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..wwwwait, he got 1x16GB RAM and 8GB VRAM, not 8GB total RAM. Still, only 1 Channel populated, that sux. Either buy the matching other 16GB stick from Dell or sell the one it comes with and buy a 16 o 32GB kit. Check how high your board goes with RAM MHz before you buy 3200 or faster RAM etc. The default for 10thgen Intel is 2933MHz iirc for RAM speed. I doubt Dell gives you options with higher speeds. *edit: yes, the NVMe is way to small to hold OS + DCS, either live with a slow HDD or get more SSD space in any form.

I#d take the iGPU too, if the big GPU has problems you just switch and can bridge the time until you fixed the big GPU. Also for later use, an iGPU always makes a nice&quiet HTPC.

To make it even worse, the newest idea in crypto is mining/proofing with drive space used up instead of proof of work as Bitcoin does. If that keeps on growing we'll see the same happening with drives' prices.

Asus wants 2.400 US$ for a 3090-EKWB fitted card. https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/asus-releases-geforce-rtx-3090-(2400-usd)-and-3070-(999-usd)-fitted-with-ekwb-water-block.html ARE THEY NUTS ? WTF do they smoke ? Tbh, I am about to give up Windows and Desktop PC's again, at least for a few years, gonna park DCS as well and gonna buy 1 or 2 Macs. For the price of 1 decent GPU I can get a whole lot more fun from Apple these days, ok, not for gaming, but there are consoles for the kids and I am tired of gaming anyway. I will miss DCS and Nordschleife racing but I do that so seldom that I am not willing to pay ANY of these prices. Time to show them my behind with my pants DOWN. 2.400 ??? They have forgotten how money has to be earned and that there is a #1 rule: Family FIRST....I just can't justify and even if I wanted, I couldnt afford it anymore to keep up with this hardware race..no, I am OUT. For pure lack of money to participate and foremost out of principle.

Sure, that is true as well. With my intermediate MSI M9 Z170 board I had a premium onboard sound solution and it sounded better, but for DCS or any other engine & bitching Betty sound based game it really doesn't matter much. It's a very personal thing too, which changes as times goes by. I used to have a 10k+ HiFi with Pre-Amp, double Power Amps for Hi+Mids and Bass..and these days I use a 10€ BT Mono Speaker on the table when we play cards, with the same guys that I sat together and listened to my old HighEnd Stereo, actually we talked about it and all said..what a waste of money that was, but we were young, testosterone driven etc... Pick you place on this time line and don't go overboard with the expense...LoL...if testosterone doesn't carry you away.

apropos 1080ti: https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/geforce-gtx-1080-ti-resurrected-from-the-dead.html The big question is not what we like to buy but what we can actually grab from the shelf these days....

I agree to all above. This is one of the few corners that you can cut and save money, wires and hassle.

3600 or 4000... try to lower the Latency at your 3600 setting and you might even beat your 4000 default settings. 3600 16-16-16-36 would be great, if you can even go lower it would be a Jackpot like setting, 14-14-14-34 Good Luck & Patience

Many crypto coins can be mined with GPU's. I did that for little less than a year with my 1080ti to get the inflated price back when I got it some years ago. You usually get PAID in Bitcoin but as Sn8ke_iis said, you don't mine BC with a GPU, you'd never earn a dime so to speak. Actually, this whole COVID-MINING-WTF situation makes it almost impossible to build a good rig for about MSRP or even less. Gone are those days when you hit "ORDER NOW" and a few days later you had it all coming in, nope....not 2021 and likely not 2022.

It should be noted that you have to have your Win10 installed in UEFI mode, otherwise you will likely encounter a boot crash. Afaik there are tutorials how to change some settings deep down in your 10 so it won't need to be reinstalled to change it to UEFI Mode if it was initially installed in Legacy Mode.

Strange, as my Z370 is even a notch older than yours. Check if your Support Page ( only Asus I am referencing to, see 1st post ) holds a new Bios from early-mid March 2021. It wont say anything about what has been changed other than "System Stability...bla". Heck, that's why I said ""In case you have a new AMD or Nvidia GPU that might give you an edge""

Ok, I see. didn’t know you are on AMD chipset and thought you misunderstood the thread. Have you tried other Forums, i.e. Guru3d.com or contacted Customer Support? Pretty sure you are not the only one having that issue.

It does not fix anything but allows a new feature. Google it for deep explanation. It's memory related thing GPU-VRAM+System-RAM No, haha, it's a MAINBOARD Bios, not a GPU Bios. You look at the wrong end.

In case you have a new AMD or Nvidia GPU that might give you an edge Asus issued like 30+ new Bios' for Z370 up to recent Boards. It actually adds Memory Remapping/Resizable Bar ( whatever they call it ) even to my aging Z370 board, while also giving me a hard time going back to 5G, so something else deep down also changed. Asus does NOT list what they actually changed, just " System Stability bla bla " and that's it. I have not noticed any other new options in my Bios, heck, it's a 2017 board. Fighting BSODs now when test benching it.....ahhhh, I need a new system, it's just still fast enough....sigh

Luckily, for anything else than gaming there are other choices, OS wise, even for the same hardware that Windows runs on.

This is so nuts... just checked eBay for 1080ti prices after reading this thread and they are actually selling used ones for 500+€.

4G is a mobile network and most times if not always all devices connected to it are in a CGN ( Carrier Grade Network ) behind a ISP operated BIG router, aka NATed and NO portforwarding is possible at all. Even if it did, the ping/latency penalty is bad, not sure if it was usable for DCS where ping is very critical.

You might want to consider disabling SMB protocol to Backup your stuff and use SFTP instead. I use Acronis Backup Software ( Cyber something at the moment ) and it only establishes the secure SSH based FTP channel when doing backups and cuts it right after backing up. This way, the NAS Server is NOT visible in the network at all and all attempts to connect to it run to dev/null :). The only downside is that it will be slower since at least on Ubuntu Linux the SSHd runs on a single core, so your single core speed is your max performance. We use a 4790k and achieve about 35MB/sec, on SMB this is 3x faster but not as save when the sh!t hits the fan.

Unless you do other things apart from gaming like Video Editing, Video Capture, Virtual Machines and alikes I would follow Bossco82's advice to start with. Get a 1-2TB drive, install it ALL on that NVMe and call it a day. You can always add drives down the road. The only good thing with more drives is that you can have the OS separately which makes it somewhat easier to manage OS reinstallations and preserving cold data ( pics, files, etc.. ) and DCS as it does not need to be installed to function, a copy and paste or reconnect the drive is all it needs, most games do not allow this, same for Office or other productive suites, they need an installation so you would not benefit from multiple drives other than performance gains if you work it hard. For a standard consumer PC, 1 main drive ( NVMe or Sata3 SSD )and 1 Backup drive (HDD 4+TB range size & best if USB that can be disconnected for ransomware protection ) is a good start. I run 4 Sata SSD's, 1 NVMe and 2 HDD's ( which are disabled in Bios for ransomware protection and only activated if I need them to backup stuff ) but I do lots of virtual machines and have tons of files ( pics, movies, files ) that I want detached from the OS drive...and I usually know what I am doing when messing with it so I dont get confused O_o.

I upgrade when the new system is at least twice as powerful for the same budget ( 300-500€ CPU range ) usually coupled with new DDR versions and all that stuff that doesnt fit anymore. I used to upgrade every 8-12 months in the past( 1990's till say around 2010 when i7 came ) , then 2010 and later it got to about two years and since I have this 8700k I dont feel the need to upgrade as it still serves me very well. Considering the cost of a new platform I will wait until 12+ cores are cheap, DDR5 has matured and PCIe v5 is present. Unless I am forced I will not upgrade till late '22 or '23. If I had the money to spend, hell yes, gimme 16+ cores, 128GB DDR5-8000 , multiple NVMe Gen5 and a 3090³...but truth is, I am a poor mouse.

The RAM is not what you want for gaming on a Ryzen, as stated before. Low latency paired with adequate MHz, like CL14-3200 or CL16-3600 are 2 good choices. Buy them at a place where you can return them if they dont run as intended.

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Ahhh, it originated from somewhere else, not the RAM......ahhhhh Glad you have found it !

When you install the full thing it can easily go wrong, with all the sub-apps attached and installed it can easily become a nightmare, been there. As long as you can somehow control your fans and oc in Bios you can actually "not-install" it pretty well and get along. Usually, with a new board and new install I sacrifice the first install to try it all out and once I know my about I reinstall fresh, kinda like that. What drove me nuts most of the time is Asus Aura .... oh man.

Those GPU's do not have enough VRAM, as said above. You should wait for the higher VRAM Nvidia cards or pick an AMD card.