April 21, 201214 yr Hi all, I see from people's signatures that my own PC (bought in '09) is modest, but I also understand that running MS Flight is less CPU intensive than FSX, as Flight unloads some of the work onto the GPU... I am therefore looking at my 'old' system and wondering what would offer the best bang for the buck in terms of upgrading the Radeon 4850 graphics card... CPU - Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 (4 X 2.40GHz) 1066MHz FSB/8MB Cache RAM - 4GB CORSAIR XMS2 800MHz Mobo - ASUS P5K SE: DDR2, SATAII, PCI-e x16, 2 PCI, 3 x PCI-e x1 O/S - Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Graphics Card - 512MB RADEON HD 4850 PCI Express + DVI Any suggestions gratefully received... Max budget is around $200/£150 Cheers, Nick
April 21, 201214 yr I would say a 200 series card. something like a 275/285. They cost about 80 euros AMD 7800X3D, 64GB 6000MHz CL30, INNO3D RTX 4080, Windows 11.
April 22, 201214 yr Author Thank you Word Not Allowed and Eef - I really appreciate your feedback to my question... Cheers, Nick
April 26, 201214 yr Author Just a little update and a further question... Based on clear advice from Word Not Allowed, I went ahead and treated my PC to an Asus GTX560Ti DirectCUII with 1GB and which runs at 900Mhz... Can't wait to try it out, but I see that it expects power from two side-by-side six-pin PCIe plugs... The card came with no instructions but with what look like two 'adapters' that convert power delivered from 2 molex plugs into one PCIe plug... On the face of it my PSU seems adequate at 550w but it has no PCIe plugs, and only one spare 4 pin molex plug... My question is this: Do I need a new PSU with two of those new PCIe plugs, or can I just be cheap and buy some molex to molex Y leads to give me the required 4 molex plugs?! Advice appreciated as ever...
April 26, 201214 yr Nice card! With a 550W PSU, you should be OK. I would go with a Y-adapter on a power lead that does not already have other power hungry devices on it. Or, better, spread it across two existing leads, if you can. Bert
April 26, 201214 yr Author Thanks Bert :) I think there is only one spare molex (it's shared on a power line that also powers a DVD, but I don't use that DVD for Flight, so perhaps it will be OK. Am just thinking it will need a Y splitter, then another two to give me the four connectors I need! The components are cheap enough to order, but I just didn't want to go through that process if it was doomed to failure... If the CPU itself fails then plan B will be to replace that...
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