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Buy an Oxford. And I took notice that yourself doesn't trust Microsoft since you speak of multiple layers for your O.S protection, so visibly, there isn't a lot of trust from you in Microsoft ability to protect your system... As for the reasons why I don't trust Microsoft I have given enough of them and won't elaborate much further, that would take a turn into global politics which is not (I think) welcome in this forum, but as all big tech companies, Microsoft doesn't give a damned about their customers, they have their agenda and it's gone political, not my cuppa. TotalAV are a small company which have a lot more interest in satisfying their customers precisely because they don't have the monopoly and the luxury of myckey taking the big tech have, since I use it, I didn't have a single virus infection and the number of false positive is down to literally ZERO. NO I don't trust Google, neither do I trust Youtube but I use both, Zukenberg is a fascist and Facebook a new form of media censorship, same for Tweeter, Gates is in the same boat. As I said there aren't any alternative O.S we can use for gaming and those issues cann't be resolved by users but by politicians or techies writing lines to allow us to disable and block the apps embeded in those we use, which is apparently more and more difficult since the introduction of the Windows Update Mecid Service. There are less and less people capable of coming up with those lines and Windows pretty much does what it want even if the user doesn't want or need it, like upgrading, if people aren't aware or careful enough, it's their personal data which are transfered to Microsoft, don't tell me they need them to get your PC to work better...

It's not me you disagree with simply because my comments weren't on you using it but this. You can use Defenser as much as you want, but trusting Microsoft is certainly not the smartest thing to do, there are multiple reasons not to: Starting by the way they force updates on customers, stop (and prevent the reinstallation of) support for early releases of Windows 10 (I know I tried to revert since they prevent disabling automatic update) etc. That's not mentioning the fact that their virtual reality package depends on updates to work and you have all the reasons you need to keep defender under close surveillance, the only reason they can legally get away with all this B.S is because of the monopoly they have on O.S, other than that, I'm sure a good lawyer could find tons of reasons to sue them for abusing their customer rights...

Right... Your comments would make sense if there were alternative to Windows for gaming, do you know of any? Here you have your answer, Microsoft like any other big tech company doesn't give a damned about their customers, they have a monopoly and are full on into politics, which involve more censorship and control of what one does with the product they buy from them, then perhaps you haven't noticed but it doesn't stop them releasing mediocre updates that people complain about, only to realize that their customer support is also mediocre. In short, I've been with and without defender for exactly the same results when it comes to protection and it is not level wih the best antivirus packages there are, as simple as that, plus, as I pointed out already, it doesn't deter hackers and as Aluminum Donkey pointed out, the spying apps embeded in Windoiws 10 are numerous enough to be alarming and raise the question WHAT FOR? I already know the answer, Microsoft are planning the next level of spying and surveillance of the WEB, it can only be solved two ways: Techies writting lines to disable those spies in your O.S or politically by head of states supporting free speech and fighting globalism. When it comes to protection, I use TotalAV for antivirus with superior results and as early as I find another (new) way to get rid of automatic update AND defender I'll use it.

Defender won't stop hacking, more to it, trusting Microsoft with anything is plain dumb, there is no more intrusive than the whole Windows 10 package and all the "multimedia" gizmos they put in it. The less one leaves control to those automatism, the best, and Defender is fully part of it, I use it but under control, everything else is turned OFF, especially automatic update which I have to disable literally every single day. Big brother is it.

RAM frequency is not the issue, Latency is. Looks like people doesn't get how Ryzen 3 works just yet despite the fact that AMD recommanded frequency is 3200GHz and not 3600/4000 for a good reason, higher speed doesn't have the single bank/lower latency offered by the 3200GHz kits like this G.SKILL TridentZ RGB Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) F4-3200C14Q 32GTZR. Having said that, G-Skill offers very specific kits with increased frequency for the Ryzen 3 but they are specifically designed for those who wants higher frequencies, they do not specify if they actually offer more speed, which is not aquired at all, especially because the faster 3200GHz single bank kits are in short supply due to the limited production of their B-Die chips. https://www.newegg.com/global/uk-en/g-skill-32gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820232488?Item=N82E16820232488 If you want a fast RAM to CPU bus operation, you'll need to bound your RAM to the Ryzen properly, which means CL 14 and 4 X single bank which offers the best results simply because it makes use of the CPU low latency and Rank interleave, while a double bank is going to cause isssues to the Ryzen controller even more so at higher frequencies, reason for AMD 3200GHz recommandation. In short, you use higher frequency than 3200GHz and/or dual rank, you loose low latency and bank interleave, it has to be done for a very specific reason, not for the stake of using high frequencies only. I got some serious increase in speed just changing my RAM from a 2 X CL 16 3200 dual bank, to a 4 X CL 14 single bank and testing the first kit up to 3600 didn't improve things at all. Just for your info, I submited my results to MSI, AMD and G-Skill, all were impressed by the results, because the combo never was tested with the Ryzen 3/5600X and is not listed as compatible RAM for my motherboard, I figured it out roaming AMD users forums and was suggested this RAM kit by one of the top users, it works wonder. Additional info, with Ryzen controllers, a bad RAM bound makes the CPU throttle down significantly because it struggle to cope with the higher frequency and number of ranks, with this kit, I gained an increase of 6.04% in CPU speed.

8 GB RAM is marginal to play DCS, consider a 32 GB kit to replace what you have, but do not simply add to it, RAM chips can change from batch to batch even with the exact same model and you'll take the risk to have booting failures because of incompatibility. Buy a new 32 GB RAM kit and sell this one.

Unless you're into music editing, there is no point getting a sound card, the quality of the integrated sound cards on actual motherboards is far enough to provide you with good experience in gaming. I fully agree with Patersonski there, a good sound system with a boomer, small and medium speakers will be a lot more efficient and you will save the money...

The Ryzen 3 works wonder with lower latency, a good bound with low latency RAM and you're sorted.

The best way to manage Win 10 memory is to disable all unwanted Apps which would otherwise run in background and set page files in a different HD than the O.S while keeping the minimum requiered to run it in the same HD/Partition, idealy, 2 X + the amount of RAM. Regardless of the format (compressed or not), it is how much bandwidth the O.S is going to use in normal operation like during gaming, so keeping it to the minimum is the best way to make sure the available bandwidth for gaming is optimium. Idealy, installing games and paging files on an M2 SDD is going to help a lot as well, much faster than SATA...

It depends on the motherboard manufacturer, my MSI B450 GAMING PLUS MAX support this feature thanks to two BIOS releases, the last one being the 7B86vHB1(Beta version) BIOS.

For gaming a 5600X is more than enough, cheaper, performs very well... https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-ryzen-5-5600x

You also will need a GPU supporting this feature, not all of them does.

It depends on your version of Windows 10, the Home edition is quite mediocre when it comes to memory management. 1) Disable every single background program you don't use. 2) Set page files on a different HD than your O.S but keep the minimim for it on its install disk. Page files should be 2 X your total amount of RAM, set to use for applications. 3) Service your O.S: Clean temp files, run > %temp% delete all, it wont delete stuff it need so you can confidently go for it. Same for run > temp, those are two different folder. 4) Windows automatic update also uses temp files: I disable it but it keep creeping up and settings changes automatically, use a clener such as Gary Utility to get rid of all unecessary files and repair. Those steps should go some way to help getting more out of your RAM.

At <> 240Kg and near zero drag for two pylons and 2 AIM-9 it wouldn't make much difference, I serviced the AIM-9B on Mirage IIIE for AdlA Dijon so I can make a good estimate... Yeah, that... Now create a mission, unlimited fuel and amo, gun only vs Mig-17 and 21, you'll perfect your rolling cissors technic, I loved it! True and you can turn a Mirage F1 into a Rafale by changing its parameter for ToW, turn rate, climb rate etc, the level of cunstomisation achievable with this game is unequaled.

You're right to point out that the 1080 Ti can do very well in DCS, I figured it was a very strong GPU for the time and cost range, as for the motherboard, a CPIe3 board would do, my B450 has no limitations at this level, the RAM makes a difference, although it is more about preventing the CPU to throttle down than anything else. In fact, when the RAM is optimized for your CPU, its buses can work better and to the full of its capacity, a good set of RAM removes the bottheneck, but when it comes to GPU, the buse has too a small bandwidth to make a real difference, in the order of 1, 1.5%, for more speed you'll need Smart Access Memory and withouht the right card to support it it won't work on any game. I conpared the costs of second hand between the 1080 Ti and 1080 Ti from CEX in the UK and frankly, upgrading from the 1080 Ti wasn't worht the difference, the 1080 Ti sells for £530.00 and the 2080 Ti for £800.00, that's with their usual two years warranty, for £800.00, you can get an AMD Radeon 6800XT when they will be available. Apparently they don't have a 2080 S listed for sale but I wouldn't even consider swapping the 1080 Ti for it.

I think this kind of saving really only works if you invest it in optimized RAM kits, that's the trade off I chose to make, an extra 6.04% speed in CPU (my own results with my settings) once the RAM bottleneck is removed is worth it but it remains a personal choice made on budget, you can obtain the same gain with a 5950X if you have the money for both CPU and RAM. From where I stand when it comes to upgrades or choices of specific gear, there are different results I'd be looking for: Efficiency, 3600X to 5600X <> 21%. RAM anyting 16 CL two rank to my actual G.SKILL kit <> 6.04% CPU speed. Cost-effectiveness MSI B450 GAMING PLUS MAX with updated bios, at the price they sell them those day, it's near unbeatable. Cooling Artic Freezer 7X, same thing works well and is a bargain. The most expensive in this list is the RAM but if you look at the results, it is better than many water-cooling solutions and doesn't involved O.C. Players are going to make choices based on one of those criterias, my basic upgrade path goes through the research for the best bound between components so as to remove bottlenecks even before thinking about O.Cing but within a given budget, and next stage is replacing my 1080TI 11GB by a RADEON RX6800, not even an XT, for Cost-effectiveness. The little % I gained then and there will help ironing out the lack of top performance of both CPU and GPU at 4K in VR a little, even so the whole system is not designed for it ultimately, after all I enjoyed playing this way with a 3600X and a 2 X 16 GB two ranks RAM kit.

Yeah, they are serious about what they do, but as for every single company offering PCs bundles they have to cut corners, that's why I prefer to build mine myself, the Corsair Kit is good but no match for a CL14 and if one wants to run high settings in VR, especially DCS maps, optimizing the RAM is a must, so I wouldn't have chosen this kit. Then I'd rather run the cheaper 5600X for gaming and use the saved dosh (up to £350+ difference in the UK!) for a low latency 1 rank kit, since DCS which is my priority game uses mostly 1 Core, the 5900X won't make much difference especially if bound with a CL16 kit. Both CPU Memory support are identical, the 5900X has a 64MB vs a 32MB cache but it shares it over 12 Cores instead of 6 with the same bus frequency of 100 MHz 37x, Boost frequency is 4.8 GHz vs 4.6 GHz, not worth £100 more to double the cost from my PoV, I had my 5600X for £ 308.98, but that's a question of personal choice... This system should be fast of course, but if it was mine, I'd check the BIOS settings when I got it (fine tuning cost time and money, some companies just set the RAM to default) and probably upgrade the RAM...

Before committing to purchasing a headset, you might want to wait for the next generation, since anyway there is little chances for you to get your hand on one G2 right now. I had one, I liked the clarity of the optics but the FoV is not much of an improvement over the previous generation or even the CV1 I had before it and I was disapointed by the size of the sweetspot after a while using it. Then it was a pain in the @ss to get to work from day one, Windows Mixed Reality is trash to say the least and after a while the whole thing refused to work completely, it couldn't be identified by Windows Mixed reality or even Steam VR even so it showed up just fine in Windows settings, I got a refund from HP without any problem which make me think that they knew there are issues with the G2. Just look at the number of G2 for sale second hand... I'm not gonna buy another G2, I prefer to wait for an alternative among which, this one... https://www.deca.net/decagear/ Now is not the right time to buy anytrhing, even less a headset for the simple reason that manufacturing is slow due to the pendemic, quality suffers as well at every levels, you have chips burning and other things you won't see happening in normal times, but in the case of VR, there are new technologies being brought by diverse manufacturers, at the time one might be able to buy a headset of the G2 generation, there might be something newer on the market. Not AMD board in general but a chipset when not updated, I didn't have any issues with my B450 at this level, all USB 2 and 3 worked perfectly, when HP support contacted me we went through a lot of checking and testing, it was them who took the decision of a refund, I wanted this headset to work.

1) Try with only the original kit. 2) We don't need the CPU data from CPU-Z but the SPD page which will tell us the number of ranks per stick as well as the XMP settings. As this shows, your actual setting is for 2133.84MHz, not 3200MHz, if that's the only setting your BIOS allow to boot with, then it rejects 4 X 3200MHz configuration, we need to know if the 2 X 3200MHz configuration can boot or if 2133.84MHz is the maximum even with two sticks, just make sure the sticks are those you had previously. Since you're planning to upgrade to a 5900X, start researching a RAM kit for it, 4 X 8 GB, 1 rank, CL14, 3200MHz, B.Die like the G.SKILL F4-3200C14Q-32GTZRX, Corsair also make them, if you can't find a 4 X kit, don't make the mistake of buying two separate kits, you might end up with a system that won't boot because the chips are different. You always can settle for a 2 X 16GB kit that will work with your system and be low latency (C14) like this one: G.Skill Trident Z RGB LED DDR4 3200MHz 2x8GB (F4-3200C14D-16GTZR) https://pricespy.co.uk/computers-accessories/computer-components/ram-memory/ddr4/g.skill-trident-z-rgb-led-ddr4-3200mhz-2x8gb-f4-3200c14d-16gtzr--p4113789

I understand that you could theorically cram a kit of 3200MHz 4 X sticks on this motherboard using this CPU, but perhaps only if with one rank per stick in his actual 4 X configuration would it be problem free, voltage is fully part of the issue, controllers have to set both bandwidth, frequency and voltage and two ranks X 4 stick at 3200MHz seems a bit much. The CPU doesn't seem to be designed for this configuration, number of ranks and frequency at DDR4, so the issue could come from this, having said that, I'm in the dark as I have no official confirmation of this, better he contact Intel support and ask them, as I did before purchasing my G.SKILL kit, and ask them what's the best settings for what he have got.

I was unable to figure if this came from the RAM frequency already too high for a 4 X 2 ranks configuration or not, because logically, this CPU should run with a RAM half that fast but with a latency below CL 16, which could be the source of the problem. DDR4-1866/2133, DDR3L-1333/1600 @ 1.35V https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/88195/intel-core-i7-6700k-processor-8m-cache-up-to-4-20-ghz.html At DDR4 he should be running 1866 or 2133 MHz, not 3200 stock, especially with 4 X 2 rank sticks, which can be an issue with the controller and cause it to throttle back, reason why it won't boot if XMP X 2.0 is selected in his BIOS settings, the other possible reason would be different chips from the RAM kits. You can't really mess about with frequencies and ranks with this generation of CPUs, they are not as flexible or capable as the next generations, this CPU combined memory bandwidth is 34.1 GB/s, vs 47.68 GiB/s for a 3600X, the strength of the Intel is not bandwidth but tolerence for lower latencies and I suppose, rank interleaving... 4 X 2 ranks at 3200MHz might be too much for the controller to handle. I suggest he compares the 2 sticks to the 4 sticks configuration to see if this has anything to do with the number of sticks and 2 ranks/stick.

OK, do you mean that it won't work at XMP X 2.0? In any case, there are other areas where your system is loosing performances: Check CPU-Z SPD page for the number of ranks, latency, CL16, then your 1080 is also 8GB which makes a difference compared to the 11GB.