Interim PC Upgrade

Hi, I am after some guidance or advice on what upgrade would be best to get a few more FPS from my outdated machine which is 6/7 years old. I am using Oculus Rift and only achieve 21 FPS when on the deck of the Super Carrier, Persian Gulf, with five other AI planes and three static objects; that is with all settings at the recommended VR settings. With everything at low or off I achieve 34 FPS. I will be purchasing a new top end machine in 18 months so I am just after something help while I'm saving for the new PC.

My PC specs are as follows:

i7 4770K 3.5 OC to 3.9 GHZ,

16GB DDR3 RAM 2400,

GTX Titan overclocked.

My options are: buy a second Titan for SLI (£200), Increase the DRAM to 32GB with 16GB 2400 DDR 3 Ram (£80) or replace currant RAM with 32GB of 2800 DDR3 RAM (£190). I would just like some opinions on which, if any, of those options will have a meaningful effect on my FPS or indeed any other useful suggestions on this subject.

Thank you.

The titan is about the same performance as a GTX-980 ... probably is better to sell it on the 2nd hand market and purchase a RTX-2060 instead. The GPU is the weakest link on your rig, so I would focus on that.

There are not many games that support SLI (Including DCS)

There are no VR infrastructure / API's to utilize SLI today. (Oculus rift software)

For VR I recommend the 2070 super minimum

You can go better (2080 super.etc) than later upgrade your

The only reason to wait is NVIDIA might be releasing their new GPU's.

Thank you. Ive looked at some prices for the RTX 2060/2070 and as you say with the sale of my Titan this looks like the way ahead.

I was only looking at the SLI option because I found some advice online that indicated that this could be a cheaper solution to my problem.

Thank you both for taking the time to reply to my post.

You can answer your own question best by running some tests. Underclock your cpu, gpu and ram one by one, and see if it makes a big difference or not. If it does, it means that part is a significant bottleneck in your system. If it makes (almost) no difference, then upgrading wont make a (big) difference either.

The amount of ram should have no real impact on your framerates, once everything is loaded. You can double check in task manager to see if there is a lot of disk activity going on, if there isnt, then you are not ram constrained. The speed of your ram I found to be surprisingly performance critical, but you can test that yourself, just underclock it.

Another data point is comparing performance to non VR. And possibly even setting display resolution ridiculously low (1024x768 or something). That should completely remove the GPU as bottleneck. If performance still sucks, then you know its something else.

That said, can anyone run supercarrier fluid in VR right now?

Hi, I am after some guidance or advice on what upgrade would be best to get a few more FPS from my outdated machine which is 6/7 years old. I am using Oculus Rift and only achieve 21 FPS when on the deck of the Super Carrier, Persian Gulf, with five other AI planes and three static objects; that is with all settings at the recommended VR settings. With everything at low or off I achieve 34 FPS. I will be purchasing a new top end machine in 18 months so I am just after something help while I'm saving for the new PC.

 

My PC specs are as follows:

i7 4770K 3.5 OC to 3.9 GHZ,

16GB DDR3 RAM 2400,

GTX Titan overclocked.

 

My options are: buy a second Titan for SLI (£200), Increase the DRAM to 32GB with 16GB 2400 DDR 3 Ram (£80) or replace currant RAM with 32GB of 2800 DDR3 RAM (£190). I would just like some opinions on which, if any, of those options will have a meaningful effect on my FPS or indeed any other useful suggestions on this subject.

 

Thank you.

I'm on a budget as well, but I want to play this particular game, so I have to respond to its requirements, and it's about GPU memory.

You will need an 8GB GPU to get the best of this game, not necessarily a top graphic card, I personally went for an MSI Radeon 5500 XT 8GB, nest I'll double my RAM, from 16 BG to 32.