Gypsy

Just tried the bottleneck site. They said my CPU is a bottleneck for my GPU. Suggested I upgrade to a Ryzen 5. Sure thing if they will buy it and a new motherboard for it to work with ?. But one day I may upgrade to a newer Intel CPU that will work on my existing MB, but not now.

Finally got around to taking it for a short spin. Need to tweak on my in game controls, but took off, flew around for a bit, flew a pattern and landed without breaking anything. Like riding a bicycle. Except for the radar and guns (And a pot load off extra buttons) it was just a single seat T-38. Felt at home. May never do much with it, but it will be a nice change now and then.

Well I think I am gonna be happy with my monitor and graphics card choices. Barring any malfunctions everything is working out as I hoped it would. Running DCS on high/ultra settings, the lowest FPS I saw on the Normandy map was ~80fps and the highest temps were ~64C. That's about double the FPS and 10 degrees cooler than my GTX 1060. I think I will quit boring y'all with this stuff now, but DCS brought the "pseudo techie" out in me. At least now I can concentrate on learning how to fly, shoot and bomb! Carry on.

After seeing my non-success as of late on airmanship in the DCS Spit (and for that matter the P51 now that I have not flown it in a bit), I think I will sit this round out. Don't want to be a drag or hindrance on DD in the SOW campaign. After I get finished upgrading my system, I will get back to practice in both AC. And Fen, if you set up that practice range for ground attack, hopefully I can get in some practice on that as well.

Well for good or bad, I made my decisions. As I said in my reply to Sheriff, I chose a Gigbyte GTX 1080 G1 Gaming. It dropped to $30 USD below MSRP overnite so I jumped before they start running out of stock like I am seeing a lot of the high end cards doing. They may go down more but it was well below my threshold price. I had been watching this card for a bit (Thanks Fen). This is one of the few 1080s that uses only one 8 pin power connector so I don't have to dig into the dungeon of my case to switch cables to a 6 pin/8 pin. Only requires a 500w power supply and I have a 550w 80+ gold Evga. Now if my lowly B150 MSI Bazooka Plus mother board will be happy with the step up from my GTX 1060 to the 1080. On the monitor front. I had narrowed down my selection to a MSI 27" 1440p, 144hrz, 1ms, curved VA panel with AMD Freesync (doesn't, of course, work with NVIDIA) and a Dell 27" 1440p, 144hrz, 1ms, flat TN panel with Gsync. I currently have a 24" TN panel, 144hrz, 1ms with Freesync so I am familiar with the color limitations of TN panels. The thing that made my decision was BestBuy had a one day sale dropping the price on the Dell from 599USD to 379USD ($10 less than the MSI). Gsync adds $100 USD to the cost of all monitors it seems. Hope it's worth it. Shortly the fun of the upgrade will start. On a side note, my wife hinted that she wanted to learn how to "fly". Well, I will have a card and a monitor for the basis of a new build ?.

I just bought a Gigabyte GTX 1080 G1 Gaming and it has 3 display ports 1.4, but only one HDMI port. During my research I did come across some cards that had 2 HDMIs and 2 DPs, but never saw 3 HDMIs. Have you thought about running display ports if your monitors have them available?

Prices have "stabilized" some since NVIDIA keeps dragging out the release of the next gen cards <sigh>. On the bright side, 1080s and 1070 TIs are within 30-40 USD of each other in some cards so I have more choices/decisions to make.

Hey we did good today with Fen; me as bait and you the shooter ?!

I think the Spit campaign was/is to give us practice/confidence in flying the Spit. But I need more practice to get to the level of airmanship to be able to fly the campaign to get the practice and....... around and around we go ?!

You got my attention. As I said the other nite, watching Phil Style's YouTube vids on SoW a year or so back is what gave me the urge to return to the virtual skies. But, I will needs oodles of practice in the Spit (And a bunch in the 51) in gunnery/bombing to be effective as a squadron mate. I am up to 3 out of 5 on takeoffs and landings and will keep working on that! Thanks!

Prices are dropping like proverbial rocks as the next gen (1100 series) are getting closer to release. GTX 1080s ( good ones) can be hard for under MSRP. I almost pulled the trigger on a Zotac 1070 70ti, hesitated until it went off sale only to see it retailing less than the sale price. Looking now at Gigabyte GTX 1080s for what I was willing to pay for the 1070 ti . The 1080 Tis are still high. Think I will wait a couple of weeks and track the prices between Newegg and Amazon. I think I have my temp issues with my 1060 under control in DCS so I can wait a bit. CLoD, BoX and 1946 put no strain on the 1060. But I also want a 1440p 144hrz or 4k 27-32" monitor so I am gonna need a stronger card to keep the FPS where I want them. May strain my I5-6600, but my older B150 motherboard may not handle to much more... ain't it fun?

Outstanding Chris! Makes up for not being there in person (At least partially) ?!

BoBp preordered months ago! So I am in for whatever/whenever/however the powers that be shall ordain ?!

Now when the voices magically appear in my headphones, my imagination no longer has to picture some version of 007 ?????. Seriously guys, thanks. My current profile pic is me at 19 and me now just might break the forums again ?!

As a rookie DD, I want Names to go with the faces with the faces(DDs and real)..so fess up you handsome bunch of blokes!

Oh okay..guess I just don't see an option in the instant stuff.. I will figure this stuff out someday, maybe, I think ?!

Adding my newbie voice to the chaos, I prefer CLoD by itself. As much as I am having fun messing with DCS, that old Hurricane calls to me (even if I have been missing a lot of Thursdays).

Okay. Since I am happy now with the elliptical wing Spit, I don't see buying the clipped wing one. Thanks!

Nevermind on the bomb load out, found it.. still can't find the clipped wing. Not that I really want to fly it much, but just want to be sure the update took correctly.. ok, so I will quit padding my post count now ?!

OK, so the auto update did it's thing, but I don't see an option for the clipped wing. When I launch the instant action takeoff in the Spit, although I am seeing a graphical representation of the hard points to load tanks or bombs, my load out options still only show EMPTY as a choice. What am I doing wrong? Thanks

Well I now have the F86 and F5E.. but I have not flown either except for a quick Buzz around the Nevada map in the 86. While I agree somewhat with what Kira says, personally I doubt if I will go beyond those two jets unless the F4 makes an entrance (along with a Vietnam map). But hey, I'm easy..you put up a server and if I have it and there is an aircraft I can fly, I will be there: or not ?! I prefer the props cause they are like me; old and slow and take a lot of "handling" to work right ?????!

Sad to admit, but models from my childhood came to inglorious end as targets to a new 22 caliber rifle. From age 10 to 18 I must have built 100s..no professional work like what y'all do, but they got better over time. Stacked on a 4ft wide, 8ft high, 2ft deep, 6 shelf metal monster. As I approached my time to leave home and go in the Air Force, my mom said to "move them out". Well a friend and I decided to take my models (even a quite nice floating, working, 24" long model of my dad's fishing boat) and his new rifle to a deserted beach (this was the early 60s in rural Texas) and "blow them up". Well 20 boxes of 50 each 22 long rifle ammo, we had a pile of plastic and a sunk boat(we cleaned up our mess). That was the end of my model building era?! My friend later on ended up in the Army in a rifle squad and credits coming home from 2 tours in Vietnam (to a small degree) to that target practice at the beach. Oh, and he built models to the quality level of y'alls work when he came home.

Nope sure don't. I remember blowing my nose to get the burnt rubber out ?!

Super pics...luv me some drag racing! I watch NHRA on the tube, but I wish they would show more of the lower classes along with the big guys! I grew up going to the "drags" at the old Houston, TX, strip in the 60s! Thanks for sharing!

I will grab one of my wife's softer craft brushes and use that...thanks!