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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...).

I support the development of the F-35 module. Back in the 90's, in the golden age of SIM's (wish that chapter of my life could come back) we got certainly a huge variety of titles of different quality standards and I flew most fo them. We Had highly praised F-22's (TAW), F-19 & F-117 (microprose) and the EF (DID), and nobody complained after acknoweleging that some aircrafts were not real or flying yet, or that most of the systems were classified (still are for old aircraft in this SIM). Im all in for more options in DCS, as if each module was a different sim. If you dont want it dont buy it. For those who play mostly on MP, I remind you we have had weapon and aircraft limitations set in place by different servers. If the F-35 upsets the balance, then you most likely you wont see it much online anyway.

things change, plus getting the AIM-120D would be easier than getting the F-35A

I would guess the AIM-120C variants will be the earliest models that the F-35 can carry due to being internally carried and it having shorter fins (so no AIM-120A/B), but loading anything less than AIM-120D would limit this aircraft usefulness in A-A CAP missions. So yes, having AIM-120D is pratically a basic requirement to simulate the F-35.

F-35 in DCS...wait...whaaaat?

The F-35 has only ever had AESA.

Is it? Keep in mind what people are saying about a 16GB VRAM card for DCS. Ill get back to you once the 24GB 7900XTX is inevitably compared with 9070XT reviews after NDA expires.

In all my upgrades since DCS first came out changing the GPU had more impact. Im talking 10%-20% increase by changing CPU and 60-80% when changing to a faster GPU (I usually skip 2-3 generations until the new GPU is at least 100% faster than my current one so that scales pretty well). I usually build a new PC and re-used the old GPU for a few months before I plonk in the new one. Also since ED made multithreading a reality, CPU's can leaverage their many cores in demanding scenarios much better transfering the bottleneck even more back to the GPU.

for people wanting higher than 16GB VRAM at a value, you better grab those 7900XTX's that are still in stores inventories. I think the new 9070XTX is DOA, at least where DCS is concerned.

I have no MODS whatsoever, as you said I cleaned the FXO files and preformed file repair twice. I also switched off Vsync both in NVIDIA DCS profile and inside DCS itself. This had limited success, I Hope ED fixes this so we dont have to go around changing windows settings specifically run this software. Rmeinds of my old booot disks I had for running diffferent games in DOS 6.22 back in the day.

I have this too except the workaround from the OP doesnt even work for me either. the black screen It happens after pressing "launch game the game from the new start menu. Once the game loads the screen goes black, or rather my monitor goes to standby mode as it stops detecting the signal from the graphics card. EDIT: System specs: OS Windows 10 22H2 OS build 19045.5247 CPU: AMD RYZEN 5950X (Stock BIOS sertings except for the timings of the RAM to match their specs exactly) RAM: 64 GB 3600Mhz (two 2x16Gb kits of P/N F4-3600C14D-32GTZNA @3600Mhz CL 14 CR=1T, geardown enabled) MOBO: ASUS CROSSHAIR HERO VI AM4 GFX: ASUS ROG Strix 4090 (non OC), drivers 566.36 WQL (there seems to be no difference by switching drivers) Cooler: Corsair H115i Capelix 280mm AIO Storage: Samsung 960 EVO 1TB M.2+6GB WD 6Gb red

30 years of PoAF operation anniversary! First units to arrive in mid 1994. Note the temporary livery at delivery. Celebration video

this baffles me, I am almost willing to claim that the reason why so many of these failed in combat is because those components would simply pop off from the boards due to the G forces, Those PCB's are not much different from those I made and soldered by hand in my senior high.

I have zero experience with TV's on PC's, and probably making a stupid suggestion just because you haven't mentioned it, but have you selected the signal source on the TV settings menu? And congrats for that mean looking machine!