FSX: Help? what specs should i upgrade to?

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Hello all! my name is Marc, i am 15 years of age. i, like many of you, have a passion for flight and simulation, i would like to upgrade my pc hardware, and would like to know the following: What is a good graphics card to run fsx on with high specs and addons including airport scenery, pmdg and aerosoft aircraft? i dont have a very big budget as i earn my own money, so i would say a maximum budget of £200 on a graphics card. i have looked into a few but would like to know which is best for fsx:
Geforce GTX 970 4gb
Geforce GTX 1060 3gb,
Geforce GTX 960 2gb or
Geforce GTX 1050 G1 2gb or 1050TI 4gb? i currently posses 8gb of ram and would like to know if i should get another 8gb of ram, i know fsx (not steam edition) only uses 2gb of Ram but i want high specs?

here are my current specs (not great but as i said i buy myslef): Motherboard: Asrock FM2A68M-HD+
integrated graphics chipset: AMD Radeon R7 Graphics with a memory size of 1gb and memory type of DDR3, 8gb of ram and the cpu type is AMD A8-7650k Radeon R7, 10 compute cores 4C+6G (quad core processor)

thank you so much for any responses, means a lot!! :)
 
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The 1060 3Gb would be the best option. Costs less than the 970 4Gb and has similar if not better performance. The 960 is generally out of production, there's little actual demand as it has been replaced by the cheaper 1050ti, so it becomes a matter of budget vrs detail settings between the 1050ti 4Gb and the 1060 3Gb of which the 1060 has the advantage of a more powerful processor. You'll be limited by your APU, but that A8 isn't too shabby, but will work with a 1060 3Gb just fine.

FSX is a 32bit program, it'll not use more than 4Gb of ram no matter what you do, so having just 8Gb of system ram is fine. If you were running X-Plane 10 or X-Plane 11, those are 64bit programs that can use as much ram as your pc has available so 16Gb...
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The 1060 3Gb would be the best option. Costs less than the 970 4Gb and has similar if not better performance. The 960 is generally out of production, there's little actual demand as it has been replaced by the cheaper 1050ti, so it becomes a matter of budget vrs detail settings between the 1050ti 4Gb and the 1060 3Gb of which the 1060 has the advantage of a more powerful processor. You'll be limited by your APU, but that A8 isn't too shabby, but will work with a 1060 3Gb just fine.

FSX is a 32bit program, it'll not use more than 4Gb of ram no matter what you do, so having just 8Gb of system ram is fine. If you were running X-Plane 10 or X-Plane 11, those are 64bit programs that can use as much ram as your pc has available so 16Gb would be better.
 
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wow! thanks so much for your speedy reply, great information there. i only use for fsx so that's great news! have yourself a nice evening sir
 
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