FlyingTexan

To give you an idea the GTX 1080ti has about a 40% increase over the GTX 1070 at stock speeds. As you OC that jumps even more. Also check load factors and see if any CPU cores are hitting 100% or if the GPU is maxed. Test here have shown that there was very little gain past 3.5 ghz. I'm not sure how VR really utilizes things but from what I can tell the 1070 is your limiting issue.

You could use an external GPU like the premade ones with the GTX 1070. Should get you playing.

I shot him a PM on here but haven't heard anything back. Does anyone know how to get ahold of him to try and order a set of rudder pedals?

I don't know if anyone ever played the Battlefield mod "Desert Combat". It was way more fun than the original. One thing I really liked was being the medical black hawk. There's a certain form of awesome to flying in knowing you don't even have the option to fight but can make a big difference. I really loved doing that and look forward to it here!

Basically when I crank the resolution up to the 4k setting of my TV I can barely read anything because it's so tiny and my TV is 60". Windows itself scales just fine is there anyway to adjust the scaling of the main screens and everything in DCS?

Before you get upset do this and you'll see where your choke is. First off ditch the VR and set your resolution at 720 or 1080p and look at your FPS. That tells you how fast your cpu is capable of processing and sending the data to the GPU because at the lower resolutions you won't be GPU limited. So if you 100fps then your CPU can handle the data needed to achieve 100FPS. Now crank the resolution up to 4k and do the same thing (use fraps). Look at your fps then. At that resolution you'll be GPU limited. Anything lower than 100FPS means that no matter the CPU you won't really be able to get anything above that number because the GPU is already handling the info the CPU is handling at it as fast as it can. VR is so demanding that the GPU is what's bottlenecking you. Upping the CPU just means you're going to be sending information faster to the GPU. If the GPU is already dealing with that info as fast as it can you won't see any increase. The 1700 at your specs is a great processor and has plenty to handle what you're throwing at in VR. Your GPU is a huge bottleneck. Changing from the Ryzen system to the Intel system is going to cost you a new processor and mobo. Just sell your 1070 and up it to a 1080ti. Plus the game is largely single core dependent. Again at the higher resolutions it's all about the GPU because the CPU is already sending the data faster than the GPU can crunch it. There's zero point to go with the 8700k or anything for this. I just built a system with the 7600k which at 4k test show it's like a 1fps difference. Now if you do something that needs HT and more cores, like editing, then go for it but for gaming you need to take all that cash and put it into the GPU not the CPU.

Pitch for airspeed, power for altitude.

You have an 8700k you don’t need one. The 7xxx series and 8xxx series don’t really need it. In the past the older chips had circuitry like little capacitors on the top. These don’t they’re smooth. Nothing to break. Just grab a razer blade and slowly work your way around the cpu. It’s easy and you can watch a YouTube video if you need the piece of mind. The. Just thermal and reattach but really you don’t need to bother unless you are having some serious throttling issues. If you are running at 1440p or greater the GPU is already struggling to handle the information at the rate the cpu is sending it anyway. People have a notion that higher thermals are a bad thing. They’re not so long as it’s not to an amount it’s throttling. CPUs are designed to operate under load. It’s fine. Look around here and you’ll see that while the game is highly single core dependent clock speed past the base frequencies doesn’t really affect much especially with 2.5 shifting more to the gpu.

I hate how bloated and how many services windows 10 has. Even though i disables Cortana it’s there pulling resources. This machine is going to basically be for DCS only so I don’t need nor want any of the fluff. I’ll toy with it and see what I think but I’ve read several responses where people have really liked it.

Did some digging and there is a “Windows 10 lite” out there for download. Basically an install that’s stripped of all the BS. I might have my new system built tomorrow and if so I’ll probably buy a windows 10 for the product key then try that install. So many processes running that I don’t need

Hit up ebay and just go from there. Here's a system I literally just built for your pricetag. Remember that the GPU can only process what the CPU sends to it so fast. When you're at 4k the GPU is really having to process a TON more than at 1080p so in general the CPU shouldn't be of much concern. With gaming it's mostly single core. My system. i5-7600k 32GB ddr4 PC2400 memory 512GB Toshiba NVME ssd (much faster than standard SSD) GTX 1080ti season 650w 80+ gold psu I'm doing this as a mITX build in a small case. Spent $80 on the motherboard and $65 I think on the case. Don't let your brain get too far ahead of you. At 4k or VR the GPU is going to be limited for a while. All of that above fit your budget. You could get an i7-7700k or i7-8700k and still wouldn't see any perceivable performance difference. Don't be afraid of ebay. The biggest expense for me was the GPU 1080ti which with shipping was $830.00. So they're out there.

I guess I'm just going to have to put it all together and see what I need. My goal is to have function, I don't care so much about form, and be able to remove it anytime I'm not using it to have the room back to looking how a healthy young adult should live lol

I just ordered all the parts to build a rig for DCS including a WH Hotas. My tv is a 60" 4k but my couch is too far away. I'd like to be able to put a chair in front of it to play on with my Hotas and I guess a keyboard/mouse that when done I can roll into my utility room. Does anyone know of a setup that won't just break the freakin bank? after my i5-7600k/32GB/GTX 1080ti rig plus WH hotas and TrackIR 5 pro I don't want to plunk down even more at the moment. Or let me edit to ask before I look for the wrong thing. How vital is the mouse in this game? I currently have a very nice bluetooth keyboard that I use with my HTPC that has a mousepad built on it. I could just bolt it to a board with the hotas on either side of it. Now that I think of it I have a ton of spare wood from building my deck in my back yard. Maybe I could just build something that's based on this concept but a hell of a lot uglier. Then just pull the living room chair up closer. Kinda wondering what it will be like with my TV mounted higher. https://www.nerdytec.com/COUCHMASTER/