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Looks like we are going to get an announcement at FSExpo.

Fair enough. I don't know about all these niches.

That's not what I said. In my country I can see the historic pricing for many tech products: Obviously it is no longer being sold. That doesn't necessarily make it worth a lot. Tech products do not typically gain price with age. Perhaps the price is reasonable. I just have a hard time imagining anyone buying a pot-based HOTAS that is this old, for this amount of money, given the pricing that one could buy it at in the past. Well, you edited in the price of both combined later on, so I only saw the separate prices.

Of course you are free to ask what you want, but the Hotas Cougar sold for 170 euro new in the past, and your set must be over 13 years old, so I wonder if anyone would buy it at that price.

Keep in mind that the X3D-processors are not that sensitive to RAM speeds, so buying extra-expensive memory and/or running things at the edge of what is possible, with the resulting tuning/stability difficulties is generally a waste of money and time.

The issue with PCIe 5 drives is that they didn't have advanced controllers at first, which meant that the controllers were relatively slow and/or power hungry. Only now are we seeing that gradually change. So if you are going to get a PCIe 5 drive, it's better to get one with a new controller, like the Samsung 9100 PRO or the Lexar NM1090 PRO.

According to the video he is making a generic WMR-driver, right? Not just for the G2.

No need, since @LucShep was dishing out good advice as usual.

Apparently, @mbucchia is working on a driver so that WMR headsets like the Reverb can keep working even after support is removed from Windows. Normally I'd be very skeptical, but if anyone can do it, it is him:

The 7900 XTX is faster and has more VRAM, but you lose out on DLSS. AMD has better drivers now. Do you have a PCIe slot free? If so, you might be able to use a SATA PCIe card for very little. That will cost a ton of money, investing lots on an obsolete platform! And such a memory upgrade won't do all that much for the system compared to the money spent. If we take the GPU upgrade as a given, then I would look into these options for the platform: Just add a SATA PCIe card and save up for a big platform upgrade Upgrade to AM5 with a 9600X (that you can upgrade to a X3D-chip in the future) Upgrade the AM4 motherboard and leave the memory as it is Option 2 is a small upgrade when it comes to the CPU, but you'll have futureproof motherboard and RAM, so later on you can upgrade to a much faster CPU. Most likely, Zen 6 will remain on AM5, so you can then upgrade to an X3D-cpu from that generation. Also, you can probably still sell the AM4 motherboard + 5900x for a decent price.

So it looks like my prediction was spot on. Since people have been using a 4070 with decent results in DCS VR, this card should perform well enough if you manage your expectations.

We have a Winwing subforum. @NineLine Please move this thread.

Very generous. I hope that @sirrah ends up enjoying it (if he gets it).

You can always post your build list in a new thread if you want feedback on the parts you picked.

Did you look in #flying-settings-shared?

Hey, no need to swear!

The 7700 XT is slower than the 3080/4070. Given the leaks, the 9060 XT is probably close to the 7700 XT and thus between the 4060 Ti and the 4070.

The Intel-chips focus more on having a lot of cores, but games are pretty much always constrained by the fastest core, once you have sufficient cores to offload the less critical work. So the end result is that the Intel CPUs are better suited for productivity software, not games. The AMD X3D-chips have the innovation of having a very big cache-chiplet under or on top of the compute chiplet. This is mainly beneficial for gaming, since games tend to require heavy processing of data that is often too big to fit in the relatively small cache on the compute chip(let), but is small enough to fit in the 96 MB of X3D-cache. As a result, the CPU has to retrieve things from RAM less often, which has a bunch of advantages: - It improves the outliers, since chips without X3D-cache regularly find that they need to get data from RAM, which is way slower than getting it from the cache. So you get inconsistent performance. In gaming, having consistent performance is more important for a good experience than having a better average FPS, and this is even more true for VR. So X3D makes the gaming much more smooth. - It makes the speed & latency of the RAM far less important, since having to wait for RAM is far less common. So effectively, it's like buying very fast RAM, but without the expense. The 14700 is much more sensitive to the RAM speed/latency. - It increases efficiency substantially, which also means that it is easier to cool the system and your PC pumps less heat into your house. - Simulation games like DCS tend to profit from the X3D-cache more than the average game. There is also the issue that Intel has been failing in a variety of ways basically since the 9000-series that is in your system. In particular their foundry, but also their designs. This is why AMD could catch up to them in the first place (and then move past them). To cope, they've been pushing the 13th and 14th gen to their limits, which in turn caused them to fail in large numbers, which we hope is fixed by now. But buying the 14700, you are risking that this is not fully fixed (and you need to make sure to get the newest BIOS). And since they push the CPUs so hard, they are pushed quite a bit out of their most efficient zone, so the chips use a lot of juice. Also, it's quite telling that you are considering the 14700, because it is not actually from their newest CPU line up, but their newer CPUs are slower than the older ones. Finally, AMD has innovated (seemingly mostly by accident at first, but now they do it intentionally) by having their platform support many generations of CPU. We've seen that early buyers of AM4 could get amazing gains for a very modest outlay, by upgrading their CPU only, rather than having to replace their motherboard as well. Buying into AMD means that you have a much bigger chance of being able to do a relatively cheap, but significant upgrade. And because of this, AMD motherboards and CPUs also keep their value better on the 2nd hand market.

That's one opinion. I consider it false advertising, allowing them to show a price that is not the actual price you pay. Although I see that they now do show the total cost on their website as well, probably after their legal council told them off. But in their marketing, they still put a big focus on the partial price. It's also a loan that presumably is not registered in the loan registers in various countries, that protects people from getting too many loans and such. And in general I'm in favor of responsible financial behavior, where people only use loans for capital goods, (semi-investment) goods and such, and keep a solid financial buffer and spend within their means. So get a loan for houses and cars, not for phones, headsets. But bad behavior in this regard is primarily caused by failing parenting, education and culture, rather than predatory practices by companies. /rant

I don't really understand this. Why limit yourself to a worse CPU rather than get the much better one? Quest 3, Quest Pro (2nd hand), or Pimax Crystal Light are the good sets for a decent price.

There is no best. All the headsets have advantages and disadvantages. I would suggest a Pimax Crystal Light, Quest 3 or 2nd hand Quest Pro for a beginner, and once you have learned what matters to you (weight, FoV, binocular overlap, real blacks, etc), you can start looking at the more expensive headsets, with a bit of knowledge of what matters for you.

Yes and no. You can pay that amount in one go.

On Reddit, people say that you can configure this through the software for the regular Alpha, so this is not actually a feature of the Prime: https://old.reddit.com/r/hotas/comments/wykgz4/virpil_constellation_alpha_vs_alpha_prime_quick/ilxfvk2/

@pegasus1 Nvidia does market frame generation as a DLSS technology, although in my opinion that is a marketing-driven decision, to improve acceptance of frame generation due to how strong the DLSS-branding is. But it can make it confusing, and it is better to explicitly specify whether you are talking about upscaling or frame gen, rather than use the word 'DLSS' and assume that people will interpret it as merely referring to upscaling.

They haven't. The product doesn't meet their targets yet and it is thus just a prototype at this point. We still have to see whether they can make it good enough to sell.