..and then it built a nest...

[Harry Voyager]

In a prior thread I discussed that I'm planning to do a system rebuild at the end of the year, basically this guy: 

Basically Argo Intel: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/q9NmPn

or Argo AMD: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/YDcKHB

 

Then I saw this: 

 

 

Right now, the GPU and peripherals are the main things I'm keeping from the current build. The sound card I can replace with a DAC. I'm already connected purely through wifi. Technically,  Icould probably hook up the army of peripherals via USB hubs. Ice Lake is already shipping for ultrabooks.

 

Thing is though, my primary use case is flight sims in VR, and those are CPU killers, and while it looks like Il-2 Battle of Bodenplatte is about to go multi-threaded in a big way, that's going to be to support large view ranges, so rather than spread the CPU load, we're more looking at increasing it to the R^2.5 (will be totally worth it, though). DCS needs a minimum of 32GB of ram, and all of them are fairly demanding on the video card.

 

Looking at the setup, a couple of things jump out at me. First is that the GPU seems to be limited to 4 lane PCIe, and seems to be sharing the bandwidth with everything down stream of it. Second, The Mobile CPUs are generally slower and appear to be fewer cores than the desktop CPUs. Does anyone know just how much of a performance hit we're looking at here? The utility of the setup is compelling, and would justify the higher price tag to make it all work, but I wonder what the performance penalty I'd be looking at is actually going to be like? 15%, 25%, 10%?

 

Thank you,

 

Harry Voyager