Hello, everyone.

I am returning to flight swimming after losing my wife five years ago. The last flight sim I owned was MSFS 2020, but I never dove into it due to my wife's illness and other reasons. I just bought FS2024, and now I'm planning on a new PC build, which will consist of:Ryzon 9 9950X3D, Gigabyte B650 Aorus Elite Motherboard, 64GB G.Skill Trident RAM, Crucial 2TB NVME M.2 SSD. 
I'm trying to keep the costs to a minimum, so I'm choosing a 16GB 5070Ti.
Should I choose Ryzen 7 7800 and 32MB of RAM instead? But, I want to keep up with technology as much as I can. 

Will this run my FS2024 well? Any critique and suggestions welcome.

My condolences on your loss, Pete.

I think the ideal MSFS CPU right now is the 9800X3D.  The 9950X3D is actually a bit slower running MSFS because of the added overhead of a second 8-core CCD, and since those 8 CPU cores on that second CCD can't directly avail themselves of the monster-sized 96MB 3D level-3 cache, they're not really helpful in running the sim.  The 16-core dual-CCD chip is considerably more expensive, and generates a lot more heat.  So if you're not running other applications (e.g. video rendering) that need lots of parallel cores, I'd stick with the single-CCD, 8-core X3D chips (7800X3D or 9800X3D).  Right now I'm still running the previous-generation 7800X3D chip, and it rocks running MSFS2020, especially with frame generation on a good GPU.

I went with 64GB of 6000 MHz CAS 30 RAM on my MSFS build as a future-proofing measure based on Microsoft's system requirements specs for MSFS2024--that said, I don't run MSFS 2024 outside of the occasional experimental session so far, so the extra RAM hasn't proven to be necessary or useful--at least not yet.

Condolences from me as well. 

Won't be of any help regarding your question though as I've been kind of 'out of the loop' regarding the newest tech out there. I'm running an 'old' 7950X3D with a 4090 and get stellar performance in MSFS2024. Not upgrading anytime soon.

1 hour ago, Swe_Richard said:

I've been kind of 'out of the loop' regarding the newest tech out there. I'm running an 'old' 7950X3D with a 4090

How do you survive with such ancient tech?

Thanks Bob. I was just checking the 9800x3d out, and you convinced me to save on the CPU. I may also trim the memory to 32GB. I love Avsim and the cogent advice I get here. Do you think the 5070Ti will run the sim okay?

If I can sell my present equipment on EBay I may actually save more than I expected.

2 hours ago, Swe_Richard said:

Condolences from me as well. 

Won't be of any help regarding your question though as I've been kind of 'out of the loop' regarding the newest tech out there. I'm running an 'old' 7950X3D with a 4090 and get stellar performance in MSFS2024. Not upgrading anytime soon.

Thanks Richard. Unfortunately, my equipment is a couple of generations behind, so I would like to catch up with the tech, with the possibility of selling the older tech. The FS2020 and 2024 requires a lot more horsepower than I have at this time.
 

8 minutes ago, Pete S said:

Thanks Bob. I was just checking the 9800x3d out, and you convinced me to save on the CPU. I may also trim the memory to 32GB. I love Avsim and the cogent advice I get here. Do you think the 5070Ti will run the sim okay?

The 5070Ti should work just fine with any mainstream single-monitor display configuration.  Something like 4K at high frame rates or VR might be pushing the limits, but otherwise it should do well.  It's equivalent to a 4080 Super in performance.

👍 Thank you.

The prices on 7 9800x3d are all over the place. I ordered one on Amazon for $499, but it won't be here for a couple more weeks. It's coming from a third-party vendor from China. I'm starting to see them for $489 everywhere and even as low as $439 on Amazon with a delivery date in early June. I'm not too sure of the vendor that I ordered from, he has some low reviews, but as long as Amazon backs the sale, I should be okay. We'll see.

Edited May 19, 20251 yr by Pete S

Well, it looks like getting my 7 9800X3D is becoming a problem. After waiting for a month to receive the Processor from Amazon, the vendor is no longer available, and the sale has been passed on to another vendor that is also a third-party.

I got tired of it all and requested a refund so that I could order it from a local vendor. Meanwhile, the price is coming down! Hopefully, I'll get my build done soon, I just need the CPU!

Starting to get frustrated looking at the box full of components waiting for the build.

Edited June 7, 2025Jun 7 by Pete S

Ive put together at least 15 systems, mostly Intel CPU's. This has been my most challenging build yet, mainly due a to a defective MSI 5070 TI. The AMD 9800x3D finally came in. I decided on Gigabyte Aorus x800 Elite WIFI 7 Motherboard, 32GB RAM and a 2TB Samsung 9800 nvme. Had to return the MB because of some problems with BIOS, but I think I have it all resolved except for the GPU, that hopefully I'll have back soon! I should have the new system put together tomorrow, so I can download the FS2024, although I won't attemt to run it with the on-board graphics. It's like I said, this was my most challenging PC build ever, if anthing could go wrong, it did.

Well, I finally found some time to put my new system together: 

Here's what I got to mount into my pre-existing be quiet case with 850Watt GameMax power supply (Love that case).

Gigabyte Aorus X870 Elite WiFi7 Motherboard

AMD 9800X3D CPU

64GB of GSkill 6000 DDR5 Ram ( I thought I bought 32GB but it was 64GB ) 

 Samsung 990 EVO 2TB PCIe 5X4 NVMe Drive. not the fastest,but I think it'll do

Thermalright Liquid cooler

Still waiting on my MSI nVidia 5070TI to come back from MSI.

Not the fastest system, didn't want to go overboard, but should be enough to run FS2024 nicely.