Best 2009 graphics card for flight simulator x

[jayalanjohnson]

What do you think for a mid priced card?

 

[EXT64]

In the past I think NVidia cards may have done a bit better in that title, though I haven't seen a recent bench to say for sure. I will say though that you need a good processor to get decent frames in FSX. What is the rest of your system specs?

 

[rolli59]

FSX needs a good CPU. It though performs better on nvidia cards. Being CPU intensive it performs almost the same on 9800GTX as GTX260

 

[EXT64]

Yeah, if your only goal is playing FSX, save money and get a 9800GTX (or GTS250, or whatever they call it now).

 

[jayalanjohnson]

My system is an HP Pavillion with Intel Dual Core E5200(2.5 GHz,2MB L2,800MHz FSB) and 3GB DDR2-800MHz SDRAM. Graphics card is 512MB ATI Radeon HD 4350. I have not yet installed FSX but would expect the graphics card to be the bottleneck to decent performance.

 

[rolli59]

If you still have the original 300watt PSU in there you are limited on options for GPU. Best I can recommend is GT240 which has performance on level with 9600GT but is power efficient. If you are ready to do a PSU upgrade as well the GTS250 would be a well matched card with your system. Then again there are some nice ATI solutions as well.

 

[OvrClkr]

You will need to up that CPU to at least 3Ghz+ if you want playable frames....FSX is CPU dependant more than anything, and even though the game does not benfit from a quad core (uses 2 cores) the higher the clock the more frames you will get....