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I'm offered a computer for a good price and I'm thinking of buying it, but I had a question about the video card.

So far I've only worked with Nvidia cards and I see on the forums always talk about Nvidia, but I was wondering if a Radeon is any good.

The computer I'm looking at has a Radeon HD7850 with 2GB DDR5, does anyone have experience with this card and how does it perform for flightsim?

Just a note.
I havent got a ATI card atm, but the first thing i check if buying something new, can the MB handle ATI and Nvidia cards.

Thanks Bass!
The MB is an Asus p8p67 evo, far as I can tell it should be able to handle a Geforce card

take a look here;
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

just for reference I have a Geforce GTX 570 2 Gig ddr5 memory,
it works good in fsx at nearly max settings with 30 fps locked

Demious - I have a Radeon 6950 w/ 2GB memory and it seems to work fine in FSX. I also use that card to drive three 24" screens using Eyefinity. I believe the more important question is: What is the CPU in that computer?
E-Buzz

I have an older version of your card, and it handles six screens (plus one little Pro Flight Instrument Panel) without any problems in both FSX & Prepar3d V2.2.

Those are the only "games" that I play. If you're into high end video games then NVidia may be the better bet.

E-Buzz wrote:Demious - I have a Radeon 6950 w/ 2GB memory and it seems to work fine in FSX. I also use that card to drive three 24" screens using Eyefinity. I believe the more important question is: What is the CPU in that computer?
E-Buzz

E-Buzz has hit the nail on the head here.... ....

FSX will probably run OK on any old Video card....

More importantly, for FSX, is the type and speed of the Central Processor!

Anything less than a fast Intel i7 means that you are going to have to wind your graphics. etc, settings down, to achieve quality and smoothness.!

A very fast processor is the way to go for FSX!

Paul...an old smoothie... ....!

Fozzer wrote:

E-Buzz wrote:Demious - I have a Radeon 6950 w/ 2GB memory and it seems to work fine in FSX. I also use that card to drive three 24" screens using Eyefinity. I believe the more important question is: What is the CPU in that computer?
E-Buzz

Fozzer wrote:E-Buzz has hit the nail on the head here.... ....FSX will probably run OK on any old Video card....More importantly, for FSX, is the type and speed of the Central Processor!Anything less than a fast Intel i7 means that you are going to have to wind your graphics. etc, settings down, to achieve quality and smoothness.!A very fast processor is the way to go for FSX!

I agree, and can maybe vouch for this..my machine is very basic, i7 2600K @3.4Ghz, P8P67-M mobo with a bottom end Geforce 550Ti 1 Mb ram graphics card, W7 64 with 8Gb ram.
I run extremely smooth, set at unlimited frame rates, most times running 30-40 FPS. (2 x Monitors 24" and 20")
I run FTX England and some FTX airports - All my setting sliders are on maximum.

HOWEVER: This machine is dedicated to FSX .. There are also two hdd disks, each 500Gb.
Windows and downloaded files are on disk 1. (C:/)
Fsx is on disk 2. (F:/) (WD Caviar black)

But in the end, if the truth be known, I have also spend many hours tweaking and testing the cfg file...and this is very important I think

From what I have learnt, time and patience spent on the config pays dividends in the end.

Jan

I for sure read and remember your "blue" input, Sprocket

I run fsx with all max settings except autogen and ground shadows
the 2 autogen sliders are 1 notch below max and ground scenery cast shadows off.
max texture set to 2048, bufferpools = 0 and AffinityMask=15 (all 4 cores)
I get 30fps with occasional drops to low 20's in dense scenery.

orbx ftx global Base and vector, REX

my specs are as follows;

cpu - Intel I5-3570k @ 4.5ghz (max on air cooling)
cpu cooler - COOLER MASTER Hyper TX3 RR-910-HTX3-G1
mother board - ASUS P8Z77-V LK
memory - G.SKILL 16gb ddr3 1600 ram
video card - GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) HD 2560MB 320-bit GDDR5
main drive - OCZ Vertex 4 128Mb SSD SATA 6.0Gb/s
storage drive - WD 500GB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s
dvd drive - ASUS DRW-24B1ST 24X DVD Burner SATA 3.0Gb/s
power supply - OCZ ModXStream Pro 700W Modular

Just for compare/contrast, the last Intel machine I had was a Pentium 3.
I use all AMD now.
Specs are in my sig, and I only get less than 30 FPS leaving JFK in Captainsim's 777. Busy airport and traffic, ALL settings maxed, CFG tweaked to max 4096 textures, in other words, all maxed, and only tweaked for higher detail.
REX, Ultimate Traffic 2, UTX global, all at maximum. On AMD. Believe it.
Any newer board should handle any PCIe graphics card. Brand is no concern in the least.

Did you end up buying the computer.