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You can use the TM F-16 & F-18 grips on many other vendors base's. The TM base is not what it should be and it's one thing I dislike on my own gear. I guess I need to put new grease in etc... not fond of it.

Best practice is to separate OS and main apps, be it a game or CAD. Take at least a 1TB drive for DCS, 512GB or 1TB for OS, NVMe prefered.

I would personally take the 7800X3D if that machine is DCS orientated. On the other hand, with MT I don't see a problem with a 7700X either if you stick with that GPU. Depending on the budget...

Just for reference, do you fly any other helicopter in DCS ? I haven't flown the Ah64 a lot in DCS but others I have for many years. It takes practice over and over again and it also takes a fundamental understanding how a helicopter works, what a swash-plate does when you pull collective and what it does when you push the cyclic-stick left-forward and what it does when you do all that together plus rudders.. and what each blade does on it's way around the 360° circle. If you have no clue of what I am saying there will be limits of what you will understand when the Heli tells you something. If I hadn't flown R/C Helis I would honestly have no idea about most of this, it's hardly ever really explained and shown, in many documentations in also often plain false.

OK with the HDD if you store cold files. To the 250GB SSD, a 500er SSD is likely only 5€ more these days, you may want to upgrade that for little money. You could skip it if you have an "old" 1TB SSD that you carry along. Better save that slot then and may fill it with a drive of decent size once you need it.

Why those drives ? 250GB ??? Upgrade that 250GB drive and skip the 2TB hdd. 1x1TB and 1x2TB or 512GB and 1TB all nvme

To be fair, when I wrecked my 6700k in a Asus Z170 Extreme board I openly told them it happened while the board did it's auto-tuning feature, somewhere north of 4.7GHz. They replaced the CPU w/o any complications. Still, the XMP/EXPO-Warranty issue should be solved

How I love this attitude. Here, the fix you wanted and need... but hey, if you use it and it kills your stuff, it's not our fault ! Same as XMP end Expo voids warranty....but put it in every ad for every CPU. We call this "scheinheilig" and it is a real bad attitude *let's count the days until a stable release follows, I have run Asus for all my and their live, let's see.

Your situation is not uncommon. Many are behind a Router they cannot control, either in a Hotel, Campus, etc. or your ISP has just simply put you in a big CGN to save some precious IPv4 addresses, there are only 2 *32 of them, that's way too few to give one to every device on the internet, that's why ISP's are slowly moving to IPv6, DS-Lite IPv4 and all that to circumvent that problem "somehow". It's ok if you are a standard home user, use Teamviewer too, play games on the net, all that works without restrictions. The situation is only bad if you want to offer a service, aka be a server for whatever service you want to provide. It's Ports and IPs that matter here, nothing else and you got control over none in that scenario. End of Game. You either need full IPv6 support, top to bottom - or ask your ISP if you can have a "real" IPv4 that is not in a NATed network or CGN as those called, cell phones are usually in a big CGN . As of my knowledge, ED does not yet support IPv6 fully, nor do many many many other big websites and companies and services, so your biggest chance to politely ask for a true IPv4, one of those 2 *32 !! I am glad I have a static IPv4

OCP is usually a PSU feature, Over-Current-Protection. Maybe they use some kind of OCP in boards now, heck, it would make sense. There is also OVP, over voltage protection, and a few other protection circuits in good PSU's, just to clarify.

Damn, honestly I have no idea what you could do other than start over with no cable connected. Maybe the whole process hung up and your Windows went nuts, so doing it all over again might not be such a bad idea. Get it all on a USB stick, all drivers that you need etc.., pull the network, plug in the USB and install fresh OFFLINE. Somewhere your install went way down south to Mexico *edit: once done, if you opt for it, and if it works...BACK IT UP ! So you have an easy get-going next time. There are many Backup Solutions available, free and pay, pick anyone but DO IT.

No, only those inverted would need a change from +25 to -25. easy to find out: set it and check deflection before flight as you should before every single flight

Amazing what one can do with time, skills and some crazyness Love those Magura's on my old Zaskar-LE, they just work, not year after year, decade after decade, haha

pull the plug and do it offline, but that is not always practical

Have you tried this: https://pureinfotech.com/disable-automatic-driver-install-windows-11/ the first measure is usually all it needs for what you want. GPO is unavailable in Home editions, that won't work.

First thing that comes to my mind, you have, for whatever reason, F10 bound to Pause TiR. ?! Check in TiR-App what button is tied to PAUSE.

I actually depends on your resolution. See, I lack behind with my 1080ti and am constantly GPU bottlenecked but it is powerful enough for roughly 60ish fps and upwards @ 1440p with mid-high settings. It still is enough for 1440p and my settings if nothing else is lacking. Your biggest bottleneck will be your RAM but that comes cheap and you can upgrade to 32 or even 64 for reasonable money. The 7700 or 7th series in general will phase out with Win10, there is no upgrade path on Microsoft Windows after Fall 2025 for this system. It's Ubuntu or whatever Linux you like if you want to somehow safely use this system after Win10 EOL in fall 2025. That is the longest you have to plan ahead. Well worth some extra RAM. If I was you I would certainly go 3060ti and higher or maybe even 4070 if they drop even more in price in Europe.

To me, this sounds like a NAT problem, to be precise, the server likely don't have an official IPv4 WAN Address but one from a CGN ( Carrier Grade Network ). I am not sure if DCS fully supports IPv6 as of now but I do know that if you have a chance to run WireGuard VPN ( Fritz!Box 7.50ver and later do for example ) on IPv6 and use that to connect. That's how I solve such problems with SmartHome's that have the same NATed IPv4 but can run WireGuard on their Routers. edit* Tell us one of your recent IP's and we can tell. CGN IP's are listed on the web. if you do speak german, go here: wieistmeineip.de and do the test and post that screenshot here. *the server machine needs to do this, a client works fine on a NATed network/IP, just server's do NOT.

Get a GPU! You cannot really upgrade that socket to anything that makes sense. A 7700k or 8700k was possible but it’s not really THAT much better. After the GPU Upgrade plan for a complete CPU motherboard and RAM upgrade, maybe PSU as well then

THAT is the dilemma we all face ! AMD and Intel advertise their CPU's with XMP and EXPO but you better not touch it, it's off limits and voids your warranty. Just, all reviewers test those CPU's WITH those memory profiles enabled, even pushed further, way way beyond Warranty so to say. If you run them at stock speeds, JDEC/SPD, you loose a lot of performance. In order to get that extra performance, the bit of cake that makes ALL the difference, you need to void warranty and call yourself asn overclocker but all you did was enable the memory profile they all advertise with. All reviewers should reach out and make a statement. Test all CPU's ONLY with standard RAM speeds until AMD and Intel come up with something better. Why show results that are potentially dangerous for your Board, CPU and Cash !

I hope "they" accept it back as RMA. From what I know, bent pins are seen as a customer mishap and it will be almost impossible to proof it came this way. Good Luck !

You should also consider RAM bandwidth with that setup as it is DDR3 based. DCS does not utilize all cores equally and thus you will likely never see a CPU at 100% in DCS and if that was the case it would be a major problem whereas a GPU at 100% is what you want, always. Likely there is 1 core being fully used most of the time, which equals 12.5% of your CPU's 100% ( 8 threads ), there are more threads now with MultiThreading in DCS but they usually do not saturate the cores like the 1 main thread that drives the sim. So you will likely see 1 core usually maxed out and a few others between 20-80%, kind of like that. That CPU is too weak per core to justify an investment imho. It's a great home-server thing but too slow for DCS imho. edit.... Luc yeah, beat me with 3 minutes haha

I don't want to hold you guys back tuning the X3D chips, it sounds like some fun but there is this serious risc of burning it out. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-ryzen-7000x3d-burnout-reports

^^This I would still get 2 drives and split OS and Apps, Games, Data etc.. 2x 980Pro or similar. OS doesn't need 2TB, a 1TB is plenty for that.

I had to zoom thru it with my Tbolt