HELP................................New Graphic Card

[pilot166]

hey all

i have a 8800gt 512 mb someone tell me that if i get a 8600gt 1 gb i will see some much diferrent in my FSX game

My Specs are:
AMD 64x2 3600 1.9gz (upgrade to a 6400 3.2ghz in a few days)
4GB Ram
8800gt 512 mb
500w psu


Ya think i shoud buy a 8600gt 1gb or buy other graphics card beaucse i get like 12 to 20 frame per secong i think it will go higher if i take out the 20FPS lock

 

[dirtmountain]

If you replace your 8800GT 512 with a 8600GT 1GB you'll see a marked difference.................it'll be a lot worse. Don't do it.

 

[outlw6669]

LOL
Your friend is not very smart.
An 8600GT will give you less than halve the performance of an 8800GT.
What FSX needs it tons of CPU power.
X2 3600 to X2 6400 should give you quite a boost in performance.

 

[macer1]

fps lock ..... wtf ????

 

[blashyrkh]

probably means v-sync. Look, knowing half the truth is worse than not knowing the truth at all. Don't listen to your friends. The all mighty Al Gore gave us the internet for a reason. Anybody can access a ton of info on a spit second. Just google around what your looking for and you're bound to find the answers. By the way, don't get sucked on the memory marketing gimick. Your 8800 is nearly twice as fast as the 8600 even though it has half the memory. I bet it's a cpu bottleneck. Go ahead and upgrade to the 6400, that would be the best move.

 

[jitpublisher]

Ha, ha, ha. You will see a big difference. It will be MUCH slower.
As other's have said, keep your 8800GT, and get that new processor.

 

[murdoc]

probably means v-sync. Look, knowing half the truth is worse than not knowing the truth at all. Don't listen to your friends. The all mighty Al Gore gave us the internet for a reason. Anybody can access a ton of info on a spit second. Just google around what your looking for and you're bound to find the answers. By the way, don't get sucked on the memory marketing gimick. Your 8800 is nearly twice as fast as the 8600 even though it has half the memory. I bet it's a cpu bottleneck. Go ahead and upgrade to the 6400, that would be the best move.

well v-sync lock shouldn't get locked up at 20 fps though. Normally v-sync locks are at 60 fps (that's the standard refresh rate of all monitors). So.. yes there is a bottleneck on the cpu. It would depend on what screen resolution he's playing on to determine how much memory he needs. But yes I agree with all these people that you shouldn't downgrade to 8600gt or else performance hit will be a lot worse.

 

[pilot166]

fps lock ..... wtf ????

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It Is the frame target witch i have it to 20

 

[invisik]

8800 much better then 8600. you will degrade performance.
FSX runs much better with fast quad cores. Try to get a quad if possible.