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The voltage spikes can be very short, depending on the polling rate of the monitoring software, it may sometimes pick them up or not. At least this is my guess.

we‘re getting a bit off topic here…..

In a flight sim? I'd rather have a livery editor.

Don't give it too much weight. I didn't mean to give a proper deep analysis of the past "whatever" years, but just my general perception of what Intel did and didn't. I mean you can't deny, that they at least two times just increased power consumption and clock and counted it a new generation. In my(!) perception the innovations on Intels side are sparse and mostly driven by the competitors catching up and stealing market shares. A sleeping giant got startled so to say. Also, AMD isn't safe from dropping the ball either, is it? Judging from the latest reviews of the new 9000 series, the advancements seem not that impressive.

Well I literally started the whole rant with the specification of a ~10 year (give or take) time frame. But let’s stop nitpicking. I think my message is clear. And that is just my personal opinion. Nothing written in blood. And just in case: I‘m in no way, shape or form giving anybody that drives an Intel a hard time. In fact, when I retired the 4790, it was basically a coin toss between Intel and AMD. Could easily be the other way round and I would probably have been stuck on the Intel road until today. It is just that, following the events since then, I‘m quite happy with my choice. And right NOW, I certainly won’t switch back. We‘ll talk again in two years or so…..

My last (private) Intel was a i7 4790K. It lasted me 5-6 years until it was replaced by a Ryzen 3900X.

Well that is not really the time frame we‘re talking, is it? Back in 386DX33 (my first 8086 CPU) and 486 and early Pentium days Intel actually was at the top of their game. Even Celerons, Core2duos and 4-digit „i“-CPUs were good. They started stagnating (relatively) with the 5-digit „i“s. In fact. The mega strength they had in these days made them complacent. When ARM cpus raised and AMD finally got their stuff together they had like 90% market share. They felt invulnerable.

Well, obviously I was hyperbolic to make a point and I just threw in 10 years. Could as easily be just 7 or 8. But it has a true core. Intel never made a big jump in anything. They just made little incremental baby steps. Their IPC didn’t improve in a meaningful way ever, the e-core shenanigans (even if somewhat matured by now) was just a way to increase their waver yield. Now they have e-cores and their cpus are still huge energy hogs. Every new „high performance“ cpu just was well beyond the peak of the energy/performance curve, or in other words bought their performance for huge energy cost…. and so on and so forth. The micro-architecture in its core IS in fact in many ways unchanged….. not to mention how long they were stuck on 12 and 10 nm. That all mainly hurt their high-end cpus, the mid-tier is mostly ok, but that is where all the spotlight is. AMD with Ryzen and particular since Ryzen 3000 was the force that really pushed the boundaries and made intel move. They had their own issues of course. Like lacking clock speed e.g., but they improved and found ways around that. Anyway. I was must talking about how I feel towards Intel (currently). May not resonate with everybody. That‘s fine.

that‘s what it is. Boing of the semiconductor industry. You can only crash so many 737s until you need to realise that a REAL game changer must be designed from scratch.

I‘d put it this way: Intel needs to come out with something really new, really convincing to win me over again. As long as they keep polishing 10 year old turds to make them appear shiny again or try to muscle their way through by means of sheer voltage - I stay clear. That said, my current system (luckily) won‘t be due for an upgrade for at least another two years. Plenty time for Intel to gain pace (or AMD to screw up).

Awesome!

Nah, that is a pretty big misconception. The best CPUs by far for DCS are still the 5800X3D and 7800X3D. Especially for VR. The only valid reason I can think of for not going AMD for DCS is, if someone is just an „Intel“ guy. Which is completely valid. My last system was also Intel, and at the times I built it, I wouldn’t have touched AMD if my life depended on it. But times has changed. Ever since Intel introduced those damned useless (from a gaming pov) E-cores everything went sideways.

I see. As I said - I didn't follow that closely. Nevermind.

Let me ask you something - I didn't follow the conversation closely. You are worried about degradation of your CPU and want to take precautionious actions, right? Or are you already experiencing issues? Because, if you are willing to invest in a new MoBo as a precaution, I wouldn't do that. I would rather drive the crappy CPU until it dies and than replace it with a reliable system. Granted, that'll cost more, but it could take some time until the CPU actually degrades to a point where it is useless. I wouldn't trust intel at the moment at all. Buying a new Intel-MoBo seems not future proof to me. Just my 2C.

Real world considerations for maintenance and airframe lifetime(*) can be comletely disregarded in a sim. No wonder that you can do stuff you never see irl. (*Or safety of life and health for that matter)

Problem is, what you see reported there is the overall usage of the cpu and not per core. 25% usage e.g. could be (most likely) a quarter of the cores running full bore whilst the rest is more or less idle. Same for the temp. In such a scenario the high loaded core or cores are probably hitting 90+ degree C. But the package temp is still reporting 62C. If you really want to monitor the health of your CPU, you need to monitor on per core basis.

Engine and Rotor vibration, ground rumble, ETL, G-effects….. TelemFFB is kind of the heart and soul of the Rhino. You really want to skip that? Not to speak about the convenience of loading individual vp configs or adjusting basic effect gains.

Even better!

Are you running TelemFFB? You need to make a profile for a new module. Just copy an existing Helicopter module. Also, Helicopters don’t experience aerodynamic forces on the controls - so without effects, there isn’t much force to be feedbacked.

Gab garantiert last-minute-Probleme. Mal sehen wie schlimm es ist.

Any minute now.

@Ramstein Maybe edit the thread title a bit. The content is much less devisive and more constructive than the headline implies. It always twitches when it comes up in the feed.

Don’t waste money on the 7950X. The 7800X3D is the perfect gaming cpu and actually outperforms the 7950 in most games. (Sorry, I don’t think I even need to mention how I feel about current gen Intel CPUs. Don’t screw yourself over)

For the same reasons by the way. The only relevant competitor starts to outperform them on any metric and they start to panic over loosing touch.

Helmets are almost always a write off anyway. Regardless the magnitude of the crash. Which is unfortunate because they are so frickin' expensive. I think I had around 8-9 in my time (most of them trasehd on a track, only two in road accidents - one time I made a second evening turn even though the first was already bad and the second someone lookes me square in the eye and then took my right of way anyway....). Two are still fine and collecting dust......