Mano Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 Hi all, finally, with a colleague, we ended up with these two options for a nice hardware for the DCS series (and FSim). (I'm totally ignorant on hardware things so I need help!) I'm likely going for the first one because of budget, by the way I'd like your kind impressions to help me choose wisely. OPTION 1 --- ~700€/800€ MB: Asus Z87m-plus (dual channel 4 slots) CPU: Intel core I5-4430 3.00GHz Video: Asus GTX650ti --> this one could be stretched to a GTX660 or better GTX760 (which one do you suggest?) RAM: 4x kingston 2gb DDR3 1600mhz PS: Corsair Cp-9020015-eu 750W HD: Wd green 1tb + Sandisk Sdssdp-128g-g25 OPTION 2 --- ~930€-1030€ MB: Asus P9X79 (Quad channel 8 slots) CPU: Intel core I7-3820 3.6GHz No Diss Video: Asus GTX650ti --> this one could be stretched to a GTX660 or better GTX760 (which one do you suggest?) RAM: 4x kingston 2gb DDR3 1600mhz PS: Corsair Cp-9020015-eu 750W HD: Wd green 1tb + Sandisk Sdssdp-128g-g25 ---- No idea for a case. Suggestions are kindly accepted. Thank you in advance Best regards [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tintifaxl Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 For DCS get the I5 but the K version, that can be easily overclocked. And buy the 760. Windows 10 64bit, Intel i9-9900@5Ghz, 32 Gig RAM, MSI RTX 3080 TI, 2 TB SSD, 43" 2160p@1440p monitor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhinox Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 For DCS get the I5 but the K version, that can be easily overclocked. And buy the 760. I vote for i5/k & gtx760 too. i5/k has the best performance/price ratio. And if possible, I'd suggest stretching that 128GB/ssd to 240-256GB version. SSD should not be filled more than to 50% of its capacity (which one can easily overshoot on 128GB with Win7 & DCS:ALL)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mano Posted July 24, 2013 Author Share Posted July 24, 2013 thank you. could you please me link for the i5/K version? I cannot find it googling for it... what differences are with the normal and the k? is it only the possibility of o.c. (which I don't know if I would go for it). [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhinox Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 "K-versions" of Intel sandy/ivy-bridge CPU have unlocked multiplier. That gives you free hand for overclocking (which btw these cpus can handle very well). Moreover, price difference (K vs. non-K) is very small, so why not go for it? You can never have too much cpu/gpu-power, when playing DCS... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazjar Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 Yeah i5 works nice. I don't think that DCS will require an i7-4000 series lol. And GTX 760 is the best option. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rangi Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 I vote for i5/k & gtx760 too. i5/k has the best performance/price ratio. And if possible, I'd suggest stretching that 128GB/ssd to 240-256GB version. SSD should not be filled more than to 50% of its capacity (which one can easily overshoot on 128GB with Win7 & DCS:ALL)... The SSD half full thing is not true anymore if it ever was... http://www.overclock.net/t/857324/importance-of-keeping-ssd-half-full PC: 6600K @ 4.5 GHz, 12GB RAM, GTX 970, 32" 2K monitor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhinox Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 It *is* still true, but not because of degrading speed, but because of "wear-leveling". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Rhinox, first of all wear leveling will still work fine at 99% capacity. Second, with most consumer SSD's (even among heavy-users) SSD's have gotten to the point where most will last 10-20 years without having a read/writes issue. SSD's set aside a good amount of space (normally around 10%) so that filling the drive up will not cause issues. What you are talking about hasn't been an issue for years now. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Nvidia GTX Titan Pascal - i7 6700K - 960 Pro 512GB NVMe SSD - 32GB DDR4 Corsair - Corsair PSU - Saitek x52 Pro - Custom FreeTrack IR Setup - iControl for DCS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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