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Am I Smart to Buy This Hardware For MSFS 2020?


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Also, and at least this is true for my Crucial SSD, in its software I can enable something that Crucial calls "Momentum Cache." This in effect takes a portion of your SSD storage and uses it like a page file of sorts. When I have it on my HDD speed tests are through the roof because of it.

 

Thanks for the tip!

 

Planned on using my 10Tb HDD as a scenery cache and that would really speed it up. Wear the hell outta of a poor ssd though but they are cheap enough now to make the sacrifice for performance.

 

Found this link that said that software can be made to work with any ssd. I have a Crucial MX100 I use for music files to initialize it.

 

https://www.thessdreview.com/daily-news/crucial-momentum-cache-works-on-any-nvme-ssd/

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Just be warned that you should have a UPS power backup for the computer otherwise if there's an abrupt power loss you could have data corruption.

 

I use a Cyberpower UPS with pure sine wave and is meant for active PSUs. You need to make sure you have a UPS that is meant for your PSU if it's an active PSU. If the UPS is not pure sine wave, don't ever connect a surge protector strip to the UPS. If the UPS kicks in from a power loss, the surge protector could start fire from lack of a pure sine wave.

 

Just food for thought in case you or anyone else reads this.

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For a scenery cache that's just temporary data, I'm not going to worry about a UPS. However I do pray when ever I flash hardware that I don't get a brownout/blackout!
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I am about to build following configuration in order to run MSFS 2020 smoothly...but I hope you guys can give me some feedback/comments/suggestions...

 

Intel® Core™ i5-9600KF - 6 Cores

Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB DDR4-3000

NVIDIA RTX 2060 SUPER 8GB

SSD 500GB Crucial MX500

 

Many thanks in advance!

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