alharri

Hi Gb, Thought I'd update you. I've installed Win 7 x86, 4gb of memory on the 8100 Elite with FSX Gold Edition which includes the Acceleration Pack plus using the Speedlink Black Widow flightStick. Added the Nvidia Quadro NVS 290 Graphics Card just because we had some spare lying around. I have to say I'm surprised that I'm getting 20fps reasonably consistently with this set up. I did download the latest Nvidia drivers. One complaint, on a flight in NZ from Te Anou to Milford Sound Flight software crashed on me half way there! I've done this flight in real life & it's great, worth giving it a go. I'll try setting up a second monitor next & see how that works. Thanks for your advise. Al

Any thoughts on the ATi eyefinity graphic cards? They look pretty good and support three monitors. My PC specs can be viewed at http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/13524_na/13524_na.PDF Thanks. Al

Hi Gb, Thanks very much for the reply. Ideally I want to run three monitor views, front, left & right. I'll investigate the Nvidia card you recommend. Would you advise running Win 7 X86 or x64, are there any big performance gains going x64? Thanks. Al

Hi everyone, its been a few years since I last dipped in to Msoft Flight, I last used 2004 edition. I have some spare kit at work & wanted to establish what the best graphic card option would be for a specific PC desktop detailed below. Ideally I would like to set up three monitors and I'm not sure what the best option is either based on the cards below or whether some newer kit will do the job. The PC itself has an Intel i5 CPU 2 core 3.3GHZ and I can install up to 8gb of mem & run Win 7 x64 or X32. Am I likely to get good performance out of this kit? I've got an HP 8100 Elite SFF desktop PC:- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/document.jsp?objectID=c02030590〈=en&cc=us&taskId=&prodSeriesId=4098436&prodTypeId=12454 The supported graphic cards are:- NVIDIA GeForce 310 DP PCIe x16 Graphics Card Nvidia Quadro NVS 290 Graphics Card Nvidia Quadro NVS 295 Graphics Card ATI Radeon HD 4550 Graphics Card ATI Radeon HD 4650 DP (1GB) PCIe x16 Graphics Card (CMT only) HP ADD2 SDVO + DVI-D Video Adapter HP DisplayPort to DVI-D Adapter HP DisplayPort to VGA Adapter Thanks. Al Sorry the hyperlink was unexpectedly truncated after I submitted the post. Link to PC spec is:- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/document.jsp?objectID=c02030590〈=en&cc=us&taskId=&prodSeriesId=4098436&prodTypeId=12454