New PC spec v old pc

[TopHeavy]

Hello to one and all 2 questions please 

 I am having a pc (built to my spec) by the same guy who did my last pc October 2016 

I  installed the Samsung 1TB SSD 860 EVO Series last year 

First question 

 can I just download all my Orbx Scenery from my Orbx account to the new pc do I need to inform Orbx ?

the old pc will be wiped clean with Samsung software before I sell it 

Second question will there be a better flying  experience with the new pc 

any more suggestions especially for a second large hard drive please 

I have  750gb Orbx and Xplane 11 on one ssd 

and 600gb on the second ssd ( steam)  car 4 simulators  /aerofly /Train Sim World/Train Simulator 2020 

 

Thank you all in anticipation

 

New spec pc 

Intel i9 9900K 3.6Ghz/5.0Ghz Turbo CPU

Asus TUF Gaming PLUS Z390 – Motherboard

32Gb Corsair Vengeance DDR4 2400 Mhz Memory

1TB M2 3500Mbs Read/3000Mbs Write Solid State Drive

24x DVD Re-Writer Dual Layer

NVidia RTX 2080 SUPER PCie DDR6 8GB Graphics

On Board 7.1 Stereo Sound

Gigabit Lan

Deluxe Midi Tower Case with Superior Quiet 850w PSU

USB 3.0/USB 3.1

Windows 10 64 Bit Operating System

 

Old spec pc

 

Intel i7 Skylake 6700K 4Ghz CPU

Akasa Heat Sink & Fan 

Gigabyte Z170-HD3P Motherboard

NVidia GTX 1080 DDR 5 8Gb Graphics

16GB Kingston Hyper X Fury DDR4 2400MHz

Iiyama 27" Prolite 2790HS x 3

Samsung 1TB SSD 850 EVO Series with Windows 10 

Samsung 1TB SSD 860 EVO Series with Steam games 

DVD Re-Writer 

Lan

USB2.0/3.0/3.1

Aerocool Deluxe Midi Tower Case  

Bequiet 700w PSU  

Windows 10 Operating System 64 Bit 

[Nick Cooper]

Hello,

you might see a few more fps here and there.

None of my business of course but I wonder why you did not specify the intel 10 series CPU

and faster RAM?

[TopHeavy]

Thank you for your reply Nick I haven’t finalised it yet so if you would be kind enough to expand your thoughts on the pc spec. 
you will know a lot  more than me , plus advise is free  . Thank you 

[Nick Cooper]

Hello,

I am by no means a PC hardware guru but I have just updated my own and

in doing so, done a lot of research.

I had an eye on the value for money, as well as the all out performance.

Your parameters may well be different.

My thinking was to have the state of the art instead of the existing hardware but

within a sensible budget.

That way, if intel come out with a miracle 10 series, I won't need another new motherboard.

 

I have been fortunate in having had two previous "landmark" CPUs, the i5 2500K and

the i7 4790K. I suspect that the i5 10600K is going to be the third. All of them represent

the best value of their time, versus very considerable performance.

 

Some 10 series CPUs are now readily available but they do need a new motherboard,

which you are buying in any case.

I went for an i5 10600K and an Asus Z490 chipset with DDR4 RAM at 3200 Mhz,

as you can see from my signature.

You can get the i9 10700K, which seems to have the same performance as the

i9 9900K but for a bit less money and of course the current and not the previous generation.

There is a very useful comparison site here

Here is a comparison between the i9 9900K and the i5 10600K, note the substantial

difference in price, versus the small difference in performance.

You can then research how fast your DDR4 memory can be, versus the cost of

each version.

 

I gave up CPU air cooling years ago in favour of the Corsair all in one liquid coolers and

I cannot recommend them highly enough. I am only on my second in almost 10 years

and that only because the then power supply damaged the first one. I find the H80i to be

more than adequate, not least because the i5 10600K runs very cool for such a powerful

chip, with hyperthreading off, one gains around 10 degrees and it will happily run P3D,

using its mild overclock to 4.9 GHZ, without going much above 60 degrees, or 70 degrees

with all 12 cores at work. Note that this is the first i5 to have hyperthreading.

There are larger versions of the H series.

Today's price at Amazon for the H80i v2 is £95, worth every penny, in my view of course.

 

The 10600K is very easy to overclock and mine is set at a turbo of 4.9Ghz all 6 cores just by

clicking a couple of settings in the bios. That seems to be more than adequate for

the flight simulators that I am using. The i9 10700K is already faster than that.

 

I have not upgraded my graphics card yet. To do so would have

cost considerably more than all the other components put together and there is

an upcoming 3000 series that may well cost the same or less and be better.

Your 1080 is already pretty good, I am using a 1070ti and although it is the bottleneck

in some cases, it performs better than it did with the previous hardware feeding it.

 

You already have a powerful device and it is very easy to spend a lot of money for

not so much return. For what it's worth, mine was £610, all from Amazon.

I only upgraded the motherboard, CPU and RAM.

I already have a Corsair 750 w power supply, a well ventilated case and ten drives,

two small SSDs, one 1 tb M2, a DVD player and the rest HDDs of varying sizes.

I assume you will also be adding in your existing SSDs.

One other tiny bit of advice, I would recommend a small normal SSD, say 240 GB or so

for the operating system and save your M2 and your other SSDs for the games.

Your M2 will disable the number 2 SATA slot, but that still leaves five more, so you

will have more than enough slots.

I added a small expansion card, to give me another four.

 

I would expect that there are as many opinions as there are hardware combinations

but as you wrote, advice is free and this was my very recent experience.

In the end, the decision is yours but the more informed it is, the better equipped you

are to make it.

 

 

 

[TopHeavy]

Thank you Nick very kind to take the time. And a lot to think about and search 

[Nick Cooper]

No problem, good luck and I would think others may well come along and add their opinions.

[TopHeavy]

I hope so . It’s confusing to say the least . Back to the drawing board . Thank you Nick 

[Nick Cooper]

Yes, it's a minefield and I have only negotiated one path.