captains, i am currently using a pc has specs below. i am not unhappy but some heavy areas and big airports/cities/high ai traffic kills my frames. so i have decided to make some upgrades. i have limited due the budget. (i don't even know ngx price)i am thinking of buying xigmatek red scorpion cpu cooler and increase my cpu clock more than current overclocked values.and raplacing my graphics card with a new one. i need your advises.thanks.CPU= AMD X4 630 3.4 OC (target value after xigmatek cooler: 3.6)GPU= gtx 260Power= Glacial power 550 w (i don't have budget for replacing it, so graphic card suggestions must be limited for my psu)4 Gb DDR2 kingston ramactually i am thinking of buying gtx460 1gb, i know ati 5850 and 6870 better than gtx460 but ati doesn't like fsx as i know.if there is any ati user, can they share their experiences?i have 13-15 fps at heavy airports, and i just want to raise my fps to 25-26.thanks and sorry for my bad english.

There are some chances that i'll buy HD6970 next week or two... I talked to one person who owns it and is very satisfied with it (EDIT: he is using it for FSX), if I'll get it I'll let You know how it performs. There are many improvements in 6xxx, but don't expect combined AA modes, that's for sure

I do also own a GTX 260, really stabe and good, but I´ll upgrade if I have the money.I wouldn´t take a GTX 460, but a GTX 470 instead. I thought of the same as you, replacing my GTX 260 with a 460, but my retailer told me that the 460 won´t give you a big performance increase over the 260. He said I should go for the 470, there will be a increase of performance. And also the 470 is not so much more expensive than you think.

GTX 560 was just released. Get that or a 570.

GTX 560 was just released. Get that or a 570.

But you should´n forget that the 560 has less CUDA cores as the 470, so there might be a difference in performance.

GTX 560 was just released. Get that or a 570.

i think my power supply can't handle neither of them.

i think my power supply can't handle neither of them.

550W? sure it can

Really? if it can, i can wait and save money for gtx560my psu is:http://www.motherboards.org/reviews/hardware/1726_2.html

Really? if it can, i can wait and save money for gtx560my psu is:http://www.motherboa...are/1726_2.html

Just used this calculator with your OCed setup + 1 HDD + 1 CD/DVD + 6 usb + GTX 570 and got 473W

Just used this calculator with your OCed setup + 1 HDD + 1 CD/DVD + 6 usb + GTX 570 and got 473W

How did you calculate it?

How did you calculate it?

Ups, sorry, forgot the link: http://www.antec.outervision.com/

Since we are on video cards. What is the best video cards set up for dual monitors - on a new top end machine - not looking to save money? I was looking at dual 2 GB ATI Radeon HD6950 (but it says ATI Crossfire enaabled). If using dual monitors,do I need to disable something. I remember with my nVidia 8800 GTX dual cards I think I had to disable SLI mode.I just crashed twice yesterday with my PDMG 747 due to low memory, so if the NGX gives me the same problem, I'll upgrade to a new computer.Paul Gugliotta

Just used this calculator with your OCed setup + 1 HDD + 1 CD/DVD + 6 usb + GTX 570 and got 473W 

can 550w power give 473 watt? efficiency 80% so about 440-450 watt

Hello Cenk,i just tried Nvidia GTX 250 and ATI HD 5850 both (on my quadcore) and i will give you this advice : nvidia is a lot better (always been) to optimize antialiasingand its piece of cake with the inspector.ATI catalyst is more limited (or if someone has a tip wawwww!).Congrat by the way to PMDG but i will also bet my dollars on iFLY. Masonhttp://airdailyx.blogspot.com/

Hello Mason; did you mean gtx260? or gts250?