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Looks like they are renaming Zen+ into Zen2 (previously the later was to herald the 7nm process in 2019). Those of us in AM4 are candidates for huge upgrades at cheap prices (we need full official confirmation in addition to the multiple reports suggesting this). In essence: 10 and 12 cores @ 4Ghz+ and 5.1 XFR on the mainstream for prices around 400-500$ czRO7R_KWA0 MzncRDva_HU

In normal use the M.2 feels about 30% faster than a SATA SSD. However when your moving large files around or editing it becomes second to none. Currently most games are single threaded bound when unpacking game files and THAT becomes your bottleneck, not the SSD. When optimizations are made then you'll see significant differences (in both SATA and M.2. however the later just runs away ahead then because of bandwith headroom) They are doing this for star citizen but for DCS I dont think well see changes there any time soon.

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windows 7 is stable. Great OS. Windows 10 is always trying to break itself and beaming out data behind our backs grrrr.

I checked the firmware number, it's the one mentioned in the quoted site . BTW I used magician, not the direct download, so that might explain the timing.

600, as Rico guessed right. It's 2 kits with 23% VAT contributing for this madness.

Who dares to guess how much I paid for my 32GB of 4266 DDR4??? :D

I upgraded weeks ago. No issues so far with my 1TB Evo.

Vulkan API is huge news. It can use multi thread abilities of CPU's for rendering purposes.

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Not sure how many hours they have. I visited their operational base several times back in 2009 and several of the frames only had about 3000h. When we sold 12 to Romania we bought 3 more stored hulls (to re-equip and fly again) for ourselves to keep the numbers from going too low so the fleet is really a mixed bag by now. I would guess, anywhere between 4000-5000h average. The expected retirement date after the upgrade is 2030. :)

Future plans as there is no direct F-16 replacement (or money to buy F35).

As big as you need. IMHO 512 GB minimum. Setting it up is a question of selecting the M.2. as the first priority boot drive in windows then use a bootable flash drive with Windows 10 setup. You can do this from microsofts W10 download web page.

You know it's good when someone mistakes a screeshot for a real life photo :D

Every country in a fighter deal always threatens to change to the other manufacturer (most F-35 countries threatened to choose the competition too). Well see how it pans out but we shouldn't judge right now. It's too early.

I have mixed feelings about ther 8700K. On one hand it is the best gaming chip right now. On the other it really limits upgrade path for the platform. Just look at how the 7700K owners got shafted. 6 months after kaby launch, it's already superseded and without upgrade possibility to coffee lake due to a mere pin change. If your going intel side, nevermind the 7700K. Get a 8700K. DCS may be a single or dual core afair, but for how long? We are headed multicore and DCS will eventually join the bandwagon. It's not like the price of both CPU's or motherboards are THAT different. Get the bigger chip.

someone will find a way to hack the lock :)

Thats awsome. This was training a few months before the last time our vipers went to the baltics. Those are the famous Polish fulcrums BTW.

Get an R5 instead and buy and a better graphics card.

that graphics card deserves a better CPU tho. I suspect you have a CPU bottleneck now.

yes but they currently are not being maxed out by the game. The decompression method is single thread bound and is the bottleneck.

Intel keeps shifting their branding around the same 4,6 cores without performance improvements. If you buy X370 and want an 8 core down the line... tough luck you cant. Need a whole new system. You cant even switch between a 7700K to a 8700K now without changing the MOBO. On AMD's side theoretically you could buy a measly quad core today and buy an 8 core ZEN+ in 4 months (or a Zen 2 or a ZEN 3) for a fraction of the price for a single 8 core intel system (same is true for lower core counts). Lots more options, and upgrade path for cheaper price. AMD is the one actually offering the better future proofing here. I am not a fan of either brand. My last AMD system was an Athlon 3200+ and when AMD sucked I went intel for over a decade in succession (Q4400 and a 2500K).

Intel rushed this, it was originally planned for Q1 anyway. Thats a good thing as prices in Q4 are always prohibitive. This chip should be called I9 because the pricing sure hell looks above what the I7's used to cost on the mainstream.

Official support is 2666 on this platform, though 3200 can be reached easily on B350 and X370 boards as long as the memory kits are in the qualified vendor list. There are others but you have to choose carefully, namely SAMSUNG B die kits. They usually are the lowest latency kits in their clock speed category. For 3200Mhz that would be any CAS14 kits which are the lowest for that speed.

I just remembered something. Download AMD all in one driver package here: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/chipset?os=Windows%2010%20-%2064 then choose Ryzen balanced power plan. I prevents too many cores to be parked. When they unpark with the stardard windows power plan, you might observe some micro-lag during this process. I have mine 100% unparked.