Follow up to my post...To get the best out of a 8800 for fsx and fs9, I found I needed to use the nHancer application to set AA, and add the mipbias=6 to fsx.cfg. With mipbias set the image flying is much crisper, but not quite as smooth in fast pans.Even more important is to use nHancer in XP where it makes a night and day difference as AA does not work at all without it with the latest 8800 drivers.See this post for setup: http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion/index.php?t38921.html

Looks nice :)A friend of mine is looking forward to get a new system too (possibly this fall). He is not of the hard core type but he likes his things to run smooth too (-:Which Vista edition should he seek for?Hugo