Hi All -- I'm giving consideration to building a new rig for FSX (never heard that before huh? <grin>). I tend not to follow the technology unless/until I get ready to build, so I'm getting myself caught up here. From what I've gathered reading here, the consensus seems to be that the GTX5xx chipsets are preferred for FSX. (Agreed?). But what about brand? When I built my last rig a few years back, it was Nvidia and ATI and that was mostly it. Now, there's Gigabyte, Asus, MSI, EVGA, etc., etc. that all have products centered around the GTX5xx series. Any significant differences that you've found, and what is your preference?Thanks!Scott

I´ve heared that EVGA is a really good brand.

Hi All -- I'm giving consideration to building a new rig for FSX (never heard that before huh? <grin>). I tend not to follow the technology unless/until I get ready to build, so I'm getting myself caught up here. From what I've gathered reading here, the consensus seems to be that the GTX5xx chipsets are preferred for FSX. (Agreed?). But what about brand? When I built my last rig a few years back, it was Nvidia and ATI and that was mostly it. Now, there's Gigabyte, Asus, MSI, EVGA, etc., etc. that all have products centered around the GTX5xx series. Any significant differences that you've found, and what is your preference?Thanks!Scott

Hi Scott,Those are excellent questions. The only thing I might suggest is that you post it one section below in the video card forum where we can discuss this at great length. In my opinion they are likely all more or less equally good, with no difference between the same reference designs except the sticker. After that, it gets a little foggier. :unsure:Kind regards,

Oops! Good point. I've got hardware on the brain and have been jumping from one thought to the next. Thanks. I'll be back with MOBO/RAM/CPU questions!Scott

Oops! Good point. I've got hardware on the brain and have been jumping from one thought to the next. Thanks. I'll be back with MOBO/RAM/CPU questions!Scott

No problem Scott.I'm moving your topic.

I have experienced superb support from EVGA. They even called me at home twice to help solve my problem. Can't beat that! Oh, yes the problem was solved, it was the motherboard.

I have the Superclocked EVGA GTX560 Ti. It is superb.

I too have the 560TI (MSI OC)Check out these scores 3dMark06 http://3dmark.com/3dm06/154653453DMark11http://3dmark.com/3dm11/723360....not bad for a $250 card, huh?One other note: It's quite .....almost cut a finger off making an attempt to see if the fans were working. True.Edit: http://3dmark.com/3dm06/15465419 <vbg>

price difference up to a 570 is not that great now - can be as little as 40-50 dollars morethats what I'd go for - overclocked they are about on par with a GTX580I went for the cheapest one I could find - which happened to be a MSI OC version and its superb - out of the box its got quite an overclockand with a small bump in volts, is up to about 580 speedsthe 570 has quite a bit more grunt for flightsims - the extra memory, extra memory bandwidth all help out :)

As bojote and Ryan (over at PMDG) have pointed out, shader processors are everything with FSX and the 570 has more. Heck, with some simple math, you could probably do a 560 vs 570 FSX cost/performance analysis just based on shader cores. My main attraction to the 560ti was the form factor, nearly 3 inches shorter than the 570. Plus the 560ti burns less energy than the 570. But the fact is, the 570 is a superior card to the 560ti (at any clock speed) with FSX.Interesting FSXMark11 bench:560TI at default clocks (GPU 880/Mem 2100/Shader 1760) Average FPS is 43Over clocked 1000/2500/2000Average FPS is 43Note:The 560ti on my i5 2500k @ 5GHz is around 30% faster in FSX than the GTX 275 it replaced. But the question is, would the 560ti hold that same performance gain on the E8400 @ 3.6GHz the 2500k replaced? FSXMark11 linkhttp://forum.avsim.net/topic/328262-fsxmark11/

I wanna update my 560Ti 3Dmark scorehttp://3dmark.com/3dm06/15468986 <------- holding it's own against 470's, 570's and 580's with the same CPU.

nice score :) I'm not keen on 06 though as very CPU dependantI prefer to use straight CPU benchmarks, along with GPU benchmarks that are less CPU drivenbtw currently runnning DCS A10 and it runs smooth as silk on my old rig ([email protected]) - it actually seems quite GPU driven - which is great - Afterburner is showing 100% (as near as) GPU usage, 1.25gb GPU VRAM usedrunning @ 1900x1200 with 8XAAQ

Thanx man!Yeah, I'm just showing off the 3dMark06 score. For the last 3 or 4 years I've been slammed with 3DMark scores from a friend of mine. It's pay back time. :-)I tell you what, the 3dMark CPU Mark scales real well and is not an easy hurdle to jump when testing your CPU.I'm going to have give that A10 a looksie, guys are raving about it over at the PMDG forum.

I didn't see it mentioned here but Gigabyte has a GeForce GTX-560-SO TI. It's super overclocked and apparently has received very good reviews. You might want to have a look.Mark