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| Howardlong:
--- Quote from: paulca on September 09, 2020, 04:26:23 pm ---AAA titles are one thing. There are other more niece use cases that will pretty much consume as much video hardware as you want to throw at them. DCS World being the one I'm interested in, but also Flight Simulator 2020. MS Flight Sim has always made current hardware seem inadequate. I understand 2020 is no exception with a 2080Ti barely able to run on High settings and coming nowhere near 60fps. --- End quote --- As a pilot myself, all I can say is FS 2020 is stunning, it's by far the best PC simulator I've used, although it's been two or three years since I last tried Prepar3d or XPlane. I run MS FS at 4K at a fairly consistent 40fps in Ultra on an RTX-2080 Ti with an i7-8700k. Note that I use it to maintain currency, not really for sightseeing, although it must be stated that the smoothness and realism I've found so far to be very acceptable. There's a fair bit of discussion that you don't really need 60fps+ for a flight simulator, and IME I'd agree with that, although I can see that it might sound counter intuitive. My box is a mini-ITX build, using an Asrock Z370 Gaming ITX/ac, with 32GB 3000MHz DDR4 and a 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD. Except for the 2080Ti and case, this was my old lab/bench development PC, and I upgraded it specifically to use with FS 2020 back in April when I had some Covid time on my hands. The case is a Sliger SM560 3-GPU slot (duh, I hadn't realised the 2080 Ti I'd bought was a 3 slotter!) with ventilated panels all round. Avoid inadvertently placing liquids on top of it! Otherwise this well ventilated case is the best ITX enclosure for thermals I've ever encountered despite its diminutive 11 litre size. Two Noctua 120mm fans are in the base On the CPU I have a frankenstein combo of a Cooltek LP53 cooler with another Noctua 120mm fan sitting directly on top of it: the overreach of the fan cools both the CPU and the motherboard. PSU is a SilverStone SST-SW700-G. An earlier Corsair SF750 that I installed blew its magic smoke when in standby, taking a circuit breaker with it. The i7-8700k is stock, with no IHS modifications. With no overclocking, it runs AIDA64 at 75 deg C with a slight -100mV offset undervolt. As with any mini ITX build, it's not great for overclocking, thermals get out of control rapidly, so I leave it running at stock apart from the undervolting. To complete the setup, I have a Honeycomb yoke, Saitek/Logitech throttle quadrant, and Thrustmaster T.Flight Rudder Pedals. As a pilot, I find that having realistic controls is key for me: trying to land with keyboard and mouse is neither fun nor realistic. |
| paulca:
Go VR man :) Reverb or Oculus. Give DCS world a try, a bit more exciting and mostly VFR. If you like playing with the more complex FS models, the level of detail in a HiFi module in DCS is staggering. It took me 2 hours to start up an A10 first time. Learning the various weapons systems and targetting systems took months. Every switch is implemented and functional as it should be. 3D clickable too and in VR. (I can start an A10 in 4 minutes now and a hornet is less). Launching from the new Super Carrier mod, including deck crew, marshalling, full cat crew is awesome. Absolutely kills the framerate on deck with 4 AI launching and 4 taxiing, but it's so amazing. It's not just the combat, pew, pew gaming, the flight model is (for most things) far beyond what FS2004 had. Proper fluid dynamics for example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIvnLgLuVFs&ab_channel=EagleDynamics%3ADigitalCombatSimulator EDIT: Watching that video again, it's hard to believe until you've seen it that 100% of that is in game footage. It's beautiful to watch and even more so to play. |
| Electro Fan:
--- Quote from: Ranayna on September 08, 2020, 08:45:02 pm ---Wouldn't it be a bit awkward to use an AMD system to present your newest nVidia card? As far as i know, there are no Intel CPUs with PCIe 4 yet ;) --- End quote --- +1 I think it is correct that so far there are no Intel CPUs that support PCIe 4, but there are definitely AMD CPUs that support PCIe 4 and they work well with nVidia's current GPUs (20XX and others), and no doubt they will happily work with nVidia's 30XX GPUs. Not a lot of reasons yet (other than maybe read/write NVMe performance) to give up on PCIe 3 if someone has PCIe 3, but given a choice (building a full computer from scratch) PCIe 4 is preferred. One of these days Intel will deliver PCIe 4 but if they don't get there this year....... maybe next year or the year after we could possibly start to see products that support PCIe 5. https://www.amd.com/en/chipsets/x570 PCIe® 4.0 Leadership 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen is the FIRST processor to enable PCIe® 4.0, including support for Radeon RX 5000 series graphics and the world’s first PCIe® 4.0 NVMe drives https://www.slashgear.com/nvidia-answers-some-burning-rtx-30-series-questions-pcie-4-3080-ram-04636806/ We also learn what kind of performance downgrade owners can expect if they use these cards with PCIe 3.0 instead of PCIe 4.0. “System performance is impacted by many factors and the impact varies between applications,” NVIDIA’s Seth Schneider said. “The impact is typically less than a few percent going from a x16 PCIE 4.0 to x16 PCIE 3.0. CPU selection often has a larger impact on performance. We look forward to new platforms that can fully take advantage of Gen4 capabilities for potential performance increases.” https://www.rambus.com/blogs/pci-express-5-vs-4/#:~:text=What%20is%20PCI%20Express%205,released%20in%20May%20of%202019. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/pcie-4.0-5.0-pci-sig-specification,38460.html |
| Howardlong:
--- Quote from: paulca on September 09, 2020, 06:17:47 pm ---Go VR man :) Reverb or Oculus. --- End quote --- This is the only reason to go VR for me, once HP's Reverb G2 is released I'll be giving it a go. I did use an IR reflector gadget at one time which was kinda OK, but that's the main part of the experience lacking right now, moving your head as you look at the window. |
| paulca:
--- Quote from: Howardlong on September 09, 2020, 09:27:31 pm --- --- Quote from: paulca on September 09, 2020, 06:17:47 pm ---Go VR man :) Reverb or Oculus. --- End quote --- This is the only reason to go VR for me, once HP's Reverb G2 is released I'll be giving it a go. I did use an IR reflector gadget at one time which was kinda OK, but that's the main part of the experience lacking right now, moving your head as you look at the window. --- End quote --- The OMG factor for my first time was the 3D sense of distance. I found it hard to not reach out my real hand to touch things. That and just how bright the screens are when you look at the sun for example. |
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