Overkill?

[Bubblehead]

I am planning to pruchase an EVGA Nvidia 7950GT 512M SLI video card. I'm only going to buy one at the moment due to funding constraints. I heard that this video card is designed for serious gamers. But, is this top line card necessary to just fly aircraft in FSX or CFS3? What would be a realistically appropriate card which will meet or exceed the FSX requirements (FPS and graphic and scenery settings).

Bubblehead

[richardd43]

I have user the 7800, 7900, and 7950 and they all work great in FSX, but if you are going to spend that kind of money I really would consider a version of the 8800.

I have never used anything other than what I have listed for FSX so I can't really answer your original question, but if you want to run with high slider settings you need the best GPU you can afford.

[waspiflab]

He's right, that card wont run it without a high spec pc only on very low settings to get decent fps even then it's rubbish, although great on most other titles.
FSX needs Windows Vista DX10 + DX10 card ( DX10 is not out yet but the cards are )

Maybe one of these will do the trick

http://alienware.com/product_detail_pag ... -A#pdp-nav

[flymo]

a 7950 512mb will run it alright with a few tweaks and as long as the rest of your rig is not bottlenecking it