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Jan 7^th, 2010 at 4:41am

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I am hoping Nick will read this and respond, but I welcome any input. I am about to embark on having a High End P.C. built for me for FSX. I shall probably go for Windows 7 64bit. I have a couple of computer 'buffs' giving me advice, and they are both saying I should go for ATI Graphics and not nVidia. Untill now, I have always followed Nicks instructions on installation etc etc, to include using nHancer for my GeForce 9800GTX. As this is to be an expensive machine, I need to get things right! I would therefore be grateful to know which 'graphics' to go for, and any other advice anyone might like to offer regarding Hardware in general. Thanks in advance.
Steven

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Reply #1 - Jan 7^th, 2010 at 7:49am

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Radeon 5870 or Nvidia GTX 285.

IIRC, they are about equal in FSX. But the 5870 is faster in everything else.

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Reply #2 - Jan 7^th, 2010 at 10:38am

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Quote:

Radeon 5870 or Nvidia GTX 285.

IIRC, they are about equal in FSX. But the 5870 is faster in everything else.

Isn't the 5970 faster?

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Reply #3 - Jan 7^th, 2010 at 11:28am

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Here is a link to a thread regarding the Nvidia GTX285 and the ATI 5870. NickN did express his opinion in this thread.

http://205.252.250.26/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1254496762

If you are interested here is a link to a thread where NickN gave me a list of hardware.

http://205.252.250.26/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1256416665

I had that PC built and this is the list of hardware that was used in the actual PC and I tell you, for FSX this PC rocks!

http://205.252.250.26/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1260758738

Good luck with your new PC!

Rod

Asus R3E_i7 980X @ 4.44GHz_TR Silver Arrow_Mushkin Redline 6GB 1,644MHz @ 6-7-6-18_Zotac AMP GTX 480_OS - Windows 7 Ult 64b_OS SSD - Crucial C300 128GB_FSX HD - WD VR 600GB*2 w/3ware 9750-4i 6Gb/s Controller_Corsair AX850_CM HAF-X_FSX Gold, UTX, GEX, FSG, ST, MSX, MSE, FTX, FEX, FSWC, MTX, STB, AS F16, PMDG MD11, CS MD80 Pro, FSD P38, VRS FA18E

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Reply #4 - Jan 7^th, 2010 at 12:45pm

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Rich H wrote on Jan 7^th, 2010 at 10:38am:

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Radeon 5870 or Nvidia GTX 285.

IIRC, they are about equal in FSX. But the 5870 is faster in everything else.

Isn't the 5970 faster?

The 5970 is actually two graphics processing units in one card... FSX doesn't take use of the 2nd one. The clock speeds on the remaining GPU are lower than the 5870, so it's likely to be slower than the 5870.

But yes it will be faster in the majority of other applications.

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Reply #5 - Jan 7^th, 2010 at 1:44pm