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    I have not even tried the Airbus yet, just the smaller jets - and the 747, of course. My usual default plane of choice though is the Icon A5 as I can land with it pretty much anywhere. As to auto-trim, if you DON'T start at an airport but start mid-air, auto-trim is not on automatically (trim can be changed manually) on my setup. Only when I start from / land at an airport runway does auto-trim come on. Yeah, per earlier post that last big 14 GB (?) patch enabled VR. BTW, what VR set are you using ? I am thinking of getting one and am leaning towards the HP Reverb G2 but need to do further research - love to get feedback on your VR flights with Flightsimulator 2020
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    @Laithan ...thought you might appreciate this 8-channel Threadripper Pro ? beast vid (btw, Gigabyte also just announced a TR Pro WRX80 mobo)
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    ...I do not need my graduate degree in economics to understand what happened to raw material prices for a firm like Caselabs in that period. The graphs in the spoiler say enough. Prices had already sky-rocketed before hand, and the tariff pushed it to the peak. As to US smelters reopening, the tariff war that resulted did not help the economy as a whole, on the contrary. But that's it for me on this... @UltraMega ...I usually skip every second generation of new cards and 2x w-cooled 2080 Ti are doing great, including RTX. Still, 3090s might be a nice upgrade, but with prices so high / availability of the models I want so low, there's no rush
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    I don't think that's accurate, per below excerpt. Quite apart from that, raw material prices react immediately when a tariff is imposed, even before the official start of said tariff(s). In addition, tariffs were extended again later on. As to Caselabs being a poorly-run company, I did not see their books. Fact is though that they had been around for about 47 years (!) and their computer cases were (and still are) highly regarded. Raising the cost of a major input to production of a company can and does have disastrous effects.
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    Trade frictions with China may improve a bit (if you're an optimist) but I do not think they are going away for a variety of issues caused by ALL sides. Be that as it may, a quick quote from Wikipedia about Caselabs, the much-vaunted PC case manufacturer that started in 1971 in California: "CaseLabs announced that it was shutting down permanently in August 2018, citing Trump tariffs cutting into margins by "raising prices by almost 80%", and the "default of a large account". The company said it would not be able to fulfill all existing orders, but parts orders should ship to customers"
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    ...yeah, AMD's growing Ryzen experience with the - ahem, 'glue logic' - should come in very handy when tying together multi GPU chiplets to work in unison with low latency. My experiences shared above with SLI CFR basically just afforded a glimpse of yesterday's mGPU base line, yet it already is really impressive. Still, it will pale in comparison when multi-chiplet / tile GPUs are ready for prime time... Intel's Xe HPG also > seems to have found solutions to 'integrating multi cylinders into a single engine' (sorry for that metaphor )
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    ...Johnny S says that "the world's on a collision course with chaos". Really...? ? more eye candy pics per 4K RTX Ultra / DLSS Quality
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    ...not making any predictions re. 'coins', but right now a lot of money that does not want to be tracked or be subject to other controls is moving given recent elections and a changing international political landscape...Should be interesting to see what happens in 1 - 2 months. ...I see a rare few 3090s pop up here and there at my regular online retailers / MSRP, but I should take screenshots because a little bit later, they disappeared... Two of these were available here '''briefly''' locally
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    ...just when I had the perfect setup for the previous driver dialed in for Cyberpunk 2077...
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    The irony is that many of the Apple parts are produced by Foxconn factories that also produce a lot of parts for Apple's competitors. With price competition being fierce, it comes down to a functional international trade rule regime to stop 'lowest bid' manufacturers in the supply chain. Speaking of Foxconn and India...
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    ...duel at sunrise !
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    As @ENTERPRISE already posted here , AMD has also confirmed it is working on multi-chiplet- GPUs via a recent patent filing...looks interesting as a serial+semi parallel approach. Here's another source / interesting write-up about it:
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    Banned for pointing out the obvious
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    ...the plot thickens ! May be Intel's progress with Xe-HPG is why rumours of NVidia's AD102 Lovelace (18432 cuda cores) surfaced last week, unless that is actually 'Hopper'... who knows. One thing is for sure...I was thinking about an upgrade to RTX 3090s or 6900XTs, but since their availability has been atrocious here anyway and now we are already talking next gens, I might as well hang back a bit to figure out what Team Green, Team Red AND Team Blue will unleash in 2021...
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    ...speaking of patches, another 14 GB patch last week, adding among other, things VR capability ! real weather shots (4K / ul)
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    ^^kudos for finishing the game ! I also have to read up more about the leak on upcoming patches. So far, I only have about 7 hrs in (it's been busy...) and I am at the stage now where I ( V?) and Johnny Silverhand argue a lot. Then again, I got Cyberpunk 2077 mostly for free-roaming through the eye-candy, and the visuals are beyond stunning. I had SLI CFR running briefly in-game (post splash screens and menus) at 4K native but when I wanted to change a graphics setting, it froze. I used my trusty Flight Simulator 2020 CFR driver and settings, but more options to explore. Either way, on a big (40 inch) 4K monitor, it is also very immersive, though I am toying with the idea of getting a VR set for Cyberpunk 2077 and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020... the latter just released a 14 GB patch, with VR now.
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    For the record, there are still patches coming for Win 7...both my Win7 machines were patched last month, and several times before in mid & late 2020. But I think these are just the really important security patches. My machines are 'split by use'. The Win 10 one is the 4K one work and play - but has no email. One of the two Win 7 only does email, browsing and older 1080p games. The third one runs our bedroom TV ((instead of the built-in LG software which I finds suspect). As mentioned, all are behind hard and soft firewalls. Then there is the GIANT SolarWinds hack to consider, delivered via patches. Microsoft itself was affected...
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    I use both Win 10 Pro and Win 7 Pro on my private machines. Win 10 is nice but a giant 'big data vacuum' and all machines in my home office are behind BSD and other firewalls and also run fairly hefty security programs. And then there's always Linux...
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    Yeah, as discussed this before ( >here) ...Intel's multi-tile Xe HPG has shown a lot of promise already, and it doesn't surprise me one bit that AMD and NVidia will follow suit; multi-chiplet tech just makes way too much sense, also from a production yield cost / benefit pov. Never mind AMD's design lead via years of multi-chiplet Ryzens and InfinityFabric. The 'connectivity' between tiles and making them appear homogeneous to the rest of the system and apps is really the biggest challenge, but one which looks to be surmountable As you know, I have been using the undocumented 'proto Neanderthal' tile driver (CFR) wherever I can with my 2x 2080 Tis...not quite the same thing, but full of promise already !
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    I recently got Cyberpunk 2077, and initial tests with 2x 2080 Ti / CFR were not encouraging. I then went back to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 (CFR) w/ an updated driver...forgot about that update and loaded Cyberpunk 2077 (4K native) - it actually worked for a bit in CFR, but then I tried to change graphics settings and boom, crash ? Still, this was an encouraging experience as I have been using CFR since last spring on other apps...hopefully, I can figure Cyberpunk 2077 CFR out. I can play that game w/just one (high-clocked) card at 4K / RTX max / (DLSS quality unless combat, then <> DLSS balanced). But it would be so much nicer to have CFR... even better if CD PROJEKT RED would do the CFR profile for us !
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    ^^"I need sleep..." Are you sure, that's what she's thinking... ???
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    ...like the car - and the dogs ! ?
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    ...always been a huge fan of the original Bladerunner (though BL 2049 is also pretty good). Some Cyberpunk 2077 pics (4K Ultra / DLSS Quality) which practically 'phase-shift' me into Bladerunner ?
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    @ENTERPRISE @Laithan ...a bit off-topic, though this would hold a heck of a lot of nvme raid cards, and apparently also has 2x U.2 onboard... From the 'pressing-your-nose-on-the-Porsche-showroom-window' file: Gigabyte's upcoming TRX80 Threadripper Pro board...up to 2 TB 8-channel RAM (!), 7x PCIe 4 x 16, dual 10 GbE Lan - and it's black/silver shiny ! source
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    Fair enough...I have air-cooled, AIO, simple single loop and complex loop systems here...but I titled the thread specifically for complex / multi loops as the approach is a bit different when having to deal with over 1,100 W heat energy, multiple restrictive blocks etc in a build. Then there is the fail-over / redundancy I mentioned above for servers etc. Nothing wrong with a simple loop - I writing this post on one...all just depends on the use-case and number of components and their heat output.
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