Thinking of upgrading from an EVGA GeForce GTX570 Superclocked 1280 MB GDDR5 to an EVGA GeForce GTX 670 FTW 1006MHZ 2GB 6.2GHZ GDDR5. What do you think?

 

Or is there something better that anyone would recommend?

Good choice :good: , but probably overkill. I'd get the 660TI, as Ben will suggest soon .

What are you trying to accomplish??

 

Other than a "new card"... The 570 is a pretty good card in it's own right..

Here's what I found:

EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti Superclocked 980MHZ 2GB *$289.99

 

EVGA GeForce GTX 660 TI+ 915MHZ 3GB 6.0GHZ GDDR5 *$309.99

 

The one I first mentioned is selling for $389, not that huge of a price difference.

 

EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti Superclocked 980MHZ 2GB *$289.99

 

 

This would be an excellent choice. When running SGSS in clouds, you will see about a 45% jump in performance. It is well worth the money IMO. :smile:

I bought the EVGA GeForce GTX660 TI 915MHZ 3GB 6.0GHZ GDDR5 video card and installed it. Downloaded to desktop and installed NVIDIA 306.97 WHQL Driver, selected custom/clean install, deleted FSX.cfg and got this message when starting FSX:

]Invalid Hardware or Driver Detected[/b]

This graphics card does not meet minimum requirements for shader support. This product requires a geForce3/Radeon8500 class or better graphics card.

I ran windows update, checked that DirectX11 was up to date, deleted FSX.cfg again and tried setting NVIDIA Inspector and I still received the error message.

I bought the EVGA GeForce GTX660 TI 915MHZ 3GB 6.0GHZ GDDR5 video card and installed it. Downloaded to desktop and installed NVIDIA 306.97 WHQL Driver, selected custom/clean install, deleted FSX.cfg and got this message when starting FSX:

 

I ran windows update, checked that DirectX11 was up to date, deleted FSX.cfg again and tried setting NVIDIA Inspector and I still received the error message.

 

I recommend doing a clean driver install. If that does not resolve the issue, make sure that you are not running FSX in any kind of compatibility mode.

Thanks Ben,

 

Hmm, I have the fsx.exe pinned to my taskbar and it is set to run as Windows Vista (Service Pack 2), is that what you mean?

 

Just a word of caution regarding your instructions on clean driver install, you have the NVIDIA Chipset driver checked, isn't that the actual mobo chipset driver? I wouldn't recommend that you uninstall that.

Take fs xout of vista compatibility mode and see if that makes any difference.

isn't that the actual mobo chipset driver? I wouldn't recommend that you uninstall that.

 

I don't have an Nvidia Motherboard. No motherboards even have Nvidia chipsets.... Only Intel and AMD make the chipsets AFAIK.

I don't have an Nvidia Motherboard. No motherboards even have Nvidia chipsets.... Only Intel and AMD make the chipsets AFAIK.

Old nForce chipsets... Memories. They had a licence to make chipsets with FSB for Intel systems so when Intel scrapped the FSB after socket 775 with the 'i' series processors their chipset business kind of died. I think they still have one chipset for socket AM3.

Old nForce chipsets... Memories. They had a licence to make chipsets with FSB for Intel systems so when Intel scrapped the FSB after socket 775 with the 'i' series processors their chipset business kind of died. I think they still have one chipset for socket AM3.

Actually it isn't that long time ago when Nvidia stopped chipset manufacturing. nForce 900 series for Phenom II and Athlon processors came somewhere around 2009. I myself have had two nForce 2 400 Ultra mobos for Athlons, one nForce 3 Ultra for Athlon64 and two 650i SLI motherboards for Core 2 Duo.

 

All of those were really nice boards at their time and I didn't experience any problems with them. It was little sad that Nvidia quit manufacturing those and now processor manufacturers are only major players for mobo chipsests. If I remember correctly, during the 2009 Intel threatened to sue Nvidia for copyright infringement related to some Intel bus patent and Intel claimed that Nvidia needs to licence the technology if they wan't to manufacture Intel compatible chipsets. At the same time, AMD sales figures were on the downhill slide and there was just no demand for the Nvidia AMD chipsets so company dropped chipset business. In hindsight, I think one big reason was also to change focus to mobile low power APU's (Tegra etc.), which probably has a lot higher business margin. I've understood that mobo manufacturing isn't the biggest goldmine, so just producing chipsets for mobo manufacturers in market dominated at that time by processor manufacturers was probably far less profitable.

 

To the 670, I'm anxiously waiting my GTX670 FTW to arrive. I made my choice between 680 and 670. I didn't even consider the 660ti because the price difference beteween EVGA GTX 670 FTW and most of the 660ti cards was just about 40 euros or so. Some 660tis were even more expensive.

 

To the 670, I'm anxiously waiting my GTX670 FTW to arrive. I made my choice between 680 and 670. I didn't even consider the 660ti because the price difference beteween EVGA GTX 670 FTW and most of the 660ti cards was just about 40 euros or so. Some 660tis were even more expensive.

 

Great choice!