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It's going to be hard to compare, given the custom facial gasket. The FOV is going to be even more dependent on your facial features.

The old force feedback systems were very weak and the instructions from the game to the FFB joysticks were rather poor. The new systems have way more power and use telemetry-based FFB, for much better quality. However, it is still an immature field. But a big advantage is that you can also use it for regular planes if you tire of helicopters or want to fly airplanes as well. Aside from acting as a cyclic, they can mimic both traditional sticks, but also the more modern force sensing sticks. The most mature options right now are the VPForce or the FFBeast (more power) bases. Both provide DIY kits if you prefer to build them yourself. Those are both top tier 'man in shed' operations. If you want to mount them to the right of you, replacing your current stick, running without an extension, you shouldn't need a huge amount of power though. The regular 9 Nm one by VPForce should be fine. There is also Moza who make one as a 'real company,' but they are struggling a bit with getting the software right. In the future companies like Winwing and Virpil will release one too, but better not wait for that.

Doesn't that cost at least $10k? I wonder why you didn't give the FFBeast a shot first? They go up to 45 Nm or perhaps even higher for about 1K in euros.

Not that I know.

You need to keep in mind that the marketing from these companies tends to be aimed at unknowledgeable people, in part to cut down on support costs. It's not actually there to give you the best advice. An unknowledgeable person might use a cheap air cooler and then it would indeed not do well. Any liquid cooler is better than the cheapest air coolers. But explaining the difference between a good and a bad air cooler is much harder than just telling people to get liquid cooling. So that means the support call can end much quicker, which saves them money. Furthermore, it prevents support calls in the first place, when people get a liquid cooler instead of a bad air cooler. Again, that saves them money. Not you, them. However, the quality air coolers are actually very good, and are perfectly sufficient for efficient processors like the 9800X3D. And they have many advantages: Durability Reliability Safety of your system in case of failure (an air cooler with a broken fan still works decently well, while a pump failure on liquid will cause overheating fast) Ability to fix/maintain it Price A lot of people have suffered from issues when water cooling and have gone back to air. And if you don't have a super-hungry CPU (like the 14900), then you typically don't need liquid. Basically, the top three air coolers in this list are awesome products for an amazing price: https://pcpartpicker.com/products/cpu-cooler/#W=0 PS. These big air coolers do tend to overhang the RAM, and I always get low-profile, non-RGB RAM to prevent clearance issues.

The 9950X3D has two compute chiplets, with 3D-cache on one of them. The game should entirely run on the chiplet with 3D-cache, because otherwise things actually get slower/more stutter, since sending data between the chiplets is very slow. That is why the 9800X3D and 9950X3D perform almost equally, even though the 9800X3D has only one compute-chiplet. For gaming, only one chiplet tends to matter. The 9900X3D has two chiplets of 6 cores, again with one chiplet having the 3D-cache. So when running games, that would run on the chiplet with 3D-cache with only 6 cores. If you get a 9800X3D, then you actually run on a 8-core chiplet, and 8 is more than 6. So we don't talk about the 9900X3D because it's a CPU with a very limited use case: a person that runs both games, and productivity software that can take advantage of many cores and benefits little from the 3D-cache, but can't afford the 9950X3D which is good at both, so they get the 9900X3D, which is worse at both. I strongly suspect that most buyers of the 9900X3D lack technical knowledge and buy the wrong product for their use case.

We had forum members report a much improved situation with regard to stuttering, after going to the 9800X3D.

Nice to hear that you fixed it.

I don't see how this is possible with the 4090 pricing. Also, the 5800X3D is only available 2nd hand at inflated prices. I would suggest: get the 5700X3D + 64 GB of DDR4-3200 C16 + 5080 (or 2nd hand 4080 if you can get a good local deal).

With digital signals, it doesn't necessarily work like that. What you are describing is more what you expect with analog signals.

Sounds more like a cut cable, that sometimes makes contact.

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@Lenux I'd look for a phone holder for in a car, that you can attach to the back of the monitor and that can stick up over it, and has a ball joint on the phone holder (most do). That way, you can make a 180 degree bend and you can twist the holder to the perfect angle. For example: https://aliexpress.com/item/1005007327130092.html https://aliexpress.com/item/1005004233938917.html https://aliexpress.com/item/1005006457745382.html https://aliexpress.com/item/1005008704418122.html https://aliexpress.com/item/1005006849857200.html Etc. There are about a gazillion options for this. Key is to find a flat or moderately curved surface on the back on the monitor where you can attach it to, and then figure out what length of holder you need to make it go over the monitor.

Only reviewers would have it at this point in time.

Super cards are simply a refresh halfway through the 2 year life cycle of the platform, which either replaces a card that doesn't sell well (anymore), or adds a missing (half)-tier to the line-up. Often they are actually better binned silicon. For example, the 4070 Super has more cores enabled than the 4070. This was almost certainly a response to the 4070 not being sufficiently competitive with the 7800 XT. The 4080 Super also had more cores enabled. And note that framing it as slightly 'off' silicone is a bad way to think about things. A very large number of chips has at least some defects, and the manufacturers deal with this by binning the chips in categories like so (percentages just chosen as an example): Bin 1: 99-100% functional Bin 2: 95-100% functional Bin 3: 90-95% functional Bin 4: 80-90% functional Then they sell bin 1 as the most expensive variant of the chip, but then they still disable 1% of that chip so that all chips in that bin meet the specs, even when that means disabling perfectly good parts of the chip. And bin 2 goes into the second-most expensive variant, etc. And you need to keep in mind that these bins exist across their product lineup, from professional cards, to desktop cards, to laptops. For example, the 5090 is actually bin 2, with 21760 enabled shaders. The top bin of that chip with 24064 enabled shaders only goes into the professional cards. All of this is planned out way in advance, and if anything, they often hold back the top-performing chips in each bin, for if they later want to introduce a card with better specs. The chip factories can pump out chips very fast anyway and they produce in batches, so usually they end up with a large supply of chips very early on. Then those get used over a much longer period.

We already know that 'weak' FFB devices like the Moza base cannot replicate real forces, which go to 40 pounds of force in the F/A-18C for max pulling to the rear. In non-fly by wire planes, the force can go way higher and overpower the pilot. So you probably need the upcoming Winwing 60 Nm version to have a chance at some level of realism. And I doubt that pilots could even tell you what is realistic, since the absence of major G-force will mean that the experience is totally different at the extremes. So it's not going to feel the same to them when sitting in an office chair, even if you would make the stick behave identically. The prototypes had a fixed stick, but this would result in pilots inputting roll when they only meant to pull, and vice versa. Also, pilots would not know when the limit was reached, so they would put maximum pressure on the stick, and would actually bend them. So they changed them to have a dead zone, ¼ inch of stick movement, and a hard limit after pulling 25 Lbs. You can actually buy dedicated force sensing sticks that mimic this, although that means an extra stick if you also want to fly non-force sensing planes. FFB devices allow you to have different behavior from the same device. The F-22 increased the travel of the stick by a lot, so FFB would allow you to mimic this. And the F-35 allows for the stick behavior to be programmed, so an FFB base is really the only way to mimic this (in theory even in the same way as on the real plane). Yes, although the software implementations are rather bare bones right now.

The Super-releases are all about fixing issues with the pricing or specs of the tiers, so it depends a lot on how the current card will sell when supply improves. I suspect not well, and that they will not ask more. I also expect they need to fix a lot of tiers, so we'll see a lot of Super-cards. In a year the production of GDDR7 3 GB modules will have ramped up a lot, so prices should have come down by then, and there should be enough supply to put it on a lot more cards. The Super-release is a halfway-release, but since the 50-series was delayed, it's hard to say whether they will delay the Super-cards as well, or go back to the regular schedule.

That's not true, you can delay or hasten your upgrade based on the situation. Part of being a smart consumer is recognizing the time to strike. That said, the 5080 is not a bad card to buy right now, aside from the pricing that may keep improving over the coming months. It has enough VRAM. But anything below a 5080 is not good, and there's a lot to be said to wait for a likely Super-version with more VRAM.

Yes, those are both AMD motherboards.

This is a good higher end motherboard: MSI MAG X870 TOMAHAWK WIFI This is a good budget motherboard: MSI B650 GAMING PLUS WIFI

Flight sims are not consistently growing as a market over the decades. They've been doing quite poorly if you look at how many games get made and such, and only recently got a resurgence. Anyway, it's going to be tough finding a job like that with just a training course. In general, lots more people are motivated to work in the games industry, rather than some more boring field like finance. So one thing you can try is to find a job in such a field and then transition over once you get some decent experience. Another option is to volunteer or semi-volunteer for a team like Team Fusion (https://www.facebook.com/teamfusionmod/), next to another job. Then once you prove yourself, you can move over to a more established company. But keep in mind that there are not that many companies making flight sims and thus not that many jobs.

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It seems to work for others:

I also agree with @LucShep

Of course if you go up a tier and pay way more, you can get something better (if the 50-series drivers don't cause you issues), but not that many people are suddenly going to spend twice as much. And because of that the supply of second-hand 40-series cards is probably going to be low and the prices high.