Bersagliere81 Posted September 30, 2019 Share Posted September 30, 2019 Hi guys, it's been almost 2 years I am away from home and my pc, now I am coming back and it is time for some upgrades. I am having a GTX970 which used to work fine on 1440p high setting, but I really feel like it needs to be upgraded. I saw RTX 2060 is fairly cheap, but is it worth the improvement (on 1440p settings)? And most of all, will it fit on a MSI SLI PLUS X99 mobo? | A-10C | MiG-21bis | Hawk T1.A | L-39 Albatros | F-5E | Ka-50 | Mi-8 | NTTR | CA | SU27 | M2000C | F-86F | AV-8B | F/A-18C | Mig 15 | Mig 19| Specs Intel i7-9700k msi GTX 2060 Gaming Z msi Z390 Gaming PLUS 16gb RAM Hotas Warthog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebabil Posted September 30, 2019 Share Posted September 30, 2019 if you can afford, go for 2070 instead FC3 | UH-1 | Mi-8 | A-10C II | F/A-18 | Ka-50 III | F-14 | F-16 | AH-64 | Mi-24 | F-5 | F-15E| F-4| Tornado Persian Gulf | Nevada | Syria | NS-430 | Supercarrier // Wishlist: CH-53 | UH-60 Youtube MS FFB2 - TM Warthog - CH Pro Pedals - Trackir 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BitMaster Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 It will fit the X99 board for sure, no worries. +1 for 2070 and 8GB VRAM Gigabyte Aorus X570S Master - Ryzen 5900X - Gskill 64GB 3200/CL14@3600/CL14 - Asus 1080ti EK-waterblock - 4x Samsung 980Pro 1TB - 1x Samsung 870 Evo 1TB - 1x SanDisc 120GB SSD - Heatkiller IV - MoRa3-360LT@9x120mm Noctua F12 - Corsair AXi-1200 - TiR5-Pro - Warthog Hotas - Saitek Combat Pedals - Asus PG278Q 27" QHD Gsync 144Hz - Corsair K70 RGB Pro - Win11 Pro/Linux - Phanteks Evolv-X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yeti42 Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 Looks like an upgrade to RTX 2060 would help, (RTX 2060 super even better) https://www.gpucheck.com/compare/nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-vs-nvidia-geforce-rtx-2060/intel-core-i7-4770k-3-50ghz-vs-intel-core-i7-8700k-3-70ghz/ Windows 10 64 bit | Intel i5-9600k OC 5 Ghz | RTX 2080 |VENGEANCE® LPX 32GB DDR 4 OC 3200 Hotas Warthog | Logitech G Flight Rudder Pedals | Track IR 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David OC Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 (edited) 2070 with 1440P It should be a decent match, maybe need to squeeze the 5820K a little bit..... Any bigger GPU and you might be getting CPU bound. "8% bottleneck in many games" Apparently.....? That's pretty much on the money if so. Like I said a little bump and your good. Edited October 1, 2019 by David OC i7-7700K OC @ 5Ghz | ASUS IX Hero MB | ASUS GTX 1080 Ti STRIX | 32GB Corsair 3000Mhz | Corsair H100i V2 Radiator | Samsung 960 EVO M.2 NVMe 500G SSD | Samsung 850 EVO 500G SSD | Corsair HX850i Platinum 850W | Oculus Rift | ASUS PG278Q 27-inch, 2560 x 1440, G-SYNC, 144Hz, 1ms | VKB Gunfighter Pro Chuck's DCS Tutorial Library Download PDF Tutorial guides to help get up to speed with aircraft quickly and also great for taking a good look at the aircraft available for DCS before purchasing. Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BitMaster Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 As a tip, X99 chipsets and their 5th gen CPUs feature Intel's Turbo Boost in such a way that it often caused problems. If you encounter any of those, 1st thing I'd do is deinstall Intel Turbo Boost App...and/or use ProcessLasso in that case to force DCS onto selected cores. There are quite a few threads in here over the past years with X99 users that had to solve that issue with the methods I mentioned. As always, YMMV btw, I run the exact same CPU in a Server with SRV2016, it's a great CPU, just maybe not for gaming one's 1st choice tbh Gigabyte Aorus X570S Master - Ryzen 5900X - Gskill 64GB 3200/CL14@3600/CL14 - Asus 1080ti EK-waterblock - 4x Samsung 980Pro 1TB - 1x Samsung 870 Evo 1TB - 1x SanDisc 120GB SSD - Heatkiller IV - MoRa3-360LT@9x120mm Noctua F12 - Corsair AXi-1200 - TiR5-Pro - Warthog Hotas - Saitek Combat Pedals - Asus PG278Q 27" QHD Gsync 144Hz - Corsair K70 RGB Pro - Win11 Pro/Linux - Phanteks Evolv-X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bersagliere81 Posted October 2, 2019 Author Share Posted October 2, 2019 Thank you very much for your suggestions. Next month if anything goes wrong, you'll be the first to know that :D | A-10C | MiG-21bis | Hawk T1.A | L-39 Albatros | F-5E | Ka-50 | Mi-8 | NTTR | CA | SU27 | M2000C | F-86F | AV-8B | F/A-18C | Mig 15 | Mig 19| Specs Intel i7-9700k msi GTX 2060 Gaming Z msi Z390 Gaming PLUS 16gb RAM Hotas Warthog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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