I did well in the first half, and expect to do well in the second. Crew is humming along. My wife and me are planning to buy a house in 2026, so by that time my window closes on buying expensive toys (all disposable will go towards improving it). So. I am thinking why not go all out, balls to the wall crazy.
Here’s what I’m currently looking at. The case is shitty, because I will use my own Be Quiet Silent Base thing and put the current guts in that crappy case for my boy to use. He’ll have way too much PC for stupid fortnite, but perhaps he can get into DCS
Are there any glaring mistakes in this setup? Should I perhaps throw a little more money at the RAM?
So how about you stop flexing your ignorance of the glorious Dutch language and comment on that build (you speak Polish so my respect for your language skills is considerable)
Only thing I would change is the graphics card. I decided to go with the ASUS 5090 Astral for the 2vhpwr per pin current monitoring, just to have the peace of mind about that POS cable design. Whoever came up with and approved that spec deserves everything bad coming to him.
Yea, I’m hanging fire a bit to see if there’s going to be some movement on the price of the 5090. Read a rumor they are about to lower prices because of overstock.
That looks like its about the best money can buy right now. Not sure if you can ever get bang out of buck with the 9950X3D compared to a 9800X3D. I imagine it’d take a couple of programs to run next to your sims for it to truly get ahead. If you do productivity stuff then no argument.
Having a secondary SSD to run the OS off of is great so your primary can focus on feeding data into your sim. Something to consider? Or perhaps you were gonna bring one over from the current rig?
As for the 16 vs 8 core, I hope and have faith that DCS will be more multithreaded in the future. The more the merrier. And yeah, productivity too. I mean I am declaring the machine as a company asset so… (if they ever ask, I’ll make up some bullshit about innovative use of local run AI to design ecological gardens or something like that)
Lovely optimism! I’ll gladly rip out my own CPU when the day comes DCS plays very nicely with 32 threads. For the rest, that GPU and CPU seem like a totally reasonable purchase for billing calculations and landscaping utilities. Like how else would you run Tuinontwerper Deluxe? (try pronouncing that one, non-Dutchies!)
I agree with Sryan here. Hopefully DCS can use more threads better in the future, but what we do know for certain is that DCS runs a LOT better with a shitload of superfast cache, which AMD calls 3D V-cache.
Only half of the 9950X3D’s cores are on a chiplet with access to that cache. The other half are some 30% slower at gaming workloads.
There have been reports of inconsistent performance because of some threads being scheduled on the non-3D chiplet, and generally the 9800X3D does better at gaming than the 9950X3D. Check the benchmarks if you don’t believe me.
I highly recommend getting a 9800X3D instead. The only thing you stand to gain with a 9950X3D in DCS is higher numbers on the packaging and more heating.
Use the money instead to get a better 5090, to minimize collateral damage (those things can actually ignite)
Oh and I’m fairly sure your motherboard has heatsinks for a few M.2 drives integrated. So you can get the non-heatsink version of the drive. You can’t use both anyways.
