Pilotasso

Buying cheap memory is a no go for a high end Ryzen build. Get the CL12 3200 kits, or CL14, or 15 for 3600Mhz ones. They will be most certainly SAMSUNG B die. Not only do they give you the best performance but youll also avoid lots of headaches as well.

If your replying to my post, your off topic. the user cannot change the software, but to choose what graphics card he needs regardless of the optimization level of the title because that is beyond his control.

The 2080 ti is bottlenecked by every cpu unless your at above 1440p

Judging by the amount of VRAM that some titles consume, including DCS, the 8GB on 2080 card is simply NOT sufficient. That might stem from the high VRAM prices the manufactuirer has been charging in the last 18 months but the consumer has been getting shafted by VRAM starvation. We should have 8GB on the MIdrange, 12 on the Mid-high and 16 on the high end. Thats were we should be at in this generation. In addition to that both the 2080 and 1080TI GPU's are very well on par. Because of this, if you dont have money to plonk on a 2080Ti (which most of us dont) you'd probably better off with its older sibling the 1080Ti.

wait, I know what you mean now. Multiplayer does have a problem where the game microfreezes from time to time, but I believe that has to be with sync issues rather than your hardware having difficulty handling it because everyone is getting that. Sorry I didnt make that association at first. Dont change your hardware to fix this issue because it wont solve that problem as its not on your side. The 8700 Is plenty sufficient for the game as it is now.

I dont have stutters and I have an AMD CPU, whats wrong with that build?

yeah dont upgrade for now, its a bad time considering prices of graphics cards. I still expect the 7700K to perform well for some time, wait for Vulkan results and meanwhile enjoy what you got for now.

the answer is yes because Vulkan is more efficient using hardware although the margin of gain is unknown at this time

depends on circumstances. A year ago it was clearly Ryzen, as for same money as an 4 core I7 you could have an 8 core. When the 8700K launched it leveled things up. Some saw the single threaded advantage the way to go, others like me saw that as a limitation of old DX11 games that didnt matter for the future anyway if they ran fine on both manufacturers now. With the introduction of the 9900K the choice lies in budget. People with deep pockets should go with 9900K, on the other hand people who are on a budget and still want to go high end should go Ryzen 2700 (the 9900K gets 12-20% more performance but costs 80% more). next year the balance will shift back to AMD as they are gunning for top spot with the 3000 Series Ryzen but will be priced at around 300-350$ maybe even cheaper due to new manufacturing process. I dont know what intel will do then. They dont have margin to lower their prices much due to manufacture costs of monolithic 14nm CPU's VS Ryzens 7nm multi chip CPu's.

That's the sweets pot price wise, also ryzen 1000 generally had difficulty going above that anyway, however 2000 series can go as high as 3533, some even got 3600,so it's a question of how much money is optimal for you. Right now , some people are settling at 3400 cl14 and the gains stop at 3800mhz.This should take in consideration that the cpu can be swaped on any AM4 for future processors that could go even higher both on supported speeds and desirable bandwidth if they increase maximum cores from 8 to 12 or 16 like some rumors are indicating.

9900k minimum? No, that's too much. I would say any modern 6 core would do. The 8 core is for future margin only. Granted Intel will have the advantage, but at the moment for anyone on a budget doesn't have to plonk that much premium into their systems.

If the GPU only goes as far as 70% then you have a bottleneck somewhere else in the system. Most likely the cpu and /or RAM amount (if it's less than 32gb that could be a factor for your stuttering ). Changing threads in your case cannot be used to determine the games limitations if the primary limitation is your system.

F-16 ground to ground kill on another f-16??? waaaaaaaaaaat?

the 2080 has only 8GB VRAM. DCS can use 10 Gig on just 1440p already. you need at least one 11GB card so thats a Ti card.

You dont need several SSD's, just get 1 big M2 NVMe to make it a clean build. SAMSUNG 970 EVO 2TB is the one that comes to mind. That will be a killer system. Have fun!

There should be no difference between the 9700k and the 8700k in gaming except if the game is not optimized to deal with logical cores like some do and everybody will freak out over that taking the wrong conclusions because both have practically the same gas in the tank. 8 physical cores VS 12 logical ones hmm.

No doubt the 9900k will be faster, if money is not an issue get that. However if you have a budget in mind, not only the CPU is more expensive but also the Z390 boards are at a premium and I don't trust the z370 boards VRM to be optimal for those beastly CPU's. So either get a 8700k or an AMD 2700X, even 2600x should be fine, and then get the biggest graphics card you can get. Other essentials are 32gb of RAM and at least a 512gb SSD for OS and DCS (these days a 1TB is the best option if you can afford it).

Didnt see this mentioned anywhere, but when flying solo, in addition to Jester A.I. can we switch between Pilot and RIO seats? I would like to manage the radar myself before it is necessary to merge at which time I would switch to pilot and start using Jester A.I.

Ordered it. Now I'm a Tomcat Guy 8)

Yep, but things IRL sucked and kept distracting me away. It should be the other way around. I also invested a lot in my current build and it was until now sitting mostly idle. I hope to justify it now :)

lol :D

thats a pretty plane :)

didn't loose anything because I have a seperate HDD.

Dont upgate! If you have files on your user folder theres a bug that during update those files get erased PERMANENTLY. vUQRIsHBvYU I have updated but I keep my po.. files on s seperate HDD.

no problems here