I’ve been away from flight summing for a few years now and want to get back into it. I’m purchasing a new system and I would like to know if these specs are good or overkill. I’ll be running p3dv4, PMDG products and maybe soon MSFS.   Advise would be appreciated. 

CPU: Intel® Core™ Processor i7-10700K 8/16 3.80GHz [Turbo 5.1GHz] 16MB Cache LGA1200

MOTHERBOARD:  GIGABYTE Z490 AORUS EXTREME E-ATX, ARGB, WIFI 6, Aquantia 10GbE+ 2.5GbE Dual LAN, 3 PCIe x16, 6 SATA3, 3x M.2 SATA/PCIe, TB3

RAM / System Memory: 32GB (8GBx4) DDR4/4000MHz Dual Channel Memory (GSKILL Trident Z RGB)

VIDEO CARD: GeForce RTX™ 3080 10GB GDDR6X (Ampere) [VR Ready] (Single Card)

Primary Hard Drive: 1TB WD Blue Series SATA-III 6 GB/s SSD - Seq R/W: Up to 545/525 MB/s, Rnd R/W up to 100/80k (1TB x 2 (1TB Capacity) RAID 1 Performance with Data Security)

Thank you

John

Looks like a nice system, just make sure you get a power unit that is sufficient. Enjoy!

Cheers

Martin

Looks good, I'm sure you'll be very happy with it, just some comments...

That's a seriously expensive motherboard, do you need 10Gbe or Wifi6? You could save some cash by going for a 'lesser' board. The money saved could go towards a CPU upgrade (10900k?).

That motherboard (and most Z490 boards) has NVMe m2 slots, going for a couple of NVMe SSDs instead of the SATA SSDs would speed things up a bit. It should support the RAID config as well if you want it.

And as Martin said... don't skimp on the power supply.

Food for thought...

25 minutes ago, iwebber said:

Looks good, I'm sure you'll be very happy with it, just some comments...

That's a seriously expensive motherboard, do you need 10Gbe or Wifi6? You could save some cash by going for a 'lesser' board. The money saved could go towards a CPU upgrade (10900k?).

That motherboard (and most Z490 boards) has NVMe m2 slots, going for a couple of NVMe SSDs instead of the SATA SSDs would speed things up a bit. It should support the RAID config as well if you want it.

And as Martin said... don't skimp on the power supply.

Food for thought...

Thanks. Yes I chose a good power supply.  I also have this motherboard as an alternate option and it’s a little cheaper. 
 

ASUS ROG Maximus XII Hero WiFi 6 ATX, ARGB, Aqtion 5GbE+ Intel 2.5GbE Dual LAN, 3 PCIe x16, 3 PCIe x1, 6 SATA3, 3x M.2 SATA/PCIe

John

7 minutes ago, JohnOmaha said:

Thanks. Yes I chose a good power supply.  I also have this motherboard as an alternate option and it’s a little cheaper. 
 

ASUS ROG Maximus XII Hero WiFi 6 ATX, ARGB, Aqtion 5GbE+ Intel 2.5GbE Dual LAN, 3 PCIe x16, 3 PCIe x1, 6 SATA3, 3x M.2 SATA/PCIe

John

maximus XII hero is a good mobo, just got one myself..

have you considered the 10850K?

9 minutes ago, kevinfirth said:

maximus XII hero is a good mobo, just got one myself..

have you considered the 10850K?

No I haven’t, I’ll take any advise I can get. I’m a little rusty with the new tech as I’ve been using apple products lately.

John

Looks like your new rig will  be able to run any darn sim out there... Good Luck! 

I may actually purchase a PC with  similar specs to run the MSFS2020 beast. 

BTW.  You are asking for advice (a noun)  Someone will advise you on a new rig. (a verb).  Sorry.  My better half is a retired English teacher.🙄

 

14 minutes ago, JohnOmaha said:

No I haven’t, I’ll take any advise I can get.

Good summary of the Comet processor line up!

 

I would get the 10850K if you can since it is just as good as the 10900K but cheaper. 

Looks great!  Congrats