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On my Constellation Alpha, the lever outputs both a button and an axis signal. So I expect the same to be true for the CM2.

Pot kettle. Only if you are extremely pedantic and insist that established ways of speaking are incorrect. Except that it shares the most expensive, most crucial and most central component. But I guess in your world, If I get a hair cut or change clothing, I become a different person.

I don't really understand what your objection is to what @AngleOff66 said, since you seem to be agreeing with him or her that it is not that complicated (for Chinese experts) to create a new PCB for a 48 GB card. I assume that everyone understands that you can't just turn a 24 GB card into a 48 GB version by watering it regularly and giving it some fertilizer. Of course, some extra memory modules need to be added and you need a PCB that can connect those to the GPU chip. This seems to be missing the point, since @AngleOff66 is not arguing that someone should set up a conversion factory, but that the ability to turn a 4090 24 GB into a 48 GB version, proves that Nvidia could manufacture those or let AIBs make them. Now, the video is not actually needed to prove this for those in the know, since Nvidia has already been selling pro cards with the same chip as the 4090, with 48 GB. So of course they could also sell a 4090 with 48 GB as part of the consumer line. First of all, this comment is directly countered by the video, where Chinese vendors consider it a sufficiently sustainable market to develop a custom PCB for and offer it as a product. There is also enough of a market for them to show up on eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/376271640799 Secondly, you are ignoring market segmentation, monopoly practices and market manipulation. So it's not necessarily the case that there is no market for a 48 GB 4090, but rather, that Nvidia doesn't want to offer people this option, but instead wants them to buy the pro cards for double the price or more. Nvidia segments their lineup by memory and is known to retaliate against vendors and AIBs that don't do what Nvidia wants. So from the perspective of a US/EU company, it is probably more sensible to buy a pro card with 48 GB, like the RTX 5880 or 6000, than a modified card that may result in Nvidia putting the company on a support and sales blacklist. However, this is not a free choice based purely on the merits of the product, but a choice driven by market manipulation. You can't simply conclude that these companies would make the same choices if Nvidia would allow AIBs to make 4090's with 48 GB, and if Nvidia would properly support those products with drivers and...support. The math for Chinese companies can easily be different, due to them (as a country) being on a sales blacklist already anyway, they may benefit less from Nvidia support due to language issues and thus may need to be more self-sufficient due to it, their shenanigans may be more opaque to Nvidia by being much more isolated from Nvidia in various ways (for example, a large Silicon Valley company is likely to have workers move to or come from Nvidia, so their internal secrets may become known to Nvidia that way), they may feel protected by the Chinese government, etc, etc. Thirdly, you ignore that the BIOS/drivers probably don't work well for gaming on these modified cards, so that means that they are only viable for AI/business use. Of course, Nvidia could easily release a 48 GB card with proper BIOS/driver support. Surely interest by gamers would increase a lot if such a card would actually work for gaming. Ultimately, the only way to truly prove or disprove the viability of such a product, is for Nvidia to allow such a product to exist, which they don't. You can't just draw conclusions based on a manipulated market. For example, when the Iron Curtain was up, Eastern European countries claimed that their people were very happy with the Trabant/Yugo/etc, but once customers were allowed a free choice, they showed that the sales on the manipulated market didn't actually match their real preferences.

The 5800X3D is no longer sold new, but you may be able to get a decent deal for it second hand. A 5700X3D should perform similarly in most games. Having very many cores is not so beneficial for games, while the X3D-cache has a big benefit. An alternative is to upgrade to AM5, getting a cheapish AM5-motherboard, 64 GB of DDR5-6000 and a 7600X. For example, like this: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/TykKdH DCS can really benefit from 64 GB of RAM, and by going to AM5, you are not spending more money on an obsolete platform. A big benefit of that route is that you later on do another big upgrade to a much faster X3D-CPU and get a big boost. The 7600X is about as fast as a 5700X3D/5800X3D, but where the latter is the end of the line, you can later on replace that 7600X with a 9800X3D or a future generation X3D-chip. That new motherboard also has PCIe 4, so that means that it can use faster NVMe's and is more futureproof with regard to the PCIe speed for the GPU. PS. It is absolutely not necessary to get an AIO cooler. Not sure what cooler you have on there (the stock one??), but there are very good air coolers for amazingly low prices, like the one that I specced in my build. These are more reliable and longer lasting than AIOs. Of course, regardless of air cooling or AIO, you need decent airflow into the case.

@Nedum I suspect that the smooth autorotation might be the issue, since XRNecksafer would then need to continuously change the view position. You might want to try with Snap rotation.

According to the Steam page, it works on both 10 and 11.

Why would it? It is a replacement for WMR, so it is irrelevant whether or not you are running a Windows version that still has WMR in it.

It's the second best choice purely for gaming (the 9800X3D being the best). It's weak relative to the price for multithreaded productivity software, if you use that.

For DCS, I would pay that difference, since the 9800X3D seems to be far less stuttery:

Like any tool, it needs to be used to its strengths and not its weaknesses. You also don't use a drill as a hammer and then complain that it is a useless tool. There are specialized AIs to generate 3D models from 2D images, like TRELLIS, which seem to do a decent job. I don't know whether they are good enough for modelling planes with. But just like human modellers, they base their model on images of the real thing. So it's not just a generic component or cockpit model, but it would be specific to a certain plane. In theory it would even be possible to make an even more tailored AI trained for modelling real life object in sims, training it on already created 3D models and the 2D images that those are based on. I once worked for a non-profit company that made the software for an entire industry, where everyone who used the software was required to invest in it, and then they were charged a fee for the software that covered the cost of maintaining/improving it (so no profit margin). In principle, the companies/individuals who make airplane models for flight sims, car models for driving sims, etc could adopt the same model, where instead of merely investing, they all hand over their 3D models and the 2D images that those are based on, to the non-profit. Then the non-profit could train an AI to be optimal for this kind of work. For example, the hallucination level could be set very low, and because it would just be trained on relevant images, it wouldn't even know how to generate irrelevant imagery.

From his comment, I took that he also uses productivity software that benefits from lots of cores. Intel can be a good choice for a mixed use machine, since AMD strictly segments its lineup by the number of cores, so there are no cheap many-core options, while that is the case for Intel. I don't know the relative performance of these chips in DCS specifically, so I don't know what advice to give though.

AI might change this. On Youtube I already see some top tier content where people use AI, like this: AI doesn't replace the need for a human contribution to create quality, but it can make the required effort a lot more manageable.

If you have the option and the pricing is decent in your region, I would get a 9060 XT.

The actual full truth is hard to know since ED isn't very forthcoming with information about this sort of stuff. At the time, VEAO did put out a statement on their website: https://web.archive.org/web/20190322180249/https://veaosimulations.co.uk/ And recently, a VEAO developer spoke out: But keep in mind that both of these are one-sided perspectives, from one of the parties in the conflict.