ElCuco68

I've got a Corsair H100i (?) Water cooler on it. What's the best way to go about overclocking that CPU? I'm pretty sure the Asus MB I have it on has some kind of simplified overclocking scheme on it.

I'm still getting what I can only imagine is a low framerate at times; a barely-perceptible momentary freeze when I'm looking out the cockpit at the ground. I'll try the GPU-Z. What's the best way to display fps in VR view?

...now that I've got a watercooled 1080Ti? I'm currently using an AMD FX-8350, and while I know that this is a mismatch, and I definitely need to upgrade (to the i7 8700k), I'm wondering if the 8700k would make a drastic, very noticable difference, or not enough of one to justify not waiting a few months to a year to upgrade (CPU and MB)? I'm using an Oculus Rift.

...now that I've got a watercooled 1080Ti? I'm currently using an AMD FX-8350, and while I know that this is a mismatch, and I definitely need to upgrade (to the i7 8700k), I'm wondering if the 8700k would make a drastic, very noticable difference, or not enough of one to justify not waiting a few months to a year to upgrade (CPU and MB)? I'm using an Oculus Rift.

I used one of those power supply calculator tools, and it said that with this card, and the 8700k (when I get it, soon), both overclocked, my wattage should be around 720w with everything I have (including all storage, USB devices, RAM, etc), so should I get an 850w or 100w, just in case, or should my EVGA Gold 750w be okay?

I've got a similar dilemma. I just bought an EVGA 1080Ti FTW3 Hybrid (watercooled), which is due to be in my mailbox this afternoon, but my current system is an AMD FX-8350, 32Gb RAM. I'm seriously considering getting an 8700k right away, either from Amazon or Silicon Lottery, because I'm pretty sure that the 8350 is going to bottleneck the hell out of that card, but I'm wondering if the performance upgrade I'm going to get from going from a GTX-970 to the 1080Ti will keep me happy for a few months, or if I'm really missing out on some great performance by waiting. I also have the CV1, and plan on getting the next great thing within a couple years or so.

So, I got this on eBay for $600, coming tomorrow. Going to see how it does, then decide if I'm going to get the 8700k CPU and Asus Maximus X Hero MB now or a little later: https://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-HYBRID-GAMING-Technology/dp/B074D7S8HR

I bought this on eBay for $600: https://www.evga.com/articles/01123/evga-geforce-gtx-1080-ti-ftw3-hybrid/ Sells for this brand-new: https://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-Hybrid-Gaming-Technology/dp/B074D7S8HR/ref=pd_sim_147_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B074D7S8HR&pd_rd_r=43e8e460-a7b7-11e8-b96a-75051c3f57a5&pd_rd_w=00tnL&pd_rd_wg=uic0s&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=a180fdfb-b54e-4904-85ba-d852197d6c09&pf_rd_r=BQQ3Y3CQE344WF904RQG&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&psc=1&refRID=BQQ3Y3CQE344WF904RQG The GTX-970 wasn't cutting it.

Hey, so I was thinking of getting the i7 8700k and an Asus ROG Maximus X Hero MB, but I'm also looking at the new i7-8086K. They're pretty close in price, but the last one is 4GHz/5GHz. Any preference for VR?

Well Jesus Christ, man; spit it out! What would you recommend? (BTW, I have no idea what the difference is between Turing and Pascal; I'm assuming that's the CPU?) Edit: Oh, it's a graphics card; the RTX 2080. Only $1200 ! Yeah, I'll get right on that.

How well does your rig work with the Oculus? I'm currently getting nauseating 25 fmp rates with my fx-8350 and GTX-970, even with that shader mod.

So, when is this supposed to happen with the new card driving down the cost? About October or so? If theyre about $750 now, what do you think they'll go down to, approximately?

Exactly! It's almost the same reason I never, ever buy new cars. Five years old is the sweet-spot; just enough time to bleed off most of that new-car cost, but new enough to still have lots of life and tech innovation left.

I currently have an AMD FX-8350, a Gigabyte GTX-970, 32GB of RAM, and various SSDs, and I'm thinking that the next logical step for Oculus Rift would be the 1080Ti. I'll upgrade the CPU later with an I9 or I7, but I'll also need a new mobo, so I'll defer that for now. My questions: Is this really a good logical next step and 2: When should I take the plunge? Rumor has it that October would be a good time, price-wise. I'm anxious to do this, as my 970 is pretty much maxed out, even with that mod that everyone's trying (with the new metacaches and whatnot), so I can barely wait to try this, but if it's going to save me a couple hundred bucks or so to wait, I will.

PM Sent.

Hey, did you say that this is just the gimbal, or does it also come with the Warthog stick?

Where would you go from here as far as CPU/GPU, given my setup? My instincts say to start with the 1080Ti, then upgrade to an i7 or i9 and appropriate mobo(which are good picks for DCS and VR?), then maybe a 256 gb NVMe SSD for the OS and a SATA 1 or 2 TB SSD for DCS and VR games?

Right now, I have an Asus Crosshair V formula Z Motherboard, AMD 8350 CPU, a Gigabyte GTX-970 graphics card (hoping to get the 1080Ti soon), 32 GB RAM, liquid cooling, and about 6 or 7 various SSDs and HD's. I'm wanting to use the 500GB SSD to put Windows 10 on (it was on a 128 GB SSD), and transfer DCS and the Oculus Rift stuff from the older 500GB SSD and put it on at least a 1TB, faster SSD. Eventually, I'll get rid of the assortment of smal HDDs, and put everything else on a 6 or 8 TB 7200 rpm drive, keeping the 2TB 7200 drive I already have. What I'm wondering is if it makes sense to spend extra on the newer PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD's, which have insane read/write speeds, to speed up the loading process and help out the Oculus Rift? I'm not even sure if that's even a bottleneck, considering the fact that the MB is a few years old, and having the 8350, or even if that MB will take this newer type and be able to utilize it.

Got it fixed, thanks! WOW !! This is incredible! I was fully prepared to be underwhelmed, but this is FAR better than I was expecting! I now see exactly why people say "You can never go back to 2D".

So, I just bought a 3-sensor O.Rift setup (with Touch controllers as well), and for some reason, I'm sitting outside and to the left of the plane's cockpit. I tried a few things but the best I can do is get just inside to the left of the seat back. What's going on?

I have an Asus Crosshair V formula Z MB, AMD-8350 CPU, GTX-970 GPU, about 1TB of SSD's, another 5 in HDDs, and 32 GB RAM, all about 3 years old, and it runs DCS perfectly, including VR.

This is what he's selling: http://www.realsimulator.com/html/fssb_r3_warthog.html

By the way; I wrote to Thrustmaster, and they told me they couldn't sell me a stick unless I could send them a copy of my receipt, with a serial number, for a broken flight stick (entire unit).

Thank you for a very polite and helpful answer to my question. That's apparently a skill beyond the cognitive capacity of some people.

Would it be safe to assume that pretty much any DCS-related problem has been gone over multiple times before? I did actually use the search box, but didn't find anything that completely answered my question.