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by **dazza28** » Sun May 20, 2007 3:16 pm

Hello fellow filght simmers. :plane:

I need some advice on a good graphics card that i can start out with nothing to expensive but would be able to run fs9.
any information would be great :thumbup:

Cheers dazza

by **ZK-Brock** » Sun May 20, 2007 3:40 pm

What's your price range?

by **dazza28** » Sun May 20, 2007 3:47 pm

Hey not too much aye probbly under $160

by **ZK-Brock** » Sun May 20, 2007 4:06 pm

Oh, and does your motherboard take AGP Graphics cards or PCI-E?

by **ZÃƒÂ¶ltuger** » Sun May 20, 2007 4:06 pm

I'm assuming you have an AGP setup, as opposed to a PCIe? If so, a Geforce 7600 GS would be a good card to get. Prices on pricespy: http://www.pricespy.co.nz/pno_9606.html

by **dazza28** » Sun May 20, 2007 7:46 pm

Hey ya my mb has a pci express slot

by **ZÃƒÂ¶ltuger** » Sun May 20, 2007 8:34 pm

ah, my assumption is therefore invalid.
i'd still go for the 7600GS, except for PCIe: http://www.pricespy.co.nz/pno_8390.html

512MB memory would be useful for FS i think

by **brownbox** » Mon May 21, 2007 7:29 am

i would highly suggest the Palit Geforce 7600GS Sonic. Although it only has 256 memory, it has DDR3 over DDR2 memory, which is really handy.

Also while I was shopping for a graphics card, I found that the 512mb memory on the Asus 7600Gs models was just to look nice, and it didnt actually have any performance increase over 256.

Hope this helps :thumbup:

by **ZÃƒÂ¶ltuger** » Mon May 21, 2007 12:28 pm

brownbox wrote: Also while I was shopping for a graphics card, I found that the 512mb memory on the Asus 7600Gs models was just to look nice, and it didnt actually have any performance increase over 256.

That's probably true for most games, but I'd be right in saying that FS has a higher use of textures than most other games and synthetic benchmarks, so 512MB could be quite useful.

by **brownbox** » Mon May 21, 2007 4:54 pm

true that. :thumbup:

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