Computer Upgrade questions

My daughter wants to get into DCS with me, and, have a question regarding a PC upgrade for her...

She currently is running an AMD FX-8350, with a 1070 card, and running VR "okay" but not great...

I was thinking an upgrade to a Ryzen 7 2700, or 2700x, but I noticed those actually had a LOWER clock speed than the 8350.

Would there be a significant boost to performance by going to the 2700/2700x?

Thanks!

I had the 1070

You will be way better off getting the best graphics card you can afford for VR use. At the time I upgraded to the 1080ti. Much better to get the most out of the Rift with some eye candy on and also playing decent size missions. Now you have even more options and price. 2080ti...$$

2080 is close to the 1080ti

... She currently is running an AMD FX-8350, with a 1070 card, and running VR "okay" but not great...

 

I was thinking an upgrade to a Ryzen 7 2700, or 2700x, but I noticed those actually had a LOWER clock speed than the 8350.

Clock frequency is not the same as computer speed ... speed can be defined as work / time ... and we measure it by running an App that does a known work and seeing the time it takes to complete.

If the processors you are comparing have the same architecture, then yes, a 10% in clock frequency gives a 10% increase in speed ... but the FX8350 is a processor of 2012, with clearly a very different architecture than the 2700X which is from 2018.

Would there be a significant boost to performance by going to the 2700/2700x?

Current processors have several cores working in parallel .. if your application can actually use them, then compare relative performance with a multicore benchmark .. I like Passmark, it gives 17000 performance points to the 2700X vs 8900 to the FX8350 on multicore, for about a 100% increase.

However, DCS is mostly a single core application (tough it can use a second core for audio reproduction) and in that case I prefer to compare using Passmark monocore, it gives 2200 performance points to the 2700X vs 1500 to the FX8350, so the increase in performance is only 50% .. still significant, but far from what it seems from the multicore benchmark.

Cheers!

Looking at that chip it's only right on the edge matched to a 1070, To get the most out of it.....

Take a look at this CPU Performance In VR

All the CPU's are tested with a 1080ti

They think it's better matched / balanced to a 1060

Quote

"Slower CPUs and flagship-class graphics cards obviously create balance issues. It’d be far more likely to pair an older FX or Core i3 with a GeForce GTX 1060 or Radeon RX 580, not the GTX 1080 Ti we used."

So the systems is fairly balanced right now, maybe a little overclock would push the 1070 a little more going off that test. Time for a full upgrade if you want to balance the CPU / GPU out for VR, if moving to a better card.