Greetings all,

Like so many others, I'm considering getting a new rig for MSFS2024 and other sims I enjoy. Here's what I've come up with thus far, would be happy to hear some feedback/opinions:

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 4.70Ghz 12-Core 4.70GHz Base, 5.60GHz Turbo ,12 Cores, 24 Threads, 12 MB L2 Cache, 64 MB L3 Cache, 5.0 PCI Express Lanes, Socket AM5, Overclockable
ASUS TUF Gaming B6520-Plus WIFI-ATX 1x Aura RGB header, 4 DDR5, Support up to 128 GB, Wi-Fi 6, 1x Realtek 2.5Gb LAN, 2 PCIe x16, 2 PCIe x1, 8 USB 3.2 Gen1/2 (4 Front, 4 Rear), 4 SATA3, 3x M.2 SATA/PCIe
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16GB GDDR6X
2x 32GB DDR5-6000 Corsair Vengeance Dual Channel Memory
850 Watt Gamdias Helios P2-850G 80 + Gold
1TB Adata Legend 700 Gold M.2 NVMe SSD
4TB Samsung 870QVO 2.5in SATA3 SSD
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy FX
CLX Quench 360 Closed Liquid Cooler
Thermal Compound – CLX FLUXX
 

Regards,

Scott

You should get an X3D processor, not the standard ones.

Thanks for catching that - changed that component to AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 4.2GHz 16 Core

6 hours ago, ndflieger said:

Thanks for catching that - changed that component to AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 4.2GHz 16 Core

While the 7950X3D has 16 cores, some are performance and others are efficiency.  It is my understanding that while gaming, it parks or disables half of its cores.  Therefore, with the announcement by Asobo that 2024 will utilize as many cores as possible, you may be better off with the 7900X using 12 cores versus the 7950X3D using only 8 of its cores.

Thanks for that information - so many things to consider....enough to make a persons head hurt, LOL.

12 hours ago, ndflieger said:

Thanks for that information - so many things to consider....enough to make a persons head hurt, LOL.

I would wait and get the 9950x3d thats what im doing and i have the 7950x3d now

Mike

You all should wait on actual performance reviews post release and see how the hardware is actually utilized instead of guessing. But im sure that's the unpopular opinion at the moment with all the speculation going on.