I just got some new parts for my upgrade for the NGX today. I got a 2500k and a asus p67 board I am going to carryover the 8 gb of corsair xms3 ddr3 ram I currently have in my C2D system What would be a good video card to get for a reasonable price. I was looking at the 570 and 580 cards but they are all well over 300 US

Just going by what I've read, look at the 560 ti. Seems to be the most recommended card behind the 580/570, and I think it's going for around $250 right now.

570 mate you wont regret it. Has that extra oomph over 560 for newer pc titles. 580 is to expensive for it's price I believe.

460, 560Ti, 570, 580 - those are the cards I recommend. They're all based on Nvidia's latest GF110 chip design. Get one with at least 1GB of RAM.

evga gtx580 all the way best card I have ever bought, luv it. :( Rich

I went with the 570. Would consider the 580 as it's a bit better, just a budget decision. 570 is rubbish for overclocking but even at close to its default clock speeds its a good card.Oh, and although it doesnt make a lot of difference I'd go with Rich's suggestion of EVGA (that's not what ive got but ti's the brand ill go with next time).

Got a 580 luv it. If you don't have the dish 560/570.Pete Walsh.

I just bought the rest of my upgrade. evga 570, corsair ax750 PS and the a70 cooler that plus the 2500k and asus p67 board should have me NGX ready...... I hope LOL I could have went with the 580 but since i really only flight sim with the computer I thought it was a waste.. If I played other games then yeah the 580 is what I would have went with. PMDG is doing it's bit to help the economy. The PC component companies should thank you.

Good luck with it and dont forget to overclock it :( Rich

I went with the 570. Would consider the 580 as it's a bit better, just a budget decision. 570 is rubbish for overclocking but even at close to its default clock speeds its a good card.Oh, and although it doesnt make a lot of difference I'd go with Rich's suggestion of EVGA (that's not what ive got but ti's the brand ill go with next time).

There's gonna be virtually no difference between a 580 and 570 in FSX - even in modern games the 570 is only max 20% or so slower. At 1920x1200 they're virtually neck and neck - I haven't seen a game yet that I can run basically maxed on mine.

Say I'd get a 460. Now what actually is the difference between the brands? What would make me choose the other over the other if they have both the 460 chip with 1 GB? I see there's e. g. MSI, EVGA, Gigayte, Asus and others. Ranging from about $220 to $260. Why wouldn't I just get for the $220 one or what would I miss then? BTW I'm running a Q8300 @ 2.5GHz and 8GB RAM so nothing particularly fancy here, and I don't quite intend to OC in any way. And not sure it would make great sense to get anything better than a 460. I'm not that hardcore and I've been flying without water FX, AI, hi-def scenery, autogen, bloom, HDR mod and FSAA for years, so it couldn't get much worse in any case LOL. The only thing is that my 256 meg 7900GS is producing more and more artefacts, also just running the OS not only within FSX. Plus some random restarts and BSODs in between, not sure if that's also causing them.

460, 560Ti, 570, 580 - those are the cards I recommend. They're all based on Nvidia's latest GF110 chip design. Get one with at least 1GB of RAM.

what about 480? :(

Good luck with it and dont forget to overclock it :( Rich

thanks, ohh yeah I plan on O/C this thing..I have my current C2D setup overclocked but this 2500k setup should be a lot better. I can't wait for the rest of the parts to get here

There's gonna be virtually no difference between a 580 and 570 in FSX - even in modern games the 570 is only max 20% or so slower. At 1920x1200 they're virtually neck and neck - I haven't seen a game yet that I can run basically maxed on mine.

I'm using a mildly overclocked 570. Stays nice and cool, but crashes with any real attempt to push the clock speed.I want a bit more FSX performance (frames are slowing down a bit in the cities at night - I'm using UTX night lightling). I was wondering if the 580 would help a little in this regard. I also like that FSX glow effect that kills frames...and I still can't run it in dense urban areas. These were the sort of effects I could imagine a heftier video card helping with, but I'm no expert on this.If I was betting...I'd say what I really need is more MHz on the CPU...but would a 580 or some future card speed this sort of thing up?

Oz its crashing because you need to up the voltage on your qpi/vtt voltage I believe, I had the same problem go here http://www.overclock...ml#post13750691 this is the thread where I solved my problems, Alan and Guru will help they no their stuff big time, sign up and respond to that thread its a thread dedicated to your motherboard, nice. :( Overclocking a video card is a waste of time, get your cpu overclock stable with your cpu 4.2 would just about do it. Oh download cpuz to check your overclock.Rich