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DVA8092
Captain, B747-400

Joined on December 15 2009
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La Grange, GA USA

1,379 legs, 5,111.8 hours
326 legs, 613.3 hours online
1,365 legs, 5,069.8 hours ACARS
19 legs, 38.0 hours event

Posted onPost created on March 25 2014 14:14 ET by Trey Daniel

I am looking at a new video card, either the NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 645 with 1GB GDDR5 or the NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 760 Ti with 2GB GDDR5. Is the NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 760 Ti with 2GB GDDR5 worth the extra money for FSX? All I do with this computer is FSX, no other gaming. Thanks!

Trey Daniel

Captain, B747-400

DVA10131
Captain, MD-11
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Joined on August 29 2011
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"If it's not Boeing, I'm not going"
Charleston, SC USA

136 legs, 473.3 hours
123 legs, 428.0 hours online
130 legs, 451.7 hours ACARS
11 legs, 38.5 hours event

Posted onPost created on March 25 2014 14:57 ET by Robbie Johnson

Both of those cards are OEM so we don't have any benchmarks for them, but based spec sheet the 760 Ti seems to be very slightly faster than a 760; my best guess would put it on par with a 670.

That said I would strongly discourage you from buying a prebuilt PC. They are overpriced, tend to use low quality parts, and can't be optimized for FSX as well as a custom build could. If you aren't comfortable building one yourself I build and ship PCs; you can shoot me an email if you are interested.

Robbie Johnson (DVA10131)

DVA9716
First Officer, A330-300

Joined on April 26 2011
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"Take Offs are optional - Landing are mandatory!"
Killeen, TX USA

154 legs, 324.0 hours
102 legs, 218.1 hours online
153 legs, 321.7 hours ACARS
4 legs, 8.9 hours event

Posted onPost created on March 25 2014 15:53 ET by Kenneth Dickerson

I bought the Gigabyte 760GTX 4 gig card and could not be happier. This thing is a beast! I am like you not much gamer but wanted something that I could load up on FSX and P3D. This card is really quiet, has 3 fans, and a hell of a heat sink which allows it to run really cool. I "Would not buy it= IF" your case is small. Check out the dimensions of the card and then see if your case if able.

Kenneth Dickerson

First Officer, A330-300

DVA11882
Captain, L-1011-100

Joined on December 23 2013
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Midwestern United States

102 legs, 189.8 hours
101 legs, 187.6 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on March 25 2014 16:15 ET by Bob Baur

Robbie Johnson wrote:

I build and ship PCs; you can shoot me an email if you are interested.

I just did biggrin

Bob Baur

Captain, L-1011-100

DVA7343
Captain, B777-200
OLP

Joined on May 16 2009
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"It's not a job but an adventure "
Lugoff, SC USA

368 legs, 798.4 hours
39 legs, 73.8 hours online
358 legs, 777.7 hours ACARS
1 legs, 2.9 hours event

Posted onPost created on June 02 2014 15:03 ET by John Morris

I just threw down a wad of cash today on a new GPU and power supply. I bought the EVGA GTX750TI and a new Thermalake 600 W power supply. I did some research on the card which is a 2 GB 156bit OC card with dual fans and seen that it is a high performer. This is going in my system I have had for a while... An ASUS i7 2400K, 16GB, 2 1TB sata drives and for added umph added 2 750GB drives to it. Dedicating one of the smaller drives to just my download files and documents. Use a portion of another smaller drive as the swap file and temp files. Just trying to free up some resources for FSX. Should see a big gain over frame rate with the new card over my old one. Before I had a GT530 installed. Had ok frame rate with it but this was dog slow

John Morris

Captain, B777-200

DVA4229
First Officer, B767-300
OLP

Joined on March 19 2007

"Sink rate. Sink Rate."
Southeastern United States

54 legs, 100.9 hours
47 legs, 87.7 hours online
53 legs, 98.4 hours ACARS
7 legs, 11.9 hours event

Posted onPost created on June 02 2014 15:22 ET by Lawrence Woodworth

With FSX, your CPU is probably going to have more impact than the graphics card unless you're displaying at nosebleed resolutions. The 32-bit limitation renders a lot of gaming's current technology hobbled.

Lawrence Woodworth (DVA4229)

DVA11021
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Milford, NH

375 legs, 620.5 hours
365 legs, 604.5 hours online
374 legs, 618.9 hours ACARS
21 legs, 51.4 hours event

Posted onPost created on June 02 2014 16:49 ET by Sean Zarella

my only problem with nvidia is that they dont support 4 true displays, only 3 +1 accessory display. where ATI can support up to 6 true displays to make one display,

I run a ATI7970 that supports 6 i am using it for 4 outputs in my simpit. i am running 5870 x 1080 for my top 3 landscape displays all 23" monitors. my lower 4th monitor runs @ 1920x1080p.

i run fs9 with rex ase, and all payware airports. and i run about 30 fps ground and 50 fps sky.

i run a amd 955t black overclock to 4.5ghz 16gb ddr3 ram, 7970 card, 550w power spply and soundblaster Z sound card.

Sean Zarella (DVA11021)

Posted onPost created on June 02 2014 16:50 ET by John Morris

With my old card I was getting good frame rate at 20 to 22 fps. My big thing is with xplane I was getting on stock settings somewhere around high side of 15fps and a custom airport 3 to 8 fps. Being the 500 series card is a intro card vs the 700 series card is a performer, I should get better results

John Morris

Captain, B777-200

Posted onPost created on June 02 2014 22:09 ET by Lawrence Woodworth

According to ATI, the HD 7900 series needs additional hardware to display on anything more than two monitors. My GTX 770? Four displays (three linked) without any additional hardware. Not QUITE getting 30 fps on my setup. The monitors are set up thusly:

With the 3-wide in 5960 x 1080 and the one on top at 1920 x 1080.

Lawrence Woodworth (DVA4229)

Posted onPost created on June 02 2014 22:27 ET by Sean Zarella

my ati supports 6 displays. your only 4. mine has 2 dvi 1 hdmi and 2 mini diaply ports, you do need 2 mini display port adaptors to say HDMI or DVI or you could get a MST hub that takes one mini display into 2 separate displays. making 6 to make one solid display without one being a accessory monitor.

see below

the monitor on the bottom right is my tablet connected via wifi .

Sean Zarella (DVA11021)

Posted onPost created on June 03 2014 12:17 ET by Lawrence Woodworth

You seem to be taking exception to the "accessory monitor" but it's just the name nVidia uses to differentiate it from the Surround monitors. The monitor acts like any other monitor in a multi-display setup. I'm not really seeing the difference between my monitor 2 and yours. Mine has the ACARS, vPilot, Navigraph Charts (when necessary) and web sites. I can put any undocked display item from FSX that I want up there. Yours has your undocked 2D instrument panel. Potayto/Potahto.

Lawrence Woodworth (DVA4229)

Posted onPost created on June 03 2014 12:47 ET by Sean Zarella

ill say i like NVIDIA cards better but i got plenty of experience with eyefinity and the fact i know i can upgrade to another 2 displays for my extended glass cockpit coming soon
you and i can both agree that having more than 1 or 2 displays is so great once we go we can not come back! I had the comcast guy come over for the new router setup and he just stared at my simpit and asked where the other 2 pcs were.
i showed him my ONE pc and he couldnt believe it.

larry try it. try an undocked display panel. i may taint you and you wouldnt want to every go back....

Sean Zarella (DVA11021)

Posted onPost created on June 03 2014 12:51 ET by Lawrence Woodworth

I just looked. I can get a 16-monitor setup, if I want to switch from GeForce to Quadro and spend about another $2500. smile

Flight Sims aside, load up Google Earth and watch the globe fill your vision. It's almost like having your own personal Omnimax theater.

Lawrence Woodworth (DVA4229)

Posted onPost created on June 03 2014 13:26 ET by Sean Zarella

oh yeah i do that often load google earth fill my periphery imax style. With our powers combined well have a true 360 setup !!

Sean Zarella (DVA11021)

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