I currently have a amd64 x2 6000+ with 2 gig of ddr2 ram (can't fit more in) and a ati 1950pro vid card in a pcie format.Would I gain much by upgrading my video card to an 8800gt or gts?if so which would be the better of the two, understanding that money is still an issue :)

Unless you are running Vista and want the very few new DX10 features shortly to be introduced by the FSX DX10 patch, then no. The 1950 Pro will drive both FS9 and FSX quite nicely.Gary

Sweet, thanks for that, considering I don't have Vista, I don't need to then :)

Tom's Hardware Interactive VGA Charts 2007 shows that the nVIDIA 8800 GTS cards are about 40-45% faster than the ATI X1950 Pro card when running FSX. Have a look at http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics_2007.htmlUlf B

Hey, how is your AMD 6000?I just ordered one.... :)

I like it a lot, upgraded from an amd 2400 so it's certainly a lot better, I can now fly the 767 comfortably, and as long as I don't put too much of a strain on it, it runs FSx good!FS9 = a dream, probably still could of got a bit better, but I'm certainly not complaining.I only have problems with some clouds, which is what I was wondering the 8800 would help with

>I like it a lot, upgraded from an amd 2400 so it's certainly>a lot better, I can now fly the 767 comfortably, and as long>as I don't put too much of a strain on it, it runs FSx good!>>FS9 = a dream, probably still could of got a bit better, but>I'm certainly not complaining.>>I only have problems with some clouds, which is what I was>wondering the 8800 would help with>Moving recently from South Africa To Australia via Singapore, gave me the chance to purchase most of my new system in Singapore, which is shown here below my signature. The good old CH products have been with me for over four years and never given any problems, so too has the MS Force-Feedback joystick. FSX was disastrous on my previous single core Pentium HT machine with 2Gb's of RAM and an ATI AGP graphics card. But now all I can say is wow!!!I re-installed FSX with SP1 on its own 'Primary Partition' on its own separate HDD and XP Pro is installed the same way of course except, that before installing anything other than the OS, I created a 'Paging Files' (3072 Mb's)primary partition on its own HDD too.Having the OS, FSX and Page Files on three separate HDD's may be considered by some to be excessive, but as far as performance and the quality of FSX is concerned, this set-up makes the whole FSX experience absobloodylutely awesome!!!