Happy to say that my build is going good. Currently installing FS now. So hopefully, I should be able to fly tonight or tomorrow with my new PC.
Still have to install HOTAS and Pedals drivers and all my other stuff.
Well I could do this with ease on a Ryzen 7 3800X with my old ASUS Dual Radeon 5700 Super Advanced OC Edition. Ultra ultra ultra ultra ultra ultra etc. 
with 2560x1440 (with reduced AA of course, AA is becomes less important when the resolution goes higher).
After getting bored with ultra rendering ini configs for enhanced tree and building rendering distance became interesting - but with mods only 1920x1080 was possible.
Any GeForce above RTX 2060 will bring you the same performance with ease, so no need to buy the most expensive 3090ti (these cards are still extreme expensive).
Hello!
Howâs FS2020 running with your new 3080Ti ?
Was it worth it?
Iâm on the fence about getting either the 3080 12GB or the 3080Ti.
Cheers!
Actually just finished finished building it today. I just have to arrange the cabling in the back and put the back cover on.
I donât have it yet connected with all my peripherals, but I will finish that tomorrow.
I do have FS installed but have no controllers so I have not flown with it yet. I did spawn into KJFK and sitting on the runway in ULTRA I had it set to 60FPS and was getting at 1080 which is the monitor that I am using during the build.
Tomorrow I will have a better idea of performance. But the little that I have seen, I am very impress with the 3080ti.
Here are a few photos, but they really donât really show how good the RGB lighting looks. It looks wicked. I also have Hue Phillips color bulbs in my house and the computers RGB lighting controller that came with the cooler can also control the color of the lights in my office.
The CPU water cooler is awesome and keeps things really cool. The cooler radiator has two fans on it. I have three intake fans and three exhaust fans an when just surfing the web, the 3080ti fan donât even run. They do start spinning about the time I spawn into KJFK. One of the intake fan is right smack in the middle of the GPU and itâs an intake fan which helps jeep the GPU cool.
One of the fans in connected to the motherboard and it set to display the overall heat of the system. Green being very cool, then yellow and it get warmer and red when it get hot. The ASUS motherboard logo and the back part when all the connections go, 3080ti also has RGB and also set to temperature, so glancing over and looking at any of those four locations, I can quickly gauge if the system in getting hot.
Before I mounted the water cooler and had the cheap Intel fan that came with the processor, i use to see red come on often, but not once after installing the water cooler.
I updated my profile with all the build components and tomorrow Iâll comment more on how it handles flying once I move it over and connect my peripherals.
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Awesome system!
Please keep us posted about what kind of FPS you get with the 3080Ti.
Took the new system out for a 2:30 hour flight on Saturday or Sunday and it flew great! All settings at Ultra and 60FPS in game and it kept the game at 60 without even sweating. GPU and GPU about 50% most of the time.
I was on a group flight with SeedyL and it was down in South America, but we flew over some large cities an still no problem.
The only big problem, this thing is a space heater! It does get very hot. Between the I9 and the 3080ti they generate a look of heat. I do have adequate cooling, but anyone you ask will tell you the same thing. These systems get hot!
The system is by no means over heating but the system with a powerful CPU and GPU simply produces a lot of heat.
I put it under my desk, but I am going to relocate it. I need to order longer cables for two out of my three monitors. These powerful systems cannot be put under your desk, they just produce too much heat and will take a toll on you.
I had posted these photos in a discord channel and two issues were pointed out. One I already knew, the other I didnât.
First off, my case is too small and the fan next to the GPU is way too close and the heat from the GPU will eventually melt the fan. I wanted to mount it on top, but with the RAM, I donât have enough room.
Second the AIO pump is higher than the top of the radiator. Over time some liquid evaporates through the lines and you get some air the the cooling system. With the CPU cooler being higher than the radiator, the air will go up to the pump and damage it and not cool as efficiently as it should.
So, I am rebuilding it in a new case. The case arrives tomorrow. While I was at it, and having a bigger case, I also decided to also install a larger radiator. Going from a 240 to a 360. The 240 was working well, but you can never have too much cooling.
I have an L shape office setup with my main desk being at the 90 degree corner. There is where I have a 32 inch monitor in the center and two 27 inch monitors, one on the left and the other on the right of the center monitor.
I had put the PC right under my desk, but being the space heater that it is, I am moving it over to another desk to my right, where all the heat wonât bother me.
I would send a photo of my setup, but itâs a mess right now. Oh, I found an old photo before I updated the monitors. On this old photo, the center was 27 16:9, the left was 24 but not 16:9, it was closer to photography photo ratio, and the right was a 24 16:9.
My current setup is similar, but a big mess right now, but now with the larger monitors, a Logitech camera and TrackIR on top of the center monitor.
I will post some photos of my new build and the desk setup after I do some cleanup.
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It is worth noting that from a technical/component/chipset standpoint the 3080TI is really a slightly nerfed 3090 rather than an upgraded 3080 .
I agree with the heat thing totally, though at the moment it is a godsend. My office is a 20x20 above the garage and ambient temps through the winter are pretty â â â â â â cold. An i9 and 3080 act as a small central heating system to such effect that after an hour on the sim, you very rarely need the additional heater turning on. In the summer, it will be a different story though. I see open doors and skylights being the order of the day. It is worth remembering that an extra 20 degrees ambient is going to translate into an extra 20 on the system too.
I use a Corsair 5000x, a Corsair 150 elite LCD rad and currently 7 extra Corsair fans. The exhaust at rear seems to get most of the actual heat out and the soon to be 3 rather than 2 exhausts in the roof are much cooler, so I might need some more tweaking.
Coolant temp gets up to around 32, GPU up to 70 ish and CPU up to around 58-60.
Itâs the CPUs that struggle more than the GPU one you are above the 2080.
You know exactly what Iâm talking about when I said space heater 
My rebuild will be in the Corsair 4000x and Iâm also moving up from the Corsair H100I Elite to the 150. That extra fan will keep things cooler.
My coolant temp when not under load was 38, so the 150 will help! And having the GPU so close to the cooler didnât help.
My GPU was about 75 on FS and CPU also about 60.
My case and cooler arrive today, but I have things I need to work on, so I wonât do the swap until Saturday.
In the mean time I have an about 3 hour group flight, I hope that doesnât that fan next to it
This is with some aps and other stuff running, but not FS. This is also with a super Quiet profile I created and that low coolant temperatures I keep the fan speed down to keep them quieter.
On the cooler image, Fan Front Middle and Fan Front Bottom are the two radiator those fans that come with the radiator actually have higher RPMs the the other SP 120m Elite fans. The cooler fans rev up to 2500 RPM and the others only to 1500 RPM. I wish Corsair would also sell the SP120 Elite at 2500 RPM.
Well done on the build. Sure it will be great. Watch out for the Corsair node on the case. If you want to control fan speed as well as RGB through icue, I think you might need the Commander Pro in the mix as well. Mine is going back for a rebuild for this amd some other stuff too, hopefully in the next six or eight weeks - before it gets too warm in here
I do control five of the six fan with ICUE for color and speed. The Corsiar 175R brought one fan in front that illuminates the front logo. I connected that one to the MB was along Aura Sync, the MB and that fan display a color front green to red base on the overall heat in the case. So the MB synced the sped and color for that one fan.
On the new 4000x case all six fans will be on the controller and controlled with iCUE.
I am currently using the controller that came with the cooler, not sure what controller the case brings, the the one from the cooler works great. Hopefully the 150 bring the same controller as the 100.
Yes, those will be ML120 on the radiator. The SP is okay, but on my machine as it stands, it needs some TLC to tie it all down together re fan control and lighting. Donât just bung stuff into the MB willy nilly if you want it all to work through icue. I could a story tellâŠ
I didnât notice the ML 120 when I bought the SP 120. Lets see what the 4000x bring, if they are SP I will change them to ML.
Iâm mounting the H150 radiator in the front since the 4000x case only has room for 240 on top. So I will move the three front fans, two to the top and one to the back as exhaust. The three for the cooler in front will be intake fans.
I know the 5000x takes 360 on top, but I didnât want such a big case. And the radiator hoses will be above the CPU cooler on the 4000x so I donât have to worry about air bubbles in the cPU cooler, but I know that a top mount for the radiator is the best way to do it.
I have an Intel I9-11900. It keeps up pretty good. When flying around non heavily populated areas, both the CPU and GPU run about 50%. Thatâs in Ultra, 60 FPS and one 1440p and two 1080p monitors.
I havenât spent a lot of time and monitored closely high areas like KJFK. But I do know it did keep at 60 FPS since I had a monitor up, but i didnât look at the CPU or GPU utilization, but I had not stutters at all.
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Ahh thatâs interesting to hear, there are just so many variables. I personally run:
I9-10900F (which seems to run between 4.6 and 4.8ghz in MSFS)
RTX 3080
32 Ram
M.2 SSD
I always play in 4K as Iâm on a 50 inch tv, and 4K is less CPU intensive. In fact I get similar FPS in 4K, 1440 and 1080p - probably as I go down the quality my CPU becomes more and more busy.
I also do my measurements at large airports such as LFPG, EGLL or KJFK. I run AIG traffic at 70% and measure in the FBW A32NX. My settings are ultra with TLOD 200 and OLOD 125 and render scaling 100. Glass cockpit refresh is at medium. I also use live weather and around 50% traffic and ground vehicles etc.
I do this as itâs very much worst case scenario. Some people seem to give their performance in the standard A320 which has much better performance than the A32NX.
At small or medium airports, I have no issues with FPS, it is really just the large busy ones. Iâm constantly limited by main thread, and take off at Paris drops to around 21 FPS under the above conditions.
I really hope that DX12 will give us much better performance on the CPU side as you said, the overall CPU in task manager is sitting at around 60% usage and the GPU is around 70%.
For me, itâs just the poor performance and frame rates whilst on the ground (taxing, taking off and landing) that is the issue. I hope this added details helps.
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What would really be handy, is another profile for the HC Bravo to tie those levers to the fan speeds in the case rather than on the wing.
The profiles from iCUE work pretty good.
I have them auto adjust base on temperature. At first i was using the coolers temperature, but I changed it to use the CPU Package. It can also be set to the CPU temperature but the CPU Package temperature is normally higher than the CPU itself, so I figure that is better to use to control the fan speeds.
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Yes, but those fan speeds relate to the radiator and the ML120s. The case fans are a different matter, sadly. At least on mine. What I am referring to is tying the whole shooting match together via Icue and this is where mine needs rebuilding.
The radiator for instance was built in the wrong place (with the 5000X, I wanted front nearside fitment) and they built this in a push/Pull config at the front and although I can icue the radiator fans, I cannot control the three âPullâ fans along with the others too and this doesnât help. Those fans are via the MB but unable to be controlled via Icue. There are other issues as well, but I wonât go into them here, as the builders have taken it on the chin and offered to put things right.
I stand corrected after a closer look at your graphs for which I apologise. This is what happens when you are rushing. Well done on your config!
Out of my six fans, five are controlled with the H1000i Elite Capellexâs iQUE controller. Only one fan is currently on the MB.
This weekend when I switch to the Corsair 4000x all six fans will be on the iQUE controller. Not that little cheap one that come with the case. Iâm removing that and not using it at all.
The H100i & H150I Elite Capellex coolers bring a more sophisticated controller and that is the one that I am using.
When I change over to the 4000x case, I am also upgrading from the H100i to the H150. The 100 has a smaller radiator with two fans and the H150i has a larger radiator and has three fans.
I havenât looked to see if that controller can be purchased separately. When you purchase a combo box of three fan, it brings a controller, but itâs a cheap one that can only do RGB but not the fans.
I already received the 4000x case and verified that it comes with SP fans. I ordered three ML fans to swap those out. So all six fans will be ML and all six controlled by the coolerâs iCUE controller.
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