Charlatan

Seen a few reviews of the above cards being excellent performance for the price. Anyone using one on fs2020 or P3d she'd any light on how it runs our flight Sims?

Good to hear. I think MSFS is a completely different beast to any sims we've seen before. I recently got a new gaming laptop for when I'm away (5800H Ryzen, 16gb 3200 DDR4, 6GB RTX3060). So often we've seen people saying "don't sim on a laptop". Last night I put MSFS on my laptop out of curiosity to see how it ran. I couldn't believe how well it runs. 40+ fps @ 1080p High around KLAX, and haven't seen a single stutter or blip.

Sorry, I have no experience of DDR5. Was just curious if there was a specific reason for staying with ddr4

Looks good. Any reason you went for a DDR4 Ram and Motherboard rather than DDR5?

In a 1TB drive, you'll find the NVMe's are no more than a SATA SSD. You'll find the Western Digital SN550 1TB is only £68 on overclockers at the moment. (I use a couple of these and are excellent drives)

@kelvinlimwei Would take a Zotac any day of the week. Preclocked out of the box, 5 year warranty. They are my card of choice, been using them since the GTX460 and never had a problem with any of them

Swap the Samsung 980 for a 1tb Sn550 for about the same price

Good to hear. I haven't even tried clocking it. I'm using PBO where its boosting to about 4.7ghz. Yes, SMT is on. Don't forget, that 1650 is probably bottlenecking the system

Quite a lot of UK suppliers seem to be getting them now. Overclockers and CCL had 3070's and 3090's when I looked the other day, CCL even had some 3080's, albeit most of them still at silly prices (900 for 3070, 1500 for 3080, 2500 for a 3090). Also stocks of 3070ti and 3080ti's

If your after a cheaper option than the Noctua stuff, this is very highly rated https://www.overclockers.co.uk/arctic-freezer-34-esports-duo-red-cpu-cooler-2-x-120mm-hs-075-ar.html

If you are looking for a budget option, i've been impressed with the gammaxx l360

I've just swapped my AIO to a Gammaxx L360 (360mm). This is only £70 here in the UK. Hottest I've seen my 5600x get to since I've installed it is 63oC and thats after a good 8 hour session.

5600x all day long. When I sold my 8700k setup, to go AMD, I was let down on the 5800x I had pre-ordered by the supplier. I bought a 2nd hand 3700x to tide me over, and then managed to get a 5600x just after launch day. The difference between them was night and day, so much so that I've had numerous opportunities to get a 5800x since, and am not bothering and sticking with the 5600x Hope this helps

If you are using logitech/saitek controls, get Spad Next. Makes them much easier to manage

Yes, I went from an 8700k, to a 5600x and was a massive difference.