October 31, 201510 yr Good Morning, I have just sold my trusty Asus GTX 780 and have been looking to upgrade to a GTX 980 TI. The card I have settled on is an Asus GeForce Strix GTX 980Ti Just wondering if anyone has one of these beasts and would like to comment on how it performs Richard Richard i7-12700K | Noctua NH-D15S Black Version | MSI Pro Z690 - A | 32 GB DDR4 3600 | Gigabyte Gaming OC 4090 | 1TB WD Blue NMVe (MSFS 2020) | 500 GB WD Black Gen 4 NVMe | 4TB WD Black Conventional | Fractal Design Torrent Case | Seasonic 1000W Gold Plus PSU | Thrustmaster Boeing Yoke | Honeycomb Throttle | Airbus Side Stick | Virpil Rudder Pedals | Sony X90K 55 Inch TV |
October 31, 201510 yr From what I've read, an upgraded video card will yield better performance with X-Plane 10. That's one of the reasons why I retired FSX. I know that when I sell my gtx 660ti 3gig card and buy a 980ti or equivalent, I will get the value I seek. I'm looking forward to reading from those who have the card. Jose MSFS
October 31, 201510 yr Commercial Member Just got one, but have no sim installed at the moment. Just one piece of advice, don't worry when you first start up your computer and the fans on the card don't spin up, they're not supposed to. They only turn on when the card heats up past 40*C.Going to get v3 installed at some point and have a little fun with that, but I'm waiting on EZDok to sort itself out with both Win10 and P3Dv3. (I know it's been updated but it's still broken.) Aamir Thacker
October 31, 201510 yr Just got one, but have no sim installed at the moment. Just one piece of advice, don't worry when you first start up your computer and the fans on the card don't spin up, they're not supposed to. They only turn on when the card heats up past 40*C. Going to get v3 installed at some point and have a little fun with that, but I'm waiting on EZDok to sort itself out with both Win10 and P3Dv3. (I know it's been updated but it's still broken.) This is the x-plane forum ;-)
October 31, 201510 yr Just got one, but have no sim installed at the moment. Just one piece of advice, don't worry when you first start up your computer and the fans on the card don't spin up, they're not supposed to. They only turn on when the card heats up past 40*C. Going to get v3 installed at some point and have a little fun with that, but I'm waiting on EZDok to sort itself out with both Win10 and P3Dv3. (I know it's been updated but it's still broken.) Take it from me, an old die hard FSX enthusiast. Check out the latest version of X-Plane 10 as soon as you can. I've retired FSX and it's children FSX-SE & P3D. :smile: MSFS
October 31, 201510 yr Commercial Member Yes X Plane surprised me and now it takes first place among my flightsims. I run a gtx 980 and it seems to do great with X Plane. Paul Grubich 2017 - Professional texture artist painting virtual aircraft I love. Be sure to check out my aged cockpits for the A2A B-377, B-17 and Connie at Flightsim.com and Avsim library
October 31, 201510 yr Author Yes X Plane surprised me and now it takes first place among my flightsims. I run a gtx 980 and it seems to do great with X Plane. Is your 980 4GB? Richard i7-12700K | Noctua NH-D15S Black Version | MSI Pro Z690 - A | 32 GB DDR4 3600 | Gigabyte Gaming OC 4090 | 1TB WD Blue NMVe (MSFS 2020) | 500 GB WD Black Gen 4 NVMe | 4TB WD Black Conventional | Fractal Design Torrent Case | Seasonic 1000W Gold Plus PSU | Thrustmaster Boeing Yoke | Honeycomb Throttle | Airbus Side Stick | Virpil Rudder Pedals | Sony X90K 55 Inch TV |
October 31, 201510 yr Commercial Member yes and it seems to be enough. Paul Grubich 2017 - Professional texture artist painting virtual aircraft I love. Be sure to check out my aged cockpits for the A2A B-377, B-17 and Connie at Flightsim.com and Avsim library
October 31, 201510 yr If F1 can get the GTN into XP (and realair comes too) I'd probably leave MS/ESP for good | My Liveries | FAA ZMP | PPL ASEL | | Windows 11 | MSI Z690 Tomahawk | 12700K 4.7GHz | MSI RTX 4080 | 64GB 6000 MHz DDR5 | 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD | 2x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 | EVGA 850W Gold | Corsair 5000X | HP G2 (VR) / LG 27" 1440p |
October 31, 201510 yr Commercial Member Yes would be perfect. Paul Grubich 2017 - Professional texture artist painting virtual aircraft I love. Be sure to check out my aged cockpits for the A2A B-377, B-17 and Connie at Flightsim.com and Avsim library
October 31, 201510 yr Author Thanks Guys, Just picked up the Strix, Had a panic moment as this card is huge. I didn't think it would fit in my case (Which isn't a small case !!) Some gentle persuasion and it is in. Just installing drivers now. Why do I feel like a 2 year old who has free reign in a candy shop lol Richard i7-12700K | Noctua NH-D15S Black Version | MSI Pro Z690 - A | 32 GB DDR4 3600 | Gigabyte Gaming OC 4090 | 1TB WD Blue NMVe (MSFS 2020) | 500 GB WD Black Gen 4 NVMe | 4TB WD Black Conventional | Fractal Design Torrent Case | Seasonic 1000W Gold Plus PSU | Thrustmaster Boeing Yoke | Honeycomb Throttle | Airbus Side Stick | Virpil Rudder Pedals | Sony X90K 55 Inch TV |
October 31, 201510 yr Commercial Member Try stuffing three of them in some time,,,I thought there was no way but they do fit. The newer upcoming graphic cards from Nvidia are said to be much smaller in size. Paul Grubich 2017 - Professional texture artist painting virtual aircraft I love. Be sure to check out my aged cockpits for the A2A B-377, B-17 and Connie at Flightsim.com and Avsim library
October 31, 201510 yr Thanks Guys, Just picked up the Strix, Had a panic moment as this card is huge. I didn't think it would fit in my case (Which isn't a small case !!) Some gentle persuasion and it is in. Just installing drivers now. Why do I feel like a 2 year old who has free reign in a candy shop lol Congrats! Looking forward to your review. :smile: MSFS
October 31, 201510 yr Author Heading towards the Alps at FL360 in the JAR A330 with Extended DSF turned on and 8X SSAA+FXAA Crossing into France with 3.7GB VRAM Lets see what happens with the mountainous terrain. That was a killer for my GTX780 with Extended DSF & 4X SSAA+FXAA Richard i7-12700K | Noctua NH-D15S Black Version | MSI Pro Z690 - A | 32 GB DDR4 3600 | Gigabyte Gaming OC 4090 | 1TB WD Blue NMVe (MSFS 2020) | 500 GB WD Black Gen 4 NVMe | 4TB WD Black Conventional | Fractal Design Torrent Case | Seasonic 1000W Gold Plus PSU | Thrustmaster Boeing Yoke | Honeycomb Throttle | Airbus Side Stick | Virpil Rudder Pedals | Sony X90K 55 Inch TV |
November 1, 201510 yr My old graphics card was a 4 gig Gtx 690, its still a pretty powerful card even today, i could run X-Plane very well with no probs, (only the usually) i only upgraded to a 980 ti because the gtx 690 was a mini Sli card which caused artifacts in the sky (flashing) with P3D. The first thing i done was try out all my games with the new my new card, It stomped through everything on max, When it came to X-Plane it was no different then my old card really, decent but not amazing. The big thing was the flashing in P3D and with the 980 ti it was gone so i was happy with that, also a sloid 10ish Fps more, so personally it was a nice upgrade for P3D all in all i'm happy. If your running little Resolution (1080p) on 1 monitor, I don't think one would notice a substantial difference in X-Plane or P3D between a 980 and a 980 ti. Get yourself this tool http://www.evga.com/precision/ I run it on aggressive and my Temps always stay good
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