Hello!
I am, after around 2 years with my computer, planning an upgrade. Before I start, I'll list my specs:
Asus Sabertooth P67 MOBO
Intel Core i5 2500K @ 4,8GHz CPU
Corsair Vengeance 8GB 1600MHz CL9 RAM
Corsair HX 850W 80+ Silver PSU
Gigabyte GTX 560Ti 1GB GPU
500GB HDD
150GB HDD
128 GB SSD
Corsair Vengeance C70 Case
Some really noisy but great Scythe fans
I have looked around and found this graphics card: MSI GTX670 Power Edition OC
It seems like a really nice card with high speeds, nice amount of memory and really good overclocking opportunities. The question is: Will it do my FSX any good?
Right now I am running FSX on high settings with a couple of tweaks in the CFG. My FPS are mostly OK, even though they can easily drop below 20 in the NGX at a high quality airport I don't experience any large amounts of disturbing lag or stuttering. Although, sometimes the lag gets a bit too heavy. Not very often, but for sure it happens
Also, my ground textures often look good (close to awesome) at departure. But after, say a two hour flight, the textures are often extremely blurry and autogen starts to disappear. This makes my FSX look really bad in a way that makes me think I'm running low on something, but what? For info, I'm using GEX for ground textures.
I'm not a computer guru, but something makes me think I'm bottlenecking my system with my GPU. I mean, 4,8GHz and 8Gb of RAM should be enough, right? Although, my GPU is getting a bit old. also it's not very fast nor does it have a lot of memory.
If any of you have any other thoughts, please share them. Any help is appreciated
Merry Christmas and Happy holidays to all of you!