mine arrived yesterday. Not sure if I’ll see a bump in performance over my 3600. Hopefully…
Now if I could just score a waterblocked 3080 I’d be set.
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Please let us know how it performs.
You will see some performance increase with the 5800X. Have heard they run very warm so watch your temps and make sure that your cooling needs are sufficient.
Good luck on the 3080 hybrid. I found one (got lucky) paid alot for it but it has been stellar.
I undervolt both the GPU and CPU and the temps are in the low 60’s running FS
Good luck and have fun
I was thinking about holding off on the build till I got a Waterforce GPU because my cooling system is pretty extreme. Everything is hard tubed in. I built a geothermal cooling system back when stuff got really hot. It was running 2 heavily OCed 290 GPUs and a FX-8350 @ 5.2 Ghz. Everything had a water block on it (CPU, GPU, mem, SB, NB) so I didn’t have any fans running; Totally silent build. Now it’s just running 2 3600 systems at stock clock, each has an OCed 1080ti though. Water temperature has never gotten above 130F.
I’ve got a 5800x and runs great, huge improvement over my old i7. No issues with heating using the AMD wraith air cooler.
Sounds like you have a great build. There are lots of folks over at the EVGA forum that have built their own hybrid solutions as well. I would imagine that there should be a water block available for a 3080 or 3090 card that you could use and still use your great cooling system.
Best of Luck
mark
It looks like there is some supply out there, got my 5800x two weeks ago and like you, replaced a 3600. Mine is paired with an XFX Merc 6800 GPU, I feel like I’m set for a few years now. I’ve used a Cooler Master M240 v2 RGB AIO on my CPU, I never OC anything. No issues with heat. In terms on perf gains, I run Ultra in the sim at 1440 and saw 5 to 10 fps gains vs 3600. Won’t post results because on my setup I undock the glass panels on a touchscreen with Air Manager and that affects FPS quite a bit.
I am only giving an example of what you may need as software to watch the temperature of your GPU.
I am using RTX 3060ti which is enough good for my FS settings. so I used a software named (ThunderMaster) which helps me always watching the temperature changes during the simulation by watching the changes in the LED lights on-board the GPU. I am including a screenshot of what it looks like.!
Sometimes I do miss multiple monitors for "extra’ stuff like that. But there is no way I can give up VR. I’m working on a button box that I hope to be able to manipulate in VR. So at least I’ll have that. Here’s a link to it. Virtual Reality General Aviation Button Box - Self-Service / Home Cockpit Builders - Microsoft Flight Simulator Forums