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DVA1303
Assistant Chief Pilot, A320

Joined on August 24 2003
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Crystal Lake, IL

589 legs, 1,182.4 hours
533 legs, 1,062.8 hours online
559 legs, 1,130.1 hours ACARS
2 legs, 4.0 hours event

Posted onPost created on August 21 2011 09:59 ET by Jim McMannamy

Looking for some help from the tech-savvy pilots here...

I'm currently running a GTX 260 video card and a i5-661 3.33GHz Intel processor, and 6GB of RAM.

With the sliders *mostly* at max, I am getting an average of around 18fps with both the new PMDG 737NGX and the CaptainSim 757 (using FSX).

I don't see a lot of upgrade potential with my current processor without buying a new motherboard, so I was hoping somebody could help me out with what kind of performance increase I might expect if I were to upgrade just the video card to a GTX 560.

I've done several FSX.cfg tweaks and am fairly sure I've squeezed as many FPS as I can through that avenue.

Thanks guys!

Jim McMannamy

Assistant Chief Pilot, A320

DVA9544
Senior Captain, B737-800
OLP

Joined on February 26 2011
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Hergiswil, Nidwalden Switzerland

151 legs, 246.8 hours
64 legs, 112.2 hours online
151 legs, 246.8 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on August 25 2011 01:07 ET by Stephan Faessler

560's not really worth an upgrade but either 570 or 580 and from EVGA. you will see a gain in performance but FSX is CPU dependent so it will boost more performance if you get and overclock an I7 2600k with the new Z68 boards and matching ram ;-) cheers

Stephan Faessler (DVA9544)

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