Think you made the right decision 

Excellent choice, better than any 9800 which is so "yesterday" 

I've got my eye on either a 6600 GT or, the 6800NU, decisions decisions..... 

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Sounds like an all round good deal!
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Your certainly going to see big improvements, especially if you combine the card and extra RAM at the same time!

FS9 will certainly be all the nicer for it, just don't expect MAX sliders, even with a 6800Ultra 256, you can reduce FS9 to single figure FPS rates!   

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After 800x600 with an old card, 1280x1024, 2xAA, 2xAF, High to Max sliders, you'll be laughing, fear not .

I had a real beech of a time installing the drivers for this 6600.  It seems that the install disk was corrupted.  Finally the guy at the shop cabled in a more up to date driver from nvidia.  He burned it, I went down and got it and viola.  Card seems to be working fine.  I must see if I can install the iverclocking utlity for it though. Came with the software bundle along with a slew of games.  IL2 is one of them   although I think I would prefer FB Ace Expansion Gold Pack which has FB plus all the expansions. I haven't tried either 2002 or COF yet, I'm almost scared to.  I did run Trainz 2004 and got rather dizzy panning around those route areas.  Moves noticebly faster in that app.  Well, guess I'll try 2002 first.

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Even @ 1600 x 1200 , 8XAA 16XAF everything maxxed, low altitude etc.... I achieved an average 10fps thus on a machine I built. if you indeed get a solid 30FPS at that level I'd be an extremely  happy bunny !!!

Alas, with my FX5600 I'm still in the dark ages by comparison! 

Well, so far I am a little disappointed.  My frame rates are indeed dependant upon whatever aircraft I have loaded.  In 2002, my test plane was 767 PIC situated at a gate at KORD.  50 % air traffic, 1024x768 red. locked for 30.  The only way I could keep my frames up at the lock was to have my sliders set medium and keep ground shadows and water effects turned off. In COF I tried a number of planes.  This time at my local international airport, KMDT.  Well, the Harrisburg region is not specifically a system drain, even the terrain isn't bad, how rought can the appelachians be? Anyway once again aircraft loaded had a lot to do with frame rates.  I loaded the Wings of Power B-17.  1024x768 res, locked at 30.  Steady in the high teens at on the ramp.  I went in properties and clicked "low" on display and I got up to 26.  I dropped aircraft tex rendering to low and got closer to my lock.  I then loaded a Cessna 182RG.  I was able to instantly crank everything back up.  In fact I can peg closer to 40 fps with a simpler plane like that.  It even had the watered down freeware GNS530 in the panel.  I loaded another more demanding plane. The Fanda Dash 8 and rightaway, I'm back in the high teens and low 20's basement.  I had to set everything low to achieve over 24.  Also, views into glare effects drop it.  I have everything on my 6600 set for high performance and I have no clue where to go with anistrophic, anti-aliasing, shader, or anything as it relates to speed.  I'm starting to wonder if another 256 ram whichb would give me a gig would support the card a little better.  Any suggestions from you current nvidia owners???  Thanks.