Hi Mike,I'm also watching your topic with interest as I'm in the process of choosing the components for a new system. It was only when I got home from work this afternoon and the latest PC Pro had been delivered I saw how good they rate this card. It's rated as better than the 8800 series including the Ultra.Unfortunately they don't use FSX for benchmarking so your report on frame rates compared to the 8800GTX will be very interesting.Cheers,

Anandtech has a benchmark up where they used FSX with the 3870x2. Just comparing to a single 3870 though. Looks pretty promissing. Not a huge performance increase, but as we all know, FSX is CPU limited. Notice the resolution they are testing at as well. Here is the link:http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3219&p=2Kylehttp://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/forum/747400.jpg

Thanks for that. In isolation it doesn't say much. What we really need is the 8800GTX result so some comparison can be made.And there was me thinking 1920*1200 was pushing it!:-eekPC Pro is a highly respected magazine in the UK so I have a good feeling about this card. Of course nVidia will respond but that will be some months away.

With nVidia, there are some common FS issues. Let's see if this ATI gig monster can deal with them:How is the shimmering? Any flashing textures under DX10 mode?Any cloud flashing?Any other display oddities?RhettAMD 3700+ (@2585 mhz), eVGA 7800GT 256 (Guru3D 93.71), ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2gb Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8 (1T), WD 150 gig 10000rpm Raptor, WD 250gig 7200rpm SATA2, Seagate 120gb 5400 rpm external HD, CoolerMaster Praetorian