New computer, advice please!

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Hello fellow flying brothers and sisters

I am looking for some advice with respect to purchasing a new computer and was wondering if the following would be enough to fly MSFS without having any issues. More specifically, would the video card be adequate enough and or DDR Ram?

  • 10th Gen Intel® Core™ i9 10900F (10-Core, 20MB Cache, 2.8GHz to 5.2GHz w/Thermal Velocity Boost)

Windows 10 Home, 64-bit, English

NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3070 8GB GDDR6

32GB Dual Channel HyperX™ FURY DDR4 XMP at 2933MHz; up to 64GB

512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD (Boot) + 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s (Storage)

Lunar Light chassis with Low-Profile Smart Cooling CPU Heatsink and 550W Power Supply

Thanks

Robert

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The first thing I see is you needing a bigger power supply.
Maybe someone on here can tell you how much bigger.

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Actually, I added the following computers.

Any recommendations as to what to change or which one would be better would be greatly appreciated.

Already have the idea of changing the power supply.

Any, thanks for the assistance.

Robert

Base

Dell G5 Desktop

Processor

10th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-10900F processor(10-Core, 20M Cache, 2.8GHz to 5.2GHz)

Operating System

Windows 10 Pro, 64-bit, English

Video Card

NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3070 8GB GDDR6

Memory

32GB, 2x16GB, DDR4, 2933Mhz

Hard Drive

1TB M.2 PCIe SSD + 2TB SATA 7200 RPM HDD 3.5"

Chassis Options

500W Chassis with Bezel and Internal Lighting + Clear Door

Wireless

Killer™ Wi-Fi 6 AX1650i (2x2) 802.11ax Wireless and Bluetooth 5.1

Keyboard

Dell Multimedia Keyboard-KB216 Black (English)

Base

Alienware Aurora R11

Processor

10th Gen Intel® Core™ i9 10900F (10-Core, 20MB Cache, 2.8GHz to 5.2GHz w/Thermal Velocity Boost)

Operating System

Windows 10 Pro, 64-bit, English

Video Card

NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3060 Ti 8GB GDDR6

Documentation/Disks

Safety/Environment and Regulatory Guide (English/French Multi-language)

Memory

32GB Dual Channel HyperX™ FURY DDR4 XMP at 2933MHz; up to 64GB (additional memory sold separately)

Hard Drive

1TB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD

Chassis Options

Dark Side of the Moon chassis with Low-Profile Smart Cooling CPU Heatsink and 550W Power Supply

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Get a more powerful PSU,a 2TB NVMe drive and don’t buy GPUs with only 8GB of VRAM-go for the 3080

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Hi Causing Sloth 766.
My advise, go with the biggest power supply you can get for the specific chassis. It is only a small amount of money compared to all the other parts.
My PC is limited to a 750 w power supply ,as mentioned obowe.
My configuration is as follow:
Asus B460M -Plus TUF motherboard
Intel core i9 10900F 2,8 GHz
Intel 66 SP 1TB M.2 NVME SSD
RAM 32 GB
Nvidia Gforce RTX 3070 , GB RAM

It is running very well all over the wold (60FPS) despite all those software failure we fight with.

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For the power supply I believe the NVIDIA recommended minimum is 750 for that card. But for the price difference id go to 1000 to future proof yourself a bit. That is what I did.

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Thanks everyone. Will take everything on advisement. Definitely change the power supply

Thanks

Robert

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Some comments;

a 10900 is overkill for this sim (or any game or sim at that). It will simply not utilize those 10 cores / 20 threads.
Maybe check out the Ryzen 5 5600X (6 cores / 12 threads, and better single core performance than the Intel counterpart. Single core performance is king for CPU’s in this sim).
If you’re dead set on Intel, consider a 10700.

GPU wise; what resolution are you targeting? If you’re going to be running at 1080p, then a RTX3070 will be overkill. If you’re looking to be running 4K or VR at ultra details, the RTX3070 might be not enough.

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Interesting points about the cpu threads-thanks.
If you are going for vr then a 3070 may not be enough and also some AMD motherboards do not support the reverb G2 which currently gives the best resolution in vr

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Thanks everyone for your advice and remarks.

I’ve decided I’m going to go with the following computer specs. Most likely an over kill for the CPU but for the difference in price, I decided to go big. I’ve been a flight simmer since 1982 with somewhat decent gear and sometimes issues with FPS problems, so this time I want to be able to fly with out having to worry about FPS issues. Hopefully, this will do it.

Base

Alienware Aurora R11

Processor

10th Gen Intel® Core™ i9 10900KF (10-Core, 20MB Cache, 3.7GHz to 5.3GHz w/Thermal Velocity Boost)

Operating System

Windows 10 Pro, 64-bit, English

Video Card

Liquid Cooled NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 2080 Super™ 8GB GDDR6 (OC Ready)

Memory

32GB Dual Channel HyperX™ FURY DDR4 XMP at 2933MHz; up to 64GB

Hard Drive

1TB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD (Boot) + 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s (Storage)

Chassis Options

Dark Side of the Moon chassis with High-Performance CPU Liquid Cooling with and 1000W Power Supply

Keyboard

Add an Alienware Gaming Keyboard to your setup in Accessories below or no keyboard

Mouse

Add an Alienware Gaming Mouse to your setup in Accessories below or no mouse

Wireless

Dell Wireless DW1810 (1x1) 802.11ac with Wi-Fi, Wireless LAN, Bluetooth 5.0

Again, thanks for the help

Robert

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Hello Robert !
Nice specs you have. My rig is a Core i7 9700KF @ 5Ghz and 32Gb 3200 ram, I am getting Cas 16 DDR 3600 in case it helps with stutters - I run a 1440P monitor and get 45-60 fps flying normally but occasional dips to 16 fps at certain high res airports when close to say a very detailed terminal building. I have a GTX 1080 Ti. Could be having driver issues of sorts but all in all it works well. - SO: I do hope you get DDR4 3200 at least or even better DDR4 3600 (get CAS 16 not CAS 18 in that case)