Sn8ke_iis Posted March 7, 2020 Posted March 7, 2020 If you were in the position to do so, wouldn’t you want the best possible? The best possible CPU right now would be a binned 9900K, 9900KS, or 3900x from Silicon Lottery. If gaming and DCS benefited from expensive multicore workstation CPUs there would be people here with Threadrippers and X299 builds bragging about their framerates. Just throwing money at the problem will only get you so much. All the nomenclature and product lines are confusing. Once you get above $3000-$4000, more money ≠ faster framerates. AMD, Intel, and Nvidia all make high end professional components that are designed for workstations to run software like Catia and AUTOCAD. They are not intended for gaming. They are meant for advanced design, engineering, industrial/professional simulation, or AI research. Nivida makes GPUs that cost more than my whole computer did even when I had 2 2080 Ti's in SLI. They won't run DCS or other games faster than a 2080 Ti will. You can buy an Nvidia Quadro for $4000. It won't run games faster. The cost goes into drivers and support meant for engineers designing things that could kill people if they didn't work right due to an incorrect calculation. You can spend money on 128 GB RAM. It won't run games faster than 32 GB of high binned RAM that runs at high frequency and low latency. It's going to be a long time before games will use more than 64 GB of RAM. I've often wondered how Falcon NW stays in business selling such overpriced components in a fancy case. Now I see why. Over the next 6 months or so the best possible components will be the 10700K/10900K and a 3080 Ti overclocked on a custom cooling loop. Before the end of the year AMD is pushing out another gen of Ryzen that could be faster. That's all based on rumor clickbait but all 3 major companies should have new lines out by the holiday build season.
hansangb Posted March 9, 2020 Posted March 9, 2020 One other question. With VR, which would you prefer? TracIR, Oculus, etc.... I have never used one and I would hate to get the wrong VR headset. Some say you cannot wear glasses (I do) and others are on about the size of the lenses... Cannot wait to get online after all this reading. For me, it's Reverb. I've had DK1, DK2, Rift CV1, Odyssey (original), Vive (original), Pimax5K+. And Reverb is the best as far as I'm concerned. Although I do miss the wider FoV of Pimax5K+, the far superior clarity of Reverb was more important. hsb HW Spec in Spoiler --- i7-10700K Direct-To-Die/OC'ed to 5.1GHz, MSI Z490 MB, 32GB DDR4 3200MHz, EVGA 2080 Ti FTW3, NVMe+SSD, Win 10 x64 Pro, MFG, Warthog, TM MFDs, Komodo Huey set, Rverbe G1
Tumbler- Posted March 25, 2020 Posted March 25, 2020 That's not a gaming CPU. That money won't get you any more performance in games. It's intended for servers. The best CPUs for gaming right now are the 9700K, 9900K or AMD's 3900x, 3950x. I would go with the 3900x if you want AMD though. The 3950x is too expensive if you are just gaming. When looking at your advice and using the cinebench R20 single core as reference I see 3900x 120% (cost about 450 euro) 3700x 114% (290) i5 9600k 111% (250) i7 9700k 108% (400) i5 7600k 100% (my current setup) Based on the above the 3700x seems most logical choice, albeit that the performance gains are not that big. Overclocking the 7600k might be the best choice?
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