This is what I have now:19" monitor with 1280x1024 resolution, just one monitorFS2004Intel Core 2 Duo @3.0ghz4GB RAMGeForce 9600GT 512MBI'm wondering what is the best card that I can get, which will give me the most performance I can get with high FS settings. I realize that a great graphics card will not make FS that much better, but I also know that the wrong card can really make things a nightmare.

This is what I have now:19" monitor with 1280x1024 resolution, just one monitorFS2004Intel Core 2 Duo @3.0ghz4GB RAMGeForce 9600GT 512MBI'm wondering what is the best card that I can get, which will give me the most performance I can get with high FS settings. I realize that a great graphics card will not make FS that much better, but I also know that the wrong card can really make things a nightmare.

I have a PowerColor 4870, and it runs FSX on an LG 26" at 1920 X 1200 without any problems.

Do you know if the performance would be equivalent to FS9? FSX can sometimes take advantage of newer features in hardware that FS9 cannot so that's why I ask.

I have a 512mb 8800GTS and I overclocked it. I really cant see a better video card helping. It's really up to the cpu at that point. with 2 gigs of memory and a e8500 running around 3.6, fs9 can pretty much handle everything thrown at it, although at max it does dip down to around 25 fps at times (locked at 40)