Cowboy10uk

Hi guys, well im still here looking at blooming pc specs after a few months, and i think Ive got the build almost right for DCS, SC and P3d / XP11. Anyway, may i please ask you guys to look through one more time at the 2 specs ive come up with. The pcs are pretty much identical builds with the only differences being cooling ( Watercooling vs aircooling ) and although both GPUS at 1080 TIs one is watercooled and one is aircooled. soundcards included purely for use with my jetseat Basically the choice now is what sort of cooling should i go for. Both pcs are by the same builder Scan Computers in UK. WATERCOOLED PC Cases Corsair Crystal Series 570X [Red] £184.98 inc VAT Custom CPU & GPU Water Cooling Stage 3 CPU & GPU Watercooling – Custom water cooled loop designed for cooling the CPU and a single GPU. Includes an EK DDC PWM pump, EK CPU block, EK GPU block, 360mm radiator, fittings, tubing and three high quality Corsair ML120 PRO fans. £411.38 inc VAT Coolant Blood Red £28.96 inc VAT LED Lighting Red £7.49 inc VAT Motherboards Asus ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING - Supreme FX audio, Aura Lighting, Intel LAN, WiFi £194.99 inc VAT Intel CPUs and Overclocking Intel Core i7 8700K, Coffee Lake, 6-Core with Hyperthreading, 3.7GHz, 4.7GHz Turbo [Overclocked - CPU professionally overclocked up to 4.8GHz] £319.79 inc VAT Memory 32GB (2x16GB) Corsair Vengeance RGB 3200MHz [black] £390.49 inc VAT Graphics Cards 11GB EVGA GTX 1080 Ti GAMING, 1480MHz GPU, 3584 Cores, 11000MHz GDDR5X - GeForce GTX VR Ready [single card] £689.99 inc VAT GeForce Experience NVIDIA GeForce Experience (requires NVIDIA graphics card) £0.00 inc VAT Graphics Card Overclocking Your choice of graphics card professionally overclocked, Requires Windows to be purchased with the system & adds an additional days testing £30.00 inc VAT Power Supply Unit 1000W Corsair HX1000, Full Modular, 80PLUS Platinum, SLI/CrossFire, Single Rail, 83.3A, 135mm Fan, ATX PSU LN80544 £169.99 Storage - Solid State Drives - PCIe (NAND) 1TB Samsung 970 EVO, 3400MB/s Read, 2500MB/s Write, 500K IOPS £319.99 inc VAT Storage - Solid State Drives - SATA 1TB Samsung 860 EVO, Read 550MB/s, Write 520MB/s, 98K IOPS £214.99 inc VAT Storage - Hard Disk Drives 2 x System Drives - These drives have been hand-picked as systems drives as they have the highest spindle speed and cache so deliver the best performance for a mechanical hard disk drive. [4TB WD Black WD4005FZBX, 7200rpm, 256MB Cache] £337.96 inc VAT Optical Drives Asus Blu-ray Reader/Writer - External £79.99 inc VAT Sound Cards Asus STRIX SOAR £64.49 inc VAT £3825.48 0r AIRCOOLED PC Cases Corsair Crystal Series 570X [Red] £169.99 inc VAT Motherboards ASUS ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING £194.99 inc VAT Intel CPUs and Overclocking Intel Core i7 8700K, Coffee Lake, 6-Core with Hyperthreading, 3.7GHz, 4.7GHz Turbo [Overclocked - CPU professionally overclocked up to 4.8GHz]£319.79 inc VAT CPU Coolers Corsair Hydro H150i PRO RGB with three ML120 fans £152.99 inc VAT Memory 32GB (2x16GB) Corsair Vengeance RGB 3200MHz [black] £390.49 inc VAT Graphics Card 11GB EVGA GTX 1080 Ti FTW3, 1569MHz GPU, 3584 Cores, 11000MHz GDDR5X - GeForce GTX VR Ready [single card] £753.98 inc VAT GeForce Experience NVIDIA GeForce Experience (requires NVIDIA graphics card) £0.00 inc VAT Graphics Card Overclocking Your choice of graphics card professionally overclocked, Requires Windows to be purchased with the system & adds an additional days testing. £30.00 inc VAT Power Supply Unit 1000W Corsair HX1000, Full Modular, 80PLUS Platinum, SLI/CrossFire, Single Rail, 83.3A, 135mm Fan, ATX PSU LN80544 £169.99 Storage - Solid State Drives - PCIe (NAND) 1TB Samsung 970 EVO, 3400MB/s Read, 2500MB/s Write, 500K IOP £319.99 inc VAT Storage - Solid State Drives - SATA 1TB Samsung 860 EVO, Read 550MB/s, Write 520MB/s, 98K IOPS £214.99 inc VAT Storage - Hard Disk Drives 2 x System Drives - These drives have been hand-picked as systems drives as they have the highest spindle speed and cache so deliver the best performance for a mechanical hard disk drive. [4TB Western Digital Black, 7200rpm, 256MB Cache] £337.96 inc VAT Optical Drives Asus Blu-ray Reader/Writer - External £79.99 inc VAT Sound Cards ASUS STRIX SOAR £69.49 inc VAT Aftermarket Fans 120mm Corsair LL120 RGB LED x3 £72.98 inc VAT LED Lighting Red £7.49 inc VAT £3612.10 Cowboy10uk

Thanks for the offer. :thumbup: Been in contact with both Scan and Chillblast ref the PSU on offer. Although neither show up on their configuration pages, both have stated they are happy to fit the Corsair HX1200i Platinum PSU during the build. So I think I’ll grab that no matter which way I go. Think I’m leaning more toward the Scan machine at the mo, although I’ve got that niggling doubt about waiting to see what the 1180 brings to the scene. But obviously no one knows what that will turn up, I’ve seen everything from the next 4 weeks till the end of the year. Scan have also confirmed that the 5ghz overclock is on ALL cores on the 8086 rather than just the single one as standard.

Fabulous in that case covering the time I was down south. ???? We should at least get MPA, Mare harbour and the radar sites then. Quite a few of the roads weren’t built until 2000, well apart from the Stanley road. ( Wonder if they will include a crazy bus driver thundering Down the road between Stanley and MPA then ;) )

The other PC I’m looking at, is another from Chillblast. Again I would want to change the M2 to 1tb, add a 1tb SSD drive and change the barracuda from 3tb to 4TB. https://www.chillblast.com/chillblast-fusion-hailstorm-rgb-gaming-pc.html?category_id=412#product-details-tab-tab608 Processor • Intel Core i7-8700K Processor (overclocked by up to 20%) • 12MB L3 Cache Motherboard • Asus STRIX Z370F GAMING Motherboard Memory • 32GB DDR4 3333MHz • Configuration 2 x 16GB • Dual Channel Support • 4 x DIMM Slot Solid State Drive • 500GB Samsung 960 EVO M.2 Solid State Drive Hard Drive • Seagate 3TB BarraCuda Hard Disk Drive Optical Drive • None Software • Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64bit Display • Monitor not Included Graphics • ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Graphics Card Audio • Onboard High Definition Audio Input Devices • Keyboard and Mouse not Included Networking • LAN: 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet Power Supply • Corsair RM850x 80 PLUS Gold 850W Modular PSU

I’ve asked the question ref the 5ghz, whether it’s a guaranteed 5ghz on all 6 cores, or whether it’s just the standard single one that comes out of the box so will wait and see. ( The write up does state all cores though ) I’ve tried OCing myself and I just cannot get it. I don’t think I’ve ever managed a stable overclock depsite buying what is meant to be the right chips, hence why I’m getting someone to do it for me. Ref the pump and radiator, haven’t got a clue as it just says custom watercooling. It’s from Scan computers the Vengence fluid TI CR. I’ve chosen to upgrade the Memory, Add another SSD drive and increase the M2 to 1tb and the western digital to 4TB. https://www.scan.co.uk/3xs/configurator/vengeance-fluid-ti-cr

Sent them an email, they do sell a 1200 Corsair plantinum in the components section, so have asked if they would fit one of them instead. The other question is Ram, will I really need 64 at 3200mhz or will 32 be good enough. Looking at £300 vs £700 depending on what amount of ram I go for.

Sorry if this has already been answered, but does anyone know what timeframe this will be set in? Are we going for a 1982 timeframe to cover the conflict, or are we going for a more modern but hypothetical conflict situation? Don’t mind either way, just blooming stoked to finally be getting the Falklands to play with, just wondering more for the landscape. Obviously 1982 will be significantly more bleak, less roads, no Mount Pleasent airfield or Mare Harbour etc, but if we are doing a more hypothetical modern timeframe, then there has been significantly more infrastructure built up on the islands from obviously MPA and Mare Harbour, to additional radar sites on the islands, and newer and bigger hospital in Stanley, and new roads across the islands. Aircraft wise, well apart from the Huey, nothing we currently have module wise was involved in 1982, so I don’t really see there would be any conflict making a more modern version of the islands. If you do include MPA, please don’t forget the huge amount of bars on the base, I think I can remember where the majority of them where. Although my memory from those tours are a tad fuzzy. ;)

Hi guys and girls. After my Chillblast post I get the general feeling that I9 isn’t the way to go, so I’ve been looking about for other options. This is my latest selection, again price range is extremely similar, so is this a better choice. Again my aim is 4K at 60fps on max settings. Case Corsair Obsidian Series 500D Coolant Blood Red Motherboard ASUS ROG MAXIMUS X HERO - Supreme FX audio, Aura Lighting and Intel LAN Intel CPUs and Overclocking Intel Core i7 8086K, Coffee Lake, 6-Core with Hyperthreading, 4.0GHz, 5.0GHz Turbo [Overclocked - CPU professionally overclocked up to 5.0GHz] Memory 64GB (4x16GB) Corsair Vengeance RGB 3200mhz Graphics Cards with EK Waterblock 11GB EVGA GTX 1080 Ti SC, 1556MHz GPU, 3584 Cores, 11000MHz GDDR5X - GeForce GTX VR Ready [single card] Graphics Card Overclocking Your choice of graphics card professionally overclocked, Requires Windows to be purchased with the system & adds an additional days testing. Power Supply Unit 850W Corsair RMx, Modular, Silent, 80PLUS Gold - Dual GPUs Storage - Solid State Drives - PCIe (NAND) 1TB Samsung 970 EVO, 3400MB/s Read, 2500MB/s Write, 500K IOPS Storage - Solid State Drives - SATA 1TB Samsung 860 EVO, Read 550MB/s, Write 520MB/s, 98K Storage - Hard Disk Drives 4TB Western Digital Blue, 64MB Cache

Sure, not back home till next week. So will do it once I get home.

Hi guys and girls, I don’t know what I’m doing wrong but I’m having serious issues getting the tacan working when using the F18. I have set up 2 x tacans In mission editor 1 is the carrier setup as 74x carrier The other is a c130 tanker set up as 11y tkr So I click on TCN to highlight the letters on the ampcd, and this obviously brings up the tcn settings on the ufc. I click on/ off to turn it all on, and then enter 11 enter for channel and make sure Y and A/A is selected. However all that happens is the pointer starts spinning on the ampcd. Likewise if I use the same process but obviously turn off A/A mode for the carrier again the pointer just spins. I can get a reading if I enter 1x on the tacan in A/A mode. Then it gives me bearings to TKR, however it seems to be from the carrier and NOT the c130. I know others seem to have it working with no problems, so any idea where on Earth I’m going wrong. I’ve tried deleting all settings, and redoing the mission, I’ve tried making a brand new mission, but I’m still getting the same issues.

Hi guys, I’m still looking at going for a new pc although due to a change in my circumstances I.E. I’m now a father, for the 1st time in my pc career I’m looking at purchasing a off the shelf pc :O Been looking around for the last few weeks and came across a company called Chillblast, which appears to have very good reviews, and has a machine which they claim, is the fastest flight sim PC avalible, which is a rather bold claim. Now it is within my budget just and on paper looks rather impressive, but I cannot find ANY reviews of this pc anywhere. It’s called the Fusion Valkyrie. https://www.chillblast.com/chillblast-fusion-valkyrie-xb-70-ii-x299-ultimate-flight-sim-pc.html I was just wondering if anyone here within our community has come across these guys or maybe used the machine itself as given the claim of the fastest flight sim pc avalible, we are obviously the target market. I’m planning to use it with XP11, DCS and Star Citizen running at 4K and I have a target a FPS of at least 60. My current pc still runs most but she’s struggling with XP and I very very rairly can get FPS above 20, DCS runs at about 25 - 30 hence it being time for a new pc. Although I am tempted to hang on for the latest Nvidia cards due out in a few months. Chillblast Fusion Valkyrie XB-70 II Core-i9 Ultimate Flight Sim PC Processor: Intel Core i9-7900X CPU, 10 Cores, 3.3 - 4.3GHz Overclocking: Overclock my CPU by up to 20% Case: Corsair Graphite 780T Case - Black Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Graphics Card Case Lighting: Red LED Case Lighting CPU Cooler: Corsair Hydro H100i V2 CPU Cooler Thermal Paste: Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Paste Case Cooling: Additional and Quiet Cooling Fans Upgrade Pack Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX X299-E GAMING Motherboard Memory: 64GB DDR4 2133MHz Memory (4 x 16GB Sticks) OS Drive: 500GB Samsung 960 EVO M.2 PCIe Solid State Drive Solid State Drive: 1TB Crucial MX300 Solid State Drive Secondary Hard Drive: Seagate 4TB BarraCuda Optical Drive: Blu-Ray ReWriter Drive Power Supply: Corsair RM1000x 80 PLUS Gold 1000W PSU Sound Card: Onboard High Definition Audio Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64-bit Anti Virus Software: Bullguard Internet Security OEM Power Cables: Chillblast Power Cable Cable Management: Elite Chillblast Cable Management Speed Up Build Time: Estimated 7 - 10 Working Day Build Service Warranty: 5 Year Warranty, 2 Years Collect & Return UK only

Sounds like you may have copied and pasted the lines on the left lua rather than cut and pasted them. I did the same and couldn’t figure out why one wouldn’t work, until I went back into the files and spotted I had copied the bottom line and it was still there as well as the top. Once I deleted the bottom bit it worked fine.

Yep. Works exactly the same as any other exports, only difference is you need the move a few lines about in the code to get DCS to recognise it.

Capt Zeen has kindly posted his monitor config files here to show how to set that up. https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3531564&postcount=24 As stated above. NONE of this work is mine, it’s all down to Sreventon and Capt Zeen. All I have done is shared the info here for those who haven’t found it yet.

C:/Eagle dynamics/dcsworld openbeta/mods/aircraft/fa-18c/cockpit/scripts/multipurpose_display_group/MDI_IP1556A/Indicator file I didn’t change anything in the monitor files as I already export the A10 and Harrier MFDs. So if you already export other MFDs which if you’re doing this I guess you will be, you don’t need to change anything else.

Hi guys, just a quick post for those who don’t know. Over on the input forum, there’s a great thread by Capt Zeen, who was asking how to export the mfds. https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=210138 If you go to post 8 by Sreventon, he has instructions on getting the export to work. Basically go to your left or right mfds init.lua file, and cut and past the last two lines from the bottom to the top. I can confirm it works a treat. This is NOT my solution, all thanks and praise goes to Sreventon who has done a fabulous job. I’m just posting here for those who may not have found the solution yet. Appreciate it’s a poor quality video taken on my iPad, but at least it shows it works. ;)

Any news of whether the view export will be fixed with the hot fix today? Really missing not having the displays showing on my TM mfds

Doesn’t everyone? I know I have 2 extra Hotas setups tucked away in case of breakdowns. God forbid something breaks and I can’t fly.

So what’s the issue, Just install Beta only. That way you only have one install, get all the modules and maps early and don’t have to wait for everything. Sure sometimes it’s a bit buggy but that’s a small price to pay for early access. I haven’t had stable installed for years,

^ This. Have the same issue with A10, but if I move throttles from off to idle and back to off, then they will work next time I move them to idle. Otherwise they don’t register.

Simple, I have no skill ;)

Now for the first attempt at a pattern approach. Same caveats apply as above. I’m useless, it bears no resemblance of a correct pattern, I would be fired if this was RL, and it’s a bloody miracle I survived. Enjoy :thumbup:

Ok here’s my first straight in carrier landing. Please bear in mind, I suck. It follows no known procedure, my flying is bloody awful, god knows how I survived. ;) But should give everyone a good laugh about how bad I am. :doh: :helpsmilie: Oh and for some reason I can’t get GeForce experience to only record main monitor, hence the big black strip which is the 2nd mfd monitor input.

ok cheers mate, guess they will just have to take my word for it then ;)

Hi guys, appreciate I should know this, but can players WITHOUT the Hornet still watch Hornet tracks? Want to show my bro my first landing although he doesn’t have the F18 yet. Cowboy10uk