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jimthomasjohnston
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 Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:24 pm Post subject: Best Graphics Card for 2004 |
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Good Day,
I am looking at upgrading my machine from AGP to PCIExpress...what would be the absolute best graphics card to get for FS2004? I am currently running a Nvidia 6800OC and get good frame rates until active sky kicks in with any type of heavy cloud layers. I am getting sick of it and want to run crystal smooth graphics on FS2004. I am not interested in upgrading to FSX at this time as I have everything running on 2004 perfectly, aside from the graphics.
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RadarMan
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Tailhook
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 2:36 am Post subject: Re: Best Graphics Card for 2004 |
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| jimthomasjohnston wrote: |
| ...what would be the absolute best graphics card to get for FS2004? |
Just remember that if you do get the 'absolute best gfx card' you might have to upgrade your CPU as well in order to avoid a bottleneck.
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Cheeks
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Well im gonna get a 8800GT and 2GB RAM + 2.6GHz Quad Processor
How would my system run 
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Tailhook
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You shouldn't have a problem with a 2.6GHz Quad and the 8800GT seems very popular and worth its money.
When you get your RAM, do a little research and don't skimp. Some say that generic RAM is ok just because they were lucky enough not to have had any problems. My suggestion, pay a little more and get a decent brand.
...and, be careful that they don't sell you outdated RAM -- it's quite a subject on its own, let's just say 'RAM is not RAM'. Do your research 
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drwhoere
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:03 am Post subject: |
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| I'm running a 8800 and you seen Seba's screenshots? You will get the same graphics if you get the settings right! |
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drwhoere
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| he DONT photoshop |
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CRJCapt
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| Back to the subject...I assume you know that you will have to get a new motherboard to utilize a PCi express video card. I don't think there are any motherboards that have both slots. |
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