Darn it! I knew this day would come. One day you're top of the range, next day you're the Atari style performer Any suggestions for new card?

By the way, I have been looking around, and speaking as an Nvidia person, this seems attractive. You can get cards with a slightly more Cuda cores, but you pay through the nose for them. Dont be thinkin' bout' putting this in a little case, though! This card is 12 inches long!  :blink:

 

You'll need an airline hanger.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125470&ignorebbr=1

By the way, I have been looking around, and speaking as an Nvidia person, this seems attractive. You can get cards with a slightly more Cuda cores, but you pay through the nose for them.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125470&ignorebbr=1

That's not a bad price. I really don't know much about graphics cards, no preference over ATI vs NVidea. I was looking at NVidea's website last night just to see what there best card was. £700+ seems just a teeny tiny bit over my budget

What kind of fps do you think I could get with the one in the link you showed? If you know

That's not a bad price. I really don't know much about graphics cards, no preference over ATI vs NVidea. I was looking at NVidea's website last night just to see what there best card was. £700+ seems just a teeny tiny bit over my budget

What kind of fps do you think I could get with the one in the link you showed? If you know

With 4gigs of ram, that cooling solution and two free games the price is nearly a steal! Plus the customer reviews are nearly uniformly positive.

 

Its quite a bit better than my card which is quite a bit better than yours, so the change would be pretty dramatic.

 

The tech is much better as well. Your card was released in 2009 (one of the first DX11 cards) and this is a 2013 card 4 generations or more removed.

 

If your budget can take it, you might go a generation or two higher, but bang for buck this is very nice, especially if you are not running multiple monitors in surround or anything like that........ EVGA also has a step up program. If you change your mind, just pay the difference in price and you can get a higher value card within 90 days.

 

If you are some super power user... get two and go SLI!   Did I mention it was enormous though?  :lol:

 

I'm very happy with my Asus GTX 770. Have a look at:

 

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_gtx_titan&num=9

I'm very happy with my Asus GTX 770. Have a look at:

 

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_gtx_titan&num=9

At least at the moment this card makes no real sense for X-Plane. Its primary advantage at the moemnt are its 6 GB VRAM, but X-Plane has nothing to use the brute force computing power that this card brings. From a price perspective I would say a GTX 770 is the best candidate at the moment.

At least at the moment this card makes no real sense for X-Plane. Its primary advantage at the moemnt are its 6 GB VRAM, but X-Plane has nothing to use the brute force computing power that this card brings. From a price perspective I would say a GTX 770 is the best candidate at the moment.

I did look at those cards, but the problem is you only get a very negligible performance improvement 10% to 15% over the 760 for a not negligible price increase.  :unsure:

 

Since this particular 760 is overclocked, even some of that goes away.  Its gonna depend on ones budget. Expect to pay about $100 more for the 770

I did look at those cards, but the problem is you only get a very negligible performance improvement 10% to 15% over the 760 for at not negligible price increase.  :unsure:

Really? Ok, I am in Germany but my GTX 770 that I bought 3 weeks ago wasn't much more expensive than this GTX 760 (350 Euro incl. salers tax (19%)). And it has the maximum number of CUDA cores on this chipset for the case that X.Plane really makes better use of the computing power of the GPU than at the moment.

Really? Ok, I am in Germany but my GTX 770 that I bought 3 weeks ago wasn't much more expensive than this GTX 760 (350 Euro incl. salers tax (19%)). And it has the maximum number of CUDA cores on this chipset for the case that X.Plane really makes better use of the computing power of the GPU than at the moment.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814162144 cheapest I have found. Nearly $100 difference. Keep in mind the price I found for that 760 was very low for a 4gb card though, and not necessarily normal.

 

But as I said, only ones budget can decide which is the better deal.

 

Keep in mind the games shown below use some of the most demanding graphics available using effects X-Plane barely knows the name of, and at very high resolutions. None of these cards falls down on the job: I would trust any of them to handle Jspahns clouds. 

 

the GTX 760 is also very fast......I own one :lol:   I received my new Alienware X51 R2 a few days ago and it's giving me Superfast performance in all my sim/games.