December 7, 2025Dec 7 Just now, St Mawgan said: How much did you pay for your 5090? £1900, yesterday same model for sale £2100 Kevin Firth - AMD 9800X3D; Asus Prime X670E; 64Gb Cas30 6000 DDR5; RTX5090; AutoFPS
December 7, 2025Dec 7 So your 9800X3D 64Gb 5090 was about 3k a year ago, in total? 9950X3D - X870E Aorus Master- TUF 5090 OC - 64GB DDR5 - 1500W HXi - Titan 360 RX LCD - 9100 Pro x 2 - LG 45GX950A - HOTAS Warthog with Ava Base
December 7, 2025Dec 7 If your using a PC as a proper hobby all costs tend to be easy to wash away. I got into PC gaming because i was doing track days but had a kid and didn't have the time or see the point in having a 6k track car plus some road toys 3k each. Sold them and got into sim racing 10 years ago or so, started out with gtx 1060 i7 4970 (400 quid), no more track days just sim racing, got a TX thrustmaster wheel etc. Even ran MSFS on that, then 4 years ago got RTX 2070 ryzen 5 3600 (700 quid). Now after xmas i'm getting rtx 5070 ti with some powerful ryzen in it. Still use the first PC, i'm on it now, for modding and work stuff, will give this to my 15 year old for his room and i'll use the RTX 2070 one for me and game solely on the new one... Always being stingy, never caring about anyone else's, that thrustmaster TX wheel, i still have it after 10 years still use every day, not upgrading till it breaks and it won't break! Point being, just do you, it doesn't HAVE to have a 5090 in it to have fun, not at all. I also stopped drinking 12 years ago so i'd imagine what i saved alone on drinking has covered most of it.... also i'm a mortgage payer with kids, so comparing yourself to kids living at home buying 5k builds or retired boomers is silly.... I could go back to the 1060 1st build i have and game on it perfectly fine if i wanted, id still have fun... Ryzen 5 3600 / RTX 2070 8GB / 2x8 RAM/
December 7, 2025Dec 7 39 minutes ago, St Mawgan said: So your 9800X3D 64Gb 5090 was about 3k a year ago, in total? No I bought the parts separately and cumulatively over 9 months time period Kevin Firth - AMD 9800X3D; Asus Prime X670E; 64Gb Cas30 6000 DDR5; RTX5090; AutoFPS
December 7, 2025Dec 7 Off topic - sorry, but I see this "Content not viewable" notice quite often. The poster is UK based, same as me, any idea why?
December 7, 2025Dec 7 Good question as the poster can surely see it too. 9950X3D - X870E Aorus Master- TUF 5090 OC - 64GB DDR5 - 1500W HXi - Titan 360 RX LCD - 9100 Pro x 2 - LG 45GX950A - HOTAS Warthog with Ava Base
December 7, 2025Dec 7 I spent about $1200 on my PC a few years ago, with a 3060TI; and it runs all the games I'm currently playing (MSFS 2024, Cyberpunk 2077, The Outer Worlds, Part 2, Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines 2) on medium to high settings with 0 issues. As the saying goes: A fool and his money are soon parted. 😆
December 7, 2025Dec 7 When I retired in Thailand, I had my new Desktop made for $6000 USD, MS 2024 with every setting on Ultra, at 4K, 263 payware airports, study level airliner flying, with Beyond ATC or Say-intentions ATC, with Fsltl traffic,Active Sky FS, it runs at 60 FPS locked, with CPU temps at 70C, and GPU at 60C. Cant wait for the SU4 performance upgrade! Started flight simming in 1987, I am in Hog Heaven. Can't wait for SU4 update, just need CB thunder heads to navigate around(see signature)... Thermaltake Tower 600 Black Mid-Tower ATX Case 1350W Thermaltake Toughpower GF3 PS Thermaltake TH360 V2 Cooler ASUS TUF Gaming B860-Plus Wifi MB Intel Core Ultra Unlocked Series 2 @ 5.4 Ghz Geforce RTX 5090 32 GB GDDR7 128 GB DDR 5 Corsair Dominator Platinum 4 each 4 TB WD Blue SN5000 NVMe SS 55" LG NANO75 4K 3840X2160 Resolution Edited December 7, 2025Dec 7 by BIGSKY Jim Driscoll, MSI Raider GE76 12UHS-607 17.3" Gaming Laptop Computer - Blue Intel Core i9 12th Gen 12900HK 1.8GHz Processor; NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 16GB GDDR6; 64GB DDR5-4800 RAM; Dual M2 2TB Solid State Drives.Driving a Sony KD-50X75, and KDL-48R470B @ 4k 3724x2094,MSFS 2020, 30 FPS on Ultra Settings. Jorg/Asobo: “Weather is a core part of our simulator, and we will strive to make it as accurate as possible.”Also Jorg/Asobo: “We are going to limit the weather API to rain intensity only.”
December 7, 2025Dec 7 1 hour ago, St Mawgan said: Good question as the poster can surely see it too. I'll change it but am away from home atm Kevin Firth - AMD 9800X3D; Asus Prime X670E; 64Gb Cas30 6000 DDR5; RTX5090; AutoFPS
December 7, 2025Dec 7 2 hours ago, Overload said: Off topic - sorry, but I see this "Content not viewable" notice quite often. The poster is UK based, same as me, any idea why? It's quite simple, rather than comply with the UK "Online Safety Act" which threatens draconian fines for non-compliance, imgur has switched off their service to the UK. It's not even new news: https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/41592665292443-Imgur-access-in-the-United-Kingdom Edited December 7, 2025Dec 7 by Reader
December 7, 2025Dec 7 Yes, we know that Reader. We were commenting on a UK based user who uses an image in his signature which he himself will see is not displaying properly and hasn't been for some time. 9950X3D - X870E Aorus Master- TUF 5090 OC - 64GB DDR5 - 1500W HXi - Titan 360 RX LCD - 9100 Pro x 2 - LG 45GX950A - HOTAS Warthog with Ava Base
December 7, 2025Dec 7 Actually, I didn't know that Imgur had switched off UK access, but if it's useful for anyone, I use https://postimages.org/ very easy intuitive interface, no sign up, works well.
December 7, 2025Dec 7 Moderator 7 hours ago, St Mawgan said: Yes, we know that Reader. We were commenting on a UK based user who uses an image in his signature which he himself will see is not displaying properly and hasn't been for some time. He’s aware of the problem and once he’s home will be sorting it out. 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.
December 7, 2025Dec 7 Try a high end pc built or you here in Sydney Australia.if you dont feel comfortable building it yourself. 10.to 15k Mike
December 8, 2025Dec 8 23 hours ago, mikeymike said: Try a high end pc built or you here in Sydney Australia.if you dont feel comfortable building it yourself. 10.to 15k Mike Yes a top of the line pre built gaming PC (5090 graphics etc) will set you back at least 10k here in Oz and you would still have to pay for a monitor if starting from scratch. Edited December 8, 2025Dec 8 by brucewtb Bruce Bartlett Frodo: "I wish none of this had happened." Gandalf: "So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
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