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I was just wondering if I would see a frame rate and performance increase in any significant amount if I increased my ram from 2gigs to 4gigs.

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Not particularly. To really improve the frames - it's the card that makes the difference.

Not particularly. To really improve the frames - it's the card that makes the difference.

Yep, that's what I kind of figured the answer to my question would be. My present video card is fairly new so I guess I'll just live with what I have till it craps out and then upgrade to a better card. I'm not really complaining. FSX is running pretty good with what I have at present. Thanks for your advice.

 Bob

Wouldn't of thought you would see much if any difference. Also XP doesnt really know what to do with 4gig of ram either. I cant remember where but you have to put a switch in somewhere so that it knows it has over 3gig of ram. My works PC has 4gig of ram and it only shows up as 3.5gig which is odd.

As said upgrading your vid card to the latest and newest one would do wonders, though will cost a lot  :'(

Ensure you have all the fixes etc for your dual core CPU. There was a post somewhere on here about the fixes required for AMD dual core CPU's so that they worked efficiently. Nick N posted it up but i cant remember which bit it was in.

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I've got a EVGA Nvidia 6800XT. My mobo does not have a slot for PCE-I cards. What upgrade AGP cards are still available that would make significant improvement to the PCs performance?

Bubblehead

I am in exactly the same situation Bubblehead. I only have an AGP slot on my motherboard.

I am not going to waste money at the moment upgrading to an ATIX1950pro 512mb, which is the one I would go for out of the AGP cards. I don't think it is really worth it. I have FSX playing reasonably well on my current system. So as of this I will stick playing as it is until may summer time and save a bit each month until I can upgrade my whole system, as really that is what it needs.

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I've got a EVGA Nvidia 6800XT. My mobo does not have a slot for PCE-I cards. What upgrade AGP cards are still available that would make significant improvement to the PCs performance?

Bubblehead

I have a Nvidia Geforce 7800 GS OC 256MB GDDR3 AGPx8 card, and I think that is the best AGP card you can get....think it even beats out the 512MB ATI 1950 because I think that card is only DDR2 memory?  :-?

Anyway, I'm stuck in the AGP grave until I can get a new system...but I'll wait until I can afford a Duel Core/DX10/Nvidia8800/Vista system.

I concur with both your approaches. I'll hang on to my 6800XT until I can get me a new updated rig.

By the way, do you happen to know the difference/s among 6800+. 6800GS and 6800XT Nvidia cards?  

Bubblehead

I concur with both your approaches. I'll hang on to my 6800XT until I can get me a new updated rig.

By the way, do you happen to know the difference/s among 6800+. 6800GS and 6800XT Nvidia cards?  

Bubblehead

Pipelines and clock speeds.

Cheers
Cameron

Wouldn't of thought you would see much if any difference. Also XP doesnt really know what to do with 4gig of ram either. I cant remember where but you have to put a switch in somewhere so that it knows it has over 3gig of ram. My works PC has 4gig of ram and it only shows up as 3.5gig which is odd.

A 32-bit operating system has a maximium address space of 4Gig (2 to power 32 or 2^32).