Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - two 470's or an SSD. Choices choices!

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler \| PC Support \| two 470's or an SSD. Choices choices!
DVA7899 Captain, B737-800 Joined on October 29 2009 Online Double Century Club Long Beach Century Club Triple Century Club DVA Ten-Year Anniversary "PMDG or go home :)" Springfield, MO USA 304 legs, 743.8 hours 283 legs, 682.2 hours online 303 legs, 740.0 hours ACARS 30 legs, 47.9 hours event	Posted onPost created on September 26 2010 12:11 ET by Skylar Macminn
	Okay so I have the option to upgrade my two 460's to two 470's, or get a 128gb SSD. The more ram is better for FS as well as my massive resolution (3470x1680) so I am really stuck on what I should go with >.< Opinions needed !:D
DVA1933 Senior Captain, B727-200 Joined on September 19 2004 Triple Century Club Monterrey, NL Mexico 357 legs, 860.4 hours 72 legs, 132.3 hours online 255 legs, 668.3 hours ACARS 1 legs, 1.9 hours event	Posted onPost created on September 26 2010 12:13 ET by David Eugenio Gomez
	So first of all, what's your current specs? I'm guessing 460 and 470 are video cards? To see a big difference, both you'd need to double up the RAM in video...
DVA7899 Captain, B737-800 Joined on October 29 2009 Online Double Century Club Long Beach Century Club Triple Century Club DVA Ten-Year Anniversary "PMDG or go home :)" Springfield, MO USA 304 legs, 743.8 hours 283 legs, 682.2 hours online 303 legs, 740.0 hours ACARS 30 legs, 47.9 hours event	Posted onPost created on September 26 2010 12:14 ET by Skylar Macminn
	the VRAM goes from 1gb to about 1 1/4 -- but there are more processor cores, etc in the 470s. I7 920 D0 at 4.0Ghz 6GB DDR3 RAM (1600Mhz) GTX460 1GB External Exhaust (with a sizable overclock) Seagate barracuda 1TB 7200RPM Drives.
DVA7899 Captain, B737-800 Joined on October 29 2009 Online Double Century Club Long Beach Century Club Triple Century Club DVA Ten-Year Anniversary "PMDG or go home :)" Springfield, MO USA 304 legs, 743.8 hours 283 legs, 682.2 hours online 303 legs, 740.0 hours ACARS 30 legs, 47.9 hours event	Posted onPost created on September 26 2010 12:17 ET by Skylar Macminn
	460 Performance NVIDIA GTX 460 763 MHz GPU 336 CUDA Cores 400 MHz RAMDAC Memory 1024 MB, 256 bit 3800 MHz (effective) 121.6 GB/s Memory Bandwidth Interface PCI-E 2.0 16x DVI-I, DVI-I, Mini-HDMI SLI Capable Resolution & Refresh 240Hz Max Refresh Rate 2048x1536 Max Analog 2560x1600 Max Digital 470 Performance NVIDIA GTX 470 607 MHz GPU 448 CUDA Cores 400 MHz RAMDAC Memory 1280 MB, 320 bit 3348 MHz (effective) 133.9 GB/s Memory Bandwidth Interface PCI-E 2.0 16x DVI-I, DVI-I, Mini-HDMI SLI Capable Resolution & Refresh 240Hz Max Refresh Rate 2048x1536 Max Analog 2560x1600 Max Digital It's a matter of deciding if the vram and processor cores are worth the upgrade cost, or if the SSD will provide better performance. The cost is about the same to get the SSD or upgrade both GPU's (it's actually about $50 less to upgrade the gpu's)
DVA1933 Senior Captain, B727-200 Joined on September 19 2004 Triple Century Club Monterrey, NL Mexico 357 legs, 860.4 hours 72 legs, 132.3 hours online 255 legs, 668.3 hours ACARS 1 legs, 1.9 hours event	Posted onPost created on September 26 2010 12:20 ET by David Eugenio Gomez
	OK found the specs for the cards... I wouldn't really bother with spending that money right now... might as well save some more money and upgrade to the 480!
DVA7899 Captain, B737-800 Joined on October 29 2009 Online Double Century Club Long Beach Century Club Triple Century Club DVA Ten-Year Anniversary "PMDG or go home :)" Springfield, MO USA 304 legs, 743.8 hours 283 legs, 682.2 hours online 303 legs, 740.0 hours ACARS 30 legs, 47.9 hours event	Posted onPost created on September 26 2010 12:21 ET by Skylar Macminn
	well I have 30 days to upgrade my 460's to another better card. EVGA has a step-up program, so I just pay the difference + shipping, send back my old ones, and get brand new cards.
DVA1933 Senior Captain, B727-200 Joined on September 19 2004 Triple Century Club Monterrey, NL Mexico 357 legs, 860.4 hours 72 legs, 132.3 hours online 255 legs, 668.3 hours ACARS 1 legs, 1.9 hours event	Posted onPost created on September 26 2010 12:25 ET by David Eugenio Gomez
	Oooh, in that case, I'd go with video then... the difference should be less than a couple hundred bucks right?
DVA7899 Captain, B737-800 Joined on October 29 2009 Online Double Century Club Long Beach Century Club Triple Century Club DVA Ten-Year Anniversary "PMDG or go home :)" Springfield, MO USA 304 legs, 743.8 hours 283 legs, 682.2 hours online 303 legs, 740.0 hours ACARS 30 legs, 47.9 hours event	Posted onPost created on September 26 2010 12:26 ET by Skylar Macminn
	The difference is about $65 with shipping per card. The problem I have is will the cost be worth it, or would the SSD benifit me more?
DVA1933 Senior Captain, B727-200 Joined on September 19 2004 Triple Century Club Monterrey, NL Mexico 357 legs, 860.4 hours 72 legs, 132.3 hours online 255 legs, 668.3 hours ACARS 1 legs, 1.9 hours event	Posted onPost created on September 26 2010 12:34 ET by David Eugenio Gomez
	The thing is... you don't get money back from the 1TB HD which is already a big investment, and the SSD would probably help load things a little faster, but it wouldn't increase your FPS the way the video cards should. Personally, I wouldn't spend the money at all, but I'm cheap If you will spend it, I'd say go with the video cards.
DVA7899 Captain, B737-800 Joined on October 29 2009 Online Double Century Club Long Beach Century Club Triple Century Club DVA Ten-Year Anniversary "PMDG or go home :)" Springfield, MO USA 304 legs, 743.8 hours 283 legs, 682.2 hours online 303 legs, 740.0 hours ACARS 30 legs, 47.9 hours event	Posted onPost created on September 26 2010 12:36 ET by Skylar Macminn
	well the money is from selling an old laptop on craigslist. the 1TB HDD was really only about $50 so isn't a huge loss. Not to mention the SSD would be for the windows OS and a few games -- everything else would go on the 1TB drives. Edit: I know what I can do. Get the 470's, try and sell my old GTS250 (not being used) and then get a 60GB SSD for boot That'll have to do.
DVA1933 Senior Captain, B727-200 Joined on September 19 2004 Triple Century Club Monterrey, NL Mexico 357 legs, 860.4 hours 72 legs, 132.3 hours online 255 legs, 668.3 hours ACARS 1 legs, 1.9 hours event	Posted onPost created on September 26 2010 13:20 ET by David Eugenio Gomez
	There ya go

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