1GB or 2GB VRAM Video Card?

[tiger6k]

Hello everyone,

This is my first thread on this site so please excuse any mistakes I may have made.

I just bought an i5-2500k set-up:
ASRock Z68 PRO3-M Mobo
650w 80 plus bronze
8g 1600MHz G.Skill RAM
128g Vertex 2 SSD

And my current video card is an HD5770 1GB.

My question is weather or not a 2GB VRAM card is worth it for me. I happen to play a lot of flight sims, i.e. DCS:A-10C, DCS: BlackShark 2, Microsoft FSX, etc. I heard that simulations like these actually use more video memory but I'm not sure if that's actually the case.

My budget is $200-260 and I was looking at the HD6950 2g or possibly an Overclocked 6870 1g if I find the extra gig of video memory wouldn't help me that much.

I'm also currently playing games with just one 1920x1080p monitor but do have another 21" hooked up if a newer video card would allow me to use that for games too.

Thanks for your time

 

[tiger6k]

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[Mousemonkey]

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