Doug_Masters

I looked at that last week as well. The website is not blackballed by anyone yet but the domain name is less than 3 months old. Stay Away.

This!

I'm in the market also, Dell just pushed back their delivery date from June 18 to July 1...

I looked at the 10900k in an Alienware build I just bought a week ago. I ended up going with the 9700k overclocked to 4.7MHz for better DCS performance and lower cost.

Greetings everyone. Just ordered a PC to start playing DCS. Always wanted to be a fighter pilot but life took a different path. Looking forward to meeting like minded people! My previous flight sim experience is pretty old, lol: -Atari 400 Flight Simulator II -Amiga 500 F/A 18 Intercepter -Falcon 3.0 -Falcon 4.0 -USAF Boeing C17 Flight Simulator - Joint Base Charleston

I've seen a few other sites showing June 1 as the next replenishment date. In my case, the June 18 date was listed on the website prior to my order and was a couple weeks after the others so I thought it is realistic, maybe even conservative. I guess we will see.

Ordered a set of MFG Pedals... that should do it. Now just wait for the arrivals...

Wow! Did they give you an order fulfillment estimate? They say mine will arrive by June 19.

Just ordered J-Pien desk mounts for the TM Warthog for $120 shipped in USA. They look to be solid units and less than 1/2 the price of other similar concept desk mounts.

I read this as well. Looks like Dell provides instructions on how to change/upgrade all components in an R9... EXCEPT the motherboard (& Bios...). There are instructions online on how to do it as well. I'm happy with my order as many discounts lined up and I got a full 2080 ti / i9 system & 32GB 3200MHz Ram for $2.2k and it includes a warranty (and looks pretty cool too). Comparable systems from other manufacturer/assemblers were at least $400-$500 higher and I was reading nightmares about build quality. I also could not source the parts for the cost I paid (maybe there is a parts premium cost going on now due to CV19?).

Standard is a 1 year warranty. I think my credit card doubles it though. With this system, the draw should be max 650-700W so 850W will cover it.

I looked at that. Actually that's why I held off until I did. Nvidia's announcement was in early May (postponed a month due to CV) but they did not release a date or info on the next gen GPU's, specifically the "3080 ti" or whatever it will be called. With the lack of info, I wasn't going to wait to September/October this year to see if they released it. I can see waiting to upgrade, but I was buying new and did not have a PC to play DCS with. On the CPU's, I researched the whole 14nm design architecture but again I wasn't going to hold off due to it. I actually chose an older chip that performed better in single core tests rather than the newer chip that was better multi-core (and overall...).

Just click on your name and go to your profile. The pic is in the bottom right hand corner: https://forums.eagle.ru/member.php?u=152422

no worries, i've got a thick skin. and i'll need it for all comments coming from my family as well...

lol, never thought i would be looking forward to getting it. Build time is about a month though. Ordering all the accessories now... - 32GB Ram upgrade - Pedals and desk mounts (VKB)... surprised there's not a cheaper desk mount solution out there. I work closely with a machine shop, may just develop something. - Track IR or the solution that uses the Playstation camera That should do it to get me started. Then I figure a few month learning curve and may look into VR at that point.

Trying to give back and save somebody in my same position some time in getting up to speed. It's a steep learning curve before you can even start the learning curve of the game. Love your cockpit in a piece of furniture idea also!

I wanted to go pre-built for simplicity and it turns out I can buy pre-built cheaper than I can buy the components for anyway. I have built PC's before (back in the 90's...) so I understood some of the basics (but all the details have changed!). Here was my process to get started for DCS: 1. Lurk the forum and do a lot of RTFF. Learned challenges that people were having hardware (and software wise...). Know your enemy. :) 2. Decided on a couple key components for the build: - 2080 Ti is a must. - Intel is better at single core performance and is preferred by DCS. - 32GB 3200 MHz Ram - Minimum 512GB SSD or better (NVMe vs older SSD does not impact game) 3. With an understanding of the key components, I compared a bunch of manufacturers (CyberPowerPC, IbuyPower, HP Omen, Dell, MSI, etc.). - HP Omen was not working because the motherboard would not allow RAM higher than 2666GHz. - Several companies have bad customer service and that was a turn off. - Liked MSI & Dell - Ended up going with Dell because Alienware had a good reputation for using quality components. 4. After choosing Dell, I looked at 3 different "levels" of Alienware, all of them have 1TB SSD, 32GB 3200MHz Ram & 2080 ti...the difference is in the processors: - Aurora R11 with new Intel i5-10600k, 4.1GHz w/4.6 Turbo. - Aurora R11 with new Intel i9-10900k, 3.7GHz w/4.9 Turbo. - Aurora R9 with Intel i9-9900k overclocked to 4.8GHz. Alienware is not overclocking the i5-10600 and i9-10900k yet (there is a lot of talk of heat issues due to this but I think the chips are too new for them to offer the capability in their software yet). The single core performance of the i9-9900k overclocked was within 1% of the other two slightly newer chips. That's not even considering the issues DCS has with Intels Turbo function (know your enemy!!!). At a price difference of $500, it's a no brainer to go with the i9-9900k overclocked as a solid solution. Here's the system I ordered for $2002.13 (free shipping) + $180 RAM upgrade: Aurora 9 850W Power Supply 16GB Dual Channel HyperX FURY DDR4 XMP at 2666MHz (ordered 32GB of 3200MHz RAM to swap in for $180 and will sell the 16GB to offset the cost somewhat) NVIDIA® GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11GB GDDR6 (OC Ready) 9th Gen Intel® Core i7 9700K (8-Core, 12MB Cache, Overclocked up to 4.6GHz across all cores) Dell Limited Hardware Warranty Initial Year 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD Windows 10 Home 5. Used the $500 savings to buy the TM Warthog Stick & HOTAS. :) 6. Will get $125 in credit with Dell for future purchases.

I've read a lot about Aurora systems have cooling issues with the 2080ti's and not getting the performance that you should be. Has anyone had that experience?