Hopefully I haven’t messed up too badly. This pre-built PC seems to be reasonably priced for the specs…. Did I make a mistake here? They haven’t shipped it yet, so I guess I could still cancel.
My current PC was about the same price, purchased in January 2019. It has held up really well but it is starting to show its age when it comes to VR. With any luck I will get a similar lifespan out of the new one.
You just bought a Kleidsdale! How can you go wrong with that? Enjoy!
Flexing? 
FWIW, esp. with a 4090, based on what I paid for a system 2+ years go, with a 3080Ti - that sounds about right [the price], if not pretty good. Note I’m not up on this…until time for my next one 
No, not flexing… more of a case of insecurity on my part after pulling the trigger without doing as much research as I probably should have. I can’t deny that I am looking forward to the upgrade though. My current system is a 2080Ti, i7 9800X with 32Gb RAM. Pretty much the only upgrade I did to that rig over the years was to add a couple of extra SSD’s. I will probably move them over to the new PC and call it good for the next 4 years or so.
You should notice a significant difference…until you fall prey to the urge to move the sliders right 
I skipped ahead 2-generations and saw a big difference (1080 → 3080Ti) plus mucho faster storage (big deal all by itself).
Maybe a bit of overkill for VTOL-VR, but with MSFS2024 just around the corner, plus all the great stuff coming down the pipe for DCS, it seems like the time is right.
How can you go wrong with such a top of the line HW? 
Perhaps only on the price tag… which it looks good to me for what it is.
Enjoy and happy and smooth landings!
It’s definitely a good deal. And the specs are the best you can get.
I guess most prebuilts use Intel nowadays anyways so this might not be very useful advice but there is only one thing that is imperfect…
The i9-14900KS is not ideal for gaming. It does get the same fps you get with the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, but it easily uses twice the power. Choosing Intel for gaming is like buying an Audi RS6 station wagon for the track times instead of a lightweight Lotus. Sure, with a big enough engine even a station wagon can do good track times. But if you’re mainly using it for track driving and don’t need to haul kids to hockey training every day (the analogy here is lots of multithreaded rendering or scientific calculations), the Lotus does at least as good while costing much less and using much less energy.
So if you could get the same system but with a Ryzen 7 5800X3D at a lower price, that is the only thing that could be better.
Though it doesn’t matter too much, as it looks like the cooling and power supply should be able to handle it.
And otherwise, it’s perfect. So don’t worry and enjoy!
Besides, you’ll have free electric energy from your panels
Ha, well there is that! 
I had read that the i9 was no longer the best gaming CPU. I guess I have always gone with Intel CPU’s except on one occasion way back in the late 1990’s when I went with an AMD processor. What attracted me to this particular pre-built was that it ticked the items that I knew I wanted… 64 GB RAM, a 4090 for the best VR performance and a fast processor. There was an option to go with a Ryzen 7 7700X but it changed all the other hardware too. That is the disadvantage of getting an off the shelf PC I guess…
The i9 performs better than the 7700X though so you made the best choice.And this package is indeed amazing!
Only the 7800X3D CPU is better but that one is not often offered on prebuilts. But flying me to Texas to build you a pc is not very cost- and carbon efficient either.
I started to go “Why the hell is that thing so expensiv…”. Then I saw it had a 4090…
Sounds like I will enjoy this PC a lot then. I just got shipping notification and it is projected to arrive on Monday.
I also decided that I probably should upgrade my display from the 32 inch 1080p tv I purchased in early 2009. It has served me well as my PC monitor for the past 12 or so years. I figure I have spent more than enough money just recently 
so I just blew some hotel points on a 43 inch 4K tv. Not as good as a high end monitor, but it will still be a significant upgrade.
Maybe a bit of overkill… my excuse is I want to keep this system for several years without having to upgrade anything.
To be blunt, the i9 was never the best gaming CPU. It was the best overall CPU, but its strengths were in areas that games don’t take advantage of.
If your thought process was along the lines of “an i9 will last me like 5 years of gaming so I don’t mind paying more now”, the truth is an i7 in 3 years will likely blow away that i9 in games…but if you do other things like video, CAD, whatever, the i9 will prove its worth.
Same thing with the Titan/x090 series. If you do VR/4K, that will do you well for now, but don’t expect that a newer x070 in 3 years won’t blow that away if you do 1080p or 1400p.
I mean my 4070 at 1440p gets almost the same FPS as my friend’s 3090 at 1080p. Mine cost 1/3 of that.
So there’s no one size-fits-all config, it’s highly dependent on your intended use and even what types of games you’ll be playing.
Socket 1700 is EOL, so the 14900K is probably the best CPU you’ll ever get for it.
But then again, when was the last time you did a CPU only kind of upgrade?
Congrats!
Like never. I prefer to upgrade the whole system at once. That way all the components are pretty much of a similar generation and therefore should all play well together.
Not at all if you do VR.
That’s a beast Paul. TMOAGR (the mother of all gaming rigs). Congratulations!
That’s an amazing deal tbh.
I just happened to look what a new rig would cost me atm and I would land on a very similar price point. Only major difference is that I
would go with AMD (7800X3D) and build it myself.
I still do piecemeal upgrades. That way I’m never in that “one more year till I replace it” dip with it struggling through new titles. The biggest one of course is when I do CPU and mobo. Most of the time I don’t need to mess with the RAM as that carries over, but I think next time I upgrade I’ll be going to DDR5 so that will need to be added to the total cost.
If it wasn’t for DCS, I would be happy with 32GB. Instead, I have 64. Last night flying a mission on Syria map I was using 75% of my RAM according to the procmon. DCS is a beast.