CPU Choice

[strikeeagle]

Fellas

 

I’m planning on getting a new CPU specifically for playing this sim. I’m ok w/forking out some $$$’s to get a serious platform. So, what’s everyone using? I’m wanting high frame rates well north of 100. Is anyone running the Alienware Aurora Ryzen R10?

 

 

Thanks

[RogueSqdn]

I’m planning on getting a new computer from Falcon NW myself (my i7-3930K is 8 years old), but am waiting for Nvidia’s new cards (3080ti) this fall.

 

I was planning on Intel again (10900K), but haven’t really done any research on AMD yet, so I could be persuaded either way on this one.

 

 

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[Bob_Bushman]

Intel is severely lagging behind AMD at this point, and yes theoretically the singel thread performance of intel's are a few percent more, but honestly at this point it's at the margin of error, and barely identifiable in synthetic benchmarks.

I don't even notice running my 8700k at stock or nearly a full 1G oc in dcs.

And it does so with significantly lower heat and power consumption than Intel does.

 

Upper tier Ryzens also offer more Pci-E lanes than Intel does, meaning you can for instance employ extra M.2 storage solutions for instance.

Multi-GPU's are honestly not a thing

 

So granted, for this moment, intel is prefered for DCS, but loosing ground everywhere else.

And once DCS switches to Vulkan, higher core count will be king.

 

In truth it doesn't really matter what you get, the problem is DCS and the fact that their code base is almost from the 90's.

It doesn't really matter what you get, when your software can't make full use of it.

The push for Vulkan, that I hope comes through next year, and ED has already been working on for about two years will be a major step into the right century.

 

If you must go Intel, you can just as well go for i5 10600k, save some money, you have by going intel already decided you don't need the extra cores, and so have no use for hyperthreading either.

 

Which could coincide with both Vulkan deployment, and DDR5 being released.

 

 

 

Edited July 28, 2020 by Bob_Bushman

[RogueSqdn]

So you’re suggesting that I’d be future-proofing myself better by going with AMD even though the single core performance is slightly less?

 

I still haven’t decided on whether to go SLI or not on the cards... I guess it depends on whether VR SLI will be possible.

 

 

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[dburne]

So you’re suggesting that I’d be future-proofing myself better by going with AMD even though the single core performance is slightly less?

 

I still haven’t decided on whether to go SLI or not on the cards... I guess it depends on whether VR SLI will be possible.

 

 

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I would not look for that anytime soon.