I run DCS very well with my nine year old 3770k @ 4.2 ghz + 1080 GTX and 16 gb ram on a SSD.
You should have spectacular performance.
only 16 GB RAM? You must not play on the Syria map!
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”