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My modules are Dual Rank btw, 2Rx8 and they dont slow down my CPU at 3600 at all. If you have a non-B-die kit at those speeds the Latency is usually higher and thus easier for the IMC, so that speaks against this theory. None of the reviews I have read over the past years meantioned what you say and even AMD themselves speak differently. That is what makes me think you are not 100% right. Might be with your rig, your mobo and Bios version or specific CPU but it is not the general consens of how AMD Ryzen 5000 series and RAM work together in general. Why by all means does AMD "OFFICIALLY ADVERTISE" ( see my link above )the sweetspot is 3600 and you can go till 3733 before things start getting worse. Why ? And I dont think anybody in here is concerned about breaking a warranty by setting XMP to something higher than 3200. I doubt that AMD could verify how fast your RAM ran when it broke. That is a weak point, again, with AMD advertising 3600/3733......cmon..be realistic. I once send a 6700k to Intel and told them it fried when I overclocked it, plain truth. They sent me a new one without any comment on overclocking etc..

My 3600 DDR4 kit does not throttle down in any situation, not that I could measure a drop in performance in any load test ( which are likely more brutal than DCS can ever be ). Let's test this statement you make on more than 1 (your) system, ok ? IntelBurnTest IBT ? that one for example measures the time it takes to calculate math and it really kills your system. BTW: Here's what AMD says about this topic ! https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/amd-ryzen-ram-scaling-effect-in-games,1.html

That sounds like a network/bandwidth issue to me. Could be your end could be the server struggling or even both.

One would think a 8c/16T modern CPU that is no slouch should handle them together...but as we can see, it does not. I dont think this is per se standard as many have TacView installed and always running when using DCS. Does it only happen online or do you have the same low GPU usage when flying offline with TacView ON ?

It installs and it tries to load but gets stuck for ever in a black screen as of now. I followed a few threads on how to fix some issues but none has helped so far, seems like I need to try out different Nvidia drivers, currently using the newest one Ubuntu offered but I know from the past that older ones are far more stable...so, when I get the time I will try different drivers until I can fly the Su-25T online It's not trivial as of now, so I dont think it is suited for users who dont want to mess around in a shell and heavily modify the OS. Once it's only click&fly in Steam it's where it should be.

Let's see...

Proton seems to have overcome the library issue. DCS, according to others, does run on Linux via Steam/Proton. Make the server a Linux thing !

I hope one day each game comes as a bootable Linux distro with all tools onboard that you need and nothing else. It's not too far fetched btw. Boot DCS and fly edit: just watched this update video: He mentioned DCS... so there is that. Wonder which controller/Hotas setups work and which don't. Iirc, my TM WH is not picked up in Ubuntu/Mint but also never tried to use it. Well, maybe I shrink one NVMe a little bit and install Ubuntu bare metal, fire up Steam with my DCS and give it a shot. That really interests me how far it has come now. Most sense would make if the Server would run on Linux w/o Steam, that would cut the monthly cost some pay to have their server hosted with MS lic included. Linux is usually ~20€ cheaper per month. If the hoster doesnt mind Steam it could well be already in action if Steam offers DCS Server on Linux, don't know if they do.

Booked my Bird Cannot resist the Helos, LoL, now bring it on

Right now, I advice people like my 20y old nephew to forget about upgrading his Gaming PC just because the market is nuts. Nowadays a GPU costs as much as you'd payed some years ago for a complete rig. I told them to either buy a console and forget about gaming on the PC or lower the expectations and get a Ryzen 5700G to start with in Full-HD and wait &see what the market does. For ordinary people or youngsters with limited budget the times are very very tough. They are killing the market slowly and I can see it dying in my own circle of people I know.

Yes, afaik to get it all from the 12th gen you need Win11. Which imho is a strategy from MS to force people to leave 10 behind, which I can understand to some extend. Baseline, most rigs suffer from weak GPUs. As long as you have a decent CPU it will likely not be the main bottleneck unless you fly low LOD at lowest Res to max out fps. If you fly above Full-HD the GPU quickly becomes a bottleneck, way more intense and often than the usual "on the carrier deck my fps drops"...that's a CPU thing. There is a wall no Hardware can overcome, you can get close to the limits but the effort and money needed is substantial.

Sometimes it's just that simple

sfc /scannow does something else. It does NOT take care of registry entries or their effect on the PC. SFC does scan your WInsxs folder if it is intact and if not you could try fixing it with the DISM command set. Again, not relevant for your issue.

Why wouldnt you upgrade a X570/Ryzen combo to Win11 eventually ? I am meanwhile "back" to 11 and it really runs decent and reliable across a wide scope of software. But true, the 12700k looks really good as a gaming CPU. Still; I personally think the Ryzen option is still a great choice, heck..I just went that way and denied 12th gen Intel and DDR5 all the way LoL As long as you stick with the 1080ti not much will change, your lowest fps will get better, better frame time and that's about it, the GPU was and is the bottleneck. If you then go 3080ti and 4k or VR the CPU again will not be limiting factor as long as you pick any of the top dogs, it will bottleneck with your GPU, no matter which one. For the forseeable future no card will be fast enough to outrun the CPU in DCS imho. I didnt gain any fps in general compared to 8700k/32GB with the 1080ti. I got smoother and higher lowest fps in critical moments, thanks to more single core power from the 5900X vs. my old 8700k@5G...but the 8700k wasnt slow and I actually didnt need to upgrade, that has only non-DCS reasons. For DCS I would need a 3080ti to improve, not a 5900x replacing a 8700k5G.

The entries were added, they are not there by default. Delete them and reboot or do a "gpupdate /force" in command shell edit* only mess around with registry if you know what you are doing. As a tip, a good tool to really clean & fix Windows PCs is made by macecraft.com and called "jv16 Power Tools". I use it since it's first iterations called RegSupreme back in the 2000's and I fixed dozens of client computers with that tool, nothing ever that I know came close to what this tool can do to revive a PC that is lame, slow, filled with junk that you need to deinstall & clean etc.. It's even free for 2 or 4 weeks to try it out full featured. I own a lifetime lic and dont regret it, goes for 5 PCs btw. I usually do not recommend such tools as they are like an Axe in the Forrest but if you use one, take that one.

LoL, that's roughly what a new 1080ti costed back then when it was new and sold close or at MSRP. I guess I could sell mine with the EK block for 600€ on eBay.. this is all just crazy. But you are right, it still is a great card for sub-4K

Bossco82, we will rock that child as we say. As long as the threads stay meaningful, polite and friendly I am always willing to help anybody and tbh, it's not seldom that along that way I pick up a few good ideas myself from other people, like you, who have valuable input on how to solve computing problems or strategies to apply to when renewing parts. It's a win win for everybody when played fair and polite FWIW: I just spend a fortune on Noctua fans, LoL, glad I am not married anymore and don't have to explain to kitchen command where that money went, haha. I was tired of that "squeeeek" from the 4x180mm on my rad and for months I have tried to find a 25mm thick replacement for them but no one makes them anymore, all 180mm fans are now 30mm thick...grrhh. I convinced myself that 9x 120mm Noctua is less noise than 4x 180mm by Phobya which are 5 years old. This decision took 3 months to ripe and a bottle of beer to finally hit the order button, jeeezz never thought fans can be that expensive and I need 9 of them, waahaaa.

Welcome mate, always happy to shine some light on some mysteries of computing

I have about the same spec machine among the servers I need to service, Intel X99 chipset, 2133MHz, same CPU, I actually built that thing about 6 years ago. For a small server it's usually plenty but for DCS the clocks are not high enough and likely are the reason why you have severe fps drops. That is a nice machine for anything but games that need max performance on 1-2 cores only. Max frequency is 3.6GHz for a core euqivalent to 6thgen Skylake cores iirc. Skylake was somewhere around 4.4-4.7GHz, those MHZ missing are your missing frames...and even if you had them it would still likely struggle from time to time with that architecture.

Best practise was, is and likely will remain as such to separate the OS from other main Apps that do run as a main task, like DCS or other games (Steam and Origin libraries too ), music, pictures or videos you work on professionally, virtual machines and stuff like that. MS Office, Adobe apps, 7-zip, Teamspeak and alikes can all go to the C drive along with the system as they will need to be reinstalled anyway if you blank the disk. The data on your 2nd drive, usually, can be used as is across installs ( aka no install ( registry entries ) needed to work ). That is the reason behind why you splitt them, saves a lot of work, time, download volume ( back in the days when lines where slow.. ), all sorts of benefits when not putting it all on 1 disc. Still, it can be done with 1 drive only and with NVMe it will likely not even be slower with todays computers. You could buy a 2TB+ NVMe and splitt it up in different partitions but that is a different topic and also has + and - to be thought of.

Make sure your PayPal claim won't be too late. You can only claim your money back for so and so long iirc. Man, what bad luck !

Unless you want to experience a cold awekening, listen to Svsmokey and Bossco82, no matter how many $ you could spend, there is a performance wall money cannot overcome. The corner stones: Very fast CPU + Board with your features onboard - 64GB DDR4 - 2x NVMe - BIG FAT GPU - Your VR Goggles - 1000w PSU platinum grade -

Which tells me, stick with DDR4 for now until better days.

The only big difference is how you connect the peripherie on B550. If you plan on multiple NVMe drives X570 is better but if you just want 1 NVMe, some 2.5" SSDs and a GPU B550 is perfectly fine for any 5000 series CPU.

This is just going crazy: Scalpers and shortage, the two things you need to inflate prices but more interesting is the actual shortage of parts needed to build the module. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/scalpers-ddr5-ram-ebay-2500-dollars