This is the first I’ve heard of anything like that. Sure, you can get those problems if you try to push the overclock too far, but that is the nature of the overclocking process and not a problem with the sim itself. AMD is also rather overclocking friendly with the 7000 series, with most of it happening via undervolting.
If you are wanting out of the box settings and reliability, that’s fine, but it’s disingenuous to say that overclocking will always cause stability problems. If that’s happening, you need to dial it back some.
In a case like this, where you are budget constrained, overclocking potential can be a real consideration for some people. I myself almost went the GRE route for that reason, but it was unclear at the time if AMD would remove the restriction on it and it was just outside my budget. My XFX 7800XT has been rock solid with a noticable performance boost once my OC was dialed in.
Ha … the roads to my nearest Aldi are more often than not chock-a-block with traffic. Pretty sure that in my case the much smaller and veteran A40 would actually get there first with a bit of cheeky driving. 0 to 60 would not even be a thing either
Did`nt say that overclocking will always cause stability problems. Look at how many people in the forums say that problems in msfs stopped after going back to base settings. And I maintain that my system ryzen 9 7900 3dx, RTX 4090, 64 gb Ddr5 6400mhz ram all liquid cooled plus pimax chrystal needs no overclocking to run msfs like butter.
That’s what you implied by your statement. Unfortunately there will be cards that simply don’t take well to overclocking, but my original point still stands that it’s not a problem of the sim and there’s a large number of users that overclock without issue.
That’s all well and good, but a 4090 is nowhere near within the budget of @blackwizard154, so your performance doesn’t really play into the analysis of cards that are about a quarter of its price.
we do not know the psu power requirements of Blackwell gaming gpus yet (compatibility, socket etc). i would wait since they are coming in January (hopefully).
5090 will be 600watt so with a high end machine, 1000 watt minimum will be good. Aimin 80-85 load.
Sorry but, it is a terrible time to buy a nvidia gpu, probably 4090,4080 prices are inflated due to upcoming 5000 series. (i bought mine years ago for 1599$
Regarding the cost of 4090 GPUs, I used to work in a 3D software company and our graphics expert Ray was convinced the half life of a GPU was 6 months.
Faster cards come along making the old cards less competitive and unwanted. Ray always got the latest greatest in his test PC!
So yes wait until the 5000 series is released. There maybe deals on the 4000 series.
Conversely, one of my best friends is in charge of compute resources for his academic department at large nearby university. He buys multiple units of GPUs that are tens of thousands of dollars each cost for protein and molecular chemical reaction modeling done by his department. His last PO, he happened to mention to me, was for close to $200K for a new small cluster. But he runs a 3070 Founders Edition on his own PC and is perfectly happy with medium/high settings.
Thats interesting. My son-in-law (a bio-chemist) did research at the molecular level -:how vaccines bond to Covid and literally break each molecular bond, to pull the infection away from the host and neutralise it. He was using a GPU to accelerate the simulation which took tens of hours