Comparing your RAM usage isn't really an accurate metric because your system will use whatever it has.

I've found 32GB to be fine. I think VRAM (which is on your card) is more critical than system RAM.

3 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

flight simmers are prepared to fork out £2000+ for a graphics card

2000 bps ??  where do you see them listed at that price for a 5090?  That was so called retail price, $4000-$5000 US is the retail outlet prices now … they basically matched scalper prices.

Flight simmers aren’t the primary buyers of these GPUs, we’re still a small user base (PCs)

7 hours ago, Sky_Pilot071 said:

I have a feeling the new XBOX will blow most MSFS PC's and PS6 out of the water for $700-$1000.

Just a feeling … I applaud your optimism.

26 minutes ago, SayAgain said:

2000 bps ??  where do you see them listed at that price for a 5090?  That was so called retail price, $4000-$5000 US is the retail outlet prices now … they basically matched

So it's even worse than I thought!! 

10 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

So it's even worse than I thought!! 

Nah, only paid £1800 for mine last year, best upgrade I ever made in terms of performance (and value compared to now!). all luck though, can't claim any massive prescience 🤣

49 minutes ago, kevinfirth said:

1800 for mine last year

Me too, I bought 3 of them for about $2000 US … but that was LAST YEAR, not today.  Today’s prices are $4000-$5000 via retail outlets and scalpers are all but gone because retail is the new scalper.  The ONLY GPU I’ve seen drop slightly in price is the nVidia RTX PRO 6000 from $10,000 to $9,300 … I was considering a purchase a while ago but discovered two 5090’s would perform much better in BMD DaVinci Resolve with it’s multi-GPU support.

If anyone wants my less than humble opinion on video editing/rendering software, BMD DaVinci Resolve 21 is considerably better than Adobe Premiere/After Effects.  My renders in DR run circles around Pr/Ae … and BMD allow you to use the same studio license I purchased for version 19 … NO subscription and NO upgrade costs.  I’m surprised Adobe Pr/Ae is still around since it doesn’t support multiple GPUs.

My workstation PC is 256GB ECC … but I don’t use GDR drivers, stick with Studio drivers from nVidia as they’re more stable.  I wish I had 512GB ECC as some of my projects have consumed as much as I allow in DR … especially when doing timelapse from stills from my Sony A1 II and/or Sony A7RV (beyond 8K) … gobbles up memory.

I did plan wisely and with some luck (price wise) and hit my purchases after the dust had settled (aka scalpers moved on) and before the AI RAM/GPU madness and Tariff madness.

Circling back to RAM prices, a quick glance and they’re still ridiculous, even worse are the increases but on RAM with terrible timings.  If this keeps up, I can definitely see a future where 80-90% majority will be consoles gamers/simmers.

 

1 hour ago, SayAgain said:

2000 bps ??  where do you see them listed at that price for a 5090?  That was so called retail price, $4000-$5000 US is the retail outlet prices now … they basically matched scalper prices.

Flight simmers aren’t the primary buyers of these GPUs, we’re still a small user base (PCs)

Just a feeling … I applaud your optimism.

With the new powers that be at Microsoft who could also be tired of MSFS / XBOX restrictions, interesting things could happen.

Stay tuned.

dd

I still need to build another machine for work, not a super time-crunch on that though.  Luckily, I have my old ex-sim-rig 2x16 kit already in-place (!) and can avoid these RAM prices.

64GB no brainier (but that was when the prices where low)

Edited April 21Apr 21 by virtualstuff