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B58F18   03-04-2009 at 05:05:49 AM

Hello. I have a Dimension 2400 O.o and also have FSX installed. I have no mods except for an additional 245Mb memory card of RAM. My question is, what would be a good graphic card to buy that will be able to run FSX in fairly decent settings? It has to be PCI right? And what is the cost range? Any help appreciated! Thanks

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Bronze Graphics badge Bluescreendeath   03-04-2009 at 05:59:32 AM
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You should get a new computer. I had a Dimension 3000 years back, and all it had was a PCI regular expansion slot. There is basically no good GPU for PCI regular (although I heard rumors that a company was making the 8x00 for PCI-regular).

Just get a new computer...PCI cards today are weak and rather expensive.

Sell your Dimension2400 off of craigslist and buy yourself a new computer. You can get a decent computer for as cheap as $400-$500.


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croc   03-04-2009 at 07:03:40 AM
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FSX is very CPU bound. You could put in quad SLIs or Crossfires and still not get good framerates, but a pair of XEONs and on-board graphics will do a decent job. OK, that's a slight exageration, but not by too much.

In short, nothing you do with your existing platform will make FSX run acceptably.

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Vokofpolisiekar   03-04-2009 at 12:34:57 PM
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Word. CPU plays a huge role here. I'm using quad and 3870 and still can't hammer it. And I'm using DX9 still along with SP1.

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Nik_I   03-04-2009 at 02:46:31 PM
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yup, fsx is far more cpu dependent than gpu. i'd suggest you put together a cheap AMD phenom quad core system.

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B58F18   03-05-2009 at 02:11:51 AM
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thanks for all the input guys. now that i think of it, i should probably just get a new computer. =D thanks again for the help

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