March 4, 20233 yr Hi everyone, hope I'm posting this in the right place. I haven't upgraded my display yet so I'm using a Samsung curved 27" monitor for now. I only have an old Thrustmaster but want to upgrade that too if feasible. New machine is: Win 11 Home Intel i7-12700KF Processor Deepcool AK620 CPU Cooler ASUS ROG Strix Z690-F MB MSI Geforce 3060 Ventus 3X 12GB VRAM 32 GB DDR5 Pair of 970 EVO plus 1TB PCIe drives Deepcool AK620 EVGA SuperNova 750 Watt P/S
March 4, 20233 yr Author Should have added.. want to make sure before I purchase and download from MS
March 5, 20233 yr If you can get a better GPU like a 40 series ATP MEL,CFI,CFII,MEI. Type Ratings B-737, ERJ-190,ERJ-170
March 5, 20233 yr Author 47 minutes ago, z06z33 said: If you can get a better GPU like a 40 series The price jump to a 40 was nuts, tried to keep it within a budget. Thanks for the input, I will purchase the sim and see how it goes. Now I have to make ISO files from my old sims as the new box doesn't have an optical drive!
March 5, 20233 yr Moderator 4 minutes ago, YYZ said: Now I have to make ISO files from my old sims as the new box doesn't have an optical drive! Portable USB CD drives are cheap. 👍 Ray (Cheshire, England). System: P3D v5.3HF2, Intel i9-13900K, MSI 4090 GAMING X TRIO 24G, Crucial T700 4Tb M.2 SSD, Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Hero, 32Gb Corsair Vengeance DDR5 6000Mhz RAM, Win 11 Pro 64-bit, BenQ PD3200U 32” UHD monitor, Fulcrum One yoke, Fulcrum Throttle Quadrant. Cheadle Hulme Weather website.
March 5, 20233 yr Author 12 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said: Portable USB CD drives are cheap. 👍 Yes, I have to order one Ray, but it's a Sunday afternoon and my old machine has an optical drive and is still running. I wanted to make backups anyway. I was able to get MS Combat FS 1, 2 & 3 running on the old machine and want to try on the new one. It took quite a bit of tweaking under Windows 10, hopefully I can coax Win 11 to allow the same.
March 6, 20233 yr Pinto aka YYZ what is your budget? One thing I notice, you have specc'ed a lower-price level system, but then included DDR5 RAM which is more expensive. You don't necessarily /need/ DDR5 if you're on a budget, although it's coming down in price and I'm not going to discourage you from getting DDR5 if your mind is set on it. To get MS Combat FS 1, 2,3 you might need to use an emulator, especially CFS1. There's some nostalgia. Welcome back! Rhett 7800X3D ♣ 96 GB G.Skill Flare ♣ Gigabyte 4090 ♣ Crucial P5 Plus 2TB
March 6, 20233 yr Author My budget was to try and keep things at $2k for the machine, didn't need peripherals. I checked many web sites for what was needed to run MSFS fairly well and I believe I hit those spec. Even according to the MS website. I ended up at $2100 + HST. This is in Canada. The next issue I'm having is trying to buy the sim!! Can't do it from the MS website as I'm not in the US, Best Buy Canada servers won't connect so now I guess I will try Steam. As far as CFS 1 on my old Win 10 machine, I didn't need to run it via an emulator so that was nice..
March 6, 20233 yr 1 hour ago, YYZ said: The next issue I'm having is trying to buy the sim!! Can't do it from the MS website as I'm not in the US Huh? This confuses me. Myself and numerous other Canadian MSFS users have no problem transacting with the MS Store for our purchases. [email protected] - ROG Strix Z790-E - 2X16Gb G.Skill Trident DDR5 6400 CL32 - MSI RTX 4090 Suprim X - WD SN850X 2 TB M.2 - XPG S70 Blade 2 TB M.2 - MSI A1000G PCIE5 1000 W 80+ Gold PSU - Liam Li 011 Dynamic Razer case - 58" Panasonic TC-58AX800U 4K - Pico 4 VR HMD - WinWing HOTAS Orion2 MAX - ProFlight Pedals - TrackIR 5 - W11 Pro (Passmark:12574, CPU:63110-Single:4785, GPU:50688)
March 6, 20233 yr Author 6 minutes ago, odourboy said: Huh? This confuses me. Myself and numerous other Canadian MSFS users have no problem transacting with the MS Store for our purchases. It won't allow me to process the purchase.. even though I have an account and have purchased Office 365 subscriptions and the Win 11 OS. Credit card on file. I know, it's strange. Made sure my VPN was off, tried it with it on. Not a major deal, I'll get it purchased this week when I have a few minutes to try again
March 30, 20233 yr On 3/5/2023 at 9:27 AM, YYZ said: The price jump to a 40 was nuts, tried to keep it within a budget. Thanks for the input, I will purchase the sim and see how it goes. Now I have to make ISO files from my old sims as the new box doesn't have an optical drive! If you haven’t already purchased the 3060 why don’t you see what you can pick up a 3090 for? Even a gently used one could be an option. Look at my specs in my signature, I run 4K at mainly ultra settings on a 55 inch Sony X90K and can maintain a solid 45 fps in the Fenix or PMDG, if I am flying less demanding aircraft then 60 fps is also achievable I’m not sure a 3060 would be a good pair with a 12700K. I also purchased from the MS Store as well with no issues Richard i7-12700K | Noctua NH-D15S Black Version | MSI Pro Z690 - A | 32 GB DDR4 3600 | Gigabyte Gaming OC 4090 | 1TB WD Blue NMVe (MSFS 2020) | 500 GB WD Black Gen 4 NVMe | 4TB WD Black Conventional | Fractal Design Torrent Case | Seasonic 1000W Gold Plus PSU | Thrustmaster Boeing Yoke | Honeycomb Throttle | Airbus Side Stick | Virpil Rudder Pedals | Sony X90K 55 Inch TV |
March 30, 20233 yr Author 6 hours ago, RJC68 said: If you haven’t already purchased the 3060 why don’t you see what you can pick up a 3090 for? Even a gently used one could be an option. Look at my specs in my signature, I run 4K at mainly ultra settings on a 55 inch Sony X90K and can maintain a solid 45 fps in the Fenix or PMDG, if I am flying less demanding aircraft then 60 fps is also achievable I’m not sure a 3060 would be a good pair with a 12700K. I also purchased from the MS Store as well with no issues I went with the GeForce RTX™ 3060 VENTUS 3X 12G OC and so far it's been a great match. Appreciate the input!!
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