Opinions on this system for DCS.

[JG-1_Vogel]

Hi everyone, my ageing rig gave me a fright today when it wouldn't boot up correctly so I'm looking at systems online while this ones still working. Moving up from an antiquated i3 cpu, 4gb RAM and a GTX460 which I got about 5 years ago on a shoestring budget. Looking at systems from the same UK company which I've only ever had good dealings with - Overclockers. Saw this rig, while expensive looks fairly future proof for what I need. Also they do a 12 months interest free finance option which is what I would have to do, can't afford the straight up payment.

 

It's a full tower, with Intel/Nvidia set up:

 

Mobo - X99 chipset, so the latest and greatest

CPU - i7 Haswell-E 5280K at 3.8Ghz

RAM - 16Gb DDR4 2133Mhz

GPU - Nvidia GTX970 4Gb (would like the 980 but just far too expensive)

SDD - Samsung 250Gb (was initially a 120Gb but thought that would be too small)

HDD - Seagate 1Tb

 

Added on an optical drive, although not essential ideal for all those games that aren't in my Steam library.

 

Link to Overclockers page: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-065-OG&groupid=43&catid=2475

 

List price once you take VAT at 20% into account is £1392.95, which doesn't include an OS. They charge £80 for Win 7 HP but I'm sure you can get that for cheaper without using a cracked version.

 

What do you think? Worth the money or overpriced? Bearing in mind I have little time to be picking out components and building it myself, lots going on at the moment with work and a recent death in the family... so would rather someone else do the work :P.

Edited January 14, 2015 by 159th_LoneWolf

[cichlidfan]

DCS is not a very advanced program in terms of resource usage right now, and i read that even EDGE might not be able to fully utilize multiple processor cores. Let alone hyperthreading and other cool stuff. But also on this i have no real solid info :d .

 

According to Wags, the developers do not believe that the use of multiple cores/threads will benefit DCS, so it is not being pursued.

[shagrat]

Honestly, if you consider budget, I would look for an i5 at the same clock and save some on that.

Still 4 cores, of which you usually use 2, the Turbo option and same speed.

If you don't do video processing or other applications that support heavy parallel processing, the hyperthreading is more or less wasted...

Rest sounds good to me.

 

EDIT more important is to get a K CPU and a board that supports overclocking, so you may easily get an i5 3.8GHz running at 4.0 to 4.4 GHz with a decent cooler fan.

Edited January 15, 2015 by shagrat

[genbrien]

the cache difference between the I5 and I7 might improve FPS though