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lobies and backstage political drama was the criteria for selection of the aircraft:

this GPU is certainly capable of 4K, the only thing that could hold it back is the ammount of VRAM. Maybe when super variant comes around. NVIDIA realy likes to overcharging AND sandbag their products.

I dont think the prices will continue to raise linearly as they had in past years. Heres a few reasons why: 1- GPU crytpo mining is a thing of the past, plus we are going to a bear market sometime this year and that will last at least 18 months. 2- Realy poor condition of global economy, the average joe losing income and jobs, has no choice but to cut expenses, gaming being one of them. The youger generations give gaming more importance but putting supper on the table is going to be the priority. This could get worse due to major conlicts arising in developed countries (and this is going to throw a whole lot of new variables unfortunatly). 3- Deepseek, and the AI revolution becoming cheaper to attain AI. NVIDIA has a disporportional ammount of FAB allocation to the AI server clients. what hapens when they no longer need to buy as many chips? NVIDIA has no choice but to put those chips on the consumer market. They have to be aggressive as the comsumers are leaving markets. 4- AMD is right to cater to the budget gamer, by leveraging the console tech for PC gaming. This will normalise the hardware requirements you need. They are not there yet, as the current gen GPU's IMHO dont have enough VRAM (neither NVIDIA's "affordable" SKU's for that matter). 5- More FABs outside Taiwan in comming years.

It was my sister's, and she took her sweet time to take my advice. She had no bot to press the buy button instantly. It wasnt me. So they had those prices for more than a milisecond. If you want to continue to be clueless despite the evidence I provided go ahead. Pay more for less performance.

I was screaming on top of my lungs to get those cards back then before they dried out. If you think I am BS'ing you then here is the proof: yeah they saw people gobling up all 7900 series and jacked up prices 2X since.

my argument with Aapje is from couple of months back. the 7900XTX is 900€ and 7900XT is in the vicitnity of 500€, if the high end AIB's are avoided (my sister got a XFX Merc10 7900XT variant for 530€ just later last month). Anyone should have gotten one of those instead of the 9070 for DCS. The latter is poor value and will get maxed out sooner due to 16MB VRAM.

Well my 4090 already does more frames per second than my monitor can display at its maximum refresh rate (240Hz) So why would I buy a card for 50% price penalty, that functionally gives same gaming experience? The 7900XTX has same ammount of memory and for anything else than VR it also provides same gameplay experience in DCS. And if you want to focus on price per FPS ratio, the pricing data on hardware unboxed 9070XT review is from mid 2024. My sister booght a 7900XT this month for 530€ which for DCS blows the 9070XT out of the watter considering it has 20GB VRAM while the 9070XT would already be maxed out (even considering the AIB's will honour MSRP, which they won´t). So, in either case only a minotrity would get a 5090, equaly on the budget side, a 7900XT is better value, and in absence of a used 4090, get a 7900XTX thats 1000$ less.

@Aapje The results are similar pretty much across the board for all games. Conclusion: 7900XTX is still the best card for DCS rather than 9070XT, specially if you can still find any 7900XTX that have been on discount lately. #IkeepMyPromisses

I have a 4090 too and my experience is completely diffferent. Everything is silky smooth and unless the NVIDIA overlay is completely wrong I am getting 240+FPS (got it capped to my monitors refresh rate wich is you guessed it 240Hz). I see only minor issues using DLSS (shadows from forests get dark halos in some angles and missile smoke trails are somewhat distorted), otherwise a great experience. Not even the most recent CPU I have a 5950X.

I dont use VR but from my experience upgarding CPU and GPU's over the last few years: you dont need the latest CPU to run this game maxed out. All you need is: A CPU with 6+ cores and 4Ghz+ RAM 64Gb 16GB+ of VRAM Have DCS installed on an SSD with the OS The bottleneck seems to be the GPU and the ammount of VRAM it has. I have a 5950X with a 4090, 64GB of RAM and I am hitting the limit on my 4K 240Hz monitor. 190 FPS on ground and 240+(because I caped it) in the air. I estimate that, if you have like an AMD 5600 CPU or and intel 12700K, with an AMD 7900+ (those had 20-24GB VRAM) or any NVIDIA GPU with 16Gb+ that is less than 4 years, then your golden.

note: the founders 5090 doesnt have any power monitoring (as mentioned by der8auer in his overheat videos) but AFAIK the AIB partners do, added to that the later are also providing beefier heatsinks. So I say while the AIB are charging extra (because they get 0$ from the GPU itself) maybe if you really want to have a 5090 and peace of mind maybe its worth to fork out that extra cash...if you dont have an AIB 4090. For what I seen in my limited research (I have a strix 4090) MSI is really scoring major points this time around by having some of the best solutions without being the most expensive by far.

yeah I had issues with the 4090 (ASUS STRIX). The 12VHPWR cable adapter that came in the box caused me stability issues. The card showed a red LED at the power plug indicating something was wrong but it still was capable of runing becnhmarks even. Then I bought a cablemod with 12VHPWR PCI-e with 4 connections to the PSU. LED still showed red and problems continued. Then I bought an ATX 3XPCI-E->to->12VHPWR cable from the PSU manufacurer (wasnt initialy available), LED came off and that has been rock solid ever since. The cables dont heat up. Just dont use 3rd party cables. If you dont have an adapter from the PSU brand just save yourself trouble and buy a new PSU 1000W+ with one dedicated 12V plug and cable.

I think it's the other way around. Standardizing a counter for the rafale would be easier to achieve than the F-35, so it would be better to have F-35's in addition to rafale (or any other eurocanard or F-1X). Also, it seems clear that those operators that had developed expendable combat drones as spearheads of their maned fighter complement are going to be more effective than the above. Specially if all of them have the added layer of defense of stealth.

My sister wanted a 5070 to replace my former 1080Ti wich finaly began getting blue screens after almost 8 years. If the 5080 is anything to go by, the 5070 is going to be propbably 3% faster than the 4070 super and likely similar to a 4070TI super. After checking online stores for 4070's and confirm the poor state of any NVIDIA cards stock, we found some 7900XT's for a good price (600€) I advised her to get that instead ASAP. It has more VRAM and likely there wont be any stock of anything soon.

This was predictable to happen since the 1990's. Not a surprise. However since the F-35 was getting a lot of unfair bad rep back in the day, the public opinion basically dissmissed it. A 5th gen fighter is still comming (FCAS) but they need to get their act together.

Apparently you can overclock some 5080's to 4090 levels, thought you can't simulate that extra 8Gb of VRAM (I can't believe the industry came down to this).

have you actually found stores with inventory and price stickers on them? because announced MSRP is one thing, actual practiced price is another entirely. I suspect there will be huge margins given like last gen was BUT... put 600-800€ on top of that. So far this is what I am seeing. I got my ROG strix at launch for 2200€, but the placeholder price (no inventory, no order button="comming soon") for the few stores already listing it has them 2800-3000€ (doesnt mean they will even honor that when they actually get them). Yeah.

Ah you must be seeing my old specs (Some of my profile settings were migrated from the old forum and having trouble updating them). The specs are now: CPU: AMD RYZEN 5950X (stock voltage, 1800Mhz i-Fabric), CPU history: 1700X->2700X->3900X->5950X RAM: 64 GB 3600Mhz (two 2x16Gb kits) of trident Z neo RGB @3600Mhz CL 14 CR=1T MOBO: ASUS CROSSHAIR HERO VI AM4 GFX: ASUS ROG Strix 4090 (non OC) Cooler: Corsair H115i Capelix 280mm AIO Storage: WD 850X 2TB M.2 SSD+WD 12Gb red HDD PSU: SEASONIC PRIME GX-1000W Case: PHANTEKS P600 Monitor: SAMSUNG NEo G8 Mini-LED (4K 240Hz 10 bit color HDR1000) A "few" updates since 2018 Continuing my reasoning, a 5090 would consume nearly as much power alone as this entire system. I cannot go that high with my electrical grid is old and power limited. Sometimes I have to turn down the heater to play games, or stop playing games when I have to use the oven or the washing machine or lights will go out

yeah and over 600W, even if I was making a new build right now that is a deal breaker for me, I have a 4090 and I think I already am borderline limit for my old electrical grid.

...because current CPU's cant keep up with this GPU at those resolution (unlike 4 years ago they got pretty stagnant as of late), though granted if you get a 5090 you probabbly got a high end monitor as well (hardly anyone serious in this hobby plays @ 1080p anymore).

After reading all of the reviews, my takeaways are: - Lowest generational performance upgrade (30% on the upper end of things) since 10 to 20 series (that upgrade was worse actually) - May have more oxygen in the tank than people realise, there is no CPU around to feed that monster - CPU upgrad paths have been lackluster lately as well (maybe the 7800X3D being the exception) - But on the other side the CPU cycle hunger may due to a driver issue - 25% performence for MSRP 25% higher than last gen, considering early prices at retailers the realistic price is actually 50% higher price than previous gen. YIKES - Extremely low supply, dont sell your 4080+/7900+ series just yet. - Seems focused on futurly supported AI features rather than raster (may explain why so low upgrade for current games) - Strong on ray tracing but I always thought most games dont actually look better with it turned on, just different. -6950, 7900XTX, 4080 & 4090 are still great for DCS (I have a 4090 and that one is MIGHTY in DCS) So it's definatly a pass for me. I will continue to milk mine for at least 2 more years.

Two-way datalink is not nonsense, it's a game changer, and the cherry on top is the added range.

The FAQ stated block IIB, and since stealth edited ( ) . However while they may get the data from that version what we will get ingame probably wont suffer the same operational limitations and restrictions due to the many issues all blocks up to IIIF have had. Also none of the other aircraft in DCS are using weapons like JSOW, stormshadow or LRASM. So we likely will never get the difference between what are the blocks implemented, i.e. from our perspective that wont make much of a meaning because the F-35 will have similar restrictions to weapons loadouts and classified systems just as other aircraft currently in game have. (note: many of the aircraft in service will be updated to that standard and keep the engine so...).