3060 12GB or 4060 8GB for MSFS and XP12?

[Republic DC9 234]

Hello -

My RX 6800 died after 3 years and I’ve managed to safely remove it from my “newer” 3 year old computer (I’m a little tentative about touching computer innerworkings but did install the 1070 into the 2015 Dell I’m currently simming on 🙂 )

Lovely spouse says just drop $2200 on a new rig, but being thrifty and since my 3 year old 10900K 32GB system is otherwise just fine and the new system’s single core speed isn’t much higher, I’m thinking I want to just get a $300 or less card to get me through to the next system.

I’m eyeing either the 3060 12GB or the 4060 8GB.  I really want to go back to Nvidia as even my ancient 1070 is providing fluid performance most of the time on both sims.

Questions -

1) Which in your opinion would be the better option for MSFS and XP12 (I use both regularly)?  And the upcoming MSFS 2024.

2) When installing the new card, does one just pull back slightly on the little holder thingy when pushing the card down into the motherboard slot then release to secure it (then screw the card in at the rear?)

3) Lovely spouse predicts that the motherboard slot itself is bad and a new card won’t work, but that seems unlikely?  And looks like I have 2 possible slots.

4) PSU seems to be working fine as rest of rig worked and the old RX 6800 lit up etc so it was getting power.  I have 2 power leads with 8 hole connectors on each.
 

Any help is appreciated...

Thanks,

Steve

 

 

 

 

 

[YukonPete 587]

Get a new rig! 

Edited February 18 by YukonPete

[peroni 541]

At what screen resolution do you sim with? For 1080p and 1440p the 4060 8gb will be great with both MSFS and XP 
At higher resolutions you would be better served by more VRAM

1080p is also pretty ok with the GTX1070 you already have if you want to save some cash.
Here it runs both XP and MSFS at over 40 FPS with moderate to high settings, especially in MSFS.

[Republic DC9 234]

Thank you....I’m going to go with the 3060 12GB as in XP I do run higher resolutions.

And WILL get a new rig as soon as this one dies or MSFS 2024 requires it. 🙂

5 hours ago, YukonPete said:

Get a new rig! 

 

41 minutes ago, peroni said:

At what screen resolution do you sim with? For 1080p and 1440p the 4060 8gb will be great with both MSFS and XP 
At higher resolutions you would be better served by more VRAM

1080p is also pretty ok with the GTX1070 you already have if you want to save some cash.
Here it runs both XP and MSFS at over 40 FPS with moderate to high settings, especially in MSFS.

 

[Dave_YVR 979]

4060 all the way.. The 12gb 3060's were just a sales gimmick.

[Ixoye 1,822]

None of them, I recommend a used AMD 7900 XT, it gives you the best value for money.

Edited February 19 by Ixoye

[pmplayer 9,488]

On 2/19/2024 at 2:50 PM, Ixoye said:

None of them, I recommend a used AMD 7900 XT, it gives you the best value for money.

For another 3 years..??? 🤔

Nvidia has the Grahiccards and that`s just fact, CPU may different but GPU is Nvidia first place..

cheers  😉