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I have now actually discovered that I can buy a Z690 board, which I can BIOS flash to support 13gen i5k. This is pretty cool as this means I can actually get a great board with a great feature set, for very little money. The 13gen i5 is looking mighty attractive right now, I can get the CPU+BOARD for as little as 500-550 Euros.

I think it's pretty safe to say that the EF will not be released anytime soon. By that, I mean in 2023.

Yeah, I can get a great DDR4 Z790 ATX Board + the 13600K for less than 620 Euros. Which is still expensive and might be overkill, but it's still cheaper than a DDR5 AM5 solution by quite a margin. Still it feels like a stopgap and not sure it's worth it. Do you know (or maybe someone else can comment) on whether it's worth going for the cheaper B760 chipset boards, I've always bought the high end Z series boards from Intel, but if Im going the stopgap route, they may really not be worth it?

Yeah AM4/Zen3 is quite a bit cheaper. Especially considering that I would be able to re-use my DDR4 Ram. But if I go down that route, I might as well get the i5-13600K which seems to best it in both price and performance, in some cases by a large margin. The i5-13600K is seriously worth considering.

Shame. Would give my left nut for a flyable Lancer in DCS World. Ditto for the F-111.

That B1 Lancer, is that going to be flyable or is it AI only? I mean it was pretty heavily featured in the video. Ditto for the B52?

I wish I had access to US hardware stores. Unfortunately I live in Europe. Everything over here is basically converted to Eur and then you get an added 15-20% to MSRP at the very least on top of the US prices AT THE VERY LEAST unless you happen to get an awesome deal. What Im trying to say is that I can't get a motherboard+CPU+32GBDDR5 RAM Combo for 600$, that's just not possible, not even if I went for the 7600X which to be honest is a really underwhelming chip. I'll be very lucky if I am able to pick up a decent deal for 750 Eur, it will probably be closer to 770-780 depending on the prices. In any case I'll be waiting for at least the next two weeks, once the X3D and non X chips are out in the wild just to see if their release changes things for the better. If the prices surge, I might even wait for the next price drops which will realistically happen in spring at the earliest.

I'm excited about the AM5 platform, AMD will support it for a long time, which is why I think that upgrading to AM5 over anything that Intel drops will make sense in the long run. (Unless Intel goes against their "tradition" of the past 10 years where it's been necessary to upgrade your RAM+MOBO+CPU almost every other generation) I'm in this for the long run, by which i mean that I hope I won't have to upgrade my Motherboard for at least 4-5 years. Unfortunately the cost of living and pretty much everything else has gone up. I can't afford the latest and best anymore, I'm going to have to make my 3090RTX work for me a for a loooong time, and this might even mean giving up on DCS at least in VR unless they fix their damn game. This means that I'm going to have to buy a low to midrange AM5 motherboard, a decent DDR5 Ram kit, and a CPU that won't break the bank, in the hope that a couple of years down the line I can save up for a killer CPU.

I think the X3D models will be too expensive for me, but I will probably hold out for their release before upgrading to the 7700X or the 7800X just to see if there are more price drops.

There seems to be a lot of conflicting (read PLAIN WRONG) information floating around in this thread. As long as you have a variable freesync enabled (or gsync capable) monitor and a graphics card that supports either of those two technologies then the higher the refresh rate the better. Even if you are not hitting the MAXIMUM AVAILABLE refresh rates of the monitor in question it won't matter as you will not experience screen tearing and you will achieve a fluid picture if you can maintain at least 60 FPS. What does affect your FPS rate is NOT THE REFRESH RATE OF THE MONITOR it is the number of pixels required to be drawn by the graphics card. Or in other words, the higher the RESOLUTION the more POWERFUL GRAPHICS CARD required. It really is that simple.

Like the title says, I'm thinking of upgrading from an i9900k to the Ryzen 7700X. It has the same core count, but the AM5 motherboards and DDR5 have dropped in price sufficiently for it to make sense from a future proofing point of view. The i9 is a 2018 chip and is getting a bit long in the tooth, although to be fair it's plenty fast enough for most of my gaming/workflow etc. Anyone have a similar experience? How did it go? Did it improve your experience in DCS World? I heard that there could be quite a lot of problems with getting the system to post, etc.

Sure the application always knows your position, but you can always artificially introduce errors, or rather probabilities into every known variable. It's could be very similar to the "dice roll" of missile chaff resistance. In fact it would be more robust because you can "fudge" every variable. I mean even a simple probability equation of: this cannon will intentionally shoot (x)*5m in the X,Y,Z direction from the target for 20% of the time, (where x could also be a random number between 0.1 and 1) would be better than: this cannon leads the target perfectly all the time. I will say that a lot of players forget to jink every few seconds or so, but even so the AAA fire in this game is deadly accurate.

AFAIK (and please correct me if Im wrong here) Heatblur, like most other third parties the guys don't do this full time. While there might be guys working in parallel on both modules, especially if something is already done on one module, the module which is directly in the pipeline will always get the most attention at the expense of everything else. This is true of full AAA games studios, let alone obscure third party developers, with day jobs. This is especially true with respect to FM and system modeling, the coders, the guys who actually write the flight model, and all the nice groovy system modeling that make up the main part of the simulation that runs under the hood, well they can't very well be working on both modules, unless there really are discrete teams working in parallel on both planes. I don't believe this to be the case, otherwise we would see parallel (or very close to each other) releases of modules. This has never happened before, at least not with any third parities as far as I know.

I would really like to know what barely not married means....

Have you done any programming or probability mathematics? You are right, I have no idea how Eagle Dynamics have programmed their AI, but if this kind of thing is hardcoded into their engine and can't be changed easily then this is extremely poor coding.

I'm not expecting it before 2024 maybe even 2025. Let's face it, the F4 is still not done, and Heatblur have stated it's their priority at this moment until they release the F4 they are not going to be ramping up work on the Eurofighter. This is best case scenario, there are a ton things that can go wrong both in real life and in the changing of plans. Remember the F4 was announced AFTER the Eurofighter, but the EF was put on the backburner so that they could push the F4 out of the door.

The downside is you just broke your plane. If all you care about is guns only BFM, with magic airstarts then it doesnt make a difference. In a real F14 you would never fight BFM with flaps down because A) it will break your plane and B) it will break your $%&345! plane you lunatic and you might crash at some point because of it and even die so don't do it. Ever.

I upgraded from the i5 to the i9 9900k, about a year and a half ago and yes in most games you wouldn't notice it, but one thing about my i5 it overclocked very poorly (luck of the draw I guess) but the i9 hits 5.0 Ghz very easily so there is that I guess. P.S. For what it's worth, I think I would go for a brand new motherboard+cpu combo if I were upgrading today, which is something I will probably do anyway sooner rather than later, as the 9900k is getting a bit long in the tooth. With that said, I don't think I will ever go back to less than an 8 core processor, more and more applications are taking better advantage of multithreaded hardware. If I were upgrading today I would go for the AMD 5800X3D as I would be able to use my DDR4 Ram, but as I still see no real need to upgrade right at this minute I guess I'll wait and see.

Actually it is very easy, it's just that Eagle Dynamics will not do it. There is a big difference between the two.

If you are applying torque to the cables, after you've plugged them in, then you need to recheck the seating. This is standard for any build I've ever done, regardless of what Im doing. Could Nvidia have made this a bit more foolproof? Sure. Are most people idiots who rush through their work without a second thought? Absolutely.

None at all, as long as you make sure that you seat the cable properly:

I wonder how the XTX will compare to the 3090RTX. Which I still rock, and which I quite like because of the large memory size and card bandwidth. If it's significantly faster it might be worth an upgrade, but if it's not I think I'm going to wait for at least another generation of cards to come round the bend.

I suspect the OP is talking about the Phoenix seeker being extremely susceptible to the notch, once the missile goes active, since the missile frequently guides very well when fired in PTSDD. Only a hunch though.

Wake turbulence in DCS World is seriously over-modelled.

Thanks for the reply Naquaii, my focus was on the DCSisms and game limitations, which is why I assume the rest of the thread was deleted by the mods. So I will not bother to respond directly. Let's just leave it at that, and not irk the wrath of the moderators any more. *edit* Well apparently part of the forum got deleted. Welp! Moderators not to blame, for once! Just joking.