Cool, I'm looking forward to seeing how the 4GB 680's bench compared to the 7970 (3GB) especially for 3 monitor resolutions with AA on, even the 2GB reference versions did well against the 3GB of the 7970.Not so optimistic on the overclocking though, the 680 reviews I saw had it running at near 80c peak at stock clocks and the EVGA "Superclock" edition has a minimal 1006->1058Mhz GPU Clock Speed bump and 6008->6208Mhz Memory Clock Speed bump, so I suspect any additional high overclocking will really need good non-reference air coolers or water cooling.The 685 is also something to look forward to, 2012 is great for us hardware geeks with the NV 685 and ATI 8xxxx and Ivybridge coming up.

Cool, I'm looking forward to seeing how the 4GB 680's bench compared to the 7970 (3GB) especially for 3 monitor resolutions with AA on, even the 2GB reference versions did well against the 3GB of the 7970.Not so optimistic on the overclocking though, the 680 reviews I saw had it running at near 80c peak at stock clocks and the EVGA "Superclock" edition has a minimal 1006->1058Mhz GPU Clock Speed bump and 6008->6208Mhz Memory Clock Speed bump, so I suspect any additional high overclocking will really need good non-reference air coolers or water cooling.The 685 is also something to look forward to, 2012 is great for us hardware geeks with the NV 685 and ATI 8xxxx and Ivybridge coming up.

AMD 8000 series? Bro, the 7000 series have only just been released...

7970 (3GB) especially for 3 monitor resolutions with AA on,

There was a guy around here that reported awful FPS with the 7970.... I would stay far away from AMD for FSX.

The ATI 8xxx series is rumored to be beefed up superclock editions based on the 7970 and ready to launch when AMD wants to swing the performance king back in their direction.Yeah I'm definitely aware of the ATI cloud penalty with FSX (went from a 5870 to this 560), but that doesn't stop me from hoping at some point Nvidia has some good competition when it comes to FSX especially for 3 monitor support :DPersonally I am likely to pick up either a 685 or 680/4GB late this year if it pans out to be worth it for FSX, it is fun waiting and watching the competition though.

I tried my 7950 with FSX and even with all the tweaks and shader mod the 580 blew it out of the water especially in hard IFR. AMD will not adjust/optimize drivers for FSX since it is old, poor coding, and has a smaller user base. So there is no real benefit for AMD to devote manpower to fix their drivers. I don't agree with it but that is AMD. Looking forward to the GTX680 and glad I got all but $15 back for the 7950.

I'm gonna wait a month or two. Currently I have no GPU at all. In the mean time I'm gonna be trying to find a job at my local grocery store. Will hopefully earn around 200 bucks a month, and when I'm lucky I will be able to pick up an NVIDIA GTX 680 supersupersuperclocked, Asus Z77, and an Intel i7 3770K after around 2 months or so, IF I manage to sell my current mobo and CPU. I want to wait until the newer hardware as usual. But I should stop doing that, knowing that there's always someting knew around the corner in the hardware world. I think it's always a good time to buy new hardware after around 1 or 2 months after release. In that way, you'll be having it for a much longer time, because it's still sometime away know until the newer generation hardware will be released. And when Intel's i9 CPU (if that will exist anyway :LMAO: ) And NVIDIA 700 series, and Z88 chipset will be out, FSX will probably be out of the door already. And we will be playing a new platform like XPlane 11 or Outerra. I'll go where PMDG goes. I think the hardware that will now be released, is around as good as were gonna get it with FSX.

Arjen, go to sleep now, it´s past midnite in NL, you are hyper!I´ll get a job selling popcorn in Uganda, make a million, buy me an airplane, and fagetabout FSX. :LMAO:PS: Oh, forgot, please do not buy AMD for FSX, it´s no good...