My AMD/ATI Radeon 5850 is on its last legs so I am looking for a new card and would be grateful for any advice.

 

 

 

System specs:

 

CPU : Intel Core i7 920 2800 Mhz

Motherboard: ASUS P6T SE

Motherboard Chipset : Intel Tylersburg x58

8 GB RAM

Graphics BUS: PCI Express 2.0 x16@16

OS Windows 7 64 bit

 

I use FS9 with ASE weather; FSGlobal mesh; Ultimate Terrain; many payware airport sceneries; very dense ai aircraft coverage; payware aircaft such as PMDG/Level-D

 

I get very good frame rates with the current setup, and even with dense cloud at addon airports still getting 20-30 fps.

 

I am not committed to to AMD/ATI so would happily look at Nvidea if you reccomend.

 

Many thanks

 

Peter

How much are you looking to spend Pete

I have a Radeon 6770 I would sell you.  $150 including shipping in the lower 48.

 

John

I am happy to spend to get the best performance...  so I was thinking around the £350 level.

 

I am not a computer expert btw.

 

Peter

Something like this would be nice with your rig, if you want to spend less a 2 gig card would be ok but a 4 gig card will perform better.

 

EVGA 04G-P4-2673-RX GeForce GTX 670 4GB

Peter,

 

Just curious how that 8gb of ram is working for you? Is that 2 X 4 or 2 x 2 x 2 x 2. The reason I ask is your mobo and CPU run DDR3 ram. You usually see that being used in sets of 3 (6, 12, 24, etc)

 

because of the tri channel memory controller. That's why you have 3 black slots and 3 red slots. If you mix the slots when you load your memory, you can't have some wonky things happen.

Joe

 

The RAM is 2x2x2x2

 

Thanks for the suggestions. I will give this some thought.

I have the Evga Gtx670 FTW and it works great for me on everything. Its about in your price range. I actually got mine for 315 off of Amazon (warehouse deals)

 

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I'm running basically your proc and MB, and just upgraded from my aging ATI 4890 Toxic Edition to the EVGA 670 FTW. I don't run FS9, so I'm not sure what such an upgrade will buy you there, but I can describe what it got me in FSX. Basically what I expected was the ability to run better AA and see better image quality, a bit of increased smoothness and perhaps a very slight framerate improvement in relatively clear wx with a more noticeable improvement in heavy wx.

 

And that's exactly what I got. The IQ improved since I'm able to run fairly high AA settings, overall smoothness increased and framerates improved noticeably in heavy clouds. Basically, I wouldn't expect any miracles but I'm pleased with the upgrade and do believe the 670 is a good price/performance choice.

 

And while a good graphics card can't perform miracles on MS flight sim platforms, it's still fun on things like the Unigine DX11 Valley Benchmark where it can really stretch its legs. :-)

 

Scott