January 10, 201412 yr I am currently in the process of deciding on a graphics card for a budget gaming PC which I will be playing a lot of FSX on. At the moment I have my eyes set on the AMD Radeon R7 260X, which looks like good bang for the buck. Would this, alongside an i5-4670 (3.4ghz), be ok for running FSX well? Anyone here currently using this card for FSX or other gaming? Please let me know what you think, and possibly suggest a better alternative for a similar price. Thanks.
January 11, 201412 yr Whats your price range? The GTX770 can be had for around 300. I currently run the GTX660 and I've been very satisfied. Chase Barnett
January 11, 201412 yr Author After reading countless forum posts where people are saying Nvidia is the way to go for FSX, I decided to increase my budget a bit. I am probably going to go for the 2GB GTX 660 (non TI version). It's a good card for FSX then? What sort of fps do you think I would get alongside the i5-4670? Thanks.
January 11, 201412 yr The GTX 6xx series are the last generation cards, so if you want the "latest and greatest" then you need to look at the 7 series. I run a GTX660 with 1.5 gigs of ram and I'm happy. It works well with my system and I am also Overclocked at 4.7. In regards to my system, I see high teens to the low 20's in graphic intensive areas (with my settings. This will vary from system to system depending on your build and sim settings). If at a detailed airport, with lots of weather and other traffic on vatsim, it will bring your system down. Remember, that's a lot of texture processing going on. Performance like that is to be expected in certain cases. Right now, I'm getting around 26 in the PMDG 777 on vatsim over the Midwest (Headed to JFK from Sydney). After I took off and I was out over the water, I was seeing 50+. The GTX660 is a good card and it works for me in regards to FSX. I recently installed Battlefield 4 and I run everything on High instead of Ultra, so it works for that very well also. You would see marginally better performance if you picked the GTX760. On newegg, they're running about an extra $40 over the 660. Chase Barnett
January 11, 201412 yr Author Have/do you run any addons such as Aerosoft or REX? If so, does the 660 run them well? Possibly getting a few Aerosoft airports as well as REX. I plan to play a few other performance-heavy games such as BF4, so that's good to know. Thanks for your help.
January 11, 201412 yr Have/do you run any addons such as Aerosoft or REX? If so, does the 660 run them well? Possibly getting a few Aerosoft airports as well as REX. I plan to play a few other performance-heavy games such as BF4, so that's good to know. Thanks for your help. To my knowledge, Aerosoft scenery products are pretty taxing on any system. I might be wrong though. I do run Active Sky Next and REX4 with 2048 res clouds. Look at the weather map and you'll see the storms in the North East. I'm flying into JFK and I'm starting to get over the thick of things and my frames are bouncing around in the low 20's to high teens. Unfortunately, GPU's can only do so much. FSX is mainly CPU dependent since it can only utilize one core. Chase Barnett
January 11, 201412 yr Author Ah right, nice. I'm moving up from a worn out system with a Core 2 Duo 2.1ghz and ATI Radeon 4300 so I think that will do me just fine.
January 12, 201412 yr Ah right, nice. I'm moving up from a worn out system with a Core 2 Duo 2.1ghz and ATI Radeon 4300 so I think that will do me just fine. You'll be fine then with a 660/760. Just be sure to tweak your fresh install of FSX and enjoy. Good luck! And welcome to Avsim! There's plenty of guys around here with all the information you could ever need. Chase Barnett
January 12, 201412 yr Author You'll be fine then with a 660/760. Just be sure to tweak your fresh install of FSX and enjoy. Good luck! And welcome to Avsim! There's plenty of guys around here with all the information you could ever need. Thanks for all your help!
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