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Consider watercooling the card. This will carry you MUCH further than any attempt on an air cooled card...while keeping stress on components at the achievable minimum

If there wasn't the power bill, LoL...I too have more IT here in stock than I want to pay electricity for :( 0.30€/kWh + tax etc..

IIRC, when I tested different PF settings ( maybe a year ago or so ), the one thing that stood out was exiting DCS gave problems and was slower than ever with no PF set. You should keep in mind that many Pilots use a lot of additional apps along with DCS, like TiR, SRS, TS3, Discord, TacView, VR cpanel, ..... and last but not least maybe a browser. You sure know, as an admin, that Win10 does a lot of stuff under the hood and if DCS is not marked as a Game in GameBar, many of those may or may not be started and executed while you fly. Sometimes when I fly at 00:00h my Acronis kicks in and does a Backup, not really annoying, only a few glitches here and there but I can stay airborne ;) What fires back more intense are cloud syncs for various services, iCloud Photo Sync, Google Drive, DropBox, etc etc... Many many variables and the least you want is run out of computing power, many cores, speedy drives, fast ISP, LOTS of RAM...and a PageFile ;)

You can try w/o PageFile, but as you say, I'd be cautious to follow your adevise, my own experience with DCS and 32GB shows me it still wants space to offload. Hibernation is disabled by default in Win10Pro when you install it fresh from an original copy. Might differ with preinstalled 10 and notebooks. Never had that enabled by default on dozens of installs. YMMV

Download an older driver from Nvidia and deinstall the current one in Safe Mode with DDU. Link to DDU: https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

:thumbup: BTW, I am not aware of that switch and even less that you have to enable it to get the OSD to work. It works out of the box as it is with OSD...strange

OEM means you have to claim any damage vs the OEM and not Intel. You also cannot ( afaik ) buy the CPU Protection/Exchange Warranty from Intel that they offer for overclockers. I'd stay away from OEM, they are in a tray and the guy at that desk can keep the fast ones and sell the slow ones on eBay etc.. Like a homemade binning.

Look at that screenshot, it has all the relevant option menues open that you need to work with to adjust the OSD, content and placement wise, with an aktiv OSD shown on the left in the Protein Viewer from F@H Covid-19 research. note that "Framerate" and "Frametime" have both, Text and Graph, as seen in the Protein Viewer. Under the Tab "On-Screen Display" you should define 1 key combo, I use CTRL+F11, to toggle the OSD on/off. Delete the next two entries below if present for Show & Hide OSD. Play with it in an app that uses windowed mode first, that shows you directly what you do after hitting APPLY ;) Play with it, it's worth it.

VR does neither support SLI nor CF.

Oh, you have to check AMD I guess. If it was an Intel system it'd be Intel IRST driver that has that function. Tell your motherboard specs and we can find out, google can actually, we can't :smilewink: ----- *edit Doesn't seem to be that easy, read this https://forum.gigabyte.us/thread/3254/ahci-78lmt-windows-clean-install , it looks like there are issues with Samsung and those AMD chipsets. Looks like time to upgrade

MSI Afterburner with a properly configured OSD !

YOu will loose ~15-25% performance on a 2080ti due to limiting it to only 4x PCIe lanes and not 16x. Der 8auer has that topic in 1 of his videos where he used one of those with a 2080ti, but he got so many vids I forgot which one it is. Knowing that, it doesnt need to be a ti, a 2080 Super will then roughly yield the same fps in my theory.

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Would you think that a high core count machine and the fastest I/O path available would show a lesser performance impact ? Thinking of AMD x570 chipset and Gen4 NVMe along with a fast 3000 series CPU with more than 4 cores ( they all have 6 or more ), say a 12 or 16 core monster ? Vice versa, would a 4-core Sata SSD based system suffer more than the above ? Throughput is everything, hammer the bits down the pipe like there is no other day ;)

It's still worth to move to SSD, regardless of your primary issue. You not only load "once" and go flying forever, there are constant reloads of terrain and other objects that will benefit greatly from a SSD. It wont boost your fps but will for sure help to make it smoother. I hate to work/repair machines with HDD meanwhile, it takes ages for everything. I should charge more for fixing a HDD based machine, no kidding :D

Sure, but then he needs at least 2 drives, one for the OS and one for DCS. To somehow make it easier I suggested 1x 1TB that will leave enough free space for unforeseen things ;) But tbh, I run a 250GB OS NVMe and it gets filled pretty quick, I wish it was a 512GB disk and 250GB for DCS will be tight too if you install all modules and maps, current and future ones, so a 512GB for OS and also DCS is worth suggesting. Depending on how much care you take cleaning out your drive every now and then. Anyway, 2x 256GB will suffice if you take care and dont install all modules and maps soon to be available imho.

Here's a story worth to share. My friend called me and told that if his son upstairs turns his PC on, two of his TV channels would not tune in anymore, Cable-TV setup. I told him that usually that has nothing to do with each other and since the devices are on different floors it is even less likely. Anyway, I asked him to plug in the vacuum cleaner, tea pot, hair dryer into the same wall outlet ( 230V ) to see if any other device causes it. No, it all worked, just the PC freaked out the TV. I then assumed, it "could" possibly be a bad PSU interfering with the house electrics but that I had never seen this before and he better tells his son to carry the desktop to my house, he leaves 2 min down the road. When his son gave me the PC he told me there was a squeeky fan inside and he thinks its the CPU cooler. Well, he left and later that day I opened up the PC and turned it on, it was the 9cm case fan that was squeeking like a chicken about to get the head chopped of, like BRRRReeeeeee. I pulled the 3-pin to get rifd off the noise and tested the rig...all fine, did updates and upgrades, all OK and I couldnt see any bad PSU signs from off normal Voltages, all cool as well and good looking. SO I told him that I have a new Seasonic PSU inbound in 2 days and that we can test the PSU if the problem is still there when he gets home and reconnects the PC. It was fixed, that damn bad stupid fan caused the PC to backfire into the 230V grid so that the TV downstairs got interference on the frequency where those 2 channels affected reside. Strange, funny and I now look different at badly running & squeeky fans :doh:

The fastest is easy to determine if you can spend the money and want it now. GPU: Nvidia 2080ti RAM: 32GB DDR4-3600MHz CL16 Drives: 1TB NVMe Samsung 970 Evo Plus or Pro ( maybe 2 of those ) PowerSupply: Seasonic 850w-1kW Focus Plus Platinum or Titanium The CPU has choices, there is the fastest in single clock, which is the 9900k but you will have to overclock it by hand to get the benefits, or, if you like to stay stock, get an AMD Ryzen 3900X or even 3950X 12 or 16 core CPU. They are a little bit slower but offer the best performance out of the box if you dont want to overclock. They overclock out of the box if you provide proper cooling. The difference between Intel and AMD is not big and the real limiter is usually the GPU. I would pick the 3900X or even the 3950X if you have the money. AMD has the newer chipset and platform but that only matters if you buy other than above mentioned NVMe drives which are Generation-3, you would need Gen4 to make use of the new tech so to speak. The difference in gaming is null, that much up front. If you do video editing or audio processing that may show benefits, small ones. I would rather get Samsung Gen3 than any other SSD from another vendor Gen4 lineup, that's personal experience. The motherboard willhave to fit the CPU, either Intel or AMD socket. The good ones start north of 250$, rather 3-400$ if you want good RAM support and VRM ( Voltage regulation ) components. Usually the sound chip is also better on those >300$ ( Sabre chips usually ). I would choose Gigabyte Aorus Ultra x570 if you choose AMD as your CPU. For Intel, I am not sure which one, maybe also Gigabyte or Asus. For cooling, either get a "GOOD" air cooler from Noctua or same performance or better, get an AIO watercooler right away, 2x140mm size is a proper size. The biggest noise will be your GPU fans, if you like quiet PC's you can go with a DIY waterloop and also cool the GPU with water, which makes sense but may be too much if you do not know about it. Maybe a PC Shop locally can guide you there, it is worth the effort but may cost an additionel ~500$ for a DIY Loop with CPU and GPU and Radiator+Pump+Reservoir+small_parts. Think I tilted you enough already ;)

No issues here either way. I went back from 1.300v to 1.275v on the CPU, like ~7-8°C difference/~8-10Watts less. But it ran for a week at full settings w/o any crashes or such, temps 38-40°C GPU and mid-60°C CPU. Mid-50-to-60 °C with the slightly lower voltage. Might check your PSU or overall stability. It should take it 24/7/365 imho to consider stable

Haha, no no, it's all OK....family and close friends are much more time consuming, HAHA !! Take it easy, it will all sort out once you start doing it...and if you have to do it 2 or 3 times, dont worry. If I do a NEW platform I often install it first time to get to know the problems, look around how to fix them and then have a 2nd or even 3rd attempt that is "clean" to finally install the rig. That is NO SHAME. We all do it that way I dare to say. With "we" I mean all folks who do this often or for a living. YOu cannot know it all before, some wisdom and knowledge comes from DOING IT and then, in IT World...you wipe the disk and do it again, better..as you know better by then. Learning by doing and doing for learning ! Start here and watch some YT, basically what I wrote to you.. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=steam+libraries+relocate+

Not that I am aware of but we could start one if enough are with this idea. It wont make sense to have a 3-men Team. For now, my GPU is with Guru3D team on F@H and my CPU runs for BOINC with no team membership.

AMD 5500XT-8GB fits well. My son has one and we tested DCS on it. For that money you cant beat what you get, + Freesync and plenty VRAM. We paid 230,-€ here in germany.

We reached "EXAFLOP" territory, that's TEN by the power of EIGHTEEN !!!!!!!!:gun_rifle: btw...that's FASTER than over 100 of the world's fastest SuperComputer Arrays combined !!!!! A M A Z I N G

Buy the one that has the lower CL values. They could differ a little in speed as the 16GB ones could be "new" dies that could get to 16GB with single rank but I doubt they reached 3600 yet on those, I assume the 2x16GB is a dual rank so both are optimal. 2 sticks overclock better, that would be my tendency to buy the 16GB modules. If they dont XMP, send them back.

The MSI board looks great, it's got 2 Thunderbolt3 connectors and 10GB LAN which makes it futureproof once more USB-C and TB3 devices come to market and a 10GB LAN adapter is also nice to have onbaord. With SSD's EASILY outperforming a 1GB LAN adapter ( 112MB/sec) it is only a matter of time until mainstream will go 5 or 10GB LAN. For me a 10GB LAN would be a must have on my next board. MSI..I only had 1 board in 20 years and it bricked, but also did Asus. Asus Gigabyte and MSI make the best boards you can buy and sometimes you just get the wrong box with a faulty board, from either one. If you like that board, get it. It has features Asus does not offer for X570 boards. Good pick imho. I saw that Gigabyte only has 3 PCIe slots, yeah...a shame, but gamers usually dont need that many slots and thats maybe why they did it this way. For AMD, get 3600MHz to get the full potential, 32GB is enough for the foreseeable future and it will be very pricey and hard to find 64GB at 3600MHz with support for the motherboard.