sublime Posted May 20, 2020 Posted May 20, 2020 Im getting some government help since covid destroyed my employment. Thank god theyre helping. Soo im tempted. Hard. To get a desktop, vr, and a new joy. Whats the best balance of price, ability, etc? Im not gonna be cheap but itd be nice if the comp doesnt habe to be a 2g comp.to run vr..? Suggestions on deals and whatnot? On equipment? If you guys need a loose budget ask. Ill figure it oit. My laptop works.. but its getting old. Its not evem supposed to run il2 and dcs im told lol. It does though. But.. this is my chance. Also anyone whose helped me in the past that would like some help msg me. You know who u are.
Voyager Posted May 21, 2020 Posted May 21, 2020 Right now I'd price out a 10th gen Intel part, 32Gb ram, and get a used Radeon 480 or 580 16Gb off of Ebay or Craig's list, pair it up, at most, with an Occulus Rift S, and absolutely positively wait until Fall and the impending releases of the next gen GeForce and Radeon cards. The new mid range/low end Intel CPUs finally added multi threading so they're a potentially good buy, depending on price an availability, and the Z490 boards are looking to be reasonably priced. An I5-10600K should be quite capable for DCS with a 6/12 core/thread set and a 4.8 Ghz boost clock. I haven't actually benchmarked my Zen 2 chip on DCS, but I know on the other VR flight sim there is a performance penalty over the Intel parts. That said, the Ryzen 3 3300X delivers 4/8 core/threads at 4.3 Ghz for $120 USD retail and should be a solid budget entry. The Radeon 7 3700 gets you the same thing, just with an 8/16 core thread layout. One does end up running a silly amount of peripheral programs for DCS so more threads could be handy. Don't get any Zen 1 or Zen 1+ parts; they lack AVX2 instructions that flight sims use heavily so they run the game very slow. Known issue. Also get a SSD big enough to hold your OS and the game files. The Intel i660p is more than good enough and was cheap, though prices vary. I'd have to check my game files to see if you could actually get away with 256Gb, but 512G would be nicer. (1-2TB is even nicer still, but price loves to climb with capacity...) For VR you need all the GPU and all the CPU you can throw at it and now is the absolute worst possible time to buy a new GPU of any sort. Any GPU you buy now will be obsolete in six months so get the cheapest thing possible that can get you airborne if you must build now. No it's not going to be a super pretty experience, but given that nVidia is about refresh their line up in order to one-up the consoles you do not want to be spending money on the GPU before then. AMD should be releasing RDNA2 around that time, and based on what's coming out of the consoles, it is looking competitive with what is expecting to arrive with the nVidia parts. We may see an actual price war with this generation. Once the new GeForce cards release you can look at the prices and figure out how much card you can afford. These are my thoughts, take them with the appropriate amount of salt, but should be a useful starting point for research.
Sublimearrepentido Posted May 22, 2020 Posted May 22, 2020 Hey thanks Ok first no it doesnt have to be now. I can stash the money. What are we talking here .onet wise ball park? What are the odds of things being better in say 4 or 5 months? 6 is dificult. More than 2gs will be hard but idk..
Sublimearrepentido Posted May 22, 2020 Posted May 22, 2020 Cuz i mean i can achieve the closest to a life dream this way. And this is prolly the only time or last time ill get enuff disposabal money (im 35) in my life
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