October 11, 200817 yr I notice with my 8800GT in certain cloud conditions it can slow frames down signficantly. How does the GTX280 compare, or is this more a function of CPU thruput?Noel Noel System: 9900X3D Noctua NH-D15 G2, MSI Pro 650-P WiFi, G.SKILL 64GB (2 x 32GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5 6000, WD NVMe 2Tb x 1, Sabrent NVMe 2Tb x 1, RTX 4090 FE, Corsair RM1000W PSU, Win11 Home, LG Ultra Curved Gsync Ultimate 3440x1440, Phanteks Enthoo Pro Case, TCA Boeing Edition Yoke & TQ, Cessna Trim Wheel, RTSS Framerate Limiter w/ Front Edge Sync. Aircraft used in MSFS 2024: Fenix A320, Aerosoft CRJ, FBW, WT 787X, I-Fly 737 MAX 8, Citation Longitude.
October 11, 200817 yr I've just replaced my 8800GTX with a GTX 280 and got much better frame rates flying under several (3+) dense cloud layers, particularly under high resolution FEX clouds. No more occasional stutters. No more severe frame rate drops under certain weather conditions. Screen resolution here is 1900x1200, AF 16x, AA 4x. Using FSX DirectX 10 "preview".-EmersonASUS P5E (X38) - GeForce GTX 280 XFX - Quad Q6600 SLACR/G0 @3.2GHz(400x8) FSB@1600MHz - Zalman CNPS9700 LED4x1GB Corsair XMS2 PC2-6400C4 - Seventeam ST-1000E-AD - LCD 24" wide Dell 2407WFP-HC - Vista Ultimate 64/SP1
October 11, 200817 yr Author Nice. Can you tell me how long the card is? I have some limitation in that area. I have an 8800GT in there now which is tightish. Noel System: 9900X3D Noctua NH-D15 G2, MSI Pro 650-P WiFi, G.SKILL 64GB (2 x 32GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5 6000, WD NVMe 2Tb x 1, Sabrent NVMe 2Tb x 1, RTX 4090 FE, Corsair RM1000W PSU, Win11 Home, LG Ultra Curved Gsync Ultimate 3440x1440, Phanteks Enthoo Pro Case, TCA Boeing Edition Yoke & TQ, Cessna Trim Wheel, RTSS Framerate Limiter w/ Front Edge Sync. Aircraft used in MSFS 2024: Fenix A320, Aerosoft CRJ, FBW, WT 787X, I-Fly 737 MAX 8, Citation Longitude.
October 12, 200817 yr >Nice. Can you tell me how long the card is? I have some>limitation in that area. I have an 8800GT in there now which>is tightish.>The PCB is 26.7cm long. Same size as the 8800 GTX.An advice: check if your PSU has one PCI-E 8-pin connector. The GTX 280 needs one 6-pin and one 8-pin (differently from geforce 8-series and GTX 260 which need two 6-pin). The card will not boot with two 6-pin connected, no matter what PSU you have. My PSU doesn't have the 8-pin PCI-E (has two 6-pin), so I had to buy an adapter (6-pin to 8-pin). This workaround may not work with all PSUs.ASUS P5E (X38) - GeForce GTX 280 XFX - Quad Q6600 SLACR/G0 @3.2GHz(400x8) FSB@1600MHz - Zalman CNPS9700 LED4x1GB Corsair XMS2 PC2-6400C4 - Seventeam ST-1000E-AD - LCD 24" wide Dell 2407WFP-HC - Vista Ultimate 64/SP1
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