12900k to 9800x3d/9950x for DCS: Seeking Advice on CPU Upgrade with RTX 4090 and Pimax Crystal

[Aapje]

5 hours ago, Simulatu said:

That's the performance difference when benchmarking the integrated GPU, which nobody uses when gaming, especially in DCS.

It says "Geekbench 6 iGPU" on top of the image you posted.

In that case it is indeed possible to find such a performance difference, but also utterly meaningless for gaming with a discrete GPU.

Edited March 26 by Aapje

[Raiden85]

On 3/25/2025 at 11:27 PM, STRYC said:

I have the Pimax Crystal.   I just upgraded to the AMD 9950X3d on an MSI X870E Carbon Motherboard and a AMD 9800X3d on an  Asrock X870E Taichi motherboard.   I  Can't get the headset to connect on either system.  I have the lastest PIMAX software installed and the latest headset firmware.  I bought and built these systems to keep up with the Pimax Super I have on order.   I have done a fresh, clean install on both systems, trying both windows 10 and 11 with the latest updates and chipset drivers.  But the headset won't start on my AMD systems.  It does however start right up on my Intel 10900k System.   Is this a cable issue similar to what the G2 had with AMD?   I contacted AMD and they said PIMAX is just not keeping up with new hardware.    I tried changing the USB power settings in windows.  I made sure the USB settings in the BIOS are always powered.  I changed PCIe settings from GEN 4 to GEN 3  but no luck. 

hello! Sorry for the late answer did you fix it?

[Berlin68]

Hi. I upgrade from 32gb 2666 cl16 i7 12700kf z690 rtx 4090 pimax crystal to 9800x3d 64gb cl30 6000 with b650.

First flight i was not realy happy...and can see any great steps..my english is not so good. Must look for settings and hope to fix it. In 3dmark timespy score is the same 27000..only in cpuprofile is the 9800 20% faster..but that was 1500€. A update to i9 14900kf 400€ and i think that this is ok...but i wan t it to try..