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That's a very clean, uncluttered, build. Great job. Enjoy!

I'm having the same issue. My HOTAS is working as expected but I am unable to make the MPCD my SOI as well when going aft on my SCS switch.

I'd do what others have already noted, which is to wait a few months to see how the new 7nm Ryzen 3 chips stack up to Intels stretched 9th gen 14nm chips. At the similar price point of that 9900k you will definitely be getting greater than 8 physical cores - probably 12 or 16 -, an AM4 platform that supports PCI 4.0 on at least the x16 slot, and quite possibly a chip with a comparable IPC to that of the 9900K. It will be on 7 nm instead of 14nm so it will run more cooler, most likely allowing for overclocking headroom. At the very least, the ryzen 3 chips will be much cheaper than the intel chips with more cores, and the money you save from not buying intel you can invest into a a better gpu. I don't think we'll see anything fantastic from intel until at least mid to late 2020 after they get their fabrication process sorted out and deal with their supply problems.

That's a lot of EVGA love.

I thought the same thing when I saw the email. Lots of stuff in the pipeline I didn't expect - f16 and mosquito to name a few.

Yeah.. it's virtually instantaneous in comparison to my other platter 7200rpm i now have in there for data and the like. I should have made this upgrade sooner to this machine. It's really given it a bit of extra life - at least until I finally take the plunge on a new system. Shame that the drive is only performing at ~50% of what it's capable of due to the limitations of the SATA2 port. Really appreciate all the help I got from you guys. A very big thanks. When I do eventually build a new system, I'll definitely be going nvme/ssd for all drives - maybe a 250gb nvme for system, a 1tb nvme for apps, and both this 2.5 ssd and 7200rpm platter for data.

Thanks for the heads up. I'll try the intel drivers. However, I am getting roughly 275-280 Mb/s, seq. read/write on this mobo's SATA2 port, which is the best I can expect, so I'm pleased.

I've been poking around and it appears to be that its a bug with windows x64. Apparently its due to the hot swap nature of AHCI Most current bios's most likely have a way to disable the hot swap feature. My mono and bios is pretty old and dont have this. Apparently, the newest AHCI drivers from intel seem to fix this issue - having a tough time finding the right ones -, or, there is a registry fix that tells windows to recognize all devices on the specific bus the drives are connected to to view it as an internal device. I haven't tried it yet, but will probably take this approach to getting rid of it. I'm not sure if this affects performance in any way by just leaving it and they are clearly marked, so I may just leave well enough alone.

Wish I had seen your reply a bit earlier. I decided to play it safe and just reinstall windows. Here is what I did. Went into bios, switched the ICH10R Sata controller to AHCI, the Gigabyte onboard SATA controller to AHCI, switched the CD/USB boot to what Gigabyte have called EFI even though I have max 2Tb's between both my drives, and changed the boot order of my HD's to my usb installation stick. Windows installed all the AHCP drivers, reinstalled Windows to my ssd after deleting all partitions, and got up and running again. Just had to create a new simple volume on my WD HD in disk manager since it was an upartitioned disk. I'm able to boot into windows with all controllers successfully set and installed to AHCI. I checked with Samsung Magician and both drives have AHCI enabled, and my ssd is recognized at 3Gb/s. My drives no longer show up in intergrated peripherals within my bios. They do, however, show up on my HD boot order menu. Also, when I boot into windows, the AHCI drivers load successfully and the drives are clearly getting recognized. Is this because the drives are no longer using IDE and will not show up on my IDE peripherals list in my bios? Also, I notice that my drives are appearing now as if they are USB devices that can be ejected. Is this normal? When IDE was enabled, my drives weren't showing up in windows as if they were electable media. The drives look fine in file explorer. Here are a few pics. Is this normal? Thanks so much for everybody's input. It's greatly appreciated.

I flashed my bios to the most recent. It's changed a litle and now i have an option to boot into EFI - not UEFI, its the old gigabyte version. I then tried switching both controllers to AHCI. Only the Intel ICH10R northbridge controller and not the south bridge Giogabyte sata 2 controller the ssd was plugged into, recognizes it's drive: my 1 tb WD HD. I read that the gigabyte sata controller on thes old boards isnt the best so I decided to pull the plug on my ssd and plug into a sata port next my HD using the ICH10R controller. I booted back into my bios and as expected the drive is detected on that port; additionally, after changing the north bridge ICH10R controller to AHCI instead of IDE, and rebooting back into my bios, the drives still remained visible to the mobo. Yay! I did boot into windows in IDE mode and checked how it was connected, and samsung magician is showing the drive at 3Gb/s now instead of the previous 1.5Gb/s; running a quick benchmark also showed read/write close to 250 - 300Mb/s - better than when the ssd was connected through the gigabyte controller. Think its possible to just enable AHCI in bios now and boot into windows in safe mode? I read that this worked for people without having to reinstall windows, since I'm not running storage capacities in excess of 2.2tb's?

I tried to do that Bit. After installing the new drive, I booted into the Bios - have no way to boot into UEFI on this board -,checked that both drives were recognized, then enabled AHCI in the Bios, rebooted, the post screen showed the new ssd - only the ssd, not the hd -, re-entered the bios to check if the drives were detected under peripherals, they weren't -, so I just didn't continue with the installation. I re-enabled IDE as this was the only thing that allowed the mobo to detect the drives, and did the reinstall. Not sure what else I can do here. I'll restore all defaults in my bios, try flashing the bios to the latest iteration, then reinstall windows again. Maybe it'll allow me to boot into UEFI, or EFI as Gigabyte seems to have called it for these older boards. P.S. This time around I'll make sure S.M.A.R.T is enabled. :)

I don't think this board supports UEFI. I think it may just be too old. There is a Bios from Gigabyte that enables >3TB+ HD support - doesn't really benefit me cause I see my two 1tb drives just fine. They call it EFI and from what I read this isn't really UEFI so it might not be worth the risk flashing my bios.

It detected the ssd and my existing HD when set to IDE, but not when I set it to AHCI, so I just went ahead and reinstalled in IDE mode. I can see no way to change my BIOS boot to UEFI. I tried holding shift down while restarting to enter troubleshooting mode, but I get no choice on whether I want to boot using Legacy or UEFI. Here are some screens of my BIOS and of what I'm seeing with the Samsung magician ustiliy - those numbers seem pretty low for an SSD. Could just be my system is ancient. GA-EX58-UD3R rev. 1.6. I'm seeing both hd's in windows, its just would i be seeing perceptible performance if I switch - if i'm even able to - to AHCI mode?

Okay, so I installed the new Evo860 in this x58 system. The mobo is a Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R. Reinstalled Windows 10 off a bootable USB i created with the media creation tool. Forgot to pull the usb stick before windows tried to reboot so had to backtrack to ensure windows booting form the SSD instead of the usb stick. I tried to switch to AHCI in my bios after i saw that the drive was being detected by the bios in IDE but after switching, and checking in the bios before continuing with the reinstall, the drives were not getting detected so I set it back to IDE and reinstalled windows. Now the problem is that when I check the drive using the Samsung magician tool, it's just reporting it at 1.5 gb/s instead of 3 gb/s, which is what i expected considering its plugged into a sata2 port. Not sure if using the drive in AHCI vs IDE will make much a difference, but is it possible to just switch to AHCI now that i have the os installed on the ssd drive and boot into windows? Do you think I can just boot in safe mode, enter bios, switch the SATA controller to AHCI, then boot into windows? The deactivation of all my modules worked without a hitch, which was my initial concern.

thats the first card I had. I remember after I installed it and booted up Unreal and Falcon 4. My head almost exploded it looked so damn good, relatively speaking. It was on the Glide API. After that I think I got a TNT2 card since Glide was pretty much dead.

Good call. Forgot about the maps. Thanks. I do have most modules so I'll pretty much save everything that I can save for every aircraft, both keyboard and Hotas columns.

I'll be installing a new SSD on my system as soon as it arrives. Just looking for clarification about doing this hassle as hassle free as possible. I will not be cloning my current drive over to the new one, but will just wipe my entire system, reinstall Windows10 to the new SSD, use that drive for apps and such, and use my existing, reformatted, hd for data and files. I'm concerned about losing my DCS controller settings and the activation's on my modules. Do I first just deactivate them all from the library in game for both 2.5 and my openBeta install? Also, is it enough to just copy from within my /user/saved games/... directory the controller profiles folder, back it up, and just recopy it back after i get everything reinstalled, or is there something I'm overlooking? Thanks. P.S., Since Intel really dissappopinted me with this current 9900k on a smoldering 14nm - was really looking forward to taking the plunge with this chip, but the price/benefit just doesn't seem worth it at this time - , and since I'm sort of excited to see what the new Ryzens have in store in a few months, I've decided to just give my 10 year old x58 platform it's final upgrade by adding an SSD - sure it will only operate at SATA2 speeds, but its still a lot higher throughput than my current 7200 rpm platter drive.

It's for DCS, and DCS - currently - feeds off of raw horsepower. I'd go with the 9700k, I hear you could o'clock that effortlessly up to 5 or a little higher. Invest in a closed loop water cooler. Probably better in the long run. I'd go with the seasonic plus gold psu As far as the other components are concerned, just make sure ram is consistent with the VRM of the mobo you decide to get. HD? Hopefully an SSD

At this stage in the game, I'd be asking the question: Is there any difference between the 7700k and the 9700k or 9900k? The coffee lake refresh is rumored to be dropping in a month, and both can hit 5+ ghz across all eight of their cores. The 9700k has no SMT so it's 1:1 but 5.5ghz across all eight cores and at the same price point as the 8700k should pay some dividends in DCS.

1080ti's have come down below $600 US. I would buy now if you are dead set on going with Pascal instead of Turing.

I'll wait for the benchmarks before I decide if i'll take the plunge. If they show significant improvement over the their predecessors in 2d an vr, then i'll probably pick up the ti which will be a substantial improvement over my current card. I was hoping nvidia would have put more GDDR6 on the cards: 11gb for the 2080 and something > 11gb for the Ti.

What the two guys above said. Full on RTing - the photo realistic stuff you see in the blending of real life cinema with CGI - takes a a lot of computing power beyond the current state and capability of most gaming systems. I'm more interested as far as the 2080 line of cards is concerned with how much of a performance increase over those of their predecessors.

IPS panels offer better visuals, colors, and off center viewing angles; however, IPS monitors do come with a cost to response time: 4ms for IPS as opposed to 1ms for TN. I'd say that if you're goal is the best possible visual experience then go with the IPS for slightly better visuals and a 3ms higher response time. If performance matters then go with the TN panel. The real question is that is the discernible difference - if any - large enough to warrant the increased price tag of the IPS; also, I think any differences would likely make themselves known when playing faster paced games, such as FPS's, etc... Whatever you decide, don't get one without Gsync. I think, just based on testimony from many people on these forums, Gsync is a must.

I had a shoulder issue so bad that it required a Dr's visit. Range of motion was very restricted and couldn't put any stress on it without cringing in pain. Dr. gave me a Cortisone shot into the shoulder which didn't do anything. All my desk peripherals, especially my mouse and keyboard were somewhat elevated on my desk. Lowered them a bit so the working angle between my forearm and my bicep where closer to 90 degrees instead of the 100 or so degree angle they were at previously, and the shoulder issue was remedied eventually with a little time. Can't stress how important an ergonomic set up is, and how much you're shoulder will thank you for it. I modified the plans I found on this reddit post to build a mounting frame. Was actually pretty fun. Amazing things you can do with pvc pipe, a few simple tools, measuring tape, an imagination, and all for $50 or so dollars US.

Due to Ryzen breathing down the neck of intel, intel are going to be releasing their 8 core coffee lake variant and I think they will rebrand the z370 chipset z390 which will have better usb3.1 support by beginning of fall. I think it will be the 8800k. Not sure about the clock speeds but i'm guessing 4.5. it'll still be on 14nm. intel pretty much maxed out the thermal constraints on this die so I wouldn't expect any speed greater than 4.5 - 4.6. In any case, it'll be an 8core coffee lake to compete with the ryzen 8 core offerings. It also might have 24 lanes instead of 20. If you're in a rush I'd buy a 2700x now, but if yoiu can wait for this 8core coffee lake, I'd wait just a bit longer.