BitMaster

It depends where you live ? USA, Europe, Asia, Australia...

The Peace Dove Module ! Made out of pure Love & Compassion it will overwhelm any Forces of the Dark. Maybe one as an Easter Egg

Nvidia and AMD, for my understanding, design their GPU's to fit the DataCentre needs, there, the actual wattage doesn't count as long as the output justifies it. The same goes for Server CPUs. They need more and more overall wattage, despite the decline in Nanometer and better production tweaks etc.. The chips are designed for most potent customer that gives them the biggest profit. As a spin off, we get the GPU as a "Gaming" GPU at unbelievable prices, too high power consumption and thus heat dumped out ( guys, there is a limit of how much heat you can dump into a case and get it out again without server grade noise and fans ! ). I can understand the overall wattage rises with core count on CPU's. It doesn't even affect us much as we only use a few cores in most games, we don't compile kernels across a 128 core dual Epyc board and suck in 280w per socket...over the motherboard. We use 50-80 Watts in DCS roughly with modern CPU's. That is not the issue. The elephant callled 3090ti and alikes comes into the room and just kills all your energy/heat calculation, case and fan layout etc... I run a watercooled system and I plan to keep it this way and if I upgrade my GPU I will also try to watercool if possible. I really don't wanna think about the issue of a mid-tier midi-size budget tower ( you gotta safe cash to get the 3090ti or 4xxx, reality here ), hopefully a not too shabby PSU and then you dump a constant 300-400w heat from the GPU alone into that case. If you aircool your CPU, add another 50w. I really dont think that is the way it should go. This is really borderline. I assume most of those cards will be watercooled or 4-slot size and a sticker saying "you need a MF-BIG case and a LOT OF FANS bro !" I really think 250-300w max should be the limit for a GPU in a gaming rig. GPU 250w + CPU 50W air cooled in a mid size tower is already a task. Add another 200w and it gets very expensive or unreliable. Fast-Cheap-Reliable Pick any TWO !

The first benchmarks of the Ryzen-7 5800X3D look very promising, beating even the 12900KS by 15%. https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/amd-ryzen-7-5800x3d-gets-benchmarked-ahead-of-embargo-lift.html

I wouldn't say NO just because it says Intel on the box if the product fits the bill at a reasonable price, due for an upgrade anyway. The only thing I could think of is, will they overdo the TDP like they do with the CPU's. If the past tells anything, that is what we will see.

I wish Apple would enter the GPU market

As I understand you, you only change the Windows Power Plan !? That will actually not change any GPU Power Settings. But you are right, I use a similar thing, my Desktop goes to sleep after 5 minutes and only reboots if needed. When I need it all I just switch the system "+GPU" into their High Performance modes. Tbh, only DCS needs this.

Tho I can understand your point, it stands heavily between you and a good DCS rig. See, I fix PC's and Servers for a living and have had plenty encounters with different people's attitude towards computing and what they themselves can, should and somehow must bring in to make this a fruitful thing. You may not need to build your rig yourself but you should take some time and convince yourself to dig into the "Gaming PC World". After some time, give yourself 1-2 years, you will have far more understanding how and why things work and if not, you will likely understand the help from others better if you can foot on some own experience and knowledge. Saying what you said actually turns some people down that wanna help you, as you already say "I don't wanna learn this". ..and yes, the 8k Goggles are for GPU's that dont exist yet and I doubt a 4xxx Series Nvidia will have enough power, despite the 480+Watts it draws. just my 2 cents

Resist the itch

That's why I try to buy from Amazon directly if possible and not via unknown sellers. When I bought my board, it could have gotten it 45€ cheaper....NO...I gladly paid the extra cash to have it directly sold and sent from Amazon, just in case I need to RMA or such.

Unless you have a pool full of Dollar notes I would not buy a complete new system, the gains as said above are not worth it. If you really need more power, upgrade the GPU and throw in a 5000 series Ryzen and sell your old parts.

Right on the spot ! If you only play FPS games with Mouse and Keyboard it's fairly simple once your Game is well supported. DCS and many other Simulators for Flight and Racing have multiple devices attached to the PC that we all demand to work. Not speaking of Sound and LAN/WLAN chip issues that can make your life even harder in the Linux world, even if you do Linux for a very long time. Tbh, I havent even checked if TiR worked, I have no idea. I know the Hotas worked. Yes, I play around with it but won't switch yet with DCS. But I would if it worked as intended.

It does indeed pay to change the GPU PowerPlan on the fly as needed and not look at it as a one time set&forget thing. You can do that, I did it too for years and always asked myself why in the world my PC needs over 165w in idle on the desktop. OK...the Pump and myriad of fans take their toll but their was a large unkown part I never figured out what consumed the rest in idle. Well, actually it's pretty easy and I tell this everybody while not doing it myself, TRACK IT DOWN with HWinfo. When you set it to HighPerformance Mode and open HWinfo you should check your GPU wattage in idle, then watch a YT or light work...then switch the GPU to Balanced Mode and watch again... on my 1080ti its around 50w difference, that's MORE than my 5900X needs for daily desktop usage. MSI Afterburner has nice TaskBar icons that also show GPU wattage on Desktop, it's 15w now...used to be 67w 24/7/365 That does pay back. In game, if I forget to switch, it depends, DCS doesnt like it and I suffer severe fps issues, other games mostly dont care.

Bizarro, that ain't easy. your budget is very tight for a DCS rig, even w/o GPU. I just built a PC for my neighbour 2 weeks ago with a 500€ budget, excluding tower and OS. I managed to build a Gigabyte mITX, AMD Ryzen 5600-G,Gskill 16GB 3200, 500GB NVMe SSD Samsung 970 EvoPlus and a 500w Seasonic Gold spec PSU. She only does Excel and some webbrowsing and all components are AAA brands You have 200€ more, which you must splitt between CPU, RAM and PSU as either one is too weak for DCS. You can add a SSD/NVMe anytime later on w/o sacrificing on initial parts that you cannot change afterwards but replace in total ( CPU, Board, PSU and also RAM should be bought in a matching Pack. Either a 5600X or Intel 12600K or maybe even lower 12400F, a modest board, 32GB 3200MHz, a PSU that will hold your new 4000series GPU ( that will not work with that budget !!! ). A 1000w PSU which most consider "sufficient" for the coming draws usually exceed 200€, tbh I wouldnt buy a cheaper one considering the damage it can do if it blows up. You might want to couple your final PSU purchase with the GPU. For now I would pick a reasonable 750w PSU that can power your 1070 and any CPU in that range I put out. Most will favour the Intel over the AMD right now. I`d say the price makes the win as you will likely never own a GPU during the lifetime of that yet to buy CPU that could outrun the CPU. You would need a top end card and also play then still on low res like FHD, most then play 1440p or 4K or even VR. You can still get by with a B450 Chipset, AMD Ryzen 5600X, 32GB Gskill 3200-CL16 or better, 1TB Samsung NVMe 970 EvoPlus, 750-850w PSU ( you can skip the SSD and add that later and use the 90-100€ to beef up the CPU or Board. Prices also depend highly on where in the world you live.

I guess this is rather a USB problem than a specific TiR issue. You have to delete all "old" USB devices in Device Manager in most cases to remedy the issue. USBDEVIEW is a great tool to list "invisible & old" USB devices and clear them out. Nirsoft's Website: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html Hope my assumption is somewhat correct, report back

That's good news, last time I tried it it was not-so-smooth. Think I need to shrink my C drive again to have enough space on my Mint. What actually sucks is that the Mainboard I have has limited sound functionality. Its a real PITA to route the sound to the correct jack. Curious to see if I can route DCS through the speakers and Comms to my headset. I bet it won't work out of the box due to this ESS Chip my board has in addition to the Realtek Audio Codec

Look at it this way: I opened DCS and started the most simple Apache Free Flight "Cold Start" on Caucasus...BANG 30GB used right away. Your system may use far less if you have less total RAM. With 64GB installed it uses the above 30GB on my end right away, without any system turned on - 100% cold AC, I would not even consider 32GB for a new system anymore, think "sixtyfour"

Update servers busy....LoL can't get in

It depends... you could gain up to 50ish % bandwidth. It depends on your default clock and where to XMP will take you. It's hard to measure in FPS, it likely runs smoother and may gain 2-5 fps. Try it out

Well, my Magic Glass says you have a problem. To really help you we need DETAILS. System specs, DCS settings, etc..

Such things suck ! We don't have Newegg over here but I would go crazy if that happened to me. Usually, when I order things of value at my usual place mindfactory.de I pay 5€ on top for Gold Service in case of RMA etc.. If the service sucks, avoid that place. Hope you either get the drive or your money back

Tbh, before you focus on DCS and Nvidia etc...it is still unclear if his system collapses under load or not. I would run a few loops of realbench, that taxes CPU and GPU and watch temps. If it can do that for 30min it should run any game load. Then, I would focus on settings in DCS and Nvidia, maybe best to reset both.

Oh yeah, this sh%t hasn't hit the fan yet, prepare for the worst. I don't expect availability and pricing to not react to the crisis. This will turn many markets upside down and left <--> right. We will see. Anyway, I gladly skip any GPU for peace

The way I do it is recall the license via the MS control page that opens when you click "troubleshoot" the activation with "I have recently changed my hardware". Among the devices listed I pick the one I want to use the license from and choose " I do not use this HW anymore ( or similar, it's german on my end ). When moving between my AMD and Intel machine the CPU changes and I doubt MS sees this as "1" machine. Nonetheless, I can move them freely between those 2 rigs. I could reactivate all my Win10 when I shortly used Hyper-V but not the 2016 SRV, it also allowed me to re-reactivate them on VMware again once I found out that it wont take my 2016 into the Hyper-V world. Anyway, it's still a hairy process and sometimes it just won't allow you to activate a machine for no obvious reasons.

The prices are slowly coming down as crypto lacks quick profit. Now we only need to tell AMD and Nvidia to return to normal MRSP's again, that got out of control along with the mining crazyness.