December 1, 201015 yr Hi guysLooking for a new videocard to put in my system. Am looking into 4 cards and wanted to see which one is the best price/performance wise.my system isProcessor: AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.2GhzMotherboard: GA-MA790XT-UD4PMemory: PC3-10700H DDR3 3GB + 1GB (i ll put in when upgrading to windows7)Videocard: ATI Radeon HD 3870 512MBOS: Windows XP (will be upgraded to Windows7 very soon) So the 4 card is: XFX ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024MB GDDR5 £239.99OcUK Value GeForce GTX 480 1536MB GDDR5 £299.99Gigabyte GeForce GTX 480 1536MB GDDR5 £319.99 (does it worth paying more for the same card? )Asus GeForce GTX 470 1280MB GDDR5 £199.98Can anyone help to choose. I dont want to pay the most expensive card. Specially if its just a slight performance gain..My FS is locked on FSP 30. Mainly flying big airliners. (Fokker,767,747,737,320) and have lots of addon airports German Airports.. etc and AI trafficand would like to enjoy it nice and smooth but i am not hunting for high frames but nice enjoyable experience.. I almost have that in FS9 with my existing card with everything maxed out almost, but i would like to upgrade to FSX. Thanx Tamas Mezei
December 1, 201015 yr Moderator Go with the 470. With your system, the more expensive cards will not give you enough improvement to justify the price. The 470 is a very good card and comes pretty close to the 480.Vic RIG#1 - I9 14900K MSI Pro z790 RTX 5070Ti 40" 4K Monitor 3840x2160
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