PeteStepanoff Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 I am ready to start building a new PC for my P3Dv4 and FSX-SE. Here's what I'm looking at, so far: CPU - Intel I7-7700K with Corsair Water Cooler H55 MoBo - Gigabyte AORUS GA-Z270X-Gaming K7 Mem - 16GB (2x8) G.Skill TridentZ RGB DDR4 3000 Video card - EVGA GTX 1080 FTW2 8GB or - ASUS ROG Strix GTX 1080 8GB 11GBps or - Gogabyte GTX 1080 Extreme, Water Cooled Drives - 32gb Optane + 3TB HD (any performance brand). Power - Corsair CX750M 750W I'm still debating video card option, the three listed are all similar in performance and price. Or should I go all out and get the 1080ti. Is it worth the $100 plus extra cost? Any suggestions, critiques or suggestions welcome. I'm not planning any huge overclocking, but will play around with some moderate ones. Pete S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteStepanoff Posted August 9, 2017 Author Share Posted August 9, 2017 Wow! What a great response! Guess no one is interested in sharing their opinions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billd Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 You are correct ,sir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRJ_simpilot Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 To compare GPUs check out GPUboss. I have the same motherboard. Been pretty good thus far, but you may want to update its BIOS as soon as you get it. OOM errors? Read this. What the squawk? An awesome weather website with oodles of Info. and options. Wile E. Coyote would be impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColR1948 Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 @Pete, Sometimes posts like yous can get numerous replies where some will tell you what to get and what not to get, what they have etc. I had a PC that I was running FS9 plus a few other sims, it ran not too bad but I like you decided to build another better one mainly for FSX. I'm on an old age pension, so I was limited to what to buy, my grandson who has built a few PC's helped me to choose the parts with my limited budget. It took me a few months to get everything needed, and he came round and built it for me, so far it has been very good, it runs FSX without a problem. So going off what you posted, that PC when built will be great, you will see from time to time someone posts screenshots or does a YouTube video of their FSX/P3D and how well it runs, they post what settings they have. You try it and it might not look very good, but as you may well know, no two PC's are the same, what works on one may not work on another. I will admit, I've seen things and thought, I must try that only to find it mucked things up or I found no difference, so course you know what I'm going to say, back up before you try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
413bobby Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 You are correct ,sir. If you dont have anything constructive to add then do everybody a favor and keep quiet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UPHILL3 Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 All I can add is perhaps bump-up the power supply a bit(?) (I'd really like to have your new rig myself, but surely I'd be out-voted by my wife). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColR1948 Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 @413bobby, who are you addressing in your post? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il88pp Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 To make use of all of the 8gb Ram you will need a 64bit Operating System. (Windows Version). How much Ram is actually usable depends on what OS you use. And not only on what OS, but also which version of that OS. Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, or Pro. Here are the numbers for Windows 7. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/978610/the-usable-memory-may-be-less-than-the-installed-memory-on-windows-7-b For the more recent versions of Windows. (Win8, Win10) these limits are much higher. (Higher the the Win 7 limits for the 64bit versions only. For these OS versions the 32bit versions stay limited to 4gb.) The WIn10-64 limits are very high. wIN8 also. so for those OS's it doesn't matter that much. Just make sure to get a -64bit version. If you are planning on using Win7, and also planning to use more then 16gb in the future, then you will do good to get Win7-Pro. No home premium. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
413bobby Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 @413bobby, who are you addressing in your post? "Billd" in response to post 3, i thought the remark was a bit harsh but maybe i took it wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrUnSavory Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 I have the same processor. I would suggest a bit bigger liquid cool for the CPU. Maybe minimum of a Corsair H80 I believe it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raceguy Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 Hi Pete I am running a very similar PC and am very happy. I was/am intimidated by liquid cooled so I had it built by Jetline Systems. Here are the specs: Gravity GT2 Windows 10 Professional (64-Bit) Chassis: Cooler Master Storm Scout II Motherboard: Gigabyte Aorus Z270x Gaming 5, LGA 1151 Processor:Intel 7th Gen Core i7 7700K (4.8GHz Overclock) Quad Core CPU Cooling: Corsair Hydro Series H60 Liquid Cooling System Memory: 16GB Kingston DDR4 SDRAM 2400MHz Graphics Processor: 8GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070, PCI Express 3.0 System Power: 750 Watt Corsair RM Series Power Supply Sound Card: 7.1 High Definition Integrated Audio Primary SSD: 500GB Samsung EVO 850 (SSD) Secondary Hard Drive: 1TB WD Black 7200 RPM Optical Drive: 20x DVD/CD Burner Drive Media Drive: None Selected Networking: Integrated High Speed Network Ready (10/100/1000) I am running FSX boxed with the following software: A2A P-51D MIL / CIV, T-6 and C-172 FSUIPC LINDA SPAD.neXt Air Manager Active Sky 2016 REX WX Advantage Radar Rex4 Texture Direct with Soft Clouds ORBX FTX Central V3 ORBX FTX Global Base ORBX FTX Global openLC Arctic Alaska and Canada ORBX FTX Global openLC North America ORBX FTX Global Vector FTX NA KCGX Meigs Field FS Global Ultimate - Next Generation Airport Enhancer HDX MegaSceneryEarth Florida Florida Airports Aligned Hawaii Jacksonville Orlando Tampa You can see my setup in the Cockpit builders section under P-51D cockpit build. Photobucket killed my previous pics so go to the last page for the latest. Good luck! Ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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