Hello,
I'm thinking of buying a new computer and I'd be delighted to hear your opinions.
Budget needs to be kept "wife-friendly" which in my case means USD 900 (it's actually 1150 but here in Europe electronics is more expensive than in the USA so 850-900 is a better baseline). Further upgrades like more RAM or another HDD are planned.
My typical mission is flying around ORBX SAK + Misty Moorings scenery or DCS Gazelle (low and slow flying helicopter) - these are the missions I would like to optimize for. For flying PMDG or Q400 I don't really care whether I have 60 or 24 fps.
I'd like to have REX clouds, very dense scenery, detailed clouds, dynamic lighting, volumetric fog and 30fps stable at 1920x1080 resolution. HDR lighting, some autogen, water reflections and shadows would be a nice bonus.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 (6 core with hyper threading, 3.4-3.9GHz)
GPU: Sapphire Radeon Nitro+ Rx580 8GB
Hard drive: ADATA XPG SX8200 M.2 NVMe 480GB
MB: Gigabyte B450 AORUS Pro
Memory: 2x8GB ADATA XPG GAMMIX D10 (2666 MHz CL 16 Non-ECC)
PSU: Corsair TX650M (650W, 80+ Gold)
I plan to add another at least 16GB of RAM and 1TB HDD in the future.
I saw couple of benchmarks and the Ryzen 5 CPU was on par with i5-8600 which cost twice as much (at least here). I wonder if it's worth the extra cost. Same thing with the GPU - Rx580 is roughly on par with GeForce 1060 in benchmarks and the cost is the same but has 8GB of VRAM while the NVidia has 6GB.
What are your opinions on this, please?
Thanks!