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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

I am having a hard time believing that even considering the source. Things never pan out as planned this much in advance. I can see more cores and 4.7 Ghz, because silicon is not the only limiting factor, architecture is also. And I think its great anyway.

...which does not reflect real life performance. Sequential performance is much higher than randomly accessing small files, thats what youll be doing most of the time.

I have not measured it, but it is faster. Not 500% faster as the specs appear to indicate, because its not reading sequentially and thus not using up it theoretical maximum throughput. I would say 50% faster but thats my empirical perception. I have not actually measured. to get even faster you would need an Intel Optane drive (which would halve the loading time compared to my 960 evo) but they are hard to get and woefully un-affordable (yes even compared to the SAMSUNG drive).

People are craving for 2 year old 1080's even RX580's for a premium in the face of new launches. Unthinkable, how things have changed.

But the jet is not yet competed. Not all tests are done yet. The thing that comes to mind has nothing to do with attacking ground targets. I suspect it is there to test the neighbors reaction and interception times to the new su-57.

Saw that too.

We know from AMD that base clocks and boost are going to be higher across the board. Based off an engineering prototype leaked a month ago it had 200Mhz uplift, so expect that at the very least. 4Ghz is likely to be exceeded. Expect 4.1 to 4.3 for most people wanting to overclocking it.

WVR only right? :D

Forget those, we will get a new generation in April, and 10% performance improvement (loosely mentioned by AMD), will effectively eliminate that bottleneck Not that it matters anyway because all new games are either dx12 or Vulcan that will make all your cores count (DCS included). So that's an 8 core and the biggest gfx you can afford will be fine.

I know that, what I meant is that the replacement should be past that phase already. Having napkin concepts now means another 20 years in development at the least, hence the 2040 time frame.

I was speaking in relative terms of course. :) In my experience my R7 has been pretty snappy in any scenario. The bottleneck is theoretical and measurable but the ingame action is smooth on every title with detail maxed out.

I am amazed that they decided to go the flankereske route instead of having secured development of the 6th gen years ago to replace both the F-15 and F-22. I cant imagine the same airframes built in 80's and 90's still flying in the 2040.

They put the wrong people in charge of the movie, and what disheartens me is that Disney usually hand picks people and crafts their movies carefully (even when its just for money grab which they do) Ryan Jonson wanted Game of thrones in space and Kathleen Kennedy obviously was pulling the strings to push her rubbish personal ideology agenda down our throats with this movie. It figures. Ruined it.