NZFF

Posted: **Fri Jul 17, 2009 5:57 pm**

Hi all,

I am new to FSX and have recently purchased a new pc, AMD 7750 dual core with 4gb of RAM. At this point I have just the onboard video. I have spent the past 24 hours reading forums from on here and all round the world. I went in to a store today and found a "gaming graphics card" that was bigger than the width of my pc's casing!

Can someone please help and advise what is the "tried and trusted" video card that could be used to make FSX work well? I have been led to believe that the newest cards won't help and there is some previous models that perhaps will do the job at a fraction of the price. But just finding the right card is something only an experienced FSX user would know.

I think the 8800 GT (trademe auction 230772536) could be one of these particular "good ones to go for".

Please advise, thank you very much. Daniel.

P.S. My only pre-requisite is that it must have S-video out for sending video through to my tv as I have existing leads run through from my study to the lounge.

Posted: **Fri Jul 17, 2009 5:59 pm**

What's your price range?

GTX 285 is the best thing for FSX at the moment. But you should have a good CPU aswell (As FSX is more CPU calculations)

Posted: **Fri Jul 17, 2009 6:24 pm**

Hi there,

Price range can go from $100-$400 max, but please enlighten me?

Posted: **Fri Jul 17, 2009 10:26 pm**

A 8800gts 640mb or more was the last biggest best card for FSX ,ive got the smaller 320mb one of the 8800GTS and works ok on a single core 3.0ghz cpu ,,go for the GTS GTX over the just GT ,
like said above FSX needs a good cpu over the a card...

Posted: **Sat Jul 18, 2009 12:50 am**

In that case I'd probably consider the GTX 260.

Make sure it's the Core 216 version, that outperforms the GTX 270.

Depending on what brand you want will vary the price. Eg

Galaxy - $330
Asus - $370
XFX - $ 380
EVGA - $ 430

I'd probably go for Asus or XFX

Having said that, if your CPU bottlenecks your system, then you might not notice much of a difference. I'm not familiar with AMD so don't know where your CPU is compared to Intel

Posted: **Sat Jul 18, 2009 2:50 am**

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Posted: **Sat Jul 18, 2009 9:22 am**

many thanks folks for your assistance, I am now going to settle for a XFX Alpha Dog 8800 GTS card (factory overclocked etc). Will let you know how I go once I have purchased.

Posted: **Sat Jul 18, 2009 2:07 pm**

Yeah thats a safe and a good choice for a mean card for any game ....

NZFF

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