Finally upgrading... And back to a home build!

[Skyraider330]

In the distant past I used to build my own machines but then work and kids came along and I bought a prebuilt 6 years ago. My PC must be one of the slowest here, i5 4670 with GTX 760... I’ve never seen more then 30fps.

So, time to upgrade and start building my own machine again. This is the basis of the build:

Ryzen 7 3700x

RTX 2070 super

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/Dtdhq3

I’m planning to play flight Sims mainly, DCS mostly. I want to be able to fly in 1440p. I’m not interested in VR at this time, maybe in 2 years or so.

Any tips or critiques of my plan will be appreciated, like I said, it’s been over a decade since my last build.

[BitMaster]

Looks like a good base to start from. I'd add a 32GB 3200-3600MHz kit, a 1TB NVMe and a top tier 750-850w PSU.

 

You could get a 2nd NVMe drive to keep OS and SIMS on separate drives, in case you reinstall you wont loose D while you form at C drive kinda thing, but you can add one any time later on.

 

A good AIO cooler was nice too

[Skyraider330]

Tanks for the reply BitMaster

 

 

 

What would be a better choice for DCS, lower speed (3200) 32GB RAM or higher speed (3600) 16GB?

 

 

 

Ive looked at AIO coolers but I like the simplicity of a good aircooler (Im old school :-) ), Im thinking of a Noctua NH-D15.

[Gnadentod]

What would be a better choice for DCS, lower speed (3200) 32GB RAM or higher speed (3600) 16GB?

32GB 3200 if you intend to go multiplayer. If only singleplayer then 16GB 3600.

 

Ive looked at AIO coolers but I like the simplicity of a good aircooler (Im old school :-) ), Im thinking of a Noctua NH-D15.

Welcome to the team.

[BitMaster]

32GB 3200MHz any day over 16GB-3600

 

My own kit, 4x8@3600, would run at the rated speed with only 2 modules, 16GB, but I prefer 32GB at a lower setting.

 

Rule #1: Capacity over Speed

[toutenglisse]

32GB.

 

Even in singleplayer, a big mission will take more than 16GB.

 

In exemple SP "Dynamic Training Grounds" in Persian Gulf map takes : all 11GB of my GPU VRAM, 22.4GB of RAM, and 31.6GB of Virtual Memory on my SSD. (but runs flawlessly)

 

(I use max preload radius and VR, and I have 32GB RAM + 32GB Virtual memory on SSD that I think I will probably increase setting to 48GB soon…)

[Gnadentod]

If you don‘t fly these overkill missions which are so hard on RAM and probably don‘t even have PG then you go with the 3600 to raise frames on the Ryzen, this especially goes for when using VR. But who uses DCS like that? Not a lot.

[toutenglisse]

If you don‘t fly these overkill missions which are so hard on RAM and probably don‘t even have PG then you go with the 3600 to raise frames on the Ryzen, this especially goes for when using VR. But who uses DCS like that? Not a lot.

 

Yes ! But too much advices is better than not enough.

[Konovalov]

This is the basis of the build:[/font]

Ryzen 7 3700x

RTX 2070 super

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/Dtdhq3

I’m planning to play flight Sims mainly, DCS mostly. I want to be able to fly in 1440p. I’m not interested in VR at this time, maybe in 2 years or so.

Any tips or critiques of my plan will be appreciated, like I said, it’s been over a decade since my last build.

Looks good and as pointed out by Bitmaster I would suggest just getting a 32GB memory kit for those large missions in single and multiplayer. I think your selection of the RTX2070 Super is a great choice for 1440p monitor gaming which should give decent bang for buck performance. No need to pay a premium for a RTX 2080Ti which is kind of wasted on 1080p or 1440p unless you are trying to push really high FPS.

[Skyraider330]

Looks like RAM is not as simple as it used to be... Might see what I can do with the budget and get 32GB at decent speed and CAS, upgrading later is going to be more difficult, I want to have a matched pair of sticks.

 

No need to pay a premium for a RTX 2080Ti which is kind of wasted on 1080p or 1440p unless you are trying to push really high FPS.

 

I’m used to 25 to 30 FPS so even doubling that will be a great result...

 

Thanks for the input guys, will start ordering bits this week, can’t wait to get back in to tinkering again. My 8 year old boy is getting excited too, great way to teach him about computers.

[philstyle]

I just build a very similar system to what you might be looking at. I posted some FPS testing results here which might help you.

 

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=253515