lt.shifty Posted September 19, 2022 Posted September 19, 2022 Anyone know if an upgrade from a Ryzen 3600 to a 5900x will yield any benefits in DCS? Current rig: GPU: 3080ti CPU: Ryzen 3600 RAM: 32GB DDR4 3600mhz VR: Quest 2 under OpenXR (in-game pixel density 1.2, can share full settings if anyone is interested). I'll be upgrading to a 3090ti later this year as well (for more VRAM, DCS eats the 12GB on the 3080ti), which is what's making me look toward a 5900x in general, but I'm very curious if anyone has made a similar upgrade and can share their experiences in DCS. I'm also slapping in some more RAM as well to bring the system up to 64GB, same model and speed as what's in there now.
draconus Posted September 19, 2022 Posted September 19, 2022 6 hours ago, lt.shifty said: Anyone know if an upgrade from a Ryzen 3600 to a 5900x will yield any benefits in DCS? definitely Win10 i7-10700KF 32GB RTX4070S Quest 3 T16000M VPC CDT-VMAX TFRP FC3 F-14A/B F-15E CA SC NTTR PG Syria
M1Combat Posted September 21, 2022 Posted September 21, 2022 Yeah for sure Nvidia RTX3080 (HP Reverb), AMD 3800x Asus Prime X570P, 64GB G-Skill RipJaw 3600 Saitek X-65F and Fanatec Club-Sport Pedals (Using VJoy and Gremlin to remap Throttle and Clutch into a Rudder axis)
tomcat_driver Posted September 23, 2022 Posted September 23, 2022 On 9/19/2022 at 3:14 AM, lt.shifty said: Anyone know if an upgrade from a Ryzen 3600 to a 5900x will yield any benefits in DCS? Current rig: GPU: 3080ti CPU: Ryzen 3600 RAM: 32GB DDR4 3600mhz VR: Quest 2 under OpenXR (in-game pixel density 1.2, can share full settings if anyone is interested). I'll be upgrading to a 3090ti later this year as well (for more VRAM, DCS eats the 12GB on the 3080ti), which is what's making me look toward a 5900x in general, but I'm very curious if anyone has made a similar upgrade and can share their experiences in DCS. I'm also slapping in some more RAM as well to bring the system up to 64GB, same model and speed as what's in there now. Good update, I'm considering the same.
BitMaster Posted September 23, 2022 Posted September 23, 2022 (edited) Have you considered the 5800X3D ? I need the my cores for virtual machines but if my own rig was only for DCS/Gaming I would now pick the 5800X3D over my 5900X. Don't get me wrong, I love it, but for DCS 8 cores are enough and rather take the higher IPC instead. Edited September 23, 2022 by BitMaster 2 Gigabyte Aorus X570S Master - Ryzen 5900X - Gskill 64GB 3200/CL14@3600/CL14 - Sapphire Nitro+ 7800XT - 4x Samsung 980Pro 1TB - 1x Samsung 870 Evo 1TB - 1x SanDisc 120GB SSD - Heatkiller IV - MoRa3-360LT@9x120mm Noctua F12 - Corsair AXi-1200 - TiR5-Pro - Warthog Hotas - Saitek Combat Pedals - Asus XG27ACG QHD 180Hz - Corsair K70 RGB Pro - Win11 Pro/Linux - Phanteks Evolv-X
lt.shifty Posted September 27, 2022 Author Posted September 27, 2022 Okay so update time, I went with the 5800X3D. Just saw your suggestion @BitMasterwhen coming to update, but absolutely right this CPU is seriously good. Now running the game with all settings at max, 2x AA, pretty much and a PD of 1.5. I put it to that for a laugh just to see if it did have that much punch, it does. Still struggle with the AH64 on Mariana's, but who doesn't. Dropping PD down to 1.3 resolves that issue though, bare in mind I have forest details and distance up to max here. Getting a min FPS of 45 now and it Avg's around 60, peak 90. Once I'm home from work I'll update this thread with full settings and rig spec for anyone else coming across this thread.
lt.shifty Posted September 28, 2022 Author Posted September 28, 2022 I'm running on the crosshair VI Hero X370. Did just run into an issue today though, added an additional 32GB of ram (now 64GB total), and getting memory errors. Hopefully just a tweak in voltage needed or something, and not days of testing and an RMA.
BitMaster Posted October 2, 2022 Posted October 2, 2022 (edited) With 4 sticks, you often have to raise Volts to like 1.375-1.4 Volts. As long as it is B-die Volts dont harm at those values but other vendor's chips may do if you stray north of 1.40v Try to find out what chips your sticks run on. I have B-die and they sweat at 1.50v ( set to 1.475v and the board adds the rest ). They are fine with that as long as you cool them aka keep an eye on temps. IIRC, Buildzoid said that the "other" vendors chip would die an instant death at anything beyond 1.4ish volts. Forgot the name of that specific chip that hates higher volts. Edited October 2, 2022 by BitMaster Gigabyte Aorus X570S Master - Ryzen 5900X - Gskill 64GB 3200/CL14@3600/CL14 - Sapphire Nitro+ 7800XT - 4x Samsung 980Pro 1TB - 1x Samsung 870 Evo 1TB - 1x SanDisc 120GB SSD - Heatkiller IV - MoRa3-360LT@9x120mm Noctua F12 - Corsair AXi-1200 - TiR5-Pro - Warthog Hotas - Saitek Combat Pedals - Asus XG27ACG QHD 180Hz - Corsair K70 RGB Pro - Win11 Pro/Linux - Phanteks Evolv-X
lt.shifty Posted October 2, 2022 Author Posted October 2, 2022 4 hours ago, BitMaster said: With 4 sticks, you often have to raise Volts to like 1.375-1.4 Volts. As long as it is B-die Volts dont harm at those values but other vendor's chips may do if you stray north of 1.40v Try to find out what chips your sticks run on. I have B-die and they sweat at 1.50v ( set to 1.475v and the board adds the rest ). They are fine with that as long as you cool them aka keep an eye on temps. IIRC, Buildzoid said that the "other" vendors chip would die an instant death at anything beyond 1.4ish volts. Forgot the name of that specific chip that hates higher volts. Turns out my X370 board (Hero VI) just doesn't take 64GB of RAM at 3200Mhz. Managed to get it running at 3000Mhz 1.4v with 20-18-18-36 timings. Not great, but I'll bag an X570 board when pennies allow.
Voyager Posted October 5, 2022 Posted October 5, 2022 @BitMaster @lt.shifty May check the performance with both the base speed ram and with the XMP profile. I've only run the testing in the other flight sim, but I found with the 5800X3D, ram speed had almost no meaningful impact. Everything was just as fast running with the ram at stock DDR4 2366 speeds.
lt.shifty Posted October 6, 2022 Author Posted October 6, 2022 16 hours ago, Voyager said: @BitMaster @lt.shifty May check the performance with both the base speed ram and with the XMP profile. I've only run the testing in the other flight sim, but I found with the 5800X3D, ram speed had almost no meaningful impact. Everything was just as fast running with the ram at stock DDR4 2366 speeds. Yea found that said online a lot, I've dropped my speed down to 2800 and it's made next to no difference in any game, maybe ~4fps at most.
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