High-spec but 6 year old PC ok for Flight/Truck Simulator?
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singlecoil said:
I want to run a 3 monitor setup, the graphics card is an RTX2080TI
It looks ok to me but gaming in general and simulators in particular are a new thing for me so any advice would be welcome
This was published this weekIt looks ok to me but gaming in general and simulators in particular are a new thing for me so any advice would be welcome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgfx2mLSI-A
That should be fine for 1080p I'd say. I have at 2080ti, it's a good card.
It's more of a workstation build (X series CPU, WS series motherboard, and lots of slow RAM).
The 9940X is not as fast as a 9900K in single/few-core gaming due to its lower boost clocks (4.4GHz vs 5.0GHz), but is better for heavy video/rendering workloads due to having 6/12 extra cores/threads.
That H80 cooler (okay for about 150w) is probably a bit underpowered for that CPU if it was being used as a rendering machine (which can pull more like 250w vs the advertised TDP of 165w), so I'd be checking the thermal paste on it to make sure it hasn't completely dried up. But for gaming it's probably fine if the paste is good (or can be swapped out for Thermal Grizzly Kyrosheet for a maintenance-free life).
But I can't see any reason it wouldn't be suitable for sims - although if it's DCS or MSFS2020 they are very hungry beasts and would prefer to be run off a fast SSD...although that motherboard is PCIe 3.0, so will only support up to about 3500MB/s m.2 anyway. Shouldn't cost a lot to put a super-fast gen3 512GB SSD in as boot/apps/game launcher drive, and second gen 3 2TB SSD as your game/mods install location.
The 9940X is not as fast as a 9900K in single/few-core gaming due to its lower boost clocks (4.4GHz vs 5.0GHz), but is better for heavy video/rendering workloads due to having 6/12 extra cores/threads.
That H80 cooler (okay for about 150w) is probably a bit underpowered for that CPU if it was being used as a rendering machine (which can pull more like 250w vs the advertised TDP of 165w), so I'd be checking the thermal paste on it to make sure it hasn't completely dried up. But for gaming it's probably fine if the paste is good (or can be swapped out for Thermal Grizzly Kyrosheet for a maintenance-free life).
But I can't see any reason it wouldn't be suitable for sims - although if it's DCS or MSFS2020 they are very hungry beasts and would prefer to be run off a fast SSD...although that motherboard is PCIe 3.0, so will only support up to about 3500MB/s m.2 anyway. Shouldn't cost a lot to put a super-fast gen3 512GB SSD in as boot/apps/game launcher drive, and second gen 3 2TB SSD as your game/mods install location.
BlueMR2 said:
I think you just posted your windows key number.
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