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FSX Graphics Card.

The Badger

The Badger

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Looking to upgrade my brothers pc so he can play fsx, whats the cheapest card which will enable him to play it maxed out 1440 x 900?? Possibly with two screens, one showing the instrument pannel.


Cheers
 
How cheap is cheap?

In my opinion the best bang/buck in order from best/worst is:
ATI 5850
GTX 480
GTX 460 1GB
ATI 6950
 
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Go for nvidia as FSX is quite biased.
GTX460
GT430

Infact my 8800GTX plays FSX better than my 6970!
I would say GTX460 or higher for everything on full settings and a solid 24fps.
 
Im a bit FSX fan myself, How ever GPU power is NOT what you need. FSX is very CPU intensive and supports multi threading so Quad core will give you a massive boost in performance. whats you spec at the moment ? i went from a 9800GTX+ to a 480 and got tops 5 fps increase in performance. how ever when i overclocked my cpu i gained about 10-12 fps on a dual core. post up your pc spec and we can advise but seriously you dont need to spend over £100 or its waisted cash for FSX but get nvidia card do not get a ATI card for FSX they just dont perform as well.
 
1440x900 - a Radeon HD5770 or a HD5750 would more then ample for that game. If you really want a performance boost I suggest you look at getting a Sandy Bridge Core i7 2600K system with some decent after market cooling for overclocking although if your on a budget perhaps a Core i5 2500K or an older Core i5 might be better.

What system does your brother have anyway?
 
Randall8686 said:
Im a bit FSX fan myself, How ever GPU power is NOT what you need. FSX is very CPU intensive and supports multi threading so Quad core will give you a massive boost in performance. whats you spec at the moment ? i went from a 9800GTX+ to a 480 and got tops 5 fps increase in performance. how ever when i overclocked my cpu i gained about 10-12 fps on a dual core. post up your pc spec and we can advise but seriously you dont need to spend over £100 or its waisted cash for FSX but get nvidia card do not get a ATI card for FSX they just dont perform as well.
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This!!

GPU makes very little difference, yes you will improve eye-candy etc wrt reflections and textures but only if its not bottlenecked by your CPU!

With regards to hyperthreading and fsx. Very debatable as to whether it makes any improvement in frame rates. Lots of people have experimented with various affinity mask editing and have come to the conclusion it offers not increase in frame rate. Personally I have disabled HT on my machine but have it clocked at 4.4GHz, which gives me smoother flight. Results do vary however and some people are adamant that it does offer improvements.

Depends on budget but I'd go for a GTX 460 if you can afford it. If budget is closer to £200 then GTX 480!
 
easy choice - Nvidia :)

GTX 460, 480 or 570

I'd go for a 480 - as although FSX doesn't use much GPU power - the GPU will still be taxed if you use loads of AA - which makes Flight sims look loverly :)

16xAA with FSX looks NIIIICe
 
have to agree the 480 did allow me to turn a couple of bits up, have you overclocked your CPU ? if not do it you will gain free improvements :-) but 460 or 480 if you can stretch the budget.
 
shadow_boxer said:
This!!



With regards to hyperthreading and fsx. Very debatable as to whether it makes any improvement in frame rates. Lots of people have experimented with various affinity mask editing and have come to the conclusion it offers not increase in frame rate. Personally I have disabled HT on my machine but have it clocked at 4.4GHz, which gives me smoother flight. Results do vary however and some people are adamant that it does offer improvements.
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Shadow,

Sorry if i was not clear i did not mean hyper threading i just ment Multi core, ie a quad core. i dont have the luxy of hyper threading so cant comment on that but FSX defo uses both my cores...
 
i used to have a Q6600 and a 8800gtx and it struggled for some reason, i also had it overclocked to 3.2ghz. Once i sell my old parts which im still waiting to get "price checked" im going to start buying! 80-120 on a g-card new? or a better second hand one.
 
Pauliee said:
i used to have a Q6600 and a 8800gtx and it struggled for some reason, i also had it overclocked to 3.2ghz. Once i sell my old parts which im still waiting to get "price checked" im going to start buying! 80-120 on a g-card new? or a better second hand one.
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FSX ran pretty well on my q660 and 8800gtx.
With that budget i would get a GTX460
 
Randall8686 said:
Shadow,

Sorry if i was not clear i did not mean hyper threading i just ment Multi core, ie a quad core. i dont have the luxy of hyper threading so cant comment on that but FSX defo uses both my cores...
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Correct, it does utilise multiple cores.

What card did you go for in the end?

As mentioned above - no benefit from multiple gfx cards.
 
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