Hi guys,

I am thinking about upgrading my system and I could use some advice. My current system is a 6600K oc@3,9GHz, RTX 1070 and 32GB ram. I am mainly flying P3DV4 but wouldn't mind either switching to P3DV5 or MSFS, although I would be happy staying on P3DV5 with better frames and better graphics. As I am working from home, I have a 49' screen with a restitution 5120 * 1440. When I recently took the FLS Labs out for a spin, I had an average of 15 fps at Aerosoft's Frankfurt with Active Sky and AIG traffic running in the back. I am mainly looking for a better GPU but would also look into adding a new CPU, if you think this might also help. I would like to spend less and 1.000 Euro. Would you have any recommendations? Any other software or games I am running does not factor in for my decision.

Any advice is highly appreciated. Thank you😀

Something like this https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/rZjxGL but reuse your existing graphics card for now until the RTX 4000 series is out. That brings you into a budget of around €1400. If you want to future proof for further upgrades you'll want to go for a DDR5 motherboard and RAM, but at this time it's a lot more expensive and doesn't perform any better.

Edited September 8, 20223 yr by ckyliu

Don't Buy a Graphics Card for More than $500 Right Now | Tom's Hardware (tomshardware.com)

On 9/11/2022 at 4:02 AM, G-RFRY said:

Don't Buy a Graphics Card for More than $500 Right Now | Tom's Hardware (tomshardware.com)

Sounds like a month or two will be the sweet spot for buying a new system at more reasonable prices?  I've been meaning to upgrade for years but never got around to it.  Had a good setup with P3D and have been wanting to move over to MSFS but wanted to wait a bit for the bugs to get worked out and more developers to come out with their stuff especially aircraft.  Done some reading lately and it seems like things are pretty stable now and more products are coming out.

Prices for DDR5 are dropping. And it isn't true that DDR5 doesn't perform better than DDR4 -- see https://www.techreviewer.com/tech-answers/ddr4-vs-ddr5/ for example.

On 9/12/2022 at 11:03 AM, sfgiants13 said:

Sounds like a month or two will be the sweet spot for buying a new system at more reasonable prices?  I've been meaning to upgrade for years but never got around to it.  Had a good setup with P3D and have been wanting to move over to MSFS but wanted to wait a bit for the bugs to get worked out and more developers to come out with their stuff especially aircraft.  Done some reading lately and it seems like things are pretty stable now and more products are coming out.

There are a lot of quality aircraft now.  You got your PMDG, Fenix A320, Milviz C310, FSW C414, SWS Kodiak and rv14, plus your GTN mods like the TDS GTN Xi and PMS GTN.  A company called Working Title (who is now contracted by Microsoft) is totally upgrading default G1000, G3000 and GNS units for free). Plus a billion airport addons hehe.   But yes I'd wait on a video card and maybe an entire system build for the new AMD series 7 X3D CPU.  Right now the 5800X3D is dominating MSFS even far better than the 12900K.  I just did a Z690 ddr5 build with the 12700K in Feb and I'm a little sad with CPU envy lol.  12700k is a quality cpu too though!  I got mine at microcenter for about 350 usd.

 

 

 

With respect to the Garmin nav units in MSFS; is the nav data able to be updated, via the likes of Navigraph, or is it still kneecapped with an ancient Garmin trainer airac cycle that the 3rd party add ons are limited to ?
 

 

Edited September 17, 20223 yr by cowpatz

On 9/15/2022 at 4:11 PM, ryanbatc said:

There are a lot of quality aircraft now.  You got your PMDG, Fenix A320, Milviz C310, FSW C414, SWS Kodiak and rv14, plus your GTN mods like the TDS GTN Xi and PMS GTN.  A company called Working Title (who is now contracted by Microsoft) is totally upgrading default G1000, G3000 and GNS units for free). Plus a billion airport addons hehe.   But yes I'd wait on a video card and maybe an entire system build for the new AMD series 7 X3D CPU.  Right now the 5800X3D is dominating MSFS even far better than the 12900K.  I just did a Z690 ddr5 build with the 12700K in Feb and I'm a little sad with CPU envy lol.  12700k is a quality cpu too though!  I got mine at microcenter for about 350 usd.

 

 

 

Yeah looks like I may jump next month when the new cards and cpu get released. They look solid. Never really looked into amd but man those CPU’s look nice. 

CPUs and Memory Sales Drop Dramatically As PC Market Slows | Tom's Hardware (tomshardware.com)

The desktop PC market is in decline and could be like most things going into recession, 

Edited September 21, 20223 yr by G-RFRY