Hi fellas, I've not been around thje forum for a while, and to be honest, I have not been doing very much simming either. After 12 years, the flame of FSX and P3D has been fading. However, with the newly to be relased MSFS2020 on the horizon, it has certainly stirred in me some small excitement. With this in mind, I have decided, depending on advice received, whether to upgrade my hardware or not. I'm currently running and i7 6700 with 16gb of RAM and a 1080ti. There is no real advantage IMO of replacing the fantastic 1080ti, certailny not with a 2080ti which would require a mortgage, rediculous price! Anyhow, I may, yet to be convinced upgrade the RAM to 32Gb, will have to wait and see, but I really want to investigate upgrading the CPU to perhaps the i7 9800X, which is the ideal spec CPU from MS for 2020. So... would this be a good purchase and if so, would I see a reasonable performance boost from my i7 6700 which is running at 4.5Ghz? I'd hope to have a CPU that ran at a high speed out of the box, with boost enabled in the BIOS to get the best from it. Also, if I purchased this CPU, what would be a good, reasonably priced MB that would also accommodate my 1080Ti? Although I'm reasonably hardware savvy, I'm by far an expert, so help woud be appreciated. Cheers fellas.

Edited July 16, 20205 yr by Rockliffe

Personally, I'd wait until after release to see how Simzilla actually scales up with CPU speed and core count.  Given that it's not supposed to be based on the well-understood ESP engine, all the old assumptions on CPU vs GPU no longer apply.  I'd have to have some good justification right now to go with an X299 system, given that the new 10-core 10900K can pretty reliably hit 5+ GHz on all cores.  The X299 systems have one major difference--memory bandwidth with a quad-channel config vs dual-channel on the socket 1200/1151/1155 boards.  It remains to be seen if that makes a significant difference.

 

6 hours ago, w6kd said:

Personally, I'd wait until after release to see how Simzilla actually scales up with CPU speed and core count.  Given that it's not supposed to be based on the well-understood ESP engine, all the old assumptions on CPU vs GPU no longer apply.  I'd have to have some good justification right now to go with an X299 system, given that the new 10-core 10900K can pretty reliably hit 5+ GHz on all cores.  The X299 systems have one major difference--memory bandwidth with a quad-channel config vs dual-channel on the socket 1200/1151/1155 boards.  It remains to be seen if that makes a significant difference.

 

Cheers Bob, appreciated.

Howard, I would definitely wait on the system upgrade. There are new CPU's from both AMD and Intel as well as new GPU's all before the end of the year. You system maybe getting older but its by no means slow.

Howard, I'd wait on any upgrades.  Your system falls between the MSFS recommended and ideal specs, so you might be ok with what you have.  You won't be able to turn the eye candy to full, but in your case, I say try MSFS on your current system and see if it will be adequate.