Hi,
Considerig the main purpose of getting smoothness and high FPS (up to 60 fps whenever possible) on Flight Simulator I have recently upgraded my GPU from MSI GTX1070 to RTX3070 (2K bounded)
I’am also planning to upgrade my CPU from i7 6700K to Ryzen 5800X.
As a consequence I will need to change my mainboard (socket limited due intel) as well but I need your help to pick one. I can’t select one among the possible ones by my budget.
Would you mind to check my possible mobo from the list and state why to pick that particular one ?
***For info I’am on Gskill Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 (2x8GB)16GB MEMORY and planning go improve them in medium term.
POSSIBLE MOBO OPTIONS 
Gigabyte x570 Aorus Pro
Msi MPG x570 Gaming Pro Carbon WIFI
Asus Rog Strix x570 F Gaming
Gigabyte B550 Aorus Elite
I will update the post with quick links to these products as soon as possible.
Thank you for your time.
Kind regards.
Any motherboard with the B550 chipset should be good enough, there’s no reason to go for the X570 chipset unless you want front USB-C among a few other things.
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agreed, any B550 board with decent power delivery should do fine.
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I would make sure it supports PCIe 4.0 NVMe connections.
Samsung recently released their 980 Pro PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD. I would assume that other storage vendors will follow with PCIe 4.0 offerings.
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Thanks a lot for advices. Really appreciated. I guess I will wait until seeing the results of optimziation we’re hoping to come with Update 7. I may continue with my 6700K a litle bit more. Not quite sure but will try.
After then I will pull the trigger for Ryzen5800X and MOBO as expected.
Regarding to chipset I have read lots of articles and couldn’t come to a solution as now. I guess with paying a bit of extra more I will choose smth with X570. Can’t explain in detail but shortly I don’t want to update in mid term again so that’s why I stick to best possible system wise option considering PCI and SSD connection improvements.
Are there anyone among us actually experimenting Ryzen 5800X with Flight Sim ? Becasue at some points 5900X pulls my attention on to it but not certain if we would have any gain with it more than with Ryzen 5800X ?
I would be so happy to hear FPS - Smoothnes bounded experiences from Ryzen 5800X owners. Even about 5600X experiences I would be so appreciated to hear.
Kind regards.
There are third party benchmarks already, showing that going with the 5800X or 5900X over the 5600X gives no tangible benefit in MSFS at all (6C/12T is enough).
About the motherboard choice: This Ryzen generation is the last one that will be on the AM4 socket, so you’ll be buying this motherboard for a single generation. That’s why I advise to just go for a B550 board. The X570 doesn’t really bring anything amazing to the table over the B550.
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For system builders and who have questions in their minds:
With the help of beloved simmers within this forum I went to un update with
AMD RYZEN 5600X + ASUS TUF B550 PLUS WIFI
After having quaite a bit time I can surely say I’am always GPU limited on my 4K display.
Even trying with 1440P with ULTRA I couldn’t manage to be MainThread limited.
Thanks for advicesso far.
I guess after seeing DX12 implementation (if this is gonna be successful and worth to do an update) I’am gonna move on to RTX 3090 with certainly beraking my bank acoount to have consistent 35 40 FPS on ULTRA. But not today as most of the 3090 owners aren’t happy at least seems to be.
This software is beating on GPU by somehow.
Kind regards.
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I suggest you wait for the 3080 TI instead of switching to a 3090. You will have no gain between these two cards and the 3080 Ti will be less expensive.
For information, concerning the CPU, MSFS uses 8 cores with a main core which distributes the tasks over the other seven.