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Get a GPU! You cannot really upgrade that socket to anything that makes sense. A 7700k or 8700k was possible but it’s not really THAT much better. After the GPU Upgrade plan for a complete CPU motherboard and RAM upgrade, maybe PSU as well then

THAT is the dilemma we all face ! AMD and Intel advertise their CPU's with XMP and EXPO but you better not touch it, it's off limits and voids your warranty. Just, all reviewers test those CPU's WITH those memory profiles enabled, even pushed further, way way beyond Warranty so to say. If you run them at stock speeds, JDEC/SPD, you loose a lot of performance. In order to get that extra performance, the bit of cake that makes ALL the difference, you need to void warranty and call yourself asn overclocker but all you did was enable the memory profile they all advertise with. All reviewers should reach out and make a statement. Test all CPU's ONLY with standard RAM speeds until AMD and Intel come up with something better. Why show results that are potentially dangerous for your Board, CPU and Cash !

I hope "they" accept it back as RMA. From what I know, bent pins are seen as a customer mishap and it will be almost impossible to proof it came this way. Good Luck !

You should also consider RAM bandwidth with that setup as it is DDR3 based. DCS does not utilize all cores equally and thus you will likely never see a CPU at 100% in DCS and if that was the case it would be a major problem whereas a GPU at 100% is what you want, always. Likely there is 1 core being fully used most of the time, which equals 12.5% of your CPU's 100% ( 8 threads ), there are more threads now with MultiThreading in DCS but they usually do not saturate the cores like the 1 main thread that drives the sim. So you will likely see 1 core usually maxed out and a few others between 20-80%, kind of like that. That CPU is too weak per core to justify an investment imho. It's a great home-server thing but too slow for DCS imho. edit.... Luc yeah, beat me with 3 minutes haha

I don't want to hold you guys back tuning the X3D chips, it sounds like some fun but there is this serious risc of burning it out. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-ryzen-7000x3d-burnout-reports

^^This I would still get 2 drives and split OS and Apps, Games, Data etc.. 2x 980Pro or similar. OS doesn't need 2TB, a 1TB is plenty for that.

I had to zoom thru it with my Tbolt

I will wait, E-Shop spites out Warnings etc.. Once it's cleared I am buying it for 9.99$ Fair price

ChatGPT says this: In PC gaming, "1% low" refers to the minimum frame rate that a game experiences during the course of gameplay, expressed as a percentage of the total frames rendered. To calculate the 1% low FPS, the game's frame rate is recorded over a set period of time, typically one minute. The lowest 1% of those frames are then identified, and the corresponding frame rate is calculated as a percentage of the total frames. For example, if a game had an average frame rate of 100 FPS, but its 1% low FPS was 50, that would mean that 1% of the frames (or 1 out of every 100 frames) had a frame rate of 50 FPS or lower. The 1% low FPS metric is important because it provides an indication of the game's overall smoothness and consistency. A game with a high average frame rate but a low 1% low FPS may experience frequent dips in performance, resulting in stuttering or lagging gameplay. On the other hand, a game with a lower average frame rate but a high 1% low FPS may provide a more consistent and smoother experience overall.

24" is still ok for 1080p, it's just at the limit where pixel size becomes dominant, which is perfect for spotting in your case. Any bigger than 24" doesn't look good with 1080p, it becomes too rough. 27-32" are better with 1440p and eventually 4k

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Thing is, I doubt they will come for free like Google does. Such a powerful and expensive to operate tool will be limited and taxed by question, letters or BTU's used. I could imagine some form of free AI that is severely limited in one or the other way. But aside from the "who pays for the bill" question, it is really game changing and frightening same time.

I think this is one of the more complex things to code tho I can only imagine as a non-coder. The myriad of dependencies and triggers, resource management and AI, that is beyond a complicated clockwork, it's likely partly unpredictable and thus complex and it needs lots of testing like "what happens if..". I only hope it is way easier to work with than mission editor. Choose sites and map, choose general scenario, define some specialties maybe and hit FLY.

Oh yes, it should say "per core" and not IPC.

From what I read, those tasks are meanwhile done by GameBar in Win11. Affinity and Parking and such.

Like mine, it works good enough to not call it broken but bad enough to not assign it to anything critical. You can check if a press & hold is also recognized as such.

I don't run any X3D chip myself so I can not give you honest first hand experience but my concerns are not related to that, they are foremost energy, wattage and the heat it produces, causing a much bigger and more expensive cooling solution that no matter what will always be louder than the same one on a lower wattage CPU. There is the cost, from the cooling solution as a one time cost to a repeating kW/h cost for it's high power draw, the noise pollution if you choose a small cooling solution, and after all that... it might just get as fast as this X3D chip that uses much less power, so much less it can get by with a decent Air Cooler like Noctua-DH15 or beQuiet DarkRock4-Pro or a 240er AIO whereas an Aircooler is almost a no-go for Intel if you want gaming rig, at least take a 240er AIO ( and accept high revving fans ) or 280/360. That's the "*" with the current Intel chips, they just run as hot as AMD used to do 10 years ago and you have to take care of that, and pay for it too. My 2nd point is that I am really, really happy with my AMD 5900X, much more than with any of the dozen Intel chips I had during the last 15 years. It doesn't mean anything X3D but I trust AMD that they can deliver again, they did already and I am using it heavily & daily. 3rd point. I really think that X3D on AM5 is the best option for gamers right now. Open roads for a few years. Intel has no answer to this, they don't want to, they want to sell a new chipset with every other CPU and I dislike that very much. With Socket 1700 you are stuck with what you buy now and Mainboards got WAY MORE expensive with DDR5 and PCIe-v5 since they need more layers on the PCB, more copper, more development time, etc.. so keeping a Mainboard for another round is more of interest than it was before. Anyway, you can't go really wrong with any of those CPU's, they all perform very well and unless you own one of the Top-5 cards it doesn't really matter that much anyway since the GPU is likely you bottleneck and will remain so. The difference is not foremost in the performance, it's the Socket & TDP/Cooling

Why would you choose a 12th gen Intel over a 13th gen if you buy new ? The newer one has a clear IPC advantage if you even consider Intel at all, which leads us to your main question. I would definitely go AMD 7000X3D and I would NOT go 32GB but 64GB. 32GB doesn't cut it anymore and you don't even need VR or 4K to blow past the 32GB barrier.

Let’s see when and for what price we can actually buy them. A good friend called me last night and said he wanted to upgrade and foremost go back to a Nvidia card, likely 4070ti and more RAM too, like 32GB. we went over many possible options, considering he runs an Aorus Ultra X570 with a 3800X and 16GB 3200 cl14 GSkill. intel rules out, too expensive and hot, 7800X3D is unobtainable as of now so we opted for a 5800X3D, additional 16GB same Bdie GSkill kit, a MSI trio 4070ti, a bequiet 1kW PSU with ATX3.0, darkrock pro 4 and 2 new fans. That already breaks the bank. It got so expensive, even a partial upgrade, without board and full 32GB DDR5kit, that would be another 400 round about. And any other CPU may not get by with an aircooler but the 5800X3D can. If he orders that config I will try DCS on it, gonna build it either way he decides. AM5 is just very expensive… a real hurdle

Don’t forget the cooling issue. A 7000 series is way easier to please with cooling compared to the untamable power hungry 13900k. that alone rules out Intel for me

They will likely be all set to 3000. two days ago I did Observer on a busy server, lots of F2 and F10 … and my RAM kept climbing while hopping scenes with F2. I had a top usage of 40GB DCS in TaskManager and 60GB in use in MSI Afterburner .. wow. it was all very smooth and no delays anywhere. Yes, it loves RAM

use usbdeview by Nirsoft to clean out the crippled install. If you own a regcleaner, use it afterwards and make sure you delete all files left over after uninstall. That's what I would do to erase it and start over.

Nirsoft's usbdeview can help you sort out USB devices, also delete them, even ones not currently connected. If you really want to clear them all out, this is what you need.

IIRC, since TM sells their Pendulum Pedals it has become part of the install, regardless if you own the Pedals or not. I had the same "Aha!" moment last time I reinstalled my WH-Hotas. There is nothing in Windows that you need to configure to get the WH going. Looks like you are all set. Check if it shows up in DCS as intended.

I think, for a flight sim it is not ideal to have such a wide aspect ratio, 16:9 is imo wide enough. But taste and liking differ and some for sure find it real nice, it's a personal thing. On the flight deck it would be nice so you can see more of what's going on around you, low speed, quasi circle shape of event horizon On the other hand, and that is more flight sim related, while in flight, usually fast forward, you don't need that much peripheral view, your event horizon is shaped like a cone pointing towards you, whats far left and right is not of such importance as for example in surface racing games or scenery based games. Sure, one could say, just look up or down and you get what you want, but that is not the same for me.