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Aapje

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  1. I think that people who get a 14900 do stress their system. Worst off are those with little tech knowledge who get a prebuilt and who might not even know about this, as they don't follow the tech news.
  2. ^ Exactly. They have a choice between a class action lawsuit over false advertising, or trying to delay the degradation long enough so the CPU fails after the extended warranty and they can deny your claim. They chose the latter.
  3. I think that it is unwise for Virpil to do so, since they would be hurting their own customers. And they are not actually a very big company, so I don't see how the legal fees would ever be worth it, even if it would cost them a few unit sales. I also think that there is little ethical issue with 'hacking' hardware that you own.
  4. Nothing wrong with that, when most gamers do little other heavy processing than gaming. Being great at what really matters, perfectly fine at anything else, for a great price, makes a good product.
  5. I wonder if Moza's issues with the Virpil passthrough is also a firmware limitation or a hardware issue.
  6. Basically, games tend to not really be able to use a lot of cores effectively, but love cache. Especially simming games. The reason why that is so, is because games do a lot of the same thing. For example, if the game runs at 60 FPS, then the game has to make a new frame every 100 milliseconds. And a lot of that is used by the GPU, so the CPU has a fraction of that. In that time, the CPU has to calculate the new world state, convert that into updates to the 3D-model, which it then has to hand over to the GPU for actual rendering. The things that the CPU does for every frame is often called the gameplay loop. If the code and data for the gameplay loop is in the cache of the CPU, it can work very fast and efficiently, because it doesn't have to bring in the data from the relatively slow RAM. And you tend to get very consistent FPS. For example, you can have 60 FPS where some frames take 150 ms and others take 50 ms, or you can have all frames take 100 ms. The latter will feel much smoother. It turns out that the extra cache for the X3D-CPUs means that the code and data for the gameplay loop fits in the cache much better, so it works great for games. The end result is that those X3D-CPU's are very efficient at gaming. In contrast, if you buy a 14900K over lets say a 14600K, then you get a relatively small cache increase from 20 to 32 MB. This is not really enough to fit most gameplay loops, so the CPU has to work very hard in an inefficient way to compensate. This is one reason why the 14900K uses so much power. And you also pay for 2 extra performance cores and 8 extra e-cores, that do very little for you, in gaming. In contrast, with the 7800X3D, you get 104 MB of L2/L3 cache. So that is more than triple what the 14900K has. And despite the 7800X3D only going to 5 Ghz, it tends to beat the 14900K at up to 6 Ghz, in benchmarks. The 14900K is brute forcing, while the 7800X3D is much more designed around what is useful for games. The end result is that it is much cheaper than the 14900K (both in manufacture and in sales price), runs cooler and uses less power. And to get back to your question: VR is really not all that relevant. The above is true for both flat and VR games.
  7. Does this require a hardware change or is this a software thing, so already built/shipped bases will get this as well?
  8. The question is how the desk mount solutions will deal with the weight and the forces. Especially if people want to use long desk mounts. But interestingly, Monstertech does advertise their long units as working with VPForce: https://www.monster.tech/en/product/joystick-hotas-table-mount-long/ It's in the dropdown as an option.
  9. Me neither. I'm running Intel right now, because when I wanted to upgrade, that made more sense. But now things are different. And in a while they can be different again.
  10. You can save a lot of money by getting the Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE cooler instead. I personally prefer the non-RGB memory that is very low for use with air cooler, since you have less risk of it not fitting. The non-RGB vengeance is OK, but you can also look at the G.Skill Flare X5 64 GB and G.Skill Ripjaws S5 64 GB kits (look for 30 ns cas latency or better). And I haven't bought a sound card for a long time, but a dedicated card will have less interference. But is it worth the extra cost and reduced airflow? Your choice
  11. All over this forum you see that the 7800X3D gets recommended way more than anything else right now, which makes sense, because for gaming, it is hard to fault it in any way over the competition at this time (price/perf, perf/watt, heat and degradation).
  12. @Gunslinger52 I think that you are referring to Smart Access Memory (SAM), which you should enable in the BIOS if you get an AMD system. Intel has pretty much the same thing, but they call it Resizable BAR. It most typically has a fairly small effect though. Usually a small gain, but some games can have a small loss. Don't know the exact effect on DCS. It's way more important to make sure that memory overclocking is enabled in the BIOS (EXPO or XMP).
  13. @warmachine79 You may have an asymmetric face, so your eyes are a different distance from the center.
  14. It's a bit hard to imagine that they first would spend time developing for the obsolete SteamVR API and would then do it all again for OpenXR. My guess is that they developed for SteamVR internally, to test the headset, and then decided to release it, since doing so is fairly straightforward. Especially since they left out eye tracking.
  15. It's difficult and costly for them to have to add them after the fact, which is why I would like them to be added to the base package.
  16. Sure, but it's an issue if you don't have a 3D-printer or something else to pilfer from; and a very small cost for them to put a few extra caps in the package. But I haven't heard that they did.
  17. Is there a list or such of the changes they made? Did they replace the cap that so many people complained about?
  18. They are not really that silent, since they tell us what they are working on, at least with regards to new products. They then just take ages to design those products and make them manufacturable.
  19. Just be aware that if you do or have done the pre-order, you are probably signing on for a fairly long period of dealing with missing functionality, bugs, etc. I'm fine with people going into this with two eyes wide open, but some just seem impatient and expect everything to work right away, which seems unrealistic to me.
  20. I haven't seen any news about the electronic detents or rail versions. And with VKB, I wouldn't hold your breath.
  21. It's really simple if you the only heavy thing you do with the computer is game: 7800X3D.
  22. They have to spend time working with the reviewers (answering their questions, giving them new software releases, etc), so it's understandable that they want to limit the pool. According to the shipping date they gave, they should start delivering units pretty much now. But judging by the early pre-reviews, I expect them to either delay it or deliver it with software that is way behind the Rhino. Or most likely, both. Anyway, I look forward to seeing the 5 stages of grief among the early adopters, and then hopefully, they will improve the software relatively quickly (but I think that 6 months is optimistic to get at the level of the Rhino software). PS. Moza seems to not have made the reviewers sign a review embargo, which is really quite unprofessional and not very smart. You'd think that they would know better than that.
  23. Oh, I misread the manual. In that case, it's most likely a hardware issue where they don't pass through all the signals.
  24. The Rhino has the same issue. It's an issue caused by Virpil, not something that the bases seem to be able to solve. The best solution may be to use VKB's Modern Combat Grip Pro, with the passthrough adapter made by VPForce. Then you are guaranteed to have full grip functionality.
  25. You may be very lucky with top tier silicon, that can take the high voltages, or you may have damage that is not yet critical. But we know that a proper fix is not yet out.
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