I'm I going in the wrong direction upgrading my computer?

[pushcart2012]

I just bought a Ryzen 7 5800 chip, (8 core..).  New motherboard.

I already have 48gig Ram.  SSD drives, Niveda GPU.

I am reading that DCS does not use 8 cores.  Did I just waste my money?  I have $2000 in Joystick, throttle, and Rudder.  5 touch screens, Android, and Win 11 comp.

If so, were should I have put my money.  advice please.

Edited July 3, 2022 by pushcart2012

[pushcart2012]

I have MFG Crosswind peddles, Viripl Throttle, Gun fighter Joystick, but I know my CPU is working hard, same for GPU.  so I need advice on were to upgrade

[LucShep]

29 minutes ago, pushcart2012 said:

I just bought a Ryzen 7 5800 chip, (8 core..).  New motherboard.

I already have 48gig Ram.  SSD drives, Niveda GPU.

I am reading that DCS does not use 8 cores.  Did I just waste my money?  I have $2000 in Joystick, throttle, and Rudder.  5 touch screens, Android, and Win 11 comp.

If so, were should I have put my money.  advice please.

...what exactly is the rest of your PC specs (graphics card model, power supply, etc) ?

Edited July 3, 2022 by LucShep

[Hector45]

A bigger monitor

[Rudel_chw]

28 minutes ago, pushcart2012 said:

I am reading that DCS does not use 8 cores.  Did I just waste my money?

 

I'm sorry to say that yes, you did waste it a bit ... take a look at the Passmark benchmark for your processor:

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+7+5800X&id=3869

While it gets a total passmark of 28,182 note that using a single core its passmark is 3,451 (as the 7 other cores are not "working")

Now take a look at the Ryzen 5600X, which only has 6 cores but is otherwise very similar to yours, with just 0.1 GHz less frequency:

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+5+5600X&id=3859

Having only 6 cores gives it a passmark rating of 22,017 which shows that on multicore apps like Photoshop it would be 30% slower ... however look at its single core passmark: 3,359 ... so, on apps that don't use more than 6 cores (like DCS)  it would perform about the same as the more costlier processor.

 

However, ED is supossedly working on a multithreaded DCS, where having more cores could (maybe) be beneficial and would allow your 5800X to shine better

 

 

[silverdevil]

2 minutes ago, Rudel_chw said:

However, ED is supossedly working on a multithreaded DCS, where having more cores could (maybe) be beneficial and would allow your 5800X to shine better

i too was going to mention this. if / when the multithreading is initiated, you will be in a happier place.

[Svsmokey]

No , you did not waste your money...ED will soon take advantage of 8-core cpu's . 

As to upgrades , as LucShep pointed out , we need more info .

But it is very easy to get caught up in the upgrade or settings vortexes , and lose sight of Why we're doing all this .

Perhaps it is time to forgo all that for a while and spend more time flying ?

[Rudel_chw]

4 minutes ago, Svsmokey said:

No , you did not waste your money...ED will soon take advantage of 8-core cpu's . 

 

That is a bit of wishful thinking, at least until we can actually test drive that multi-core support on DCS.

Take for example Adobe Photoshop, which is a well known app that supports multicore since many years:

 

"Photoshop generally runs faster with more processor cores, although some features take greater advantage of the additional cores than others. However, you’ll get diminishing returns with multiple processor cores: The more cores you use, the less you get from each additional core. Therefore, Photoshop doesn’t run four times as fast on a computer with 16 processor cores as on a computer with four cores. For most users, the increase in performance that more than six cores provide doesn’t justify the increased cost."

source: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/optimize-photoshop-hardware-os.html#:~:text=Use a fast processor&text=Photoshop generally runs faster with,get from each additional core.

 

[pushcart2012]

thanks guys, I need a bitc* slap of truth.  Graphics Cards - Nvidia Geforce GTX - 1650 4 gig. Nvidia GTX 1050-TI- 4 gig

PSU- 800watt, new motherboard is a ROC Strix B-550-F, New CPU is Ryzen - 5700G

Already have 48gb Ram, 3- 2 gig SSD.

Gun fighter Joystick, Virpil throttle, MFG Rudder.

[Svsmokey]

Yeah , gpu should be next on the upgrade list .

[pushcart2012]

ok the best things I heard from my flying buddy's is "bigger monitor" and the best advice was from "Svsmokey" " Spend more time flying".  great advice

I know I need a better GPU, But wow they cost more than my computer.  I am so deep into DCS already a new graphic card is probably next.

[pushcart2012]

I also do a lot of video editing which is why I went with the 8-core processor, but I was afraid that DCS wasn't using all eight cores I had read that.  thanks again to get guys for all your advice.

So what Graphics card is everyone in love with for DCS?

[pushcart2012]

I'm running 7 screens but only one is the main viewport on my Nvidia gtx-1650.  2nd Monitor is on Nvidia gtx-1050-Ti

the other 5 are touch screen tablets that are running on their own CPU/GPU (4 android, 1 win 11)

[pushcart2012]

I fly DCS A-102, and AH-64 pretty much exclusively these days.  I didn't plan on it, but I've learned a lot about editing Lua scripts.