You’re playing with fire, my friend. 
Yes But I am done for now… hopefully we find a better benchmark test for us…
Thanks @Bearhedge. That proves it … userbenchmark is overdramatic, equating a 5% increase in RAM performance (as rare as it may seem) to a 35% increase in userbenchmark rating. That’s really dumb and it sends people like me off to a wild goose chase. 
We need a new free benchmark utility.
Here’s my free 30 day PassMark …
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@elby That’s what I was wondering about, but ended up not typing because I’m a complete amateur when it comes to this stuff.
That percentage userbenchmark gives is an arbitrary composite that doesn’t really tell you anything useful, I think.
If you look at what GN does with their reviews, they always show a comparison for a particular component’s performance in a specific application (a given game) with all other components being the same and then just putting the framerates/temperature/noise (whatever is being ranked) results in a pillar graph for the reader to see in a meaningful, real life format.
That’s a terrible sentence but it is what it is, sorry.
What I mean is, they don’t try to make their results represent any arbitrary general number, they just say “this is how these parts performed against each other in this specific game, ceteris paribus”.
I think to try to do anything else goes to fantasy realm. Sure, you can show some results and they’ll give an indication, and it’s nice to show a pretty speedometer or whatever …but is that result relevant to our specific flight sims? Who knows.
This got rambling again, which is why I deleted my previous attempt…but oh well. Hopefully it makes sense.
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I guess my point is - that presentation, as you rightly stated, appears to exaggerate the actual differences. You always will have a quality/performance bell curve with any manufacturing so there will be the best one, the worst one and a bunch in the middle…but practical performance wise that whole bell curve range might be a difference of 3 FPS, right? Meaningless.
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I posted my PassMark above. Of course your CPU has 4 more cores than mine (12 vs 8) so you blow my CPU Mark out of the water and sure your Disk Mark is way better because I have crappy old disks but still, both our PassMarks are in the 99th Percentile! Well done! 
Oh, but how is my 3080 beating your 3090 in 2D and 3D? 
(I do have a slight overclock going on my 3080 so that statement was a bit tongue in cheek )
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Haha nice jab 
I guess the thing is, I’m a bit precious about mine so I don’t think I’ll dare OC it anytime soon, but let it do its thing on the factory boost…probably not making the most of it but for now it seems to run everything I throw at it nicely so I’m pleased 
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LOL! If I had a 3090 I’d probably downclock it ha ha!
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CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K - 4.9 GHz
GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 - Stock Gigabyte Vision rev 2.0 OC
SSD: Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB
SSD: Samsung 860 EVO M.2 500GB
SSD: Samsung 860 Evo 1TB
SSD: Corsair Force 3 60GB
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)
HDD: Seagate Expansion Desk 4TB
RAM: G.SKILL Flare X DDR4 3200 C14 4x8GB - XMP Profile 1
MBD: Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming
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UserBenchmarks: Game 90%, Desk 92%, Work 83%
CPU: Intel Core i5-10400F - 86%
GPU: AMD RX 6600-XT - 99.7%
SSD: Crucial P2 3D NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB - 199.5%
SSD: Samsung 860 Evo 1TB - 121.1%
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB - 114.4%
RAM: Crucial BL16G30C15U4R.M16FE1 2x16GB - 87.9%
MBD: MSI B460M-A PRO (MS-7C88)
I’m happy I can actually run DCS maxed out and at 60fps now
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4100 on the Memory Mark! Nice! That’s what I’ve been hoping to see. Looks like Intel platforms use memory more efficiently. You also reminded me that our specs aren’t displayed in PassMark.
Here I am trying to push my memory still LOL! I will not give up! …
UserBenchmarks: Game 238%, Desk 110%, Work 245%
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X - 106.5%
GPU: Nvidia RTX 3080 - 229.5%
SSD: WD Black SN750 NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB (2019) - 272.1%
SSD: WD Black SN750 NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB (2019) - 296.6%
SSD: Samsung 860 QVO 1TB - 111.4%
SSD: HP S700 500GB - 78.4%
SSD: HP S700 500GB - 85.3%
HDD: WD WD4005FZBX-00K5WB0 4TB - 100.8%
RAM: G.SKILL F4 DDR4 4000 C18 2x16GB - 109.9%
MBD: Asus TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI)
EDIT: There are 2 seperate tests here the Top one is with my Hyperthreading OFF the bottom one is with HT ON… Big difference… my DCS never ran better and I even had turned up some settings in VR Woot!!
Not much interest in my 32 GB of Kingston HyperX FURY DDR4 3466Mhz RAM on the market so I’m running 64GB dissimilar RAM now. Two sticks of G.Skill in slots A1 and B1 and two sticks of Kingston in slots A2 and B2. (I hope that’s how you’re supposed to do it). Seems to be running really well so far … 3600Mhz and CL16 19 19 39 timing.
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Here’s a pic … I love how the crystal I found last year is the perfect height to hold up my 3080 …
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Lets see…
I upgraded my Ram to 64GB of GSkill 3200 and of course the Video Card… Its an EVGA FTW3
UserBenchmarks: Game 245%, Desk 103%, Work 226%
CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K - 98%
GPU: Nvidia RTX 3080-Ti - 257.3%
SSD: Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB - 188.6%
SSD: Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB - 234.4%
SSD: Samsung 850 Pro 256GB - 123.3%
SSD: Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB - 358.2%
RAM: G.SKILL F4-3200C16-32GTZR 2x31.5GB - 90.1%
MBD: Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO (WI-FI AC)
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I finally got rid of my last mechanical drive and ran the benchmark once more
UserBenchmarks: Game 196%, Desk 92%, Work 165%
CPU: Intel Core i5-8600K - 86.9%
GPU: Nvidia RTX 3090 - 232.1%
SSD: Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB - 252.2%
SSD: Samsung 860 Evo 1TB - 124.8%
SSD: Samsung 860 Evo 1TB - 112.9%
SSD: SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB - 83.7%
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GB - 76%
MBD: Asus PRIME Z370-A
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DCS would greatly benefit from a better CPU and faster RAM. I imagine you can expect about a 20-30% performance increase in larger DCS Missions if you upgrade CPU, motherboard and RAM, with CPU being the biggest bottleneck.
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EDIT: Here is the same PC with the same test. the thing I am concerned with is the SSD 980 m.2 Score that same drive last year scored almost double that when I am getting now. why is that m.2 drive scoring so low now? I had gotten the 53 Percentile last time it was like 95Percentile?
UserBenchmarks: Game 93%, Desk 104%, Work 93%
CPU: Intel Core i7-10700K - 102.1%
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070 - 86.4%
SSD: Samsung 980 NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB - 228.5%
SSD: PNY CS900 1TB SSD - 91%
HDD: USB3.0 1TB - 97.6%
RAM: G Skill Intl F4-3200C16-16GTZSK Skill Intl F4-3200C14-16GTZSK Skill Intl F4-3200C16-16GTZSK Skill Intl F4-3200C14-16GTZSK 64GB - 100.6%
MBD: Asrock Z590 Phantom Gaming 4/ac
Well close on both test guess all is well… I just keep thinking my bios has a virus or something but maybe in myhead lol!!