August 20, 20205 yr Downloaded MSFS. It's truly a beautiful sim in all the ways FSX never was. I'm looking at components now for a new build. This will be my first, and I'm approaching it with enough budget to go a little overboard. I don't play anything else so this will be 100% a flight sim rig, and I'd like to optimize it for that. Has MSFS fixed the Intel preference that FSX always had? It may not have been true in all cases, but everyone I knew who built for FSX always said that AMD's chips just don't run as well as Intel. Given the price/performance of the Ryzens now, though, I'd 100% go that route if both will perform equally well. Here's what I have so far on the parts list.. AMD Ryzen 9 3900X CPU Gigabit Aorus Elite Motherboard EVGA RTX 2080ti GPU (debating going the twin GPU route eventually..) 2x 1TB internal SSDs Noctua NHD-15 Cooler 2x 27" 4K displays (haven't really shopped yet) For all of you in the know, are there any glaring issues with this setup? I'd like to wait out the 3080-series cards but at this point, I'm just ready to commit to something and get back in the virtual skies. Upgrades can come later.... - Steven Gigabyte Aorus Elite, Ryzen 9 5900x, MSI NVIDIA RTX 3080, 2x 27' 4K displays
August 20, 20205 yr 41 minutes ago, stmad121 said: EVGA RTX 2080ti GPU (debating going the twin GPU route eventually..) definitely wait til the 3000 series, its sooooo close. AMD path gives you pci-e 4 which might come in handy for the new nvidia cards as well. Pick up some pci-e 4 m.2's while your at it 🙂 I did.... MSFS Alpha tester on W10 Pro x64. Hardware: AMD 5900X 12 core CPU. Cooler Master ML360R AIO, Asus X570-E mobo, Asus Strix 3090 24GB gfx card, G.Skill TridentZ 64GB (4x16) DDR4-3600 RAM, Samsung 970 250GB SSD (OS), Samsung 980 Pro 1TB M.2 pcie-4 NVMe SSD (MSFS install). EVGA 850w Gold cert PSU, CUK Continuum full ATX tower. 43" Sceptre 4K display. VR: HP Reverb G2.
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