IckyATLAS Posted March 19, 2019 Posted March 19, 2019 (edited) It is a scratch built new machine for work but also for Il2, btw the only flight sim installed at the moment. I had two criteria: 1) Maximum performance for Il2 (more than enough anyway for my work) 2) Completely silent, no perceptible sound. So here are the specs for you to appreciate: MB: Asus Rog Maximus XI Extreme CPU: I9 9900K OCed at 5 Ghz flat RAM: 64 GB G-Skill low latency 3600 Mhz running at this value. GPU: Asus RTX 2080 Ti OCed at 2'000 Mhz GPU clock. AIO: Be Quiet Silent Loop 360 (3x120 Silent Wing 3 fans). The water pump is absolutely noisless running at max speed 2200 rpm. Well done Be Quiet. SSD: 2 units NVMe M2 Samsung 970 Pro 1TB (Total 2TB) SSD: 1 unit SATA Samsung 860 EVO 4TB PSU: Be Quiet Dark Power Pro 11 Platinum 1200 Watt. Chassis: Be Quiet Dark Base Pro 900 rev2 - specially quiet and damped chassis. Fans: 4 fans Be Quiet Silent Wing 3 140mm (Bring filtered fresh air in the Box) Fans: 4 fans Be Quiet Silent Wing 3 120mm (Extract hot air from the Box) In this way there is a little overpressure in the PC internal volume and so there is no dust entering, except the very fine one that pass through the filters. These fans PWM managed and have max speed at 1400 rpm. Having many of them we can use them at lower speeds. Overclockings are conservative so as to have very stable behavior and acceptable power consumption and heat. Results on the noise side are perfect. In normal work use I cannot say if under my table there is PC running or not. It is completely silent. When running Il2 after sometime the fans accelerate as CPU and GPU heat up and so the fans become audible but just audible if you cut the game sound otherwise you do not hear it. And temperatures are perfectly acceptable. CPU remains at 50/55 and the GPU around 65 which is perfect. I have to say that I covered my work desk on its bottom surface with special sound dampening material. In this way any air vibration coming from the PC box under the table will just be absorbed. Now with IL2. I run my 50 Bombers benchmark mission (that is with 65 active planes). Please check here under if you want to try the mission: https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/43131-50-bomber-flight-benchmark-mission/ You can also check the performance analysis post here: https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/42951-how-many-bombers-in-one-mission-what-framerate/ IL2 does not use the DLSS or Ray Tracing features. The Ray Tracing is useless for IL2, but DLSS is shown to allow for an excellent antialising with a strong fps boost for the games that use it. Maybe it comes one day. Anyway just the raw power of the 2080Ti and the I9 9900K have improved really the things and here how: Conditions: Everything is set to the absolute maximum settings in game or Nvidia settings to have maximum visual quality. Benchmark is run at 4K image resolution. Framerate: The minimum framerate with 50 planes visible in the sky is now at 45 instead of 35. This is 10 FPS better, it is a 28% improvement. The minimum framerate in the middle of the explosions (all the screen is covered with dense smoke and flames of multiple simultaneous explosions)was 4 now we are at 20. This shows that the 2080 Ti handles particles extremely well, and the GDDR6 memory at 2000 Mhz is also much more powerful than the GDDR5 on the 1080Ti. Time slowdown factor (TSF): This one is CPU dependent. So we have two TSF measures, (1) with all bombers in flight, (2) with in addition explosions, AAA artillery firing, fighters attacking the bombers etc. (1) TSF is of 1.4 this is an improvement of 35% which is excellent. (2) TSF is of 1.5 this is an improvement of nearly 40% which is again excellent. Faster CPU clock speed here is the major factor. So was it worth it "Absolutely" and with the Prokhorova map it just runs beautifully in the high resolution region. Edited March 20, 2019 by IckyATLAS 1 1
Recommended Posts
Please sign in to comment
You will be able to leave a comment after signing in
Sign In Now