[SOLVED] Thoughts on Build for DCS/MS Flight Sim

[jasonbirder]

PC Part Picker List

I feel reasonably happy with most of this...apart from maybe the AIO - is there another 360 AIO that would be better value (I just thought keeping the fans/AIO Corsair might make them easy to control with the Core Commander as that's 9 fans+the Pump Header for Fan Control and RGB) those Lian Li ones you can click together and daisy chain look intriguing...

Anyway I know the 64GB RAM looks like overkill but is necessary for some DCS maps in multiplayer - so can't trim to 32GB to free up budget
The Gen 4 NVME is for OS/Games and the SATA SSD for files/videos etc so space not spreed more important (again I know I could go HDD but i do find the read/write when copying/moving BIG files a pain in the proverbial)

 

[jeremyj_83]

Looks alright. I would go with a single 2x 32GB RAM CAS 18 kit instead. The difference in performance between CAS 16 & 18 is unnoticeable and you save £50 which could be used for a better SSD like the MX500.

Also probably worth the £15 to get the 2021 version of the RM.

 

[Themidgeman21]

You'll also probably get better performance if you can do 4x 16gb sticks but that's going to run a little more expensive.

 

[jeremyj_83]

You'll also probably get better performance if you can do 4x 16gb sticks but that's going to run a little more expensive.

The performance with 4x 16 vs 2x 32 will be identical or within 1 or 2 percent. Both setups will have 4 ranks of RAM so the parallelism is the same.