Which GPU Card

[blackgranada77]

Looking to upgrade my graphics card. Looking at EVGA- NVIDIA SC 780 3gb or AMD- MSI Twin Frozr 7950 3gb. Running AMD- Powercolor Radeon HD 7870 2gb now. Have i5-3570k oc to 4.2 cpu.

[Flacke]

Question, why would you want to upgrade your video card? Its kind of terrific as it is now and it matches your system too. What do you want to improve?

[blackgranada77]

My 7870 is starting to shoot craps so thought I would start looking for a new one and upgrade at the same time.

[Flacke]

My 7870 is starting to shoot craps so thought I would start looking for a new one and upgrade at the same time.

Hello, sorry for taking so long to reply.
That is a pretty logical reason to think about upgrades. Since your present system is so good it shouldn't be too expensive to take it up a notch. Good luck with this and please let us know what you did and how you like it when you are finished.

[blackgranada77]

Sorry it took so long to get back. I found out it wasn't my GPU at all. It was one setting in my BIOS called Performance Enhance. After setting this to Extreme my flight sims run better than ever. I do have one question though. While running FSX and watching CPUID HWMonitor my GPU Clock Memory shows 0 Mhz and a utilization of only 29%. Can someone explain what these mean. Thanks.

[Phyllo]

No, I cannot answer that question but in regards to your original question, I found http://www.simforums.com/forums/drivers-nv-inspector-fsxcfg-complete-guide_topic36586.html lately with some hints on how to get the best out of nvidia cards for fsx - with the clear statement "Nvidia is the GO-TO video adapter for FSX. ATi cards are not." He seems to know what he's writing about, he also wrote a so-called "bible" on how to optimize a pc for the use with fsx: www.simforums.com/forums/the-fsx-comput ... 46211.html
Maybe his hints help some of the readers here even though they are a bit older already by now.