Many thanks for everybody's help on this topic. My reseller today informed that he wouldnt be able to fit a water cooled 480 into my PC Case, for some reason which I didnt understand.As I want to run FS9 at full throttle ie all sliders set to max, I am worried about the heat and noise reading other posts. Is there another way to cool the 480 down without water cooling?, especially during the hot weather! Or should I go for a Geforce 285 GTX, or will I need to cool that card too if I want to run the sliders at maximum.Many thanks and best Wishes,Chris EGBB

Many thanks for everybody's help on this topic. My reseller today informed that he wouldnt be able to fit a water cooled 480 into my PC Case, for some reason which I didnt understand.As I want to run FS9 at full throttle ie all sliders set to max, I am worried about the heat and noise reading other posts. Is there another way to cool the 480 down without water cooling?, especially during the hot weather! Or should I go for a Geforce 285 GTX, or will I need to cool that card too if I want to run the sliders at maximum.Many thanks and best Wishes,Chris EGBB

I run FSX at high settings, have my GTX 480 Superclocked fan speed set to 60% and the temp stays at 60-63 degrees, have yet to see it go above that, as for noise at 60 % its as quiet as any other card, 100% fan speed its loud as hell though, what size case do you have, I have a full tower Corsair 800D, maby the people with the mid size cases are having problems with heat.

I run FSX at high settings, have my GTX 480 Superclocked fan speed set to 60% and the temp stays at 60-63 degrees, have yet to see it go above that, as for noise at 60 % its as quiet as any other card, 100% fan speed its loud as hell though, what size case do you have, I have a full tower Corsair 800D, maby the people with the mid size cases are having problems with heat.

My GTX 480 in FSX maxes out at about 70C, I would not worry about FS9/FSX causing heat issues. It also doesn't even push my CPU past 50C.

My temps are virtually the same-60-64 degrees. Fan noise is nominal at these temps.