lazduc

It does not fly at FL 180-20-30-40 " thousand feet." At mach 1 you wont even see it. LOL I have enjoyed both military and civilian planes....seeing both compete at the Reno Air Races. Jets vs Props....yu gotta see it. Its revenue will help Mag-3 and I say hurrah for ED in allowing Mag-3 to introduce this to DCS. Was a time when I was perplexed when ED introduced Combined Arms...I thought, wait a minute...this is a Jet flight sim.....but I got over it and now enjoy it.....same with WW2 aircraft.....great too have them. I have the Christen Eagle radio-control model....and enjoy flying it as much as I enjoy my RC jet model Ducted Fan SU-27.....and my BF-109. I also have a flight simulator for my RC aircraft...all types. Enjoy what we get...I am old enough to remember when there were only one or two aircraft simulators and they were wire frame....lol. Lazduc (Trying to be patient)

The new machine. Photo of my 3 monitor setup. I7-2600k dual 580's. Other machine 3770k dual 680's. Other machine I7 980k dual 780's . Several other machines sitting are new builds several years ago but never fired up...Various cpu's but all have dual gpu's. Photo of flight controllers, Oculus. Photo of my Sony 50in 4k. Photo of my flight instruments that will go into my motion system setup. The base part is from WW2 Link trainer. Took 8 months to rebuild it. :music_whistling: I will wait until 2.5 comes out before I load all my DCS software. Have a 500gb ssd removable that I intend to load up with DCS. I assume it should be ok as I will plug it into the same machine. :thumbup: Lazduc :D Several of the photos did not make it.

Thanks, Bitmaster. Just ordered. Finished the build sort-of...waiting for the splitter. Perhaps you can give me a little advice. ( Not about SLI..lol) I want to load Win 10 onto my M-2 drive. Should I disconnect all the drives except the M-2. After first boot go into bios and select my usb drive as first boot? I assume after first boot I can go to bios first, then change the drive settings. Should I select the M-2 drive as second boot...and the system should go to the usb drive first....load win 10 and during the loading....it will give me the opportunity to select the M-2 drive to finally configure the M-2 as the boot drive and load Win 10 onto the M-2.? I have read somewhere that it is not possible to get a M-2 drive to be the boot device...?? I am also a little worried about first boot and having the auto voltages set these voltages to high? I will post photos of some of my systems...and thanks. Lazduc

I am half way through the build. Ran into a couple of very minor problems. The heads of the screws I used to mount the radiator do not allow the dust panel to insert correctly. And I just ordered a USB 9P 9Pin Header Splitter to make up for the 2 usb-2 sockets on the motherboard. This gives me 4 additional headers. I have installed a card reader, the front panel controls and the usb control for my waterpump. It coming from China....2 weeks. I will finish up and not use the card reader till the splitter arrives. I mounted a sound card. Dont know if I will keep it. Lots of wires to make pretty. I really like this case. Cool Master Trooper. I will post a couple of photos. Yes I will sli my 1080ti's. Not for gaming. I have several cad programs that utilize dual gpu's. There are very few current games that support sli and VR-SLI at this time only has one title and it is by Nvidia. Lazduc

I want to purchase the throttle from SDPG_GVL224. He sent me some instructions but I can not understand everything. He listed 2 cards with numbers which I think I must transfer money to these. But how? Dont want to send to wrong person...:doh: He is in Ukraine..anyone familiar with how this is done? They do not take pay pal. Thanks Laz :D

E-3 June 12-14. Flight sim expo on the 9-10... Probably booked those dates because they were the only ones available during that time period. Takes lots of effort to do the logistics for events in Las Vegas. E-3 is all video gaming. This event is specific to flight sims. And DCS NTTR is all about Las Vegas....winning combination. I can foresee Las Vegas leasing the Las Vegas part of the sim and putting it in all the major casinos so folks can take a virtual sight-see all around the city. Laz

"mine ethereum or btc if sli sux". Naw, not worth it. LOL. I have Cad programs and electrical/mechanical simulation programs that love sli. I have a few programs that are on DVD's. Correct, DCS will not take advantage of sli. Despite what ED said several years ago, they did not go forward on sli. Many reasons why sli fell out of favor. Cost, added coding support, small market share, less programs that will utilize sli.....its only benefit is if you have the software that will take advantage of it. Massive investment....I will bet most here have that much and much more invested in this hobby.....and probably have a lot more invested in other hobbies. Sometime if you are brave enough, add up all you have spent on this hobby....lol. Dont tell the wife. Laz

Gotta take my standard poodle to the parlor for a hair cut...then home to start the build. I will take a few photos if you are interested. I have programs that take advantage of duel gpu's. Back in the day before sli it was called 3DFX. I have one system with one 3dfx card that has 2 gpu's. I have another system with 2 cards both 3dfx connected by flat ribbon cable. In addition too these I have a monster with 2 cards with 2 gpu's each, 4 gpu's total. These machines are over 10 years old. If you are interested I will take some photos of these older machines. Laz

All the parts arrived. 2x EVGA 1080ti's, 32GB Ripjaw, EVGA 1200watt Super Nova Platinum, 256GB M2 Drive, 2x 512GB SSD's, 2TB WD Black Hard Drive, Light-ON DVD writer, Asus Rog Maximus X Hero Z-370, Intel I-7 8700K, EVGA 280 Water-Cooler, Full tower Coolmaster Trooper, Artic Silver, extra fans, card reader. A tad over $3500.00 :music_whistling: I will start the build tomorrow. Win-10 Was I dreaming....didn't I read that 2.5 will be released within two weeks? :book: I wanted to get the EVGA Classified but they have not released it.....I took the two evga 1080's out of the new/older computer and put them in the closet. I have a Corsair water cooler in that machine and was scared it would leak like the other machine did.....and all over my two brand new 780's. A friend sold me two older Titans to replace the 780's...gotta fire that machine up soon. It has a I-7 3770, 32GB, 120GB ssd, 2 2TB black drives. Couple of generations old, but new. Every machine I have built in the last 15 years have been duel GPU's. I am also going to fire up my old 3-d machine again....I am sure it won't compare to the Oculus. I am not going to load DCS on the new machine until 2.5 is released. Laz:D

Somewhat...lol.

Thanks for the info. I have two 1080ti's that are going in the new build. ED gave up on SLI a long time ago....but SLI works in other software I have. Looking forward to 2.5. If it is stable and no major bugs I will load all my DCS stuff and have a go at all of it.

Last time I read an announcement stating that a major upgrade would happen any time soon, I built a new machine to accommodate what was stated. Like SLI, new engine, etc. Well that machine sits in the corner, never turned on. I had invested over 3000.00 in that build. Fast forward to the announcement......2.5 will arrive within several weeks. So hopefully I wont look like a fool for ordering new parts for a totally new build. I spent about 4000.00. Not counting the software, flight sim controls...etc. :music_whistling: I realize 2.5 probably will not be perfect. :smilewink: With the new DRM ( which I do not quite understand) I do not think that I am affected by this. I say that since I have never authorized ( enabled??) any of the modules I have. I loaded the free trial versions and played with them but that is all. This DRM...?? am I too believe that if I have these modules running and only play single player and things move on and I want to keep everything as it is and not update anything....and this copy protection sees I have not, then it will disable my entire DCS? Or it will not operate without some new update....dont understand..:cry: Lazduc :D

I remember when the WH first appeared....many here thought it was the greatest.....and then all the reports of bricked devices. Then the poor construction of the joystick...... My advice, wait a year after release before purchase. With TM wait 2 years. Pay little attention to early adopters. They usually are trying to justify the outrageous money they paid.

I have always used power supplies with 50% more watt/power spec than needed. I have never overclocked any of numerous processors I have owned. I have never had one fail. Both Intel and AMD. If I felt that I needed more processor power, I purchased a faster processor. Overclocking rarely increases noticeable output enough to warrant the price of a new processor. The added expense of water-cooling and other add-ons to allow somewhat safely overclocking is not financially justifiable vs just going to a faster processor to begin with. Find out what your computing need is to run your programs. Then select a system/processor to match that. If you plan on keeping that system for several years then you must realize newer software will make your current system obsolete. You can plan for that by purchasing a system that will probably be sufficient to run software in the foreseeable future......2years or so. IMHO

Give your son your system, complete. With the money you are getting ( how did you get into that situation?) purchase the most valuable, most sought after parts available. Then sell too someone you have already lined up and asked what they would want. Your wife will be happy. Since you will not be able to game anyway and by the time you are ready to build your dream machine everything will be a newer generation. You will be sure to not get into the same situation and will have saved enough to get the fast drives..fast cpu, bigger case...maybe a server motherboard.. two cpu's .many pci-e lanes...large memory, ready to run a ton of vm and source a fun server. \ Get two 1080ti's for the server MB..it will more than handle those and put too use all the extra muscle and lanes. Laz

My guess is not until 3rd quarter of 2018. Early access to 2.5 2nd quarter before any more modules will be released. Then pre-release if all goes well in 3rd quarter of 2018 of 2.5. Then release of aircraft modules over the next months. I guess ED will merge the new maps into the pre-release 2.5 so much bug-hunting can be done prior to new aircraft introduction. I think this will eliminate the usual long bug hunting with a aircraft module when introduced into numerous changes/updates with new maps. My guesses.....imho. Laz

I do use other software...and have found over the years that some take advantage of SLI and some do not. Its up to the programmer if they use various hooks into the specific API and if the producer wants that. Some titles mention it takes advantage of SLI others do but do not mention it. I know that in spite of DCS claiming in the past that they will endorse and use SLI in their up-coming titles, they backed off and now do not. Direct x12 is suppose to take advantage of multi-CPU/GPU's if the software is written to those titles. Mentioned that DX12 will improve and programmers will use the added functions in the future. Yes, I will have to research compatibility of ram and M-2 drives when I choose the mother board. I do want hdmi 2.0. PCI lanes......? More the merrier. Chipsets....? 16 vs 8...lots of different opinions and graphs. What do you guys think of the EVGA Classified? What other mother-boards have any of you had a headache using? Thanks. Laz

Cant believe it. Over the last two weeks I have missed NewEgg's auto-notify. Out of stock....so about an hour ago, just out of curiosity, since this week I have not received a notify, I went to their site. Looked up the 8700k and lo-and behold they showed one in stock. I immediately purchased it...thinking I am dreaming. :surprise: I waited and received the email showing my purchase. I went back several minutes later and they showed....out of stock. Wow.....:cry: I had lined up a system based on the 7700k but held off waiting for a little info on a power supply I wanted. Now I can redo all my parts to match the new CPU. What mother board? I want to be able to run 4k so I will need hdmi 2.0. Not 1.4780'. I also intend on getting a couple of ssd m-2. I have two 1080ti's that I was going to put in my 6700k system to replace the 2 1080's. I built that system to replace the 3770k system that had 2 780's that got ruined when the water block leaked. Corsair. ( In a rush to replace the 780's a friend sold me his two Nvidia Titans..the 6GB ones. Same generation as the 780's) Also picked up 2 gtx780 cu11oc at a garage sale. I have video cards coming out my ears. :lol: Back to the motherboard...which one? Also, what is the best stable build with all modules/terrains and also for VR? Laz :D

Just like the video of the new AV8N. Seems like every two minutes the guy, who must have a limited vocabulary says f--king, f--k and it gets real boring. Now I don't mind hearing someone who has just experienced something that is hard to contain and utter some words of descriptive nature but do not continue on with a barrage of profanity. Seems like whenever I view some flightsim multiplayer combat action on you tube...you hear lot of profanity. It just gets too the point I do not want to join in on that type of entertainment. Like I say, some is real funny and in some situations is warranted and highlights the intensity. But seems like some carry it to an extreme. IMHO.

First Sim was CPM driven on a Cromemco with a Dazzle video card, someone ported it over to the Imsai which I also have, then the Radio Shack TRS-80 Flight Simulator. Wire Frame type. Then to the Vic-20, then the Commodore-64, Amiga 1000, IBM clone CGA 8088 processor, then on up the Intel chain. Seems like I remember a very rudimentary simulator on the old Digital Vax and also one on a IBM 3090 at school. One was written in B code. I still have all the software, minus the mainframe stuff. I also have all the old computers. I also have boxes of old joysticks, hotas's, and various other flight sim paraphernalia. I am 75. Sorry for moving the average age up........LOL. Lazduc

Well NewEgg just emailed me my auto-notice that they have the 8700k in stock.....well they are all gone......matter of minutes. I missed. I put in another auto-notice. You have to be sitting on your computer to catch it. You miss by a few minutes you lose. A guy has a new 7700k for sale for 280.00. The 8700k wont work with a 200 chipset. So either or. If I can get a 8700k within the next week then thats the way I will go. Anyone else have trouble with a Corsair water pump on your 7700k? Wont order parts until I get the processor. Laz

I want to build another system. Should I wait for the 8700k which should be out sometime in November or get a 7700k now. Lots of pro's and con's. This system will be for gaming only. The big difference is the 8700k is 50% faster in multi-thread apps. Single type, as in DCS, is only 6-8% faster than the 7700k. It is also $60.00 more. Dont know what the Z370 chipset brings vs Z270? Lots of shared lanes between M.2 and video lanes and other pci-e. Wonder about using my two 1080ti in sli with a couple of M.2 ssd drives. Anybody have any ideas? Thanks Laz :D

You guys have convinced me. I do try and eat healthy but its not. I will eliminate most of the bad food products. My wife got very ill a little while back and after 15000.00 in health care bills, gastrointestinal studies, every test imaginable, they could not find anything.....she was suffering badly, stomach, constant diarrhea etc. My wife is smart...she is an engineer. She went through a process of elimination on her own. She found the problem. She lost 35lbs and now looks super for her age. The problem.....sulfides....which is a preservative....and is in almost everything on the grocery shelf. Another chemical. It came on her almost overnight. She is cured. But along time suffering and finding out what the problem was. Laz

The Black Sea map and the Crimean could be published by or under the Fighter Collection which is a partner of ED. I suppose all aircraft could also.

What version are you guys using? If you are using the released version then this is really not good news.....I guess even the release version is a WIP...go figure.