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£200, Spec me up for FSX...

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It's for me dad. He only plays FSX with REX2 add-on.

He has a quad core clocked at 3Ghz.
4Gb ram
SSD
Ati 4870

He runs at 1920x1200 res. what graphics card for around £200 do you recommend?
 
Get a 5850.
There was no difference at all between my 5850 and 6970 with FSX.
Save money and maybe get another two really really really cheap monitors or something
 
Its just a well known fact that FSX favours Nvidia cards. Although saying that my 5850 is very happily playing it (with the Shader 3 mod, see PC games section for the official FSX Thread)

Either get a Nvidia 560 or an Ati 5850 and install the shader mod.

Also, if you think there may be more overclocking headroom on the CPU then do it, FSX loves more GHz
 
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Not particularly sure why it perfers nvidia, but benchmarks that have been done of comparable ati vs nvidia card have shown a bit of a bias. Wish I had of known that but hey.
 
Cleeecooo said:
Flight simulator X or 10

I never knew it favoured NV. What an idiot I am.

Get a 470 on offer or two 460's.

What PSU does he have?
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a discounted 470 would be perfect (depending on PSU) - the 145 one would have been completely perfect

560 would be adequate, maybe not quite as good as the 470 for FSX (memory bandwidth etc- at a guess)

two 460s would be not much good for FSX as it doesn't support multi-GPUs :(
 
btw @ 3.0 gig although you may get a small improvement from going to Nvidia (again I have no idea why FSX favours Nvidia either - but it seems to) - you may find you get little or no additional improvement going from your 4870 :( as you may be CPU limited to some extent - so don't expect a massive difference except for being able to run with higher levels of AA etc
 
mmm my 4890 has been rock stable :) its fine in FSX - I think a 470/560 would be a bit better than it - but how much I'm not sure without trying
 
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