£3500 Rig, VR Headset, Monitor.

[dreamsinvr]

Current specs:
Asus Z170 Pro Gaming Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard
Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - OEM
Kingston Fury Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C15 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black
Corsair Carbide Series 100R Mid-Tower Case - Black
Cougar STX 550W 80 Plus 230V EU Power Supply - Black
Kingston 240GB SSDNow UV400 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SUV400S37/2
Zotac GeForce GTX 1070 "Founders Edition" 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (ZT-P10700A-10P)
Seagate SSHD 7200RPM 3.5" 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DX001) SSHD Hybrid Drive
Alpenföhn Brocken 2 CPU Cooler

Acer 24" 144Hz 1080p monitor
Oculus Rift CV1

Currently this rig runs everything non-VR maxed out, and only really struggles with DCS (stutter and dials are difficult to read unless zooming in, which eats frames). I'm considering going for significant upgrades in all the departments in order to achieve 3 major things:

1. Have a rig and headset that can play VR DCS at good graphics; support a headset of a high enough resolution that I can read dials without zooming in.
2. Have a rig that can support a large monitor with a good refresh rate (120-144)
3. As a result of the above 2: have a future-proof VR rig for the foreseeable future.

Only things I'm fairly certain about (though feel free to correct me) would be to go for the RTX 2080Ti, Valve index, 1-2TB SSD, and a 1440p monitor. As for the specific size and refresh rate, looking for something immersive enough to notice the monitor more than the walls. Bonus points for vertical adjustment.

Additional notes to include can be your own suggestions such as "wait a short bit before X comes out". Also, what to do with the old rig? Send it in if there are still parts to use or transfer the hard-drive info, OS (Win10), antivirus. I don't have the technical know-how so likely to send it to OcUK.

£3500 is to give y'all plenty of room to play with, but by no means is a goal to reach if I grossly overestimated how much this goal will cost.

Thank you very much!

 

[C3PO]

5900X
3090 RTX
32GB 3200 RAM
1TB M.2 drive
HP G2 VR headset (if you can find one currently)

This tips things over the £4k mark though ... the good news is that DCS World is moving to the Vulkan API and so rendering becomes multi-threaded, which means additional features are unlikely to impact upon the hardware, as the hardware isn't currently being entirely used. There are likely to be mulit-threaded optimisations across the core DCS engine. At the moment the engine is a single threaded monster, from what I understand. Those multi-threaded optimisations and computations dumped off to additional cores important when the dynamic campaign arrives within the next 18 months or so.

You current specs are similar to mine currently - and I've ordered the above system in this post. Problem is 5900X, 3090RTX and G2 not in stock (thanks Covid)

 

[Pawel Brzezinski]

5900X
3090 RTX
32GB 3200 RAM
1TB M.2 drive
HP G2 VR headset (if you can find one currently)

last leaks say that we can expect 3080 early 2021
so maybe is a good idea to wait some time and get something close to RTX 3090 for much cheaper
anyway stock is empty now so you need to wait

also, I wouldn't go for 5900 X just for gaming purposes
5800 X would do the job and you can save some money and put it somewhere else
I'm not a specialist but as far as I know, games are using mostly 8 cores so you wouldn't even use all 12 cores while gaming on 5900X
also, 5800X looks damn good on one core performance
Correct me if I'm wrong please