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I guess "high" since the Editor Tool is anything but easy to work with, it's a study job that you need a lot of patience for imho.

Man, Have fun with it !

You can try, if you like overclocking, the kit that I use, 3200 14-14-14-34 and set it to 1.48v and go 3600-14-14-14-34 Either way, I would only pick a B-Die module 3200 or faster, CL16 or lower.

At which resolution do you intend to use that card ?

Gen5 makes sense if the price is right, temps are manageable and the drive supports Direct Storage too for future games, maybe even DCS some day. For most cases tho, a good Gen4 is all you need.

+1 8 years here, still trusting it. Paid for itself

I wpuld not pick the twelve core but go for the 1-tile 8-core 7800X3D instead. A: It has 2 more cores that can use the bigger cache B: there is no scheduler cleverness needed here, it's only 1 type of core, avoiding headaches. If you need more cores, go for the full 16 core 7950X3D so you have 1 tile with 8 cores on 3D cache but may have to tweak affinity here and there, depending on the cleverness of the software involved.

R.I.P. Don You passed away on my birthday, don't have words.

Haha, just saw your sig. I just watched that Episode on YT and had a laugh. Oh man, what a difference to most of today's comedians. "Hick's, noch 'nen Pahlgruber !?"

Cinebench R24 does use both; CPU and GPU. The tests run for 10min each, so it's kind of a little stress test per default benchmarking, no more "1 good run and hopefully not crash before" ( for the LN guys ). https://www.maxon.net/en/downloads/cinebench-2024-downloads

Beirut's attitude is the most important part, it's not only hardware and software and bugs and frustration, It's about forgetting it all and FLY

It doesn't actually matter what exactly causes your RAM to be eaten up like cheesecake. Is it dcs.exe, some cache, who knows...if it screams for more give it more. When playing online on busy servers, some F2 and F10 and ooops 48-56GB, repeatingly. No, it's feasible, more than 64GB might come as the new Go-To capacity over the next 2-3 years when newer, more complex modules, newer maps etc... they all seem to add CPU load and increase RAM requirements, slowly creeping upwards

You will need to either move C to a bigger drive or delete some apps and/or files. You may need someone to help you to do that, I don't know but it needs to be done ASAP. There could be a Bios setting to control shared VRAM or a setting in Nvidia control panel for Max-Q series / Laptop. YOu should be able to google that. Either way, C drive is imminent to fail, act now.

Well, then, that's not good because you will force DCS to it's knees if you take some 8GB away from the already minimum capacity of 16GB total system RAM. Change that setting to it's smallest setting or even 0. With 1080p your onboard 8GB are enough. Have you fixed the C-drive issue ? With 5GB free space, you are bound to crash hard pretty soon.

With the Radeon 580 you won't see any difference between them as you will be GPU limited. I like my 5900X but the 5800X3D might be the better choice if you look at your VRM. Depending on how robust your VRM you can support more Cores and more ampere. I just flew a test round with the new patch, my CPU is constantly between 85-100w when flying DCS. It's not overclocked, rather the opposite, it's undervolted. The 5800X3D will not pull that much. I just built a 7800X3D with a 7800X and that drew less watts than mine in most games I tested. The more cores you have the higher the idle and overall power draw, keep that in mind. My CPU idles with 40-60watt up&down. That a waste just because of 12 cores idling along. The X3D counterparts stay much more in a sane limit while the still deliver the punch in DCS and most other games too. I'd take the X3D if you don't heavily multithread otherwise and can make use of the cores.