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J-20 officially unveiled at Zhuhai Airshow last weekend. WaINYce8ysE

Its not just for DCS, thats the issue. IF it was just for DCS I would get an i5. BUT if I can overclock individual cores I can accomodate any CPU for DCS (in adittion to other games).

yeah, but we are not 1 year away from new launches, we are just 2 months away. Plus the whole DX12/vulkan thing pushing all CPU's and GPU's cannot be ignored. This is the worst possible time to do a rush buy. I build for the next 5-6 years. Not 2. I suspect AMD will be offering Zen for similar price as an 7700K (slightly higher, but lower than any Skylake-X series). 8C/16T VS 4C/8T, 64 lanes VS 24. Thats just an immense difference. Just look what they did with the RX 480. While it offers modest OK performance in DX11, for DX12 it runs circles around GTX1060's for same price and closes in on 1070's for less 200$. Thats impressive, and this is what I am aiming for. Coming back to the 7700K: Intel is charging 350$ for this chip as they did for 6700K. I'm not too impressed with its 24 lanes either. That offers too few options for expansion. Value and future proofing is poor. I only need to know: 1-price of a ZEN build VS Skylake-X VS 7700K 2-the possibility of overclocking individual cores on ZEN and Skylake-X (broadwell-E can). if both conditions are met, I can have the best of both worlds (DCS and star citizen) on a chip higher than 4 cores. Summed up, the supposedly modest jump in price from 4 cores to multi core is met with a quantum leap in processing and available bandwith headroom.

What worries me is that in 2018 the industry will move beyond the 4 core CPU's for gaming. Kaby lake will be the last high end 4 core chip. The sucessor will likely sport 6 cores for similar price tag (google coffe lake CPU). Intel already leaked the prices for 7700K and they havent budged from the 350$ price tag the previous 6700K had, not even after knowing AMD Zen will be launched at the same time. I dont play just DCS. And Im kinda wary of paying that price tag for something that will be steamrolled in short order by intel's own offers not to say nothing about AMD.

Kaby lake is going to be officially launched in jan 5 2017. I dont think they will be at the shelves before that.

The only one I considered is the upcoming ZEN. Have you checked it out?

yeah, my hope is that Zen will be close enough on single core scores after overclocking. I can live with that. But according to leaked bencies, the 7700K has almost 25% advantage on single core and comes close to 6 cores broadwell on multi threaded because of its high clocks. ys9Gtc4oC2A providing this holds up to the trucks of salt. Then the 7700K can go even higher and hit 5 Ghz on air, and I expect Zen to hit a Mhz wall at somewhere 4GHz just like the broadwell chips do (4.4Ghz). Decisions decisions...

2017 will be the year of the most difficult upgrade choices and because I have the gene for bad timing it will be the year that I cannot dodge for an upgrade. whereas before you could settle for the highest clocked 4 core and sit pretty for 5 years easily, the road ahead seems different in that the MHZ race is pretty much becoming second league chanpionship. 1- Either pick a fast 4 core now, and Im sure Ill be begging for more cores in 2 years or: 2- pick a multicore chip and suck low Mhz for the time being So the choices in 2017 are: -Kaby lake 7700K for absolute the fastest high end 4 core chip that there will be. -Zen with 8 cores and predicatbly much lower single core score -Skylake-X featuring "affordable" 6 cores that will likely clock higher than the current 6800/6850K, or ZEN all this will get devalued and possibly matched by much cheaper cofee lake mainstream 6 core i7's in 2018/2019 replacing the high end 4 core linup forever. This will make the 3 CPU's above look overpriced or obsolete. My trouble is that I also play Star citizen wich devours cores beyond DCS which eats Mhz cycles instead. DCS should have gone multi core and DX12 and this problem wouldnt be an issue. See my trouble? What CPU do I get? what do you think? See sig for current rig.

the kicker is, starting as of 2017 new hardware, namely CPU's, will only work on windows 10.

But it will with edge 2.0

All machines at work were upgraded, it's awful lol, precious windows 7

I heard its simply because its easier to load them on wingtip stations due to better clearance.

more on the Romanian Transfer. Forgive the dodgy English :D i9fnEYkAyJY

Deliveries are taking place and the aircraft now bear Romania's insignia roundel.

Jesus, that's expensive (health). Here we have insurance but that serves only for discounts, on the other hand its not terribly expensive if you need assistance because it's also partially paid by the social security which comes from taxation. For example, my last dentist bill was 60€ with insurance, without, it would be 90€ on my own (the company pays the insurance). The Government pays your pension (not the company) based on off-salary taxation history (currently IRS 19%+11% for social security, BTW 23% VAT off products). We have a lunch break of 50 mins and some companies pay a monthly extra so you can eat outside its infrastructures, and/or if you live far away (for commuting costs). But then every other benefits and salary sucks. Country wide average is about 700€. The Re-employment rate is close to zero, and the market currently works mostly on personal contacts, and career progression is rare. This is why everyone is so afraid, plus there's the IMF bailout thing going on threatening make all this worse. Not all this is bad but there you have it.

I dont think they will end in the boneyard. They choped up every usable F-14 components in order not to end on iranian hands, and I guess a stealth plane would have its security level tightened a few notches up.

That, or the QF-117's program has started ;)

That's karma. I had an idiot manager who wanted me fired, he was fired instead, though I had to wait 2 painful years between the 2 events.

raider? :huh: This? I suspect someone spent the whole night trying to give this name a good excuse, but with second intentions. ;)

Pranking kids is the best because they cant stroke! :D

I suspect it is the MOBO as I could not isolate the problem by changing the storage, RAM (still have the old 4GB sticks) or the GFX. Any major component craping out will trigger the new build. Theres so much upgrades I could do on an old system that will be worth the money.

I had good colleagues being promoted to supervisors and they changed drastically in terms of behaviour. Where I trusted them before, they are now: - hinting at raises before the semester is up as a form of pressure to achieve objectives, and then they do not materialise - promoting new graduates above the rest of the team because they are relatives to VIP's - the urgency creep that causes disorganization on the agenda - Feeds unreliable info out of ignorance or inexperience - compromises himself with over optimistic delivery dates with his superiors and charges me responsible without previously discussing it - Every once a while there goes the threat of firing me or lower the performance evaluation - Force projects that are unviable or counterproductive that will only cause more work and lower efficiency - Treat their subordinates like garbage as a form of asserting himself - Excuses himself at the expense of the team for image promotion purposes This is commonplace practice in the current times, long are gone the times of respect at workplace, stability and well paid jobs (well for most anyway), predictable career paths or any sort of rules for progression (when they exist they often are left on paper only, nor the human resources have your best interests at heart, or the company's). This is because most people in leadership roles always try to please their superiors first, show projects are ongoing even if they are downgrades and/or a repeat of abandoned methodologies.

27" ASUS PB278Q IPS 1440P Huge difference to my previous 1080 27".

So, my I5 2500K is finally showing its age. After almost 6 years running without a hitch I started periodically having blue screens or freezes, for which I tried to fix in the BIOS by changing some stability options. Then last week it wouldn't finish booting up with artefacts showing up on OS loading screen and sticking there. So I disassembled it completely, cleaned the dust and put it back together. It booted up albeit with lots of hiccups along the way. It now starts somewhat normally but the frequency of the glitches leads me to believe they are accelerating eventually leading to its inevitable death. So... Time for a new build. Trouble is, Kaby lake and Zen are just around the corner and given the poor IPC improvements in the last 5 years I need to squeeze as much upgrade as I can by waiting for them to make a decision which one I will take then. So, considering I will make a new build for the next 6 years this is the guideline for the new system: -GFX: Likely will maintain my GTX970 and have it replaced when a new generation is released (I don't do upgrades in consecutive generations ever). -MOBO: not yet unveiled, it must support strong overclock abilities but do not want a $300+ plus monster (not going for quad SLI/crossfire thus I do not need to pay the premium for bandwidth on multiple PCI-E ports), likely from ASUS or Gigabyte -RAM: 32 or 64 GB of DDR4 depends how much money is left after buying the other components -CPU: Kaby lake, Zen FX edition (8 core) or Skylake-E, definitely want single core performance first, core count second. -Cooler: May keep the original If I choose Zen, they said it will be excellent, or an Corsair H80 if I go Intel. -Case: more or less decided on the Corsair Obsidian 750D airflow edition. -Storage: May byte the bullet for a 2GB SSD+8GB HDD -Drives: a single Blu-Ray writer usage: playing DCS, MWO, star citizen and run my monstrous excel files I use for work that take 15 minutes to process on my current build.

I have 2 Revell 1/72 typhy kits still in the box (with around 20 others). Sadly I never got around time to make them. But I also don't know what paint schemes I will choose (2 UK camos, german, Austrian and Spanish)