Example configuration that I might build for myself. Comments?
this is 2000€, which happens to be the maximum I want to spend.
Goal is to get some sort of VR going in DCS. Not planning on playing on maximum settings.
- Core™ i5-9600K (this has six cores and good single core performance. I have never seen more than four or five cores in use while gaming so it might just do)
- Prime Z390-A
- Dark Rock 4, CPU-cooler (placeholder cooler, any other will do as I usually don’t overclock)
- 2x DIMM 16GB DDR4-3200 Kit
- GeForce RTX 2070 Dual V1
- 970 EVO 500 GB Solid State Drive
- V200 TG RGG Tower (placeholder case, I have one that I will probably use and I don’t care much about the case)
- STRAIGHT POWER 11 CM 750W
- Windows 10 Pro OEM version
- 3 year extended warranty
As for the Ryzen vs. i5: Look at this:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-i5-9600K-vs-AMD-Ryzen-7-2700X-vs-Intel-i7-8700K/3337vs3238vs3098
And I just checked:
If I keep the above configuration except the following changes, it is 1680€ instead of 2000 which is significant, and might be just fine for my brother who doesn’t game that much. In fact the 2060 is probably still overkill, considering that I have experienced that you can fly DCS in VR on a 1060:
- AMD Ryzen 5 2600x
- ASUS PRIME X370-PRO Mainboard
- GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2060 OC 6G
I could even drop 16 GB of the RAM to save another 120€ and get it to 1500€, but then I do think a lot of RAM is a good thing to have in any PC.