It's been a while since I've done anything other than browse these forums but I'm after some advice.
I am currently running a i7 3770K, 16GB Ram, 970GTX setup with a pair of 200GB SSDs I'd like to upgrade.
Whilst its served me well for 8 years I think it's due an upgrade, and with the new RTX cards and Zen3, it may be worth basically binning all but the case and peripherals.
I use it as a general use dekstop, a bit of Visual Studio (no huge solutions), web browsing and I am ideally speccing it out to be good for VR flight simming (DCS, Condor2 and MSFS 2020).
My thoughts so far are; Ryzen 5900X, MSI B550 Tomahawk, 32GB DDR4 (3600?), a 1TB M2 drive and a RTX3080.
I'm pretty open to suggestion here, and the build it aiming to be solid for the next 5+ years as my current one has been. I'd like to buy well, and don't mind spending on good bits where it's going to make a difference, but maybe not spending on the best of everything for the sake of it? (This seems particularly easy to do with memory and motherboard chipsets), but then I don't want to buy junk either.
So if you guys can help with suggestions for particularly memory, an M2 SSDs that'd be great, also a PSU recommendation would be great, as my current 550W probably won't cut it!
The RTX3080 sounds good, but I have some concern that with only 10GB VRAM it may not actually be so wonderfull if I end up with a VR headset as is currently the plan for flightsims.
(Also open to the idea of i9 10850..., but think Zen3 5900X is probably the way to go)
Many thanks!
I am currently running a i7 3770K, 16GB Ram, 970GTX setup with a pair of 200GB SSDs I'd like to upgrade.
Whilst its served me well for 8 years I think it's due an upgrade, and with the new RTX cards and Zen3, it may be worth basically binning all but the case and peripherals.
I use it as a general use dekstop, a bit of Visual Studio (no huge solutions), web browsing and I am ideally speccing it out to be good for VR flight simming (DCS, Condor2 and MSFS 2020).
My thoughts so far are; Ryzen 5900X, MSI B550 Tomahawk, 32GB DDR4 (3600?), a 1TB M2 drive and a RTX3080.
I'm pretty open to suggestion here, and the build it aiming to be solid for the next 5+ years as my current one has been. I'd like to buy well, and don't mind spending on good bits where it's going to make a difference, but maybe not spending on the best of everything for the sake of it? (This seems particularly easy to do with memory and motherboard chipsets), but then I don't want to buy junk either.
So if you guys can help with suggestions for particularly memory, an M2 SSDs that'd be great, also a PSU recommendation would be great, as my current 550W probably won't cut it!
The RTX3080 sounds good, but I have some concern that with only 10GB VRAM it may not actually be so wonderfull if I end up with a VR headset as is currently the plan for flightsims.
(Also open to the idea of i9 10850..., but think Zen3 5900X is probably the way to go)
Many thanks!
Pricing though, specially 5800x is hard one to bite!
Hence you'll see a big push fill full pcie 4.0 m.2 next year . MS doesn't like sony stealing some limelight off new xbox with PS5 IO speeds.