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Not sure if the CPU/IMC likes 6400MT/s. You could try and find 6000MT/s with maybe lower Latency. That's what I would do. The rest looks ok to me

I would not risc the 4 modules gamble just for DCS when you also aim for low latency and likely 6000MT/s. That's not what 4 modules is for, for now. If you do math, rendering, AI...yes, then latency and speed is not so important, there, volume counts. I would go 2x 48GB, 6000MT/s and CL30 or lower if I had to buy today. If I needed it as a true WS, I would buy a Dell with Support...LoL

96GB, not even a question.....heck....I started with 16GB in 2015, then 32, now 64.....there is a red line.

DCS having stutter is one thing, blank screens while reading email is a serious thing. If it still persists, boot a Linux USB stick and see if you have the same "everywhere and always" freezes and blanks...if yes...it's your hardware or even firmware. Could well be hardware... like said before,, reseat the card, make sure temps are ok even in idle. Heck, my idle temp was 81°C last week...ehhhmm WHAAAT !?? well, turned out, the night before I moved the case a few inches back and forth...I squeezed the Cooling tube.. LoL.

Afaik, there is no way you can get your Quest 3 to work in Linux. A quick cross reading in google/reddit only says "no, no way" etc..

Some newer monitors have standard camera equipment threads so you can look for such a thing if your monitor has one, mine does have one on top of the pole i.e..

If you plan to buy MANY DCS modules, 1TB is NOT enough anymore, plan for a 2 or even 4TB NVMe drive and while you are add it, think about the 96GB option 6000MHz with a nice low latency around 28-30 bundled with a 9800X3D. That's the sweet spot

Yeah, this was somehow mismanaged and overdone LoL. I know of 1000 ways to do it easier than what you did, Beirut...oh man.....copy paste done...it's Steam !

Hey Flavi, yes, I have a DCS install also on Mint Linux via Steam for a long time, just out of curiosity and because I like to tinker a lot. The only drawback are peripherals beyond Hotas, like TiR and likely most VR solutions. My TM gear and rudders work out of the box but TiR is a No-Go as far as I could research it on google so far. You need to enable Proton in DCS/Steam btw. There are other ways but Steam is pretty straightforward and has the highest rate of success, ymmv!

+1 to Luc ....and go 96GB if you can, DCS has a over a decade old history of regularly breaking RAM limits long before other sims reach this amount. If you play MP, you can easily end up in the ~50ish GB usage. That is close enough to 64 to consider more RAM for such a great new build, impv.

FWIW, availability might become a factor across the board, who knows what comes. For that reason, clients I have feel the need to upgrade HW sooner than planned (Win10 to Win11; SRV2016 to 2022 ) since no one knows if you still can buy all you need in 3 months, next month, a week from now. This is a bad roller coaster ride we are all in, no matter what IT-HW you currently need. "Lieber den Spatz in der Hand als die Taube auf dem Dach" may show it's wisdom

That's odd, something is likely not right. Some Dell Workstations Series I serviced do this, but they selftest, reset and go booting, with Status LEDs etc.. a feature, not a bug. Whenever I had that on my own or Client PC's it was mostly RAM related. If it doesnt do it with JDEC defaults or another brand you have to look no further.... But it can be also be a hardware/firmware issue, you'd have to swop parts and start simple too, no gimmicks, no LEDs etc.. just bare bones and then see when the error comes in when you add hardware as needed. YOu dont need any drive attached or NVMe inserted to test bios init and CPU/RAM test, all you get is a No Bootdrive found. 1 RAM module, 1 drive, use iGPU if possible first, the least amount of variables, one by one... no OC, no XMP

Not the best starting point but it may work. You must not mix the kits ! There are 2 Memory channels, A and B. Each kit must populate their corresponding slots ONLY. Usually it's 2nd and 4th slot for kit #1 and 1st and 3rd slot for kit #2. What could be tricky is XMP. YOu will likely have to tune the faster settings by hand, use the XMP values as a guideline and stick to the looser timings if the secondary values differ. **The weakest link in the chain** is the ruling thing here. You may also want/need to up Volts for DDR by 0,05-0,10v

Windows runs fine w/o activation. The only thing which won't work is Desktop bling bling, that's all, colors and Wallpapers. Before you touch any dials and mess with them, be sure to have the correct dial !!! SA-Volts is a VERY sensitive setting as said above...that was close to sudden CPU death

To me it sounds like your IMC can't fiddle out the RAM settings once your CPU is in OC mode, hence the retry/reboot. I haven't read above that you tried to up the volts a little when in XMP. try some 0.05-0.15v more and see if that helps to register the RAM on boot. Likely, you got an unlucky combo of RAM-Board-Bios at this moment in time. Another Bios might well cure the symptoms, might, maybe not.

RAM works like good grease...and if you don't have it on but need it it's anything but smo-o-o--oo-t-h

I shouldn't have thrown it away a decade ago, what a pitty ! Great to see the Grandfather of all Hotas still going strong with some love & dedication

When I zoom far out, it seems to me that Nvidia is letting loose on the Gamers and AMD is willing and more and more capable of catching them. AMD is gaining momentum on all fronts, including relevance in the most profitable price range of GPU's, 500-1000€.

Just forget the Intel option, not for a gamer, even less for a simmer

FWIW: One of the recent official Win11 images that you could download from MS had an issue that it wouldnt allow installation of further updates and general issues and users who have those issues are advised to redownload the latest image from MS that has this issue fixed. Iirc it was the image from around Oct '24 till a month ago or so. I think Google holds the info about the ISO in question, so you can check if you used this unlucky ISO image and got stuck. If yes, do it again Jack, with a proper ISO. ...and some installs just go south from the first minute on, seldom but does happen. Wipe it, and start all over before you invest more time in fixing quirks.

I would, before you may waste more time, try your TiR setup on another PC to verify it is working properly and not defect. Once you know it is 100% in working order troubleshoot your PC further.

Cloud Backup can save your day, happened to me last week...LoL took 2h on Gbit to Restore "C" from the night before...what a blessing. What I would not do, for no game, is place it's settings folder on a OneDrive mirrored folder. That is bound to cause problems down the road imho. The biggest benefit from my perspective of 1 drive vs 2 drives is foremost the direct attachment to the CPU with 4 PCIe lanes and not routed through your Southbridge. If that actually shows some beneficial effect in DCS.... who knows ..=?!

It may work better with 2 but it may work just as well with 4. There are so many variables that you have to try each configuration to actually know. What you should know is, regardless of 32GB or 16GB modules, there are no 32Gbit DDR4 dies for Client Computers modules. There are 16Gbit dies but they have a latency penalty but alow speeds in the 4xxxMHz range....which is of no actual use or benefitial for your AMD 5700X/B550 combo...your world ends at 3600MHz, as does mine, see my sig. The best way, for your config, is 4 modules with Samsung B-die with 16 dies on each module for 16GB size. B-Die only comes as 8-Gbit but is the best for lowest latency in your desired speed range 3200-3800 MHz. B-Die is not the best for way up the 4xxx range but it's the king in 3600ish MHz range and yet unsurpassed. The thing you have to look for when looking at DDR4 kits and spot the B-Die based kits is the latency on 2nd tier , they all do 3xxx ( 3200-3800MHz ) 16-18-18-38 or 18-18-18-42 or worse but only B-die has 14-14-14-36 or 16-16-16-36 or 38, only B-dies afaik have secondary values of 16 or even 14, x-16-16-x. A 3600MHz kit for you would be 3600-16-16-16-38 or maybe 36, 1T, maybe 2T. That is 99,99% Samsung B-die and no Micron or Hynix or other Samsung Die. You want "B"-die, THE "B" die Still, even with the best kit with best knowledge, there are variables and hurdles, Bios versions, Volts, etc... just want to mention that again, there is no guaranty.

The devil is in the detail and DDR4 does not have DIE's large enough to make 32GB module with just 8 Dies, each 32Gbit, THERE ARE ONLY 16Gbit ones and those are not Samsung B-die, those only do 8Gbit Dies. So, whatever option in DDR4 realm you opt for to get a 32GB module, you ALWAYS end up having "16" 16Gbit non-B-Dies on that module...and that 4 times !! This is the heavy load to lift for your IMC and it will not do it with fast settings at all, 99,99% sure...it may make it at JDEC 2133/2666MT/s default settings and that is what Intel/AMD usually also state in their papers. To have fast and stable 128GGB you need to move to DDR5 and WAIT until 64Gbit Dies are available, they aren't yet either !!! 32Gbit dies are out, so you can do 64GB with 2 modules, each module only holding only 8 DFies each...making it so much easier for the modules, IMC and traces and what not else to achieve speeds beyond the DDR4 realm. Again, 128GB is still a bit away, even on DDR5, if you want fast, reliable XMP/EXPO capable modules with 8 Dies only. I am happy that my 4 modules, each has 16 Samsung B-dies, 16GB, 4 of them, total 64GB, takes the beating of heavy o/c and heavy overvolting for over 2 years now, respect to Samsung. There is no such thing as B-Die FTW !

Be happy that it works ! None the less, I would investigate at whjat specs your RAM is running atm. CPU-Z or HWinfo can tell you that, both are free. My assumption is, the "Game Mode" also triggered XMP/EXPO and thus the Volts went up to 1.35v, which is the most common voltage used for XMP/EXPO settings across DDR4. Now check the Speed and Latency, maybe it's all there, all that you paid for. Maybe the settings are a bit lesser, then you can try to tweak them even more, if you want. The CPU-Z screenshot with the "Memory" tab shows the actual present settings The screenshot with "SPD" shows all XMP/EXPO settings stored in your RAM, not saying any of that is applied, see "Memory" tab for this. The other 2 screenshots are from HWinfo, showing the present settings and DRAM Voltage, yeah, mine is dialed to 1.488v resulting in actual 1.50v...but it's B-Die and that can take it 24/7/365 full tilt.