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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.

A leaked image of one of the logistics team members:

I don't get that at all. Sounds like something is broken. Contact their support.

@big_fun Care to leave a review? How well does the trackpad work?

Alibaba is a B2B shop, so the intent is that you buy in bulk and then sell in low quantity to the end user. For example, here someone is doing so on Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/INSTAWOW-Bluetooth-Touchpad-Control-Compatible/dp/B0DWKY3QGF And on the German Amazon someone is trying to scam people with absurd prices: https://www.amazon.de/-/en/D06PRO/dp/B0DYCN3G9W @big_fun How did you actually buy it? Did you buy a sample through Alibaba or did you buy it elsewhere?

The most ridiculous part to me is how they cut cost on the power delivery, so you are still at risk of having the connector melt.

At some point a few tech sites seem to have decided that Kepler_L2 has secret information, even though his real talent is making stuff up and then presenting it as fact. He was caught doing so on the AnandTech forums. Note that this is a general failing of the media, they often get enamored by 'experts' without actually properly vetting those people for actual expertise, and then it is very hard or impossible to get them to change their mind, even if their 'expert' is wrong a lot of the time.

I think that it also matters what competition they have. For example, if you want an F-16 ICP panel, then it seems that they don't have any competition anywhere near their price level for a finished product.

One of the complicating factors is that people have different reference points. If pieces of crap like the X-55 are your reference point, then it's not that hard to be impressed. Ultimately, Winwing's hardware quality is decent for the most part, aside from the Ursa Minor issues. You better hope that you don't have a defect or billing issue though, because their customer support is horrid.

LOL. Too late for that. It is a known issue that the quality of the controls on the Ursa Minor is subpar and worse, that they will just blame the user for abusing the joystick, even when this is not the case. My advice is to do whatever will result in a refund through Paypal the fastest. Don't concern yourself with their reputation, but simply set out your case clearly to them, dispute it when they blame you, and set a strict deadline for them to come up with a resolution. And then file a full refund claim with Paypal when they fail to resolve it within that deadline. Then get a VKB Gladiator NXT.

Nothing wrong with this kind of repair. These battery packs are just generic Chinesium parts that can be replaced with other generic Chinesium parts. Just make sure that the voltage matches. The mAh is the capacity of the battery and that merely determines how long it lasts, but is not a compatibility concern. You only need to make sure that there is no risk of shorts.

I can only see this being useful if you have additional software running that is either fairly demanding on the GPU or extremely demanding on the CPU. It's very unlikely that this is the case for a normal DCS setup. Generally, for gaming you can't just combine a lot of slow computers together to speed things up, since latency is such a big deal.

@draconus Almost without exception, games don't scale very well with overall processing power. What you need is enough processing power to handle all the tasks that have to be done. Then in addition to that, there is the code that is the bottleneck, and that is generally relatively little code that benefits greatly from a high clock speed. Furthermore, the code needs data to process. Code does not only become a bottleneck due to a lack of processing power, but it can also bottleneck because it doesn't have the data available in the local cache and needs to wait for the comparatively slow RAM. The X3D-cache really helps to ensure that the data that is needed for the crucial code is available. Being bottlenecked on waiting for the RAM tends to be much worse than waiting because the CPU is a little slow, because you get a huge disparity in wait times between the situation where the data is available and when it is not. It's much worse for the gaming experience to have stutters (fast then slow then fast then slow) than a consistently slower experience.