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The failures of dead 20 series cards have been linked to faulty VRAM modules of a given brand and have nothing to do with cooling. Some non reference cards have never had issues because they were using other VRAM modules. Personally I skipped the 20 series as from the standpoint of performance to gamers they are half a generation upgrade at outrageous prices despite the vaunted ray tracing features. If you are tempted to buy a graphics with your hard earned money get AMD instead, or wait for the 30 series cards. I'm sure NVIDIA will course correct by then or face same trouble from AMD as Intel did.

those backdoors were there much before that.

From a performance standpoint for gaming it makes no difference on your experience. The choice is all about what other use will you give for the machine beyond DCS.

thx for the feedback :)

This generation cards are a bad deal in general. No wonder NVIDIA sales were weaker this year. It's now known that NVIDIA will introduce new architecture 7nm (currently 14) in H1 2020, and judging by what AMD will be releasing NVIDIA better have kickass cards with sane prices by then or they will be in deep trouble.

Well based on community benchmarking and my own: Conclusion: Either CPU should be indistinguishable for DCS as GPU matters more. Just make sure you got 6 core 12 threads or better. Invest the rest on the biggest GPU you can afford and your golden. Also get 32Gb of RAM. More important than CPU choice.

Done.

I found out that the stick was leaning forward slightly due to its hefty weight (900 grams heavy) so I swapped the springs for the heavy ones. Heavy is a relative term because the return to center force is still light but enough to keep the stick in place now.

Hey guys look what I got below. I was wondering if any of you have this combo and what springs & cams did you use? I did get the extra cosmo cams.

I would rather get the RX570 with 8GB VRAM than a used GTX970 with half of VRAM that's for sure.

nonono, dont get the GTX 970, I had one, it doesn't have enough VRAM. The game will run but you will be severely FPS capped. When I switched from that to my 1080Ti I saw 68% improvement in FPS.

if you could snatch a RX5700 that would be way better. DCS like GPU more than CPU at the moment.

I am very happy with my 3900X regardless of the boost clocks. You get more speed from reducing latency by tuning memory anyway. There is too much noise regarding some 50Mhz below spec and there isnt much gain from that IMHO. I laugh at thee 9900K!

I had same CPU and still have the same GPU and it's fine for DCS. I would only change RAM to 32Gb if multiplayer is your thing too. 16 is fine for solo, but short for multi.

Same here, so I bought an Aorus AD27QD for 100 Euro more :/ (no real competition from other brands in that class of monitors)

Unfortunately did not test the 2700X fully, not in DCS. I removed the 2700X and placed the 3900X immediately in. The 2700X is already gone as I put it for sale. I should have anticipated the tests but I guessed wrong that the order was only going thru in September. who am I kidding? Sorry my flesh was weak :blush: EDIT: Based on what I found in yesterdays testing and you can see the graph: for all modern CPU's performance scales linearly with GPU power. I did not notice much of an improvement in DCS. My empirical testing says that mechwarrior online did improve alot with the low frame rates while busy battles and under fire as that title is horribly optimized and runs on single core. Did not test star citizen yet. Disclaimer: I did not buy a 3900X for logical or technical reasons, not even for sane reasons (even considering I did get a huge boost in other applications). :D It was mostly for fun. Sadly I will have to quit upgrading parts every year. I have a 16 year old car that I need replace next year and riding that POS was one of the sacrifices I did to fund this hobby.

DCS is not a fast paced title that would require extreme refresh rates. You'll be hard pressed to find a monitor with true 1ms in a IPS panel. My advice: Pixio PX277h

what power supply you have?

If you want everything ASUS Strix related you could try a Strix 5700XT, although I dont know how different it will be from the 2070S for DCS. They both trade blows on other games but there is some variability in results in the reviews.

Sounds like your PC is shutting down devices to save power. Try changing your power plan by disabling power saving freatures like USB or PCI devices.

Heres my imput with same conditions: Look what happens when DackSter94 changed from a 1060 to a 2070 Super on his 3700X (both results shown). Conclusion: You can clearly see that the average FPS scales linearly with GPU (1080Ti is nearly 2X 1060 and 25% faster than 1080), 0.1% FPS may be linked to CPU providing no other bottleneck is introduced (like RAM shortage). If you have a modern CPU, a good GPU is more important. Bear in mind that when VULKAN implementation is complete it may change alot, for example by making DCS use more cores.

Heres my imput with same conditions: Look what happens when DackSter94 changed from a 1060 to a 2070 Super on his 3700X (both results shown). Conclusion: You can clearly see that the average FPS scales linearly with GPU (1080Ti is nearly 2X 1060 and 25% faster than 1080), 0.1% FPS may be linked to CPU providing no other bottleneck is introduced (like RAM shortage). If you have a modern CPU, a good GPU is more important. Bear in mind that when VULKAN implementation is complete it may change alot, for example by making DCS use more cores. Benchmark.txt

Tests with 3900X this weekend. :)

the reviews are all over the place. BIOSes are all over the place. Reporting software are all over the place. Everything is all over the place regarding Ryzen. I wouldn't worry too much until we get better BIOS. Its been a train wreck of a launch as usual.

Thx!! :]