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It was never gone, just dorment. Sometimes I dislike to even visit Youtube and the internet in general. It's a snakes nest of fearmongering, more than the usual.

There's news today that Russia was warned beforehand where and when the strikes would occur and they did not interfere. In fact it seems they are trying not to get involved at all. Not even a vocal statement of the head of state about it. Just written formal declarations.

Went to the store and they confessed I was incorrectly notified my order had arrived. Next thrusday will be the day. Damn. I thought they would sell me one early. Anyway I can take advantage of the time to start benching my original CPU.

RIP :(

welcome to the dark side :D

I will be keeping my current motherboard (see sig for full specs) and will try capitalize on the better memory controller from the new chip and my ultra fast 4266 Mhz RAM Kits (yes I know I wont hit nearly that mark). I hope 3600Mhz can be achieved. Anyway, I already got word from the store 5 minutes after preorder that my chip can be picked up. So in the morning Ill be fetching it. Will spend the afternoon making a bunch of benchmarks along with DCS and will post the results here. Lets how the faster memory speeds and lower latency works out for DCS. Tests to be conducted: DCS Mechwarrior online Star Citizen Alpha 3.1 3D mark Cinebench R15 AIDA 64 UPDATE: Test Setup: Ryzen 1700X @3.9Ghz +32GB RAM 3200 CL16 CR=2T Ryzen 2700X @4.2Ghz+32GB RAM 3600 CL16 CR=1T (maximum achievable overclocks for 24/7 operation) GFX = MSI 1080Ti Gaming X @ Stock for both configurations. I used DCS high preset with Vsync off and 1440P resolution (I did this because is what most people will do with this hardware). Conclusions: It was DAMN HARD to get consistent results. Specially Star Citizen and MWO. For DCS I discovered the bottleneck shifts between the CPU and GPU depending on the number of objects being displayed. When Las Vegas buildings show up in high numbers its the GPU the limiting factor (99% usage) hence the low difference between the 2 CPU's. Whoever when in sparsely populated areas the CPU kicks in. Minimum FPS went up 16% but maximum was the same, average only changed 2%. Game experience improved due to higher minimums. CPU usage in DCS shifts between 13% and 44% (this means between 2 to 7 fully utilized threads). The GPU can reach 100% usage regardless of the CPU load (not expected). So Ryzen CPU's do not Bottleneck the 1080Ti in DCS. Star citizen and MWO lack optimization. MWO has the GPU at 55% while CPU was at 15%. It was extremely hard to get to similar multiplayer sessions to compare (same map in victory conditions so I could measure the full length of the session taking data). The game appears to MASSIVELY benefit from higher lows and average FPS uplifts but I cannot say if the values presented here are accurate. It does feel better. On the other hand there is alot of untapped power not being harnessed by the games engine. Star Citizen sees CPU usage 36% in flight and 31% in first person mode. GPU was locked at max most of the time. I used Port Olisar in a private session and walked around to the landing pad and recorded FPS. Vanduul Swarm was recorded by maneuvering the ship around in the broken moon map until fighting starts. The change in CPU has modest benefits but then again the game is not even close to being optimized.

1 year ago I tested the 2500K VS R7 1700X and then pitted my old GTX 970 VS a new 1080 TI (guess who won) on the AMD CPU. Here's the results: But because my 1700X bottlenecks the 1080Ti a bit, tomorrow I will be testing DCS with a spanking new Ryzen 2700X. Stay tuned.

I want to not to find out.

Best defense against cruise missiles is mobility of assets. Also, dont think it will happen. why? We cant discuss politics but I suspect this is just theatrics to impress the masses and for some politicians keeping their jobs.

ooph RIP :(

yeah, the radar scope is between your knees in the F-16A. Do you want to look down all the time?

Yes, Ssd's make a difference by eliminating the stuttering

I had a vertex 3 (same controller and NAND) that I owned for 7 years and its still rocking in my sisters PC. Unless you see problems developing (there are dignostic tools from the manufacturer) you shouldnt worry or need to change SSD. There wont be a massive boost in performance or reason to upgrade unless what your seeking is more space. Note, this is for SATA. For NVME upgrade I would go Intels 900P OPTANE wich is MUCH faster in random access with small files and the only worthy upgrade right now IMHO, or else stay put. (I got 960 EVO because intels were not out yet back then).

In its current state DCS runs well only on 32 GB and an SSD (also my own experience by running 32 GB), however It has been stated that optimizations will be made to reduce this large dependency on RAM. The requirement of 32 GB shouldnt exist unless you crank detail up and view range.

Agree, those things are rocketships

well, yeah, look at my avatar and my grin :))))))))))))))))))))))

yeah ED stated that the F-16 was going to be made at some point and even shared some 3D models of cockpit several years ago. Excited that it it's production is officially committed.

I was thinking that to be absolutely sure you should test the card on another PC. The fault could be elsewhere like the PSU no longer able to meet the supply specs with age. They do degrade over time. 1080Ti's require 250W at load, TBH I wouldn't feel safe with just an old 650W unit.

Fires, quakes, floods and now a power outage is going to affect RAM prices again. :surrender: What has SAMSUNG done to attract so many acts of god? :blink: Source: http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/samsung-power-outage-causes-up-to-60000-wafers-damaged-for-nand-flash-memory.html

Sounds like most of the smaller countries airforces :D

4.25 Ghz is what I expect the 2700x to max at with all cores (most ryzen 1000's top out at a speed equivalent to the single core XFR frequency) where did you see 4.8?

Single core performance is losing importance as DX11 is fades from the norm. Intel's lead there is eroding quickly as the following graphs show. We could see the situation reverse with DX12 and Vulkan because those will be multicore capable API's. DCS happens to be one such future example. :) Note: these benches were obtained with sub spec memory (2400MHz VS 2933 supported) on Ryzen 2700X. We should expect better performance with retail units. I got 11% more performance from overclocking both the CPU and memory. (3.9 and 3.2 Ghz respectively). The new CPU's are expected to match that on stock and likely another step of the same size further up when overclocked.

Intel is stuck to the current IPC until 2020 when they finally have a new uarch to go for the next leap, until then they'll just keep on refreshing their lineup. RYZEN 2000 are already all over the i5 and i7 chips in single core and better in multi for the same price. There will be few reasons to buy Intel unless you prefer the automation these chips offer for overclocking since AMD right now is very much an old school manual approach.

No worries. This also means the marines will get the used F-18C's and they can continue to be embarked.

Sorry demon but I lost ya there:D