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!