Couldn’t resist. One is already in use for DCS (I got that one 3 months ago) and it was on sale for 250€ during black Friday so I bought two more.
Even as a hobby photographer you can never have enough storage and having 12TB local storage means I can store my most recent photos locally instead of having everything on the NAS so it loads faster in Lightroom
I also tried to get a 2TB Crucial T705 to use as my C:\ drive for 220€ on Monday last week but I wasn’t fast enough. I did manage to place it in the basket but when I tried to go to checkout it said that it was no longer available. I guess it sold out really fast.
Edit: Oh yeah, definitely check for firmware updates with the 990 pro drives. Mine was already on the latest firmware but better make sure because the older firmware caused the drives to fail within a few months of use
My solution was an old PC full of 2TB spinning rust that sits in a corner - for my home network that’s limited to 1Gbps that works OK. But I do wish for the sorts of speed you’ll be seeing there… and that’s a good price for those drives!
Yeah I have my NAS with spinny platters (32TB in Raid 5 for 16TB usable storage) on a 2Gbit network switch but my board only supports 1Gbit so that’s definitely limiting. Currently all my photos as well as the lightroom catalog are stored on the NAS and backed up to Amazon. It does work very well but especially when working on larger panoramics I would like a local copy to work from…
Except it’s like watching your house get built…the foundation is there, you’ve seen the plans and walked the model, but you still have to wait for it to be finished!!
This one is ALSO on my list… if my daughter finally says she’s ready for a rig… THIS is the one we’re going with.
I held off of Fractal for a long time due to the pricing but finally found reason when I built my newest Unraid server. After seeing all the little features and thought put into the Design Meshify 2, I think the $$ is WELL worth it. So much so, that after building the new dedicated sim rig in a Cooler Master NR200 ITX SFF rig, I moved it all into a Torrent Nano RGB Mini ITX and have been just as happy with that as well.
I ultimately went with the 7800X3D, B650 “plus wifi” or something, and 64GB of DDR5. Figured I would become a skeleton waiting for the 9800X3D to rerelease, and even if it did so much in Japan runs on a lottery system it’s like what’s even the point.
I don’t think you’ll miss it - the 7800X3D is an amazing chip, by the time it’s outdated we’ll probably be on AM6 anyway, or maybe Intel will have sorted out their issues and produced something competitive for the home gamer…
Also, what’s with the “plus wifi” boards being the only thing available now?
I hardwire my gaming PCs. I don’t want PCIe lanes getting chewed up with hardware I’m not going to use. Do I have to buy one of these boards and turn the wifi off in BIOS/UEFI? Because, although the manufacturers claim they make non-wifi boards, I can’t find a non-wifi board to actually buy?!
There are a few non wifi boards but all the high end boards seem to feature WiFi these days. Unfortunatly there is no benefit to disabling the WiFi on your board because while these WiFi boards typically occupy an M.2 slot, the slot in question is often inaccessible without completely disassembling the board and sometimes the mounting mechanism doesn’t allow it to be used for NVMe drives. I will just leave it be on my board. Four M.2 slots are enough anyway.
What I find more annoying is that a lot of manufacturers offer two PCIe 5.0 M.2 slots and if you use both of them, even weith a PCIe 4.0 drive, you lose half the lanes on your PCIe x16 slot, making it a PCIe x8 slot. While that isn’t a huge problem even with current top range GPUs who knows what kind of hardware we are getting in the future. Seems kinda pointless to offer more PCIe than the CPU is capable of supplying lanes for.
I am very glad Asrock didn’t fall into this trap and only offers one PCIe 5.0 NVMe slot on the X870E Taichi and Taichi Lite, meaning you can actually use all M.2 NVMe slots without compromise. I don’t even have a PCIe 5.0 NVMe right now. I might get a Crucial T705 if I can find a good deal but I don’t think I’ll find it for 220€ again and I’m not paying 400€ for a 2TB drive. I think I’ll be fine with 3x4TB NVMe
I think I made an oops with my RAM kit. I’m new to DDR5 and previously when buying DDR4 RAM the only three things I looked at were capacity, clock speed, and compatibility with my motherboard. I just now found out CL (latency) existed, and that CL40 or above is “dog slow.”
My kit ended up being CL48…
How much of this actually matters in DCS or gaming in general, and how much of it is tweakers arguing min/max numbers for bragging rights?
That is pretty slow indeed but it should work fine I guess. It mostly impacts the 1% lows and you will maybe see a slight reduction in average fps compared to a kit with faster timings. What clock speed does your RAM advertise?
If you manage to run 8000MT/s (4000MHz) with a CL 48 kit it should be pretty decent but that’s a pretty high overclock of the RAM. The sweetspot for AMD appears to be two sticks of 6000MT/s CL30 RAM right now.
If you’ve got an X3D processor it makes up for a lot of the slowness that comes with high CAS latency RAM - I wouldn’t worry too much myself if it’s going to be a pain to exchange or if you’d have to pay a heap more to move up!
Running higher than 6000MHz on an AM5 chip will decouple the memory controller frequency from most of the rest of the chip, and that can be weird in terms of when it goes fast and when it goes slow.
Finally, with the sort of latencies you find in DDR4 I always found capacity (GB) is more important than speed (CL or frequency) for DCS. I don’t have enough experience with DDR5 and DCS to know if this holds though…
It’s two sticks at 5600. For whatever reason it was recommended automatically when I put the 7800x3d in my cart and looked good enough since I didn’t know about latency and the highest clock speed I’ve ever used so far is like 3200.
It’s fine, “good” RAM is a case of diminishing returns very quickly and with that thick 3D cache you’ll notice RAM speed and latency even less than with a traditional CPU
