indiana_pilot Posted December 5, 2015 Posted December 5, 2015 I have been in the Corporate IT field for 15 years and haven't gotten around to building a new PC for along time! I love to fly and wanted a great Flight sim I started using Prepar3D.. Well my old gtx970 and Dell Xeon workstation was ok but not enough to display what I wanted at the frame rate I want.. Here are my goodies that are coming next week.. Some of my choices are from past experience others budgetary.. I'm still well over $2k though (not including the stuff I already had - SSD and monitor) I'm pretty excited! lol CPU Intel Core i7-6700K Skylake 6th Gen (Unlocked) 4/8 Cores 4GHz L2 Cache 8MB CPU COOLER Corsair H110i GTX 280mm SYSTEM BOARD Asus Maximus VIII Hero RAM (DDR 4) (4 DIMMS) G. SKILL Trident Z Series DR4 3200 32GB (4x8) CASE Deep Silence 5 POWER SUPPLY EVGA 1000w plus 80 Gold STORAGE/DRIVES Samsung EVO 500GB SSD Asus DVD/RW 24x GRAPHICS EVGA GTX 980ti (Classified) OTHER Operating System Windows 10 Pro 64 bit Saitek X52 Pro Bose Companion 5 Speakers 32" Samsumg U32D970Q 4K Monitor Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccokeman Posted December 5, 2015 Posted December 5, 2015 Looks like a nice build! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted December 5, 2015 Posted December 5, 2015 That's a kickass build! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
indiana_pilot Posted December 6, 2015 Posted December 6, 2015 Thanks I'm pretty excited !! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
indiana_pilot Posted December 12, 2015 Posted December 12, 2015 She's done ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccokeman Posted December 12, 2015 Posted December 12, 2015 Nice! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
feetfats Posted December 12, 2015 Posted December 12, 2015 Why so much ram? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted December 12, 2015 Posted December 12, 2015 Why so much ram? Why not? More RAM helps load times dramatically. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpikeSoprano Posted December 12, 2015 Posted December 12, 2015 Great looking build, congrats ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
feetfats Posted December 13, 2015 Posted December 13, 2015 Why so much ram? Why not? More RAM helps load times dramatically. I'm running 16gb of ram but it never seems to use more than 8gb at one time. Educate me, is my full 16 gb providing a benefit somehow? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted December 13, 2015 Posted December 13, 2015 I'm running 16gb of ram but it never seems to use more than 8gb at one time. Educate me, is my full 16 gb providing a benefit somehow?Anything you load from your long term storage (HDD, SSD, etc) will be cached by the OS in RAM for later reading. For example, I just booted my machine, and of my 32 GB, 12 GB is already used as a read cache for stuff I've loaded from my boot drive. Games don't utilize it directly, but the more RAM you have (within reason) the faster your games will load things after the first time (this is pretty useful for games like GTA V as they stream things in/out of the game allocated memory). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucio Posted December 14, 2015 Posted December 14, 2015 Why no HDD here, are you not limited with only 500GB? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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