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cplnobbie

cplnobbie

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Hi everyone,
Many thanks for the pervious help In making my pc better for flt sim 2020, What I would now like to know Is can I use any of the parts which are listed below Into making a better pc for Flt Sim 2020, I'm thinking maybe new cpu and motherboard and could I use any off the following parts to save on costs please.

1 x Intel Core i7-8700 (3.2Ghz) LGA1151 (would love to change out to AMD or something else)

Air CPU Cooler
1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler

RAM
1 x Corsair Vengeance® LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 2666MHz C16

Graphics Card
1 x NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 1070 8GB GB

Motherboard
1 x ASUS PRIME H310M-E (Socket- 1151, 2x DDR4, Micro-ATX (would need a new board I'd say)

Storage HDD / SSHD
1 x 1TB 3.5" SATA III HDD

SSD
1 x ADATA XPG SX6000 256GB M.2 PCI Express 3.0 SSD

Optical Drive
1 x Asus DRW-24D5MT 24X Internal DVD Writer (Can be got rid off)

Add-on Card
1 x Wireless PCI Express Adapter 300Mbps

Case
1 x Corsair Carbide 100R Windowed

Power Supply Unit
AeroCool® Integrator 500W — 500 Watt 80 PLUS® Bronze PSU (may need a bigger supply)

Many Thanks
Anthony
 
You need more everything.

It’s one of those games that demands every part to be high performance.

I would also pretty much promise you that your motherboard is throttling your cpu, which isn’t helping.

Put a fan over the VRMs and see if that helps.
 
JollyJamma said:
You need more everything.

It’s one of those games that demands every part to be high performance.

I would also pretty much promise you that your motherboard is throttling your cpu, which isn’t helping.

Put a fan over the VRMs and see if that helps.
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Ok If that's the case what should I drop In to replace the motherboard please
 
cplnobbie said:
Ok If that's the case what should I drop In to replace the motherboard please
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Do you mean a complete system upgrade?

You could help your current rig by getting another 16gigs of ram and a high end graphics card but you’d probably need more CPU cores to also help.

MSFS downloads map data in the background so it’s constantly hitting your cpu and storage with fresh data.

It’s not like it loads a map and that’s it done.

There are people on this forum who can give you specific CPU advice for MSFS

Tetras​

 
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JollyJamma said:
Do you mean a complete system upgrade?

You could help your current rig by getting another 16gigs of ram and a high end graphics card but you’d probably need more CPU cores to also help.

MSFS downloads map data in the background so it’s constantly hitting your cpu and storage with fresh data.

It’s not like it loads a map and that’s it done.

There are people on this forum who can give you specific CPU advice for MSFS

Tetras​

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Hi Jollyjama
Sorry I mean maybe upgrade the motherboard to say a B360 to help, after reading what I have is pretty much rubbish on a couple of sites.
 
JollyJamma said:
That socket is dead. Don’t invest more money in it when there are current chipsets that are faster and cheaper.

I’d probably suggest a min of 8 cores for your CPU and 32gigs of RAM with MSFS.
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Ok thanks for that, any makes or motherboards that jump out that you may recommend me having a look at then please.
 
cplnobbie said:
Not too much as in current climate money is tight like everyone, But £500 maybe a little more but don't want the wife to take my balls If you get my meaning.
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GPU then, but I'd wait until the 4000 series are out, and see what that does to 3000 series pricing. You should be able to pick up an RTX 3080 for £400-500 which will leave you room for PSU when you sell your GTX 1070, you'll need an 850w unit. Then you'll need a CPU/mobo and more RAM, another £500+ later down the line. :)
 
cplnobbie said:
Not too much as in current climate money is tight like everyone, But £500 maybe a little more but don't want the wife to take my balls If you get my meaning.
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Ah, you aren't going to get far with that budget.

This would be my suggestion but it's out of your budget

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £1,579.00 (includes delivery: £11.10)​








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JollyJamma said:
Ah, you aren't going to get far with that budget.

This would be my suggestion but it's out of your budget

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £1,579.00 (includes delivery: £11.10)​

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Thanks for that that does help to give me some sort of starting point.
 
Journey said:
GPU then, but I'd wait until the 4000 series are out, and see what that does to 3000 series pricing. You should be able to pick up an RTX 3080 for £400-500 which will leave you room for PSU when you sell your GTX 1070, you'll need an 850w unit. Then you'll need a CPU/mobo and more RAM, another £500+ later down the line. :)
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Many thanks for your reply, that really does help me.
 
cplnobbie said:
Not too much as in current climate money is tight like everyone, But £500 maybe a little more but don't want the wife to take my balls If you get my meaning.
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You'll definitely need a new PSU if you want to upgrade to an RTX 3000 or 4000 series.

I might add 16gigs of RAM to your current rig and a new PSU to tide you over.

Edit: maybe just get this to avoid compatibility issues.

www.overclockers.co.uk

Kingston Fury Beast 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C18 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit

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JollyJamma said:
You'll definitely need a new PSU if you want to upgrade to an RTX 3000 or 4000 series.

I might add 16gigs of RAM to your current rig and a new PSU to tide you over.

Edit: maybe just get this to avoid compatibility issues.

www.overclockers.co.uk

Kingston Fury Beast 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C18 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit

Order Kingston Fury Beast 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C18 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit now online and benefit from fast delivery.
www.overclockers.co.uk www.overclockers.co.uk
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Hi JollyJamma,
I take It they would fit my currant board ok and what difference would they make please to my currant set up, sorry as you can see I'm not really tech savvy
 
cplnobbie said:
Hi JollyJamma,
I take It they would fit my currant board ok and what difference would they make please to my currant set up, sorry as you can see I'm not really tech savvy
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Yes, it's DDR4.

Check your memory QVL list to make sure that the RAM you are buying will work with the motherboard but it should. DDR4 RAM combability hasn't really been as issue with the big brands.

 
JollyJamma said:
Yes, it's DDR4.

Check your memory QVL list to make sure that the RAM you are buying will work with the motherboard but it should. DDR4 RAM combability hasn't really been as issue with the big brands.

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Looking at a QVL list for your board, there's a 2 by 16gig kit of Corsair 3200 CL16 supported.

If you could find the kit second hand, it might save you some money but brand new RAM is so cheap these days. Just know that if you buy anything faster than 2666, it will only work at 2666 until you upgrade to a new chipset that supports memory overclocking (XMP is overclocking).
 
Go read this, you might need a bigger SSD too

www.tomshardware.com

Microsoft Flight Simulator Performance and Benchmarks: Your PC May Need an Upgrade

Microsoft Flight Simulator is one of the most demanding games currently available.
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It's also interesting to look at generational performance comparisons. Nvidia's Kepler-era GTX 780 gets 32 fps, the Maxwell GTX 980 is 39% faster at 45 fps, and Pascal GTX 1080 is 56% faster at 70 fps. Then we hit CPU limits, and the RTX 2080 is only 12% faster than the 1080. Typically, though, we see about 40-50% better performance from each major architectural update, which potentially bodes well for the RTX 3080.
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Read this too

www.techspot.com

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 Benchmarked

Today we're benchmarking a cargo plane load of graphics cards in the new Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. Visually the game is breathtaking and we'd say that we're...
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