Hello all,I recently bought the PMDG 747 and have been taking it out for a few flights, and I've been thinking of a way to get better frame rates. My system specs are below:Pentium 4 3.04 GHZ 519 processor1024MB RAMIntel Integrated 64MB Graphics Card259W Power SupplyNow, I am most probably going to upgrade my graphics card. At best in the PMDG I get 19-20FPS with all settings configured to give best frame rates possible. THis is obviously down to having pretty poo graphics cards. Bearing in mind I have a 259W power supply, and I dont want to bottleneck my computer, or overclock it, what do you think would be the best graphics card I could upgrade to (AGP or PCI only, not PCIe) without doing any bottlenecking overclocking etc. and having to upgrade my PSU.I have been looking at cheap cards like the ATI 9250, 9550, and possibly the GeForce 6600. Would these be feasible to install, and would I be likely to see an improvement using any of these?Thanks,pilotboy

Hi Pilotboy, first of all, 19-20fps seems pretty good off an onbaord solution! Well done. :-) Regarding the question whether your PSU could handle an AGP card, it might be better to ask Dell? I could imagine your PSU will cope with the 9550, but the 6600..? Radeons typically use a little bit less energy than Geforces. Hope this adds to thoughts, good luck and kind regards Jaap

Hi Jaap,The only reason i get 20fps is because i set all the settings to minimal! One other thing, my PC isn't a Dell, I know it can support an AGP card I was just wondering, with my power supply, what would be the best AGP card it could support without damaging or overclocking?Thanks for your reply,pilotboy

>>The only reason i get 20fps is because i set all the settings to minimal!<< Which indeed doesn't look too nice... And pls excuse my misreading and presumption you have a Dell, Jeff! :-) Perhaps replace Dell with OEM? Case you have a homebuilt system, it shouldn't be a prob to fit any GPU as you could swap the PSU too (as you probably know and provided the budget allows doing so). AFAIK, the 9550 you mentioned consumes roughly 25W and therefore shouldn't be a prob. In the past, Dell built systems with 260W PSUs like yours and 9800pro Radeons (@ ca. 65-70W). So, my guesstimate would be that your system could handle a 6600 too. OTOH, 'shoulds' and 'coulds' just aren't good enough... :-) Do you have a spare 12V lead from PSU in case a new GPU requires one? Which resolution are you running? Cheers and kind regards Jaap