DVA5998
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP
Joined on May 29 2008
50 State Club
Online Century Club
Million Mile Club
Six Century Club
"I'd rather be flying." Watkinsville, GA USA
618 legs, 2,841.0 hours
162 legs,
452.4 hours online 603 legs,
2,768.8 hours ACARS 7 legs,
16.2 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
July 18 2009 20:56 ET by Austin McCall
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Hey I'm looking for a great graphics card that will run my FSX at at least 30 smooth FPS at everything maxed out plus with add-ons such as ImagineSim ATL. But...here's the thing. I'm not sure what will fit in my case and still be that quality. I did some research, but I want some help/opinions before I go spending my money on something I can't use or something that doesn't work well. I want to lean towards the NVidia side, but ATI is fine too...especially since my current g card is a 3240 HD.
So, here's all that I looked into:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gtx_275_us.html?startgom=1 (What I'm looking for, general idea)
http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/product/33273/specs/inspiron_530_desktop.html (A little bit about my PC...however, NOT my specs. This is for case/slot info only.)
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/53184-2-inspiron-questions (googled this question, similar to my problem, however wrong g card inquiry.)
http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/inspndt_53x?c=us&cs=22&l=en&s=dfh (what Dell recommends...However...I have customized mine, see specs below, and I've already had an 8600 GTS in my old computer, I want more than that!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsRhzLYHeSY (the video provided in one of the topics...very useful for info about my PC.)
Specs:
Windows Vista Home Basic
E7500 @ 2.93 GHz, Dual Core
4 GB RAM
ATI Radeon HD3450 (Want to be replaced!)
In my computer rating, everything but the graphics card is a 5.9! So...for all you tech-savvy people out there, at least more tech-savvy than I am anyway...I need some help!
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DVA6799
Captain, B737-800
Joined on December 26 2008
Staffordshire GB
56 legs, 130.8 hours
27 legs,
59.7 hours online 55 legs,
129.3 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
July 20 2009 18:21 ET by Nicholas Hepden
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DVA5565
Captain, B767-300
Joined on February 08 2008
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
Triple Century Club
Everett 250 Club
Online Triple Century Club
Events Century Club
Southeast Asia
383 legs, 1,076.6 hours
368 legs,
1,056.5 hours online 383 legs,
1,076.6 hours ACARS 126 legs,
274.7 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
July 20 2009 21:36 ET by Ray Dotulung
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Hi Austin, i ran FSX on GTX295 and at 4.25 Ghz (500 QFSB x 8.5 Multiplier).
From the SLI load GPU balancing graph I can see FSX is not giving any significant work to the GTX, so in my opinion around 80% work load is given to the CPU.
Different thing happened if I looked at FS9 SLI load GPU balancing graph, on ground in average I can see GPU workload only about 30% max and the rest of the process are given to CPU. During airborne, where the clouds a very dense the GPU load can reach up to 95%!!. Maybe these are factors that keep FS9 more smooth FPS compared to FSX.
I also agree with Nicholas, no overclock = no FSX enjoyment :).
Lately I'm going back to FS9 as it has more addon's and everything and FSX is still sitting there on my HD.
Ray DotulungCaptain, B767-300
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DVA5998
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP
Joined on May 29 2008
50 State Club
Online Century Club
Million Mile Club
Six Century Club
"I'd rather be flying." Watkinsville, GA USA
618 legs, 2,841.0 hours
162 legs,
452.4 hours online 603 legs,
2,768.8 hours ACARS 7 legs,
16.2 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
July 22 2009 00:35 ET by Austin McCall
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DVA6799
Captain, B737-800
Joined on December 26 2008
Staffordshire GB
56 legs, 130.8 hours
27 legs,
59.7 hours online 55 legs,
129.3 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
July 22 2009 16:37 ET by Nicholas Hepden
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DVA5998
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP
Joined on May 29 2008
50 State Club
Online Century Club
Million Mile Club
Six Century Club
"I'd rather be flying." Watkinsville, GA USA
618 legs, 2,841.0 hours
162 legs,
452.4 hours online 603 legs,
2,768.8 hours ACARS 7 legs,
16.2 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
July 22 2009 22:53 ET by Austin McCall
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