Bob_Bushman

Small table next to my desk. Just getting it off the floor by a few inches makes a big difference. No matter what you do, you still need to clean every few months, there is no way around that.

Running a 12700k and just made the move to win 11, nothing but benefits across the board. I stayed on 10 far to long.

Going from an 8700k to a 12700k was like unlocking 40% of my 3090, so yea big potential for a gain, of course depending on the rest of the system. DCS is still DCS so no it won't magically fix all the other things that are wrong.

Prices will not sink much further, but they won't go up either. You won't find a new 3080 Strix custom board for <$800 + tax. Nvidia has halted manufacturing of 30's cards already, and will just wait and hold on 40 series until they have cleared out stock, so what if they don't launch til christmas. AMD is nowhere near launching anything, we might start seeing early leaks q4 but nothing substantial til q2-23 Intel Arc just launched, that is nowhere near competing with the rest, top spec cards, their goal was low-mid tier, and is likely not going to until they hit Druid or what they want to call it maybe five years from now. If you do want you can get below advertised MSRP but only with used cards. Saw for example 3090's on Ebay for $800. As for a 40 series card, I don't even want one. 600W TDP in a time where 1kw will cost a $1 or more, just nope.

Not really, what we should do is convince ED to fix their bloody game so it properly releases allocated RAM as it should.

Vram wise, in my experience games seem to settle on 8-10GB. DCS in VR settles in at around 16GB, so I honestly don't think moving from a 10gb card to 12gb would matter much since 12GB is still 5GB short.

For a regular screen my 8700k and 1080ti was perfectly fine to run at 100-120fps. So for what OP has posted should be more than excellent for anything below 4k imo. As for a G2 things get expensive fast... My 1080ti certainly wasn't feeding that acceptably, unless I would run the g2 at 40% resolution, and the 8700k would bottleneck possibly even a 3070, VR DCS also really likes VRAM, but from everything I hear AMD gpu's still has performance "issues" compared to team green, this is just hearsay and can probably vary greatly between builds and what people consider acceptable. ATM I am running a 3090, (only thing I was lucky to find available a year ago), a 12700k and 64GB ram. The step from the 8700k to the 12700, halved if not, more my cpu frametimes in VR, basically from 16-8ms with peaks at 12-14 instead of 30ms, it is still DCS so spikes do happen. @kotor633 A move from a Ryzen 1600 to a 5600 would be huge I am sure, not only 800mhz faster it has twice the L3 cache and dare I say double the IPC, so it does about twice the work per clock.

I have the crosswinds and can confirm just pulling the spring off is quite nice for helicopters, you don't really need the damper for this either, but as it's a mere £50 upgrade options with all the needed kit I can't recommend it more it completely transformed the feel of the pedals for the better and not for just helicopters the damper is a nice upgrade even for just flying the hornet. Pulling the spring off just a hardware thing, so you don't even have to turn off the game to do it.

I'm sure it looks nice, but this for €1500 or winwing's f16 grip for $400 ?

DCS is currently only loading two cores, sound on one, and "everything else". Naturally most hardware is left waiting for the latter to do it's thing. Windows' built in thread scheduler will switch the load around cores for a myriad of various reasons, temperature, speed and task priority etc. A lot of software and games runs this way, but many games from the last decade or so has full utilisation for 8+ cores. ED is hard at work to implement multi-threading but this is a huge task and will take time. In the mean time what you are seeing is perfectly normal.

16.6ms is what you need to reach 60fps. But my use case is VR and that is much more taxing than 2d. If I was going for 2d then I would probably still be very happy with my 1080ti and 8700k.

Pimax doing the same kinds of bull. Wait a whole long while for an order, demand refund, that they claim to offer, "hassle free". And like magic your unit shipped the night before. Wait some more, and ask why shipping took so long, and it seems it was magically stuck on a carousel in Dubai...

The 80 plus rating is mostly for efficiency which is good and all, but it is not a badge of quality. It has just been for a very long time, an overlap between decent parts and the various 80+ ratings. Platinum over gold has no additional requirements, just a slightly tighter waste power curve. In fact it's just three simple measurements. at 20, 50, and 100% And the difference between a gold and a platinum is 3%, 2%, and 2% respectively, that is all the difference between the two badges. And often the platinum comes at such a significant price increase, you could be looking at a 1000w gold, instead of an 850 platinum.

I have recently made this move over christmas myself. From i7 8700k, to 12700k and so far it's been far more of an uplift than I expected it to be. Frequencies might seem the same, but the IPC has seen huge uplifts. Minor OC on the 8700k, I could have run it at 5ghz, but not something I would rely on come summer and ambient temps go up, my usual cinebench r23 score was around 9500 points on the 8700k. My main use in DCS is VR with a G2, if you are on 2d I doubt you can get much benefit, it seems DCS has some limiter in it past 120fps. In VR on the other hand my cpu frametimes has gone from 16-20ms to 6-9 ms, even GPU frametimes have improved by about 5ms at least, and that is with the 12700k running stock settings still. And the gpu frametimes aren't actually comparable since before I was running openvrfsr at 70%, with the 12700k it runs smoother, and faster without FSR and at 100% steamvr resolution. In short: My old build was i7 8700k @ 4.8ghz all core fixed. 32GB @ 3200mhz 3090. Reverb g2. @ 0.7 FSR, steamvr resolution to 100% Getting about 16-20ms, spiking to 30ms in some situations for either GPU or CPU. After upgrade: i7 12700k stock settings for now (K was actually $5 cheaper than the F variant ) 32GB@3600mhz (DDR 4) 3090 Reverb G2. @ No FSR, steamvr resolution to 100% Getting 6-9ms CPU frametimes. 12-15ms GPU frametimes.

Launch from boat, is STAB trim according to weight, 16-18, you need to be very heavy to go 18, and full flaps (fully down), full burner.