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[tutmeister 710]

Yes, especially for FSX. It is designed for your general use desktop machine. FSX uses the hard drive extensively to reference the textures and files, so the faster your machine can read and write files on your hard drive the better performance you will see. It is the main bottleneck. So if your GFX card is awesome and so is your CPU and memory, then your hard drive can still limit your ability to have a well-running copy of FSX on your machine if you have a cr@p hard drive.As far as your chosen GFX card, it will work fine. I use an AMD 6870, which works great for me in FSX. It's currently the same price as your chosen one.

[Mean Aerodynamic Chord 269]

Yes, especially for FSX. It is designed for your general use desktop machine. FSX uses the hard drive extensively to reference the textures and files, so the faster your machine can read and write files on your hard drive the better performance you will see. It is the main bottleneck. So if your GFX card is awesome and so is your CPU and memory, then your hard drive can still limit your ability to have a well-running copy of FSX on your machine if you have a cr@p hard drive.As far as your chosen GFX card, it will work fine. I use an AMD 6870, which works great for me in FSX. It's currently the same price as your chosen one.

I'm going with nVidia this time. Any thoughts?