Graphics Card Upgrade

[garyallen349]

I am presently running an ATI 4850 graphics card on my machine which has W7 64bit AMD Phenom II X4 965 cpu and 4gig of DDR3 ram. I want to upgrade my card in order to run MS Flight Sim X at the highest settings. Just wondering what the best ATI card in the 150 - 200 pounds range would be to upgrade to. I was thinking of something in the 6800 series.

 

[StonedPenguin]

FSX is heavily CPU dependant, Have you overclocked your CPU?

4850-6950 is a good upgrade and you should see a big jump in games that are GPU dependant but not so big of a jump in games like FSX, It will be noticable though.

maybe something like this.

 

[garyallen349]

I haven't tried overclocking my cpu as yet, not quite sure how. Would I be better then maybe upgrading to one of the 6 core amd cpu's. My mobo is a M4A77TD Pro.