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LoL... got an update, lessons learned. along with a new 6750XT and B550 board come six, now listen: Noctua fans. let's hope the rest of the rig still works the fans are 30€ each, that,s 180€. I don't say you need to spent that much but I have seen weird stuff with cheap worn out & broken fans but this is tops them all loss wise, there, 180€ would have been a good investment first place and may well have saved the board and GPU

A rather bad advice

I may add, while you just got to know the folders located in your users home folder, usually here: C:\Users\your_name\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta To avoid GFX glitches it is not a bad idea to delete the FXO and METASHEDER 2 folders after every update. It will take a bit longer to start DCS 1st time again since it needs to recompile shaders and do it's things but it may safe you from errors. It's a good habit to do so, just to be safe. Mac

Maybe this is of interest for the DIY builders... and those who think cheap fans and cases may work in a gaming rig for teenagers that game daily for hours & hours. Well, I built this rig over a year ago for one of my best friends but he picked the parts himself. Nothing bad, MSI board X570, 5600X, 16GB Gskill RAM of decent speed, Titanium PSU 1kW, his "old" 1080ti, a 1TB 870 Evo Samsung..nice...BUT THE CASE... cut corners I say, 39,90€ with 6 fans installed all LED. I mean, they looked nice and were rather quiet when new but now, say 18 month later 1 of them was hardly spinning and made a terrible noise, 2 more were kind of turning like a WWII prop with 1 blade shot off and the other 3 were kinda ok but got noisy, well, all ok so far, new fans and good to go. No, GPU dead, Board dead, no beep and no signal. Tried the card in one of my systems,tried another good card in his system, rest Bios, M-flashed Bios, resetted a dozen times, not a single beep from the board alone. The GPU is dead, no question, the PSU is good, tested all with one of my PSU's and same results. Since I cant find any burn marks, smell or obvious hardware defects I began to realize that maybe the 3 broken fans, 1 totally blocked and buzzing, may have killed the board and took the GPU sadly with it. Need to test the CPU and see if that is still working, I now think it's well possible that this one of the rare incidents were it also takes the CPU down. We will get a new B550 and 6750XT and rebuild it, whatever else is dead will be replaced. I should add, the PC was ultra clean inside, not a sign of dust. It's not that dust killed the fans or such. Whatever klilled it, it did a good job

The only thing that would hold me back right now with AM5 and maybe Intel too is the risky thing with 4 Modules. There seems to be some issues with them at "better" speeds than 4800 or 5200 iirc. I would like to have 128GB which should be possible with good speeds since the limit they aim at is 256GB, so I would only need either 2x 64GB or 4x 32GBGB, both scenarios are not really possible right now with confidence. Anyway, I am really happy with what I have and I dont fly DCS that much anymore to justify an upgrade now.

We should distinguish between Latency and Delay. Latency can be sky high if you have enough Hertz to make it even. The bottom line is delay and DDR5 will eventually brake even...now comes the actual "NEW" thing we are all waiting for: - less voltage ( ehh Not Yet , right now north of 1.3x Volts with most modules ! ) - denser modules ( same, not yet available ) i.e. 4x64GB on Desktop should be possible to DDR specs ( for future DCS Maps & Modules LoL ) But true, right now I would not hesitate to buy DDR5. Two months ago, no way, way too expensive they were.

wow wow wow.. If your old card does STILL work in x16 mode in Slot-1 but your new one doesn't but works in another PC in x16 and also in x8 in your own #2 slot then something with the Bios is wrong, either mobo or graphics-board need a new Bios if I get this right because it all works, just not in that mix. ..and yes, you roughly loose 2-5% on any x8 mode, v3 or v4. my 2 cents

February 14th iirc

i maintain a few dozen PC's across multiple networks & homes, about 2/3 are Win11 by now. Win11 is no different to Win10 when it comes to everyday usage. I only install 11 on new machines, 10 only on those that can't install 11 due to Secure Boot and TPM 2.0.

Usually, the problems start when you use more than 1 software that queries the various chips on motherboard and GPU. For example, HWinfo64 and Aida64 may start acting up if you also have Asus AiSuite or similar apps from other board vendors are opened up and monitoring. Usually they also prompt you with this at some stage. Check what else runs and see.

Oh yeah, my bad ! I was so shocked from that video that I didn't really watch my typing, I'll check if I can change the Header, I don't want to make a ! out of an ?.

Sure, it would just take far more time and never happen before next driver release and thus be obsolete before born. More developers is not the same as 1 entity of AI that is faster and won't have to have meetings and Zoom calls to get things done.

Not another one... please ! This guy has some reputation, found his channel through Der 8auer.

My eyes always give water when I read the prices in the US and then open up a german retailer and compare, it's 10-20ish% I'd say in general. 10% on a 80$ SSD is a bitter-sweet pill, 20% on a 2000$ GPU is an extra-bitter pill to swallow.

I would wait and see what 2023 brings in DCS optimization since you can't really enjoy any Dollar of your expense if you opt to do so. If multi-threading frees up enough CPU that you will find yourself GPU-bottlenecked you could then upgrade, likely for a lower price. If that won't really happen, hang on another year or opt for a CPU upgrade to fully utilize your 3090, once such CPU's are available. I personally doubt that we will ever see a CPU who's single-core performance is powerful enough to lift all the heavy weight + VR, that's why ED is really pushing the Multi-Threading feature, and Vulkan. Both address performance issues. Until that has been solved and delivered, you can't really make use of all the cores modern CPUs have and as such GPUs can't run at max load.

It's astonishing they are that far with AI. I could imagine that being a great help for developing any code.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/msi-afterburner-ukraine-war-complications Not good to be honest. Damn

A Task Manager overlay was great too;)

No other channel takes DCS to such extremes. It doesn't really matter if it's reality based or not, it shows how DCS performs, it's greatness and it's limits foremost. If you like the content idea itself is a different thing.

Either way, AMD just announced the specs for the 7000 X3D chips and I would wait and see how they performs before I'd buy any other CPU right now. That smallest, 7800X3D with only 1 CCD, makes the most sense for gamers I guess. Looking forward to see that thing being tested.

Personally I wouldn't be surprised if the Pin-20 complexity plays a bad trick on the PCB. I know from my own experience and from Dell technicians I met that a "wrong" DP cable can ruin your GPU, CPU and motherboard in certain cases and combinations. Maybe one of those Repair Gurus with way more understanding of circuits and PCBs will dig into this and enlighten us.

There are games and sims where imho you clearly see a difference, racing sims come to my mind at the #1 spot for that. In DCS it really depends, if you like the Viggen at Mach 1 tree top level, fps counts more than anything, if you are flying a heli 60 is ok but you "feel" the better, smoother response at higher fps, with a Warthog at 20k feet scanning for targets you likely won't miss fps. Track-IR users tend to lock at 60 or 120 fps if they can get that high. When I fly DCS I lock it to 60 and my 1080ti can still hold the candle at my settings( she goes mostly 90% +load tho ), when my kids play minecraft, SpinTyres, FarmingSim et al = 60 ! ( saves a lot of Watts ! ), when I race the Nürburgring in ProjectCars2 it's full 144Hz/fps, full heat and wattage too.

Seriously, this is all getting pretty hilarious. If that was the car company sector, heads would roll, but here, no signs of guilt or regret anywhere. How low can it go ?

All those discussions turn somehow south ?! It ain't fun to follow discussions when some people takes it all over & over again... I will block some from now on, maybe that helps..LoL

It clearly shows, despite all doubts, that QC is a thing of the past. How can such things happen in masses. Der 8auer alone had 48 guys writing him... I doubt it's a bad batch, I fear a design flaw.