Graphics Card

[mr2shim]

Hello all. I've been playing flight sim 04 for a while now, maxed out settings. I'm wanting to go to Flight Simulator X, but I'm not sure which graphics card would suite my system best. I currently have integrated graphics, looking to step up.

Specs

Windows Vista x64bit
4GB DDR2 800MHZ
Dual Core E2200 @ 2.2
Intel G33 chipset 320mb
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...766893&lang=pt

I've been looking at Nvidia cards. I was thinking 9600GT or 9500GT 1GB would do me pretty good with medium-high settings, but I'm not too sure.

Thanks

[bgets]

With your current CPU a newer graphic card wouldn't do you much good. Check or do a search in the Hardware and video forum.
Bob G.

[loki]

A 9600GT would definitely be better than the integrated Intel graphics. However, with FSX your CPU is going to be the bottleneck and you will need to keep some settings down.

[mr2shim]

I was looking to go E8400 sometime down the road. I'll probably buy a 8800gt or 9600gt and play other games in the mean time and stick with FS9.

[ScatterbrainKid]

Here's my outfit, FSX Accel runs like a dream on most ultra-high graphics settings-

WinXP Home
Intel Core2 E8600@3.33GHz
3.00GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX/9800 GTX+

[Paul J]

"would do me pretty good with medium-high settings, "

Nope: the e2200 hasn't enough horses to run FSX where you would like it: At 2.2 gig you will be pulling your hair out and swearing that FSX totally sucks! Even the quads are pushing it: I'm hanging in, too, as I my personal answer is moving up to the i7, with an nVidia 285 gpu.
My system is still good, after two years, but I'm running the TripleHead2Go, so it makes the gpu work pretty hard, and there are times - like full overcast, thunderstorms, plus traffic - when I simply have to turn some of it down.

Your 2.2 isn't going to give you what you want, and a different gpu isn't going to give you a big enough edge to offset that cpu.

[fsxflyerofa380]

Hi Mr2shim,

Upgrading to the 9600 card will be better, as a better CPU will be better as FSX depends mostly on it.