[New PC]

Thanks for the suggestions. Nowadays, I am searching for the information online to buy a new PC.

[I'm absolutely clueless about a new computer build in 2022...]

On 4/5/2022 at 9:33 PM, Sniper31 said:

Jocko, I can help you. I have recently built two, top end PC's for my personal flight simulator use. I also have a long history of building PC's (mostly for flight simming and gaming). Further, I built both a high end AMD build and also a high end Intel build, and I could recommend both. I hold no allegiance one way or the other, as both AMD and Intel bring great things to the table right now. So, based on what you said above, here is each build:

 

AMD Build

AMD Ryzen 9 5950x CPU

Gigabyte Aorus Master or Elite X570 Motherboard

G.Skill 32 or 64 Gb Trident Z Neo Series DDR 3600 Mhz AMD RAM (*note this RAM is specific to Ryzen. Not specific Ryzen RAM will work, but not necessarily to peak capacity)

 

INTEL Build

Intel I9 12900k Alder Lake CPU

Gigabyte Aorus Master or Elite Z690 Motherboard for DDR5 RAM

G.Skill 32 or 64 Trident Z5 RGB DDR 6000 RAM

 

**Some notes on the DDR5 RAM...the Alder Lake platform works fine with either DDR4 or DDR5 RAM. Originally, DDR5 RAM was hard to find and expensive, but it is more available and cheaper now. Either RAM works fine, and there is not much difference in bench marks. HOWEVER, the motherboard are not interchangeable. So, if you buy an Intel Z690 motherboard, ENSURE that is supports whichever RAM you decide to go with (DDR4 or DDR5). The general thought is if you are looking for cost savings, go DDR4, but if you are going future proof thinking go DDR5. I went DDR5 and have had no issues. Also, feel free to look for other RAM options. I conducted LOTS of research when I built these, and there is other great RAM. It's just that the G.Skill kits I mentioned kept showing up in the top 5 lists for gaming builds every time I would dig deeper.

 

***Motherboard notes. Of course, you don't have to go with Gigabyte for the motherboards. I have just had good experience with them as of late, and both these builds turned out great. The key is X570 for the Ryzen 5950x and Z690 for the Alder Lake 12900k. 

 

Final Notes: BOTH of these builds run MSFS very well. I installed a MSI Radeon AMD 6900XT in the Ryzen build and a EVGA 3080Ti in the Intel build. Your 3090 will work well in either. I would also recommend an M.2  NVMe drive (or two) as well. You can buy 2TB ones now for decent prices.

 

Feel free to ask me more questions. I am leaving on a  Vegas trip later today, so I might not respond right away. But, you still have a few hours

 

Cheers!

Landon

 

 

Thanks for the suggestion :)