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I'd use HWinfo if you want per core clocks. It can also export to RTSS ( Afterburner OSD ) iirc.

Any system capable of running a 12th-gen Intel CPU will run on 11. I admit, if you never worked with Secure Boot, TPM and all there is to select and enable in Bios it can be tricky at first. On the other hand, any 12th gen Intel based board should by default have Bios setting that let you install 11 out of the box. Maybe update-&-reset your Bios if you dont feel comfortable to dial in the settings yourself.

R.I.P.

Does it help setting your connection as metered ?

A switch-part of your router is per definition a Layer-2 Switch, just as as ordinary 15€ 5-port switch. There is no difference in how they work or act

+1 for trees appear too big in many scenarios. The lower and slower you move, the more off it appears.

Try 64 first, if they work flawless you can try 80 but it‘s likely going to downgrade speed and more latency IF it boots. Try it, you can‘t break it that way

It's a dangerous endeavor to create a thing that you do not completely understand how it works inside to help you solve problems you can't completely understand and therefor not solve yet. The danger is the boundary between knowing and NOT knowing that humans cross without noticing ( Ignorance fails to recognize itself ) You will not be able to fully qualify the answer(s) given by AI as you never understood the full thing first place but you will qualify it without being qualified/knowledgeable ! There is the danger.

FWIW, one more aspect, it may only apply to a few but it's valid. As of now, if you want DCS on Linux, the only way that I am aware of and using myself ( Dual Boot ) is via Steam and Proton. I myself buy directly and if I ever need to run DCS solely on Linux there will hopefully be a way to use the standard install with it's licenses ( maybe there already is ). Only the first few modules I own were bought via Steam, so when I give Linux DCS a spin I am limited to just a few modules and caucasus.

Dirty as can be

I keep it simple Depending on how you use DCS, SP or MP, lots of F10 and F2/3, heavy missions… yes, it will help. I can easily force my DCS way above 50GB usage if I want to. I assume a good portion of RAM is cached, aka a QoL feature that if you don’t have it you have stutter or some other delay. More slower RAM ( if needed ) over faster RAM with lower quantity. similar to torque, you can‘t substitute torque with higher RPM.

Me too, my first Asus was way back in the early 90's and I sold and used myself a lot of them over those years. I had such bad experience with some boards some years ago that I finally decided, no more Asus until they change attitude. I have mostly sold Gigabyte for the last few years and only 1 guy is not happy with his PC, but that is a different story. ..in addition..I haven't sold a single Intel since Ryzen came out as well. Times change, so do I

That's not enough to remedy the damage. AMD and Intel need to respond to the XMP/Expo vs. Warranty issue as well. You shouldn't be allowed to advertise a feature but using it voids your warranty. Anyway, does the new Bios really fix the issue, I thought I read otherwise today but I might be wrong and the Bios is newer than that article I flew over.

You can use the TM F-16 & F-18 grips on many other vendors base's. The TM base is not what it should be and it's one thing I dislike on my own gear. I guess I need to put new grease in etc... not fond of it.

Best practice is to separate OS and main apps, be it a game or CAD. Take at least a 1TB drive for DCS, 512GB or 1TB for OS, NVMe prefered.

I would personally take the 7800X3D if that machine is DCS orientated. On the other hand, with MT I don't see a problem with a 7700X either if you stick with that GPU. Depending on the budget...

Just for reference, do you fly any other helicopter in DCS ? I haven't flown the Ah64 a lot in DCS but others I have for many years. It takes practice over and over again and it also takes a fundamental understanding how a helicopter works, what a swash-plate does when you pull collective and what it does when you push the cyclic-stick left-forward and what it does when you do all that together plus rudders.. and what each blade does on it's way around the 360° circle. If you have no clue of what I am saying there will be limits of what you will understand when the Heli tells you something. If I hadn't flown R/C Helis I would honestly have no idea about most of this, it's hardly ever really explained and shown, in many documentations in also often plain false.

OK with the HDD if you store cold files. To the 250GB SSD, a 500er SSD is likely only 5€ more these days, you may want to upgrade that for little money. You could skip it if you have an "old" 1TB SSD that you carry along. Better save that slot then and may fill it with a drive of decent size once you need it.

Why those drives ? 250GB ??? Upgrade that 250GB drive and skip the 2TB hdd. 1x1TB and 1x2TB or 512GB and 1TB all nvme

To be fair, when I wrecked my 6700k in a Asus Z170 Extreme board I openly told them it happened while the board did it's auto-tuning feature, somewhere north of 4.7GHz. They replaced the CPU w/o any complications. Still, the XMP/EXPO-Warranty issue should be solved

How I love this attitude. Here, the fix you wanted and need... but hey, if you use it and it kills your stuff, it's not our fault ! Same as XMP end Expo voids warranty....but put it in every ad for every CPU. We call this "scheinheilig" and it is a real bad attitude *let's count the days until a stable release follows, I have run Asus for all my and their live, let's see.

Your situation is not uncommon. Many are behind a Router they cannot control, either in a Hotel, Campus, etc. or your ISP has just simply put you in a big CGN to save some precious IPv4 addresses, there are only 2 *32 of them, that's way too few to give one to every device on the internet, that's why ISP's are slowly moving to IPv6, DS-Lite IPv4 and all that to circumvent that problem "somehow". It's ok if you are a standard home user, use Teamviewer too, play games on the net, all that works without restrictions. The situation is only bad if you want to offer a service, aka be a server for whatever service you want to provide. It's Ports and IPs that matter here, nothing else and you got control over none in that scenario. End of Game. You either need full IPv6 support, top to bottom - or ask your ISP if you can have a "real" IPv4 that is not in a NATed network or CGN as those called, cell phones are usually in a big CGN . As of my knowledge, ED does not yet support IPv6 fully, nor do many many many other big websites and companies and services, so your biggest chance to politely ask for a true IPv4, one of those 2 *32 !! I am glad I have a static IPv4

OCP is usually a PSU feature, Over-Current-Protection. Maybe they use some kind of OCP in boards now, heck, it would make sense. There is also OVP, over voltage protection, and a few other protection circuits in good PSU's, just to clarify.