Gaming Desktop for X-plane 10

[J.Russ]

Ok baweels The pre built comp is £907 with next day delivery. I'm selling my drum kit and current laptop. I'm selling laptop for £150 but say I sold drums on ebay and after ebay took 15% I made £280 in profit, I would have to pay 537 out of my own money. This includes me buying win 7. Do you know a good and cheap psu which I can buy in pounds? Cheers

EDIT: I found a 750W psu on Amazon, do you think this is good: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Corsair-Builder ... uctDetails

[michael]

EDIT: I found a 750W psu on Amazon, do you think this is good: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Corsair-Builder ... uctDetails

That should be a good selection just ensure it is compatible with everything. I'm running the Corsair 600M in my build I put together this month and have been loving it.

[Ryan B]

That's a decent one, plenty powerful for your rig

BTW, any chance you can change that cpu to a 4790K?

The K series allows for simple overclocking should you want to. The 4790K OCs pretty well with a decent cooler... as XP10 can be quite demanding it may be something to consider.

[michael]

That's a decent one, plenty powerful for your rig

BTW, any chance you can change that cpu to a 4790K?

The K series allows for simple overclocking should you want to. The 4790K OCs pretty well with a decent cooler... as XP10 can be quite demanding it may be something to consider.

I'm curious...how substantial were your gains from OC? Also what do you have it OC to? I ask because I also have the 4790k but haven't bothered trying to OC yet. With it running at 4.0Ghz stock, I found my performance to be quite nice. I am running FSX as opposed to X-plane though.

[bawells]

The specs on that system (aside from that PSU, seriously) are more than sufficient to have a beautiful X-plane experience and if I remember tonight I'll try and get a screen of my actual rendering settings and maybe a few screens for reference.

Please do, as I am clearly missing the ball somewhere with the settings. I can't come close to high settings, let alone run HD mesh v3 without the pc freezing. My specs:

- i7 3770k @4.4Ghz
- 16gb Ram
- MSI GTX 970 4gb
- MSI MPower Z77 MB
- Corsair AX850 P/S

Here are the settings, not totally maxed out but damn near and I can't tell a difference in most areas if I set them any higher so I may as well save some frames.

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Flew out over LAX, that scenery is pretty hard on my system, and was still pulling 35~40 frames.

[J.Russ]

If I get a 4790K, though, I would of wasted money on 4790. Also, bawells, what are your sepcs?

EDIT: Would this be a better purchase: http://www.amazon.co.uk/VIBOX-Annihilat ... ords=vibox

4.0GHz (4.4GHz Turbo) Intel, I7 4970K Fast Quad-Core, Haswell, Advanced, Processor, 2GB nVidia Geforce GTX 960 Graphics Card, High Grade 600W PSU, Big 2TB HDD Hard Drive, 16GB 1600Mhz RAM

[bawells]

A video card with 2GB of VRAM is going to limit the rendering settings and level of detail you can set - note that at the bottom of my settings page I'm hitting ~2.8GB of VRAM with those settings and that's pretty much average for me.

My system is:

i7-4790K w/ CoolerMaster Hyper 212 EVO
Gigabyte Z97-HD3
16 GB DDR3 2133
512 GB SSD
Gigabyte GV-N970G1 GTX970 4GB
Seasonic SS-760XP2

Could you still have a great X-Plane experience on a GTX960 and a base 4790 - absolutely! I think you have to decide what you want out of the sim. If that is cranking up the rendering settings to have the best visual experience then it might be worth saving up a bit more to get the current top of the line specs. If you're looking for a rewarding sim experience because you are passionate about aviation and all the planning, work, camaraderie, and constant learning involved therein then you should go with what you can afford, add a PilotEdge subscription and be good to go. Me? I fall in to the latter and was fortunate enough to have some leftover bonus from work burning a hole in my pocket along with a very understanding wife that is supportive of my hobbies so I went with the best I could for the money. I'd be just as happy going back to my Flight Simulator 5.0 days if I had to (lets not get too crazy here) but the thing I would miss the most though is PilotEdge and this community.

[J.Russ]

so which is better, this
http://www.ebuyer.com/671347-zoostorm-g ... -7260-5042 I

or this http://www.amazon.co.uk/VIBOX-Annihilat ... ords=vibox

In terms of performance
Cheers

[Ryan B]

That's a decent one, plenty powerful for your rig

BTW, any chance you can change that cpu to a 4790K?

The K series allows for simple overclocking should you want to. The 4790K OCs pretty well with a decent cooler... as XP10 can be quite demanding it may be something to consider.

I'm curious...how substantial were your gains from OC? Also what do you have it OC to? I ask because I also have the 4790k but haven't bothered trying to OC yet. With it running at 4.0Ghz stock, I found my performance to be quite nice. I am running FSX as opposed to X-plane though.

I don't have the 4790K... I still have my 2500K @ 4Ghz.

If you're over at avsim you can ask there but I'd reasonably confident that stock to say 4.7Ghz would be a large gain. The 4790K is really powerful for FSX.

[Ryan B]

so which is better, this
http://www.ebuyer.com/671347-zoostorm-g ... -7260-5042 I

or this http://www.amazon.co.uk/VIBOX-Annihilat ... ords=vibox

In terms of performance
Cheers

At stock CPU speed the one with the GTX 970 is better. But without the K overclocking is more of an experiment. I'm not even familiar with the non K CPU overclocking procedures.