway as I needed to update my PC now. If you're thinking to upgrade next year then maybe hold on and see what comes from Intel & AMD over the next while. Either way definitely want to wait a bit on the GPU side as now would be a terrible time to buy.
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