The FX5200 still holds it's own too. It handles everything from FS2004 to Il-2 without trouble. Even does ok with Far Cry with only a little lag.

As for the 9800pro, I was in Futureshop the other day and they were selling them for over $700!
(Futureshop is owned by Best Buy for those who don't already know.) That seems a tad expensive to me concidering that the 6800 and X800 are selling around $300 - $400 depending on the store. Just to show that I'm not kidding, here it is. Radeon 9800pro

I took a look for some cards for Scorpion. I did a quick search on Guru3d's hardware price watch for any cards $200 or less. I asked it to give me ones with TV-out as well which is a nice feature.
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I have my FX5200 set at 8x AF, High Quality with no AA. I play games at 1024x768x32 res. I with other resolutions, desktop icons are harder to see. Bad eyesight runs in the family.  I use the 62.11 bete drivers with it. It handles 2x AA pretty well in FS2004 but I keep it off so I can keep preformance up on aircraft that are hard on frames. I'm waiting for Jaton to officially release the 3DForce 6800 before I think about a new card. I find they make good nVidia cards.

How do you link URLs to text? If you tell me, I'll be able to compress those great big links.

I'm looking to finally getting around to buying a new motherboard to replace the one that died a couple months ago. Anyway, I'm also looking for a newer video card to replace my old GeForce 3.

How well will a computer running an Athlon 2800+ processor, 512 MB of PC2100 ram, and a 128MB GeForce4 Ti 4600 video card handle FS2004?

For the last year, I've been running the same specs, but with an old GeForce 3 Ti 500, but it has a hard time with newer games like FS2004

but but but *Sniff* they called it lame 

just sticking up for the thing thats all yeah the 6800 will rip the 5950 ultra to shreds but fs9 looks great on my machine so i dont plan on upgrading yet

when dx10 comes along then yeah it will be time for a new one as i dont like not running games at there full settings and dx10 cards will be powerful

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hey tough choice i know how ya feel if i didnt choose the gf id have a porsche sitting on my driveway now lol

daz

Not saying the 5900's and 9800's are out of date now if you've got one, it would just be madness getting a new "top of the range" old generation card now.

Cards rule for 6 months, then suck for 6 months and then are dead! There in the middle at the moment

How much better would a GeForce4 TI 4800SE 128MB 8X DDR perform then the Geforce 3 Ti 500?

I've beel looking at Pricewatch.com, and if i'm gonna get the 5900, it's definently gonna be the 128 mb version. The 264 mb version is running for almost $400

I believe the 5900 is better than the 5900XT.  I do know Congo has just brought a 5900XT so he is the man to answer this question for you.  His benchmark scores looked pretty good though to me 

Take a look at this one :

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-131-238&depa=1

Its a bit more at $199 but this is retail version.  Get the OEM one and its only $158 but you wont get a flashy box or software bundle (This doesnt bother me as I never use the drivers supplied as they are never the latest ones!) I always make sure I have downloaded the latest official drivers for the g/card I am installing.  Another thing with the 9800pro is, if you like playin they usually overclock to 9800XT speeds no problem thus you get more performance for your money!

In the battle between ATI and Nvidia ATI have always been better with OpenGL games and Nvidia with Direct3D.  FS9 is OpenGL thus the ATI card will probably run FS9 better than the FX range.

I believe on the new gen cards though x800 and 6800 series things are very close so it wouldn't really matter.