rosscopeeco Posted July 13, 2014 Posted July 13, 2014 (edited) Hello All I am relatively new to military simulators haven't flown online for many years but am now in a position to get back into it , I recently purchased a gaming rig from a friend just wanted your thoughts on the specs for running dcd world flight models and will be playing ARMA swell. specs are Intel i7-930 2.8ghz gigabyte X58A-UDR3r mobo 6Gb 3x2gb corsair XMS3 1333 128gb SSD for my operating system 500gb hddsata 2 gfx cards 2x Nvidia GTX 560 1GB carded in SLI windows 7 pro 750w PSU Would be great to know what you guys think . I got the cpu for a great price as it was from a good friend, also will be purchasing some rudder pedals and the warthog stick and throttle along with track ir, I look forward to hopefully flying with some of you very soon, any input on where to visit in order to become part of a flying group that likes to teach about this fantastic game primarily the A-10 dcd. thanks Again Edited July 13, 2014 by rosscopeeco
Ktulu2 Posted July 13, 2014 Posted July 13, 2014 CPU has good enough chances to be a bottle neck, DCS only uses 1 core for evrything but sound... GPU will be enough until edge (probably after too but un-maxed) RAM will pretty surely be another bottle neck. I do DCS videos on youtube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAs8VxtXRJHZLnKS4mKunnQ?view_as=public
rosscopeeco Posted July 13, 2014 Author Posted July 13, 2014 CPU has good enough chances to be a bottle neck, DCS only uses 1 core for evrything but sound... GPU will be enough until edge (probably after too but un-maxed) RAM will pretty surely be another bottle neck. thanks for the reply could you explain what you mean by it being a bottle neck and how i cold look to upgrade it in the future, also will it be good enough to play a-10?
Ktulu2 Posted July 13, 2014 Posted July 13, 2014 1st of, your system is good, but probably wont run dcs at STABLE max settings. Bottle neck is the part that slow evrything else down. Example (this is just to illustrate and has no chances of happening in real life) : lets say you have a 1Gb/s internet connection, but that you have a normal hard drive, with 60Mb/s writing speed, Well your gigabite connection can't run at its full power, as the hard drive isnt fast enough to write all the data. For upgrades, its all about your motherboard, so sent it and i'll tell you what to look for. CPU isnt really upgradable, as you will have to change the motherboard as well, and when you are there you're better to change evrything. Overclocking it would be great, but I don't know how well 1st core generation suppoted OCing. RAM REALLY is what you'll want to upgrade, im on 8Gb and i find it not enough. I do DCS videos on youtube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAs8VxtXRJHZLnKS4mKunnQ?view_as=public
rosscopeeco Posted July 13, 2014 Author Posted July 13, 2014 1st of, your system is good, but probably wont run dcs at STABLE max settings. Bottle neck is the part that slow evrything else down. Example (this is just to illustrate and has no chances of happening in real life) : lets say you have a 1Gb/s internet connection, but that you have a normal hard drive, with 60Mb/s writing speed, Well your gigabite connection can't run at its full power, as the hard drive isnt fast enough to write all the data. For upgrades, its all about your motherboard, so sent it and i'll tell you what to look for. CPU isnt really upgradable, as you will have to change the motherboard as well, and when you are there you're better to change evrything. Overclocking it would be great, but I don't know how well 1st core generation suppoted OCing. RAM REALLY is what you'll want to upgrade, im on 8Gb and i find it not enough. Thanks for the reply , I have already ordered another 2gb ram to up it to 8gb here is the link to my mobo , to see what you think . http://www.pcupgrade.co.uk/productdetails.asp?productid=8040&categoryid=546
Ktulu2 Posted July 13, 2014 Posted July 13, 2014 I din't see anything else that overclocking (thus buy a non-stock cpu cooler) but i don't know if its worth it on that cpu (though the motherboard supports oc)... anyway, there's a point were you have to stop upgrading, but only you can decide that. 8gb is pretty low, but it will do the job so i'd tell you to wait and see, if its choppy, take another stick. I do DCS videos on youtube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAs8VxtXRJHZLnKS4mKunnQ?view_as=public
rosscopeeco Posted July 13, 2014 Author Posted July 13, 2014 I din't see anything else that overclocking (thus buy a non-stock cpu cooler) but i don't know if its worth it on that cpu (though the motherboard supports oc)... anyway, there's a point were you have to stop upgrading, but only you can decide that. 8gb is pretty low, but it will do the job so i'd tell you to wait and see, if its choppy, take another stick. Thanks for your help .
Ktulu2 Posted July 13, 2014 Posted July 13, 2014 I hope i'll be usefull I do DCS videos on youtube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAs8VxtXRJHZLnKS4mKunnQ?view_as=public
Deceived Posted July 18, 2014 Posted July 18, 2014 Nice X58 Rig you got there from a friend of yours. X58 is what I'm using currently too and the only thing I see wrong is your leaving the cpu at 2.8. I'd grab a Xigmatek Dark Knight or Coolermaster 212EVO cpu cooler and try and overclock that 930 to 3.8+ so you don't bottleneck the 560ti's in any way shape or form. Our platform runs on triple channel memory so adding the 2gb stick would be sort of awkward. If you're going to upgrade buy a 6gb triple channel kit that is matched up with the one you already have for the best stability. I'd personally run a 12gb triple channel kit with 3 4gb sticks and call it a day at 1866 1.6v. Let me know if you need help BCLK overclocking your 930.
rosscopeeco Posted August 4, 2014 Author Posted August 4, 2014 Nice X58 Rig you got there from a friend of yours. X58 is what I'm using currently too and the only thing I see wrong is your leaving the cpu at 2.8. I'd grab a Xigmatek Dark Knight or Coolermaster 212EVO cpu cooler and try and overclock that 930 to 3.8+ so you don't bottleneck the 560ti's in any way shape or form. Our platform runs on triple channel memory so adding the 2gb stick would be sort of awkward. If you're going to upgrade buy a 6gb triple channel kit that is matched up with the one you already have for the best stability. I'd personally run a 12gb triple channel kit with 3 4gb sticks and call it a day at 1866 1.6v. Let me know if you need help BCLK overclocking your 930. Thanks for the info about the triple channel mobo which i am now aware of , well I have taken the decision to upgrade the rig slightly just ordered asus sabre tooth Z87 mono alongside a intel i5-4670K 16gb Patriot Black mamba Ram paired with an H100i liquid cooler this alongside my original ssd HDD and 750w power supply and my 2 GTX 560's in sli hopefully now this should run everything reasonably well thoughts ??
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