Gnadentod

Good questions.

First, it was said to him to step up the wattage of the PSU after he got recommended to take the 9900K instead of 9600K or 9700K, which draws more power especially if overclocked. 1) Because the system he is about to decide on could pull more than 600W and this is without a (aftermarket) overclocked graphics card. If he decides on overclocking it, which is the smart move considering the fact he is buying a EVGA card, he needs headroom since overclocked graphic cards pull a lot more power real fast the higher you clock. 2) PSUs degrade over time, you don't want to buy a PSU which initially is strong enough to drive your system but after 2 years it can't handle the power draw anymore. 3) PSUs have a certain efficiency. The wattage the manufacturer claims the PSU to have must not be as high as what the system actually needs after the electricity has passed through the PSU. I doubt all the manufacturers calculate their wattage the same way, I wouldn't trust them for their PSUs to actually give your system the power they claim the unit can deliver into the system instead of pulling it ouf of the wall. 4) If he decides to get an SLI setup later on he needs headroom. 5) If he decides to get the next generation graphics card (3xxx TI?) he should have headroom since he doesn't know if those cards will draw more or less power. Do you know how much they will draw right now? If he should decide on getting a AMD card for whatever reason he needs more headroom aswell as of now since AMD cards draw more power, see Radeon VII or Vega 64.

I'm not sure why you're pushing the price argument against a M2 drive versus a normal SSD. The prices for a Samsung 860 M2 SSD and a normal Samsung 860 SSD is the same right now (except if for you 10 bucks is really a price difference). You seem to be a bit stuck in the past considering M2 SSDs vs normal SSDs prices. It's not quite obvious what you mean by SATA3, both HDDs and SSDs can be SATA3, this is the name of the interface. You don't compare prices of an SATA3 HDD against a SATA3 or even M2 SSD do you? The only argument against a M2 drive in the last months and years was the price but it has changed a lot, they cost about the same right now. Sure the difference or advantage of the M2 drive isn't that big over a normal SSD for DCS but look at it from the other side: why wouldn't he get the newer device if they cost the same? Sounds quite stupid to me now doesn't it?

Edit: Source? What are you talking about exactly? Edit: Yes, if it's nothing ED can implement, why shouldn't it work by now? As far as I see you only need to have the proper hardware for it, not a normal 370, 390 chipset or similiar board and you need to setup the Nvidia driver settings properly. Did you set this up and test it yourself or do you just repeat what others told you? Did someone do this and if yes where?

This would only help if Vulkan had no limits on utilizing number of cores. It has limits I guess. I doubt it has none and can really use like 20+ threads in a effective way but better than it is now for sure.

Still there would be no reason to not go with it even if it's zero difference, it's not like the new SSDs are way more expensive. As long as it's compatible with the board it's the best choice. Get the RX580 it's very strong for its price. I've tested 2560x1440 resolution, mid to high settings and anti aliasing x2 on a Ryzen 1300X (4x3,7 Ghz) and rarely dipped below 35 and never below 30 in low level flight singleplayer missions. Get a SSD aswell.

Point being that newer CPUs, in this generation, are still slightly more powerful at the same clock speed since they also work with more cache and more additional stuff which I can't explain to you since I'm not on the level a Intel employee as of now. So 5000 megahertz on the 9600K are not as strong as on the 9900K (single thread), but the difference is not big by any means. In the end it is just about if you want the best without really looking at finances or not. 280 is enough for cooling this line of CPUs if you have a decent manufacturer of the cooling system, 360 is a "cooling overkill" especially in case of the 9600K because the voltage will decide where your overclocking wall will be and not the heat (in this 280 versus 360 radiator scenario). If it's about space in a new case then have a look at the Lian Li PC-O11 (Dynamic), has place for 3x360 radiators plus it also has superb airflow for motherboard and GPU.

You can always get a big USB stick later on and save the pictures offline instead of your system which is connected to the web. You don't even need to use internal disk space in this case. It's a bit easier and faster to install a GPU later on instead of a new CPU. If I had to decide I'd take the stronger CPU first and later might get a SLI setup with an additional identical card if I'm seeking for additional performance.

"Some" shooters is quite subjective but 500GB should still be enough, for me it would be even with another bigger application here and there. Afterall you don't want to spend all your life on video games or DCS do you? DCS alone really is able to keep you busy. Handy and clean. You're good to go with 500GB for DCS and one or two bigger shooters and family photos. Unless you really, really have a lot of photos in terms of filesize. It would just be smart to get a 9900K straight away instead of another 1TB storage. I guess ED will move DCS to Vulkan before the end of 2021, hopefully a lot sooner, so the cores and threads will "pay off" quite fast. Also there really isn't a downside for the 9900K because it is also one of the kings in terms of single thread performance as of now. You could also 1) get the EVGA 2080 TI FTW3 instead of the one you listed, it's their most powerful right now plus the 9600K/9700K or 2) 9900K with the GPU you listed. Depends if you do prefer a little more power on the processor or on the graphics card against each other. If you have the cash go for both seriously. The more you pay the more you get, quite simple in this case.

Edit: See post #277.

I don't know what you're doing on your system but I hardly come even close to ever filling up 500GB of disk space. I'd go with the 500GB M2 only, leave the normal 1TB SSD out and go for the 9700K or even 9900K seriously. The future tends to put more demand on corecount (DCS to Vulkan API), with the 9900K you have top-notch single thread performance and future proofing for multicore usage in one. Also if you intend to overclock the processor plus the graphics card you might get a PSU with a slightly higher wattage. I'd advise you to overclock with this motherboard anyway since it's mid to highrange/highrange. If you don't overlock atleast the CPU there is no need for you to buy this board really.

Use VR, get the G-Seat aswell and safe the money for the gym membership/homegym. :book: Get another 2080 TI with a NVLink bridge, Pimax 8K and enjoy VR. I'm planning on getting a machine similiar to yours with a second 2080 TI or a single Kingpin 2080 TI once it comes out. 8K has 170° horizontal FOV and thus about 45 Pixels per inch. They are also implementing fixed foveated rendering as we speak which only the 2xxx cards can take advantage of as of now (the center of the picture is the sharpest, outer edges the most blurry). Edit: Your Vive Pro has 26 pixels per inch and probably the number is even lower since I guess the 110° FOV they claim is the diagonal one, not the horizontal as I've used it for the 8K above. At best it's 26 ppi versus atleast 45 ppi in the 8K. The picture of the 8K is about twice as good as your Vive Pros with way more FOV - as long as you have the machine to drive it. If not go for the 5k+. This is miles ahead of the older and other upcoming HMDs seriously. With Pimax the "second generation" is already here.

DCS is one of the very few applications which really deserves the title simulation. It's not a "game" and never will be (hopefully ED). It aches if some call it a game.

Next level Genosse, good work. I'd pay up to 1800 to 2000€ for one. As far as I could see there is no need to attach the seat to the floor with screws or similar since it has enough mass of its own. So you could reposition it quickly whenever and whereever correct? How much is its weight?

What exactly did Wags say about FC4?

You mean the generation now coming or 2020ish? Considering the mining specific boards is this a personal guess, rumor or atleast somewhat official you've read?

WIN10 = Most complex spyware ever invented, camouflaged as an Operating System. Why does a single update make the systemperformance drop by 10% (!)? "Background" processes? Why was WIN10 totally FREE to update to? Get back to WIN7 and enjoy.

"Open Target" in this context just means open the (target-)folder which you have chosen for the zip file to unzip to. If you unzipped the file to F:\Downloads\mi8 for example, "mi8" is your "Target".

Did I say that DDR3 is outdated or did I say it's getting outdated?

Exactly this.

Which is DDR4 2666 Mhz right now, maybe 3000 too. He has DDR4 already. And DDR3 really getting outdated as we speak. Some minor gains in minimum FPS, maybe some gains in maximum FPS.

Yes, especially regarding DCS. I mean those are able to hit the 5 Gigahertz with some overclocking. Those are 14nm already, Intel is improving 14nm a bit with the next release(s) but as someone looking to build a rig for DCS this shouldn't interest you too much. 8700k and 8600k just came on the market in Q4 2017.

Not all 970s have this "bug" though. Mine had not.

You have to lower resolution with this card to get playable (and somewhat enjoyable) framerates. You really need to consider an GPU upgrade for DCS, atleast a Nvidia 970 or 1060.

27 inch screen is a decent size for WQHD resolution. 970 GTX is delivering smooth framerates if you have a good CPU and is enough for Non-VR. By the way, new Nvidia GPU generation will be released this July/August the earliest, changes in GPU prices are likely.