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The answer to your question is the Titan X. My advice is to wait and see what Nvisia Pascal brings though. If you can't wait, get a GTX 970, no point in dropping big bucks on a 980ti and I am still hugely CPU limited with mine coupled with a 4790k @4.5ghz. I run this system on a 450w psu which is more than enough for a single 970.

All 970s have GDDR 5. There is very little difference between these cards outside of the cooling solution.

Ah right I was thinking you'd left room to make it 32gb.

You sure you don't want to add 8gb and run in dual channel

If you just slapped it in with the same fsx.cfg then that is hopefully the source of your troubles. Heat won't cause that. It would just throttle. Have you tried running unigine valley to make sure the card isn't faulty?

You definitely should wait before upgrading your CPU. When running FSX whilst monitoring GPU usage, do you ever see your card at max usage? My 970 rarely goes over 55% with DSR 4x.

I might be wrong but I think you need to watercool to get the 6 and 8 core chips to a decent overclock. A full platform upgrade with expensive CPUs and DDR4 plus potential cooling expense in my opinion is not worth it, regardless of whether it gives you a few fps etc...and I haven't read one story about anyone going Haswell-E from a 4ghz+ quad core and being impressed. I believe it can help with texture loading but that's all. At this point (4790k/970/2400c11/SSD) I think I will be waiting a long time to upgrade just for FSX.

As long as you are working with filters that make use of your gpu then you are completely covered as far as he other half goes

The only part of that machine that could be considered overkill is the amount of RAM. If you're stitching big panoramas or working with heavy PSDs then great, otherwise do you need it? Personally I think it's a bit of a mismatch building a 4790k, 970 GTX and 8gb of RAM, even if you don't need 8gb now. RAM is only going up in price and this machine could last many years depending on the future of FSX/P3D. Yes the 4790k will turbo to 4.4ghz but only on one core. If all four cores are active, the max frequency is 4.2ghz. If you can keep your temps down below 75c after a decent FSX session, overclock your system to whatever you can get for less than 1.3v vcore. FSX will always benefit from extra Mhz and by the way, if you enable your XMP profile to make the RAM run at its rated speed, you're already overclocking and will be glad you're not on the stock cooler.

I run FSX and Windows on the same SSD and anything like mesh that can be run from a mechanical drive on a USB 3.0 external drive. Once it's all up and running I only ever see the odd ping of HD activity light and I really don't feel the need to get a dedicated FSX SSD. I don't use photo scenery though, maybe it helps that?

Yeah if you can do without AA and lots of clouds while you test then the IGP is fine.

They only throttle at 81c (or higher if you've raised the TDP limit).

I have that exact card. No coil whine, overclocks well and doesn't throttle in benches, even in my tiny ITX case. Don't forget to register as the card only comes with a 2 year warranty if you don't register it in time. Noise wise it's quiet on the stock profile but I like to run it at high speed to keep my motherboard temps down.

Of course a lot depends on the overclock possibilities of the 4930k vs the hypothetical 4790k but pure bang for buck, the 4790k will never be 37% better which is how much more expensive it would be.

What is your 2600 clocked at?

Hope there's some silicon in there too

Almost identical to mine...have fun.

No problems here with my early Zotac Gaming Edition.

Have fun, I was where you are now about 3/4 months ago (I added gpu and cooler when the 970 came out and got my cpu in August). Only now am I completely happy with my pc following a lengthy fsx tweak session and ironing out some gremlins plus plenty of time overclocking. I can just fly now without the fps counter on, it's great. As we have similar systems, give me a shout if you want any help tweakingZ

I'm not sure about the EVO set up but it looks like you'll need to get a WiFi card as there's nothing listed in the specs on partpicker. Check the manufacturer's webite to make sure. Having checked that motherboard out I see it has quad Crossfire/SLI capability. If FSX is all you'll be doing gaming wise then you could save some money here I think. Don't worry about the memory voltage, this is a commonly asked question and Haswell has no issues with 1.65v memory. I've read that overclocking to 1.7v is pretty much risk free and no problem for the IMC. Just enable your XMP in BIOS and you're all set. Intel don't officially support it but if you had any issues they would never know you had been using it. My RAM runs at 1.66v in XMP which is pretty common I think. As your motherboard has Ultra M.2 support, have you considered buying an SSD to take advantage of this? I'm not saying you should but I would advise doing some research as you might decide you would be happy to sacrifice some storage space (or spend some more money) to get the fastest drive you can.

Most has already been said but I will add: -Get better/faster RAM with lower latency. FSX (and Haswell) likes fast RAM. Try and get 2666mhz C10 or 2400mhz C9 but my 2400mhz C11 does me ok and was at a price I couldn't ignore. -I don't think you need CPU compound as the Corsairs come with them pre-applied. Check though. -As discussed above, Z87 is a dead platform. Go Z97 which at the very least will make your parts worth more at resale time. -Definitely try to get a better cooler than the H55. I have a H60 as it's pretty much the only thing that fits in my tiny case (SG05). Many say good air cooler are better than the Corsairs all-in-ones. -Forget about FS9

The 760 is definitely better power/performance than the 750ti which is only a good option for people with weak power supplies.

I'd do it yourself in BIOS making sure you've studied plenty of 4770k overclocking guides. Just remember that 1.3v vcore on the CPU is a nice and safe limit to run 24/7. Some say 1.35v but you should be able to get a decent overclock on 1.3v. Your H100 will give you a good chance to keep temperatures reasonable. Try to keep your temps lower than 80c in AIDA 64 stress test and you will be fine for 24/7 use. Make sure you don't let any adaptive voltage settings in BIOS raise your vcore above the volts you need for the clock speed you're aiming for.

@z06z33 Do you really never ever dip below 30fps, even taxiing or on short finals? I have a [email protected], 2400mhz C11 RAM and a GTX 970 running 4xDSR locked at 30fps in FSX. I'm very happy with my performance but it will not hold 30fps rock solid in all situations.

SSDs make testing a lot less painful.