July 13, 20214 yr On Saturday I replaced my venerable two and a bit year old 2700X Ryzen processor with a (now) considerably less expensive 3800X and the result has been quite the surprise. Why did I choose the 3800X ? Well the nice price reduction given the 5800 series is out, plus my motherboard is an x370 Pro and the 3000 series tops the board out to the limits of its CPU support, with the CPU upgrade being a bios update and a subsequent drop in replacement. All easy peasy to do. Although the previous 2700X was no slouch, the difference of the 3800X makes the sim feel quite remarkably different, more headroom power to spare I hazard to guess. I do have SMT (threading) disabled in the BIOS and have clocked the CPU to 4.5 Ghz with precision boost set to boost another 200 MHz. All has been nicely stable so far at least. This series of pics comes from a proving flight from the fictional Cushman Meadows airport to Bowerman in the A2A C182, where the weather is set to the 22nd September 2019, a nice misty day with low visibility that just pushes the CPU / GPU combo to the max yet I was able to maintain a locked vsync and totally smooth all the way (which the 2700X could not do for this flight plan). Anti-alisasing was set to 4x Sparse Grid Super Sampling via the NVidia Inspector with MSAA set in the sim. About to prep for the flight. Parked and listening to the converstations of the picknickers before taxi to takeoff. The weather really wasn't the best for flying, but hey in the sim you can do what you want. Bowerman AP is coming up and just going to pass over prior to landing. And landed. Passenger gets a pic taken. Cheers Edited July 13, 20214 yr by Rogen spelling Ryzen 5800X clocked to 4.7 Ghz (SMT off), 32 GB ram, Samsung 1 x 1 TB NVMe 970, 2 x 1 TB SSD 850 Pro raided, Asus Tuf 3080Ti P3D 4.5.14, Orbx Global, Vector and more, lotsa planes too. Catch my vids on Oz Sim Pilot, catch my screen pics @ Screenshots and Prepar3D
July 13, 20214 yr Very nice set of pics from this trip...!! (I had recently stopped by Lana's Cafe in Bowerman, for a (virtual) lunch,...🙂..., the Cafe is seen, here, I believe, in your last-but-one shot...)...
July 14, 20214 yr Author 12 hours ago, P_7878 said: Very nice set of pics from this trip...!! (I had recently stopped by Lana's Cafe in Bowerman, for a (virtual) lunch,...🙂..., the Cafe is seen, here, I believe, in your last-but-one shot...)... Hey thanks mate, have a virtual toasted sanga and coffee on me 🙂 It was good to not have to choose a config profile with settings reduced for the flight, I'm really liking this CPU. <rant> If only GFX cards were a little more affordable. And I don't mean those 8 GB ones, I reguarly top out my 1070Ti's 8 GB of memory. Maybe next year NVidia will deliver a card with a suitable level of memory - 16 GB would be good An affordable price would also be good, they're ~3 grand in Aust and you have to pay up front to get in the queue. </rant> Cheers Ryzen 5800X clocked to 4.7 Ghz (SMT off), 32 GB ram, Samsung 1 x 1 TB NVMe 970, 2 x 1 TB SSD 850 Pro raided, Asus Tuf 3080Ti P3D 4.5.14, Orbx Global, Vector and more, lotsa planes too. Catch my vids on Oz Sim Pilot, catch my screen pics @ Screenshots and Prepar3D
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