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I can assure you I have had mine at ~55GB RAM usage..... I don't think 32 or 64GB is a matter of question, it's rather "are 64GB already too few?" I am not saying you should go for 96 or 128GB but 64GB are actually a good thing, w/o any doubt.

Well then, sure, it's the Top Dog from Intel, you cannot get much faster anyway, even with a 5800X3D CPU. Make sure you get a decent cooler and check the mating, the 12th series' Achilles' tendon. Have fun

Well, this only makes sense if you buy DDR5-RAM that you cannot buy yet. I am not aware of fast DDR5 kits with 64GB ( 2x32GB ) as we know that they perform terribly with 4 modules. It makes no sense to buy 64GB 4800MHz for a hell of money and also get the slower CPU vs. the 5800X3D. I would buy into AMD, a 5800X3D and 64GB of low latency 3200-3600MHz RAM, saves a ton of money and will likely perform the same, I dare to say even better. Get at least a 1TB drive for DCS alone, a 512GB is already maxed out, my install is 403GB with all maps and most but not all modules. If I had all modules I would certainly cross the 500GB marker.

xfirf, I think you misunderstood my Linux setup of back then. I was not using Wine or any other emulator in Linux. I installed a Hypervisor, VMware Workstation in my case, in Linux and installed a Windows OS as a virtual machine. The actual DCS Server ran inside a Virtual Machine hosted on a Linux OS. What you want can be done with Steam on Linux. There are many guides around so I will only briefly describe what you need to do. I heavily assume you have worked with Linux before, if not it can be a rocky road to success for Linux beginners. Install Ubuntu ( or any derivative's of it like "Mint" ), install Steam and configure it to allow Beta-Branch ( google for precise info ), then you can "click" on "install" DCS in Steam. Afaik there is also a Server available for installation. The thing is, it may or may not run out of the box, I had both scenarios. The good thing with the ded. srv is that you don't have to take too much care about GPU and Audio, especially Audio can be a pain with multiple devices ( Speaker + Headset and DualBoot ) as the Realtek chip can be set into a firmware state where it won't use your rear stereo out. I guess this is deeply buried in UEFI and what not else, I gave up on it after my own Linux desktop decided to again refuse to power my desktop speakers...that is one of the things that can drive you nuts....Audio problems in 2022.

What about the difference in VRM, chokes and all other parts that are not all the same. De facto, the only common thing they share is the GPU, the rest can vary widely in quality. to the OP. Fitted a few of those over the years, they did ok.

Early Access in an Open Beta What isn't clear here ?

Go Multiplayer

I use jv16 PowerTools for like 20 years by now. It has changed it's name a few times over those years but has always done a good job in cleaning windows out. Well worth the expense, I have a Lifetime license, actually 2, and it paid off many times over fixing slow computers and my own as well. I run it every month or so, keeps them clean. www.macecraft.com

Just took a Multiplayer flight from the Falklands across the Atlantic all to the West. The entire time my RAM was at 47GB in use. Mind you, meanwhile my settings are rather medium, so I restarted the flight, now with really high settings, and my RAM in use was instantly 54GB ! I mean, hey, this was Aerobatics Online with 10 players around midnight....ehhh...my next test will be Liberation on SA with an overkill setting, bet it blows my RAM against the Wall and cries for MUCH more. The trend is there, 64GB won't be good enough for too long. edit* in a F16

Gotta row back on this one ! LOL I accidently bought the map on my server account...no wonder it never showed up. ED kindly moves the lic to the correct account, took literally only minutes to straighten this out ! TOP SUPPORT ! Thanks guys

Oh boy, seems like they are storming the shop 10min and still not license in my profile.. P A T I E N C E.....O_O

I don't think you will see a difference between 5900X and 5800X, maybe the 5800X3D with the right GPU will yield more performance, apropos GPU, I would pick a bigger GPU, rather a 5800X + 6800XT than 5900X and a 6750XT. 64GB is correct.

I doubt that DCS is the reason why an adequate cooled modern CPU gets hot. Ryzen 5000 is somewhere 12-14watt per core under full load, give or take 2-3 watt depending on 6 core or 16 core CPU. i would check cooling if DCS melts your CPU

Don't have this issue with all Win11 updates as of now installed. I recommend to delete the USB entries and connect it again.

There is no hard coded stop sign for a gaming laptop but there is TDP for CPU and GPU, a FPS/Watt relation and a cooling solution, those corner stones define your experience. It has a reason why Desktop parts burn hundreds of Watts and therefor have monster coolers, 600-1000w PSU's etc.. A Laptop can only do as much as it's cooling allows, I really hope you don't get disappointed. Once it is heat loaded, it literally cooks the PCB.. I have had many laptops over the last 20 years and 1 thing I will not do with them anymore is gaming. my 2 cents

Sometimes it's a firmware thing. Does he run a recent Bios and matching Chipset driver ? I would check that is the case. 50° on Desktop, maybe a bit too high for idle, mine is below 40° usually, right now 37°C while typing on a mildly warm day, my GPU idles at 26°C ( same loop ). Playing games is anywhere 50-60°C. The hottest it gets is brutal AVX priming which puts it into high 80's ( PBO2 + a few settings tuned )

I would NOT use a not Sine-Wave based device on your PC, hands down. My pal, he's a full-blooded electronics guy where I take PCB's that need repair. He explained it to me with lots of technical terms that I cannot reproduce, but bottom line was, the 90° ON-OFF-ON-OFF will cause ( parts ) of your VRM to be stressed beyond good&bad because ( I try to get this right ) the parts in question have to buffer the current when the 90° is at 0 but the Sine Wave wouldn't be. There is more to it, but I am the wrong guy to explain. I trust my guy, if he says "DON'T do that if you have expensive devices, 3080!! etc.... If you have a 350€ 2nd Hand PC in a place where there are outages 5x a day, heck, yes, it's a bigger issue. But for a high end & pricey, rig, dont use Saw-Tooth current.

I tried to find that video again but couldn't. Afair he fixed someone elses PC.... went through 1 month worth of history in YT and can't seem to find it. A search in Google will explain the problem and provide a link to the Nvidia tool to flash the firmware. DP in general has it's things you need to know or you can have serious issues down to fried motherboards and GPU's by using the wrong cable ( Pin20 issue ). quick google search, 1st hit in english: https://www.cablechick.com.au/blog/the-displayport-pin-20-issue-explained/ In addition, if you have such a cable, it may cause EXACTLY what you described. If your Monitor works if you switch it on "AFTER!!!" the Bios/UEFI loaded it is 99% a cable issue and you betetr get the right one before it wrecks havoc on your GPU. It destroyed a customers mobo through the iGPU DP outlet ( Dell Optiplex that was)

Realtek, Promise, VIA and a few others belong to things I usually try or tried to avoid in the past. Realtek LAN adapters, ehhh, NO..had my fair share of issues with those in Linux routers and crappy stability back in the days when Gbit emerged. But tbh, Intel also has NIC's with serious issues, like the famous i225 Adapter in various versions. I am really happy my own 225 doesnt make any trouble "yet". The thing is, with Realtek Audio, you hardly ever have any options. The board I am using had serious issues with Sound output steering in Linux, god that drove me nuts, with Ubuntu 22.04's kernel it seems to be fixed. One would think Audio is a long solved thing, well....it ain't from time to time.

There are issues with DP and 3xxx cards iirc, saw a YT video a week ago relating to this and..let me dig in my brain...I think it was Jay's 2 Cents, who ran into the same error as you describe if I get this right. What he needed was a Firmware Update for the GPU-PCB, Nvidia has the tools on their website. But please, before you flash ANYTHING, make sure you suffer this error.

Top job ! Now work yourself up the ladder to see up to which RLT driver you can upgrade before the error presents itself. Used to suffer from a similar bug with Intel IRST drivers, took them 2 years to fix and thus I was using an outdated driver for that time. The "other" workaround was a 3rd party Soundcard.

I would not buy any card without testing how much headroom, IF AT ALL, your 4770 CPU has. If your CPU is already fully loaded on that 1 core it does make little sense to get a bigger GPU for "MORE FPS", it would be much easier if you said," I want a higher resolution and some more detail ( those that don't tax the CPU too much ). Do you get the idea behind this ? Install MSI Afterburner and set up it's OSD to show EACH CPU Core and GPU, as well as RAM and maybe more if you like. Look for the one Core that is under heavy load, if that core is 90+% most of the time, there are no more serious FPS to gain with any better GPU. With DCS, it heavily depends what mission you fly, consider this. Check your metrics and report back,

Sorry to say, but that bug is interesting, so to speak. Have you tried a clean boot-reboot with only KB plugged in, nothing else, not even HDMI or DP. Boot it up and then hit the power button once to tell the MB to shut down the OS properly. Mind you, some Bios like my Gigabyte have the PW-Button on "Instant-OFF" as default, you better check that if you have a Gigabyte board. Curios to see if it can be circumvented with minimalistic setup. Even HDD's can cause this if their firmware is not really up-2-date. If you can, disable everything but the OS drive and KB. If the firmware of any device causes this, it is likely any other OS suffers the same. Have you tried a Linux ( 2nd drive, Bootstick, DVD etc.. ). Somehow you got to corner that thing in to know which device causes this.

Totally forgot about that issue. When you dismount the cooler, maybe you can lift it straight up and thus check the mating. If the mating is really bad you need to find a solution.

I just had some business with my electronics Guru today, a UPS at a customer place went dead. He said, when I asked him about Sine Wave vs. 90° saw-tooth current...."unless you want to risc every VRM and exchange PSU every now and then..." Whatever you buy, get a sine-wave device, at APC those are called "Smart-UPS" Errata: sure, the VA is not the same as Wattage with UPS, Skatezilla's number are more realistic.