Shogun77 Posted December 1, 2018 Posted December 1, 2018 (edited) . Edited December 10, 2024 by Shogun77
Bob_Bushman Posted December 1, 2018 Posted December 1, 2018 (edited) Yeah should do more than fine. Cpu is a bit old and you couldn't hurt with some faster ram, I assume the 934mhz are single channel numbers, forwards but nothing you would notice until DCS switches to Vulkan and you want to do VR, or 120+ hz Biggest hole for the experience would be the 30hz tv, or just drop down resolution to 1080p push 60fps, but then 1050ti would do the job almost as well. But that 2080ti will never show it's true potential unless you get a new ddr4 system and windows 10. (the autistics clinging to win 7 will probably have something to say about that) But for now DCS is anachronistic enough for that not to be a concern. Edited December 1, 2018 by Bob_Bushman i7 8700k @ 4.7, 32GB 2900Mhz, 1080ti, CV1 Virpil MT-50\Delta, MFG Crosswind, Warthog Throttle, Virptil Mongoost-50 throttle.
FragBum Posted December 1, 2018 Posted December 1, 2018 Humor :D Control is an illusion which usually shatters at the least expected moment. Gazelle Mini-gun version is endorphins with rotors. See above. Currently rolling with a Asus Z390 Prime, 9600K, 32GB RAM, SSD, 2080Ti and Windows 10Pro, Rift CV1. bu0836x and Scratch Built Pedals, Collective and Cyclic.
Bob_Bushman Posted December 4, 2018 Posted December 4, 2018 Totally overkill. Which in my opinion is the good kind :) Almost the same rig I have apart from the GPU and I only have 16GB or RAM. I grabbed another 16GB that is in the mail now though :) i7 8700k @ 4.7, 32GB 2900Mhz, 1080ti, CV1 Virpil MT-50\Delta, MFG Crosswind, Warthog Throttle, Virptil Mongoost-50 throttle.
chief Posted December 4, 2018 Posted December 4, 2018 Lol he went from one end of the spectrum to the other!
Buckeye Posted December 4, 2018 Posted December 4, 2018 VR or monitor? That's an important item to note. The first rig would be extraordinarily CPU bottlenecked in VR, I can guarantee that. I have a 4790K running at 5.0ghz and it still bottlenecks my 1080Ti (which obviously isn't as powerful as the 2080Ti you have planned). Remember, the best GPU in the world doesn't do much good if the CPU can't feed it, and give the two core nature of CPU, core clock is king. Overclock the hell out of that 8700K in your second build. Rig: SimLab P1X Chassis | Tianhang Base PRO + Tianhang F-16 Grip w/ OTTO Buttons | Custom Throttletek F/A-18C Throttle w/ Hall Sensors + OTTO switches and buttons | Slaw Device RX Viper Pedals w/ Damper Tactile: G-Belt | 2x BK LFE + 1x BK Concert | 2x TST-429 | 1x BST-300EX | 2x BST-1 | 6x 40W Exciters | 2x NX3000D | 2x EPQ304 PC/VR: Somnium VR1 Visionary | 4090 | 12700K
Drakoz Posted December 5, 2018 Posted December 5, 2018 What is your goal? To save money by buying older used stuff, or get a brand new kick butt PC with the latest and greatest? If saving money with older parts is a goal, I can explain exactly the difference between old and new, and I would say your original system, if buying it for cheap used, is plenty to have fun. In fact, I'd say forget the RTX2080 and buy and older GTX1080 or 1080Ti - if saving money is your goal. My old system was an i7-3770K (what, something like 3.7GHz?), 16GB DDR3 RAM, 2X GTX670 SLI video cards, Z77 motherboard, Samsung 850 EVO SSD. It ran DCS 1.5 and 2.0 well enough on one 1920x1200 monitor with medium to high settings but sucked for anything more. Bad for multi-monitor, or high res monitors, and forget VR. Two years ago, I upgraded the dual GTX670 SLI setup with a single GTX1080 (not TI, just original 1080), and that same system was able to run medium to high settings on 3x 1920x1200 monitors (5670x1200) with the same or better frame rate. I was very happy with that setup. A 6 year old CPU, MB, RAM with a GTX1080 was good enough. I adjusted my settings to maintain 25FPS of faster, and that was using high settings with a few medium or reduced settings to keep the frame rate up. Nothing I missed. Yes, higher FPS would be better, and I could get 50FPS if I turned down the settings, but I preferred to keep shawdows and other features like that at least at medium while maintaining a good draw distance (default high setting draw distance). FYI, I mostly fly helicopters where FPS matter more than for jets, but 25FPS was still enjoyable. Less than that, and the frame rate lag was too much. This system didn't work as well for 3x monitors with DCS 2.0 to 2.2 flying through Las Vegas, but with optimizations for DCS 2.5, it was better and very tolerable before I retired it. A couple weeks ago, I upgraded to an i9-9900K, Z390 MB, 32GB DDR4 RAM, but using the same GTX1080. With the same 3x monitors and same graphics settings, I got a 10-15 FPS improvement give or take the situation. The i7-3770K ran around 25-35 FPS. The i9-9900K system runs around 30-45 FPS. The biggest improvement came with (as you would guess) more complicated missions or multiplayer where my older CPU wasn't handling all the AI as well as the newer one. Somewhere in there, I upgraded to a Samsung 970 EVO NVMe stick, but that, relative to the 850 EVO is insignificant when it comes to frame rate in DCS, and only barely affects game load time. The SSD should not affect FPS, and any SSD is fast enough to prevent most loading hesitation. The extra 16GB (16GB vs. 32GB) of ram may help for multiplayer, but the consensus I've seen here is 16GB is fine for the most part. Any SSD will do fine. I didn't list details like the speed of my ram or overclocking because that kind of stuff is mostly in the noise. I over clocked the graphics cards but didn't overclock the CPUs. If saving money is your goal, I would go back to your original system, and replace the RTX2080 with a GTX1080 or 1080Ti. If VR is your goal, maybe get the RTX2080, but not the Ti. Oh, and for the older system move on to Windows 10. MS doesn't advertise it, but I think you can still upgrade an older Win 7 license to Win 10 for free, and I highly recommend you do that.
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