Looking at an upgrade

[cptdes]

The old girl is getting a bit long in the tooth now and my F/O Jane just bought me a 40" screen for my F/sim

(She is not the one getting long in the tooth by the way)

 

Looking at this config.....

 

COUGAR VOLANT BLACK MIDI TOWER (USB 3.0, SATA DOCK)

COUGAR 700W POWER-X  80+ BRONZE A-PFC PSU

INTEL CORE i7  4770-K 3.5 GHz HASWELL 8MB SKT-1150

GIGABYTE GA-Z87X-UD3H SKT-1150 ATX M/B

CORSAIR CMZ8GX3M2A2400C10 8G (2X4G) VENGENCE CL10

(GLC-01844)  MS *64bits* WINDOWS 7 ULTIMATE  (OEM)

SEAGATE 1TB * ST1000DM003 * SATA-3 7200RPM 64MB

PIONEER DVR221LBKS 24x SATA DVDRW (OEM, SW

POWERCOLOUR AXR9-280X-3GBD5-DHE  R9-280X 3GB PCI-

 

Any thoughts would be appreciated.......................?

[CptMatt]

Couple of observations and IMO -

 

Probably worth investing in a gold or silver rated 750w PSU for this system, you also need to make sure it's rated for Haswell. Haswell has a different power draw requirement. Not sure this PSU is modular either, this won't impact performance but will make a nice build. 

 

4770K is pointless unless you're planning to utilise hyper threading / 8 cores for something. FSX and PSD don't support this. You could get a 4670k which will give you the same performance and put the savings into a better PSU.

 

You didn't mention a cooler, this is important if you're going to overclock and if not drop the k series chip and save some more money.

 

Windows ultimate is a pointless extra expense for flight sim purposes.

 

No solid state drive(s) seems a shame on a high end system.

 

From what I've read although this could be bullcrxp, Intel still has the edge over AMD in graphics performance for P3D (and FSX). May be worth paying the extra for a GTX780 but I've not seen any actual evidence of this.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Matt

[Mac_Maddog88]

Heres a good power supply for the Haswell:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139011