Hello, i will ask your advise for the upcoming CPU Upgrade for my exclusive MSFS 2020PC,

Three Options i get and please Give me your Priority Advise.

1. Intel Core i7-12700k 390, ASROCK Z690 PRO RS 188

2. Intel Core i7-12700k 390, ASUS PRIME Z690-P wifi D4 239

3. Intel Core i7-12700k 390, ASUS ROG STRIX Z 690-G Gaming wifi 335

My Graphics Card is RTX 3070ti

32 GB Ram

Thank you in Advance

 

These boards don't make really a difference to your performance.

Advice on prioty? Price, amount/type of board connections, features, bios menu familiarity, brand loyalty, mayby even looks. 

It might, or might not, be useful to know from what you intend to upgrade.
The chipset on all three proposed choices is the same, so as above, make
your own choice based on what other features you feel that you need.

Would you consider AMD instead?  The Ryzen 5800x3D is the best CPU you can buy for MSFS right now.

The ASUS ROG STRIX Z 690-G supports DDR5, the other cards are DDR4. You will need te replace your existing DDR4 RAM for this board

39 minutes ago, Virtual-Chris said:

Would you consider AMD instead?  The Ryzen 5800x3D is the best CPU you can buy for MSFS right now.

Interesting. Any proof for this claim? Is it even better than 12900KS? I am looking for the BEST CPU for MSFS.

Do not bother with anything ASROCK.

23 minutes ago, yanfeng12342000 said:

Interesting. Any proof for this claim? Is it even better than 12900KS? I am looking for the BEST CPU for MSFS.

Doesn’t the 5800x3D perform best in every game? It’s widely been hailed as the ultimate MSFS CPU for months due to the massive L3 cache.

 

Edited August 14, 20223 yr by Virtual-Chris

42 minutes ago, willy647 said:

The ASUS ROG STRIX Z 690-G supports DDR5, the other cards are DDR4. You will need te replace your existing DDR4 RAM for this board

Thanks, I had not spotted that, I stand corrected.
I note that DDR 5 is eye-wateringly expensive too and it would probably make no detectable difference to MSFS.

14 minutes ago, Virtual-Chris said:

Doesn’t the 5800x3D perform best in every game? It’s widely been hailed as the ultimate MSFS CPU for months due to the massive L3 cache.

 

This really looks impressive. How is its VR performance?

1 hour ago, Virtual-Chris said:

Would you consider AMD instead?  The Ryzen 5800x3D is the best CPU you can buy for MSFS right now.

I see good feedback for users at 1080 and 1440, but does it do better than a 5900x at resolutions higher than that?  

1 hour ago, willy647 said:

The ASUS ROG STRIX Z 690-G supports DDR5, the other cards are DDR4. You will need te replace your existing DDR4 RAM for this board

That's a good point. So it would be future proof for DDR5. But most probably you would update your CPU in combination with jumping to DDR5 in the future. Who know what socket and chipsets those require. 

Edited August 14, 20223 yr by bigifooti

55 minutes ago, yanfeng12342000 said:

This really looks impressive. How is its VR performance?

 

2 hours ago, Virtual-Chris said:

Would you consider AMD instead?  The Ryzen 5800x3D is the best CPU you can buy for MSFS right now.

Hi, if I go with the Ryzen 5800x3D do I need to upgrade anything else?

3 hours ago, GeoSkyman said:

Hello, i will ask your advise for the upcoming CPU Upgrade for my exclusive MSFS 2020PC,

Three Options i get and please Give me your Priority Advise.

1. Intel Core i7-12700k 390, ASROCK Z690 PRO RS 188

2. Intel Core i7-12700k 390, ASUS PRIME Z690-P wifi D4 239

3. Intel Core i7-12700k 390, ASUS ROG STRIX Z 690-G Gaming wifi 335

My Graphics Card is RTX 3070ti

32 GB Ram

Thank you in Advance

 

If that's a rig specifically for MSFS, go AMD. Their CPUs are vastly superior to Intel's now, at least for what MSFS needs.

1 hour ago, GeoSkyman said:

 

Hi, if I go with the Ryzen 5800x3D do I need to upgrade anything else?

I would suggest a B550 board (brand and form factor of your choice - I like the Asus TUF boards) and a 32GB set of 3600 C16 RAM. You will also need a cooler. I have the Arctic Freezer II 280. 

Edited August 14, 20223 yr by Virtual-Chris