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    couger
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    PostPosted: Tue May 13, 2008 2:36 am    Post subject: video cards Reply with quote
    I would like to get some opinions on video cards. I am wanting to get a better video card so i can get better fps. I have a 512m nvidia 8600gt, with a q6600 and 4m ram, the cpu is overclocked to 3.0g but I still dont get the best fps. I was looking at the 1g 9800gx2 or should i go to a ATI asus 3870 x2 dual gpu. With the ATI at $575au, 100 less than the nvidia, I like that but which one will perform better for faster fps? Would appriciate any input!
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    PostPosted: Tue May 13, 2008 11:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    What FPS do you want? I'm getting 30FPS @ 1000' AGL with these game settings on this computer.

    GRAPHICS
    Target frame rate: 30
    Full screen res: 1680x1050x16
    Filtering: Anisotropic
    Anti-aliasing: on
    Global texture resolution: Very high
    Lens flare: off
    Light bloom: off
    Advanced animations: off
    Informational text: Continuous
    AIRCRAFT
    Default cockpit view: 3-D virtual cockpit
    Show cockpit ToolTips: on
    High-resolution 3-D virtual cockpit: on
    2-D panel transparency: 0%
    Aircraft cast shadows: on
    Aircraft casts shadows on itself: off
    Aircraft landing-lights illuminate ground: off
    SCENERY
    Level of detail radius: Medium critical PFS effector
    Mesh complexity: 100
    Mesh resolution: 1m
    Texture resolution: 7 cm
    Water effects: None
    Land detail textures: on
    Scenery complexity: Extremely dense
    Autogen density: Extremely dense
    Ground scenery shadows: off
    Special effects detail: Low
    WEATHER
    Cloud draw distanse: 60mi / 96km
    Thermal visualization: None
    Simple clouds: on
    Download winds aloft data with real-world weather: off
    Disable turbulence and thermal effects on aircraft: off
    Rate at which weather changes over time: Medium
    TRAFFIC
    Airline traffic density: 0%
    General aviation traffic density: 50% GA Traffic adds 2-4 yellow cubs at every Muni.
    Airport vehicle density: 0%
    Road vehicles: 51%%
    Ships and ferries: 0%
    Leasure boats: 43%
    Show aircraft labels: off

    With this computer:

    Intel DP965LT ATX mainboard (P965express chipset)
    Intel onboard Azalia sound & 82566c LAN
    intel Core2Duo E6600@2.4ghz
    Generic intel approved thermally advantaged ATX case
    Thermaltake 775D copperbase heatpipe cpu cooling fan
    Corsair 4x1gb duel channel DDR2@667mhz
    Gigabyte nVida 8800GTX w/768mb DDR3
    Memorex DVD-CD R+RW drive
    Western Digital 1600YS SATA hardrive
    Antec NeoHe 500watt power supply
    Samsung 215TW 21" widescreen (1680x1050) DVI LCD
    Samsung CX213TW 13" DVI LCD
    CH Flightstick Pro usb & Ch control manager V4.2
    winXp SP3
    FSX SP1&2
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    PostPosted: Tue May 13, 2008 5:39 pm    Post subject: Re: video cards Reply with quote
    couger wrote:
    I would like to get some opinions on video cards. I am wanting to get a better video card so i can get better fps. I have a 512m nvidia 8600gt, with a q6600 and 4m ram, the cpu is overclocked to 3.0g but I still dont get the best fps. I was looking at the 1g 9800gx2 or should i go to a ATI asus 3870 x2 dual gpu. With the ATI at $575au, 100 less than the nvidia, I like that but which one will perform better for faster fps? Would appriciate any input!


    have you read:
    http://blogs.msdn.com/ptaylor/archive/2008/01/29/gpu-variants-performance-envelopes-and-being-an-informed-consumer.aspx
    ?

    it is definitely worthwhile to find the tables for the generation you are considering buying and doing similar math to what I performed in that blog post.
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