I'm getting toward the end of my rope with this 9500 Phenom chip. I just don't think it has the horsepower to run FS9 at the highest possible settings, which is what I want. I am thinking of trashing the board, too, and going with an intel-based board that will handle three of the same video cards I'm using now. I have found the third card and for a four year-old card (it came out in April 2004), they still want around $450 for it. I'm shocked, to say the least. Why would the low-ball, mail-order houses still want so much for such an old card? Total description of the cards I use is eVGA e-GeForce 8800GTS, p/n 640-P2-N825-AR. The only reason I'm going with the same card is because I already have two, so why buy three new ones? Can anybody tell me if I MUST use three identical cards in a board with three PCIe X16 lanes to get them all running in SLi? And what is this story that only two run at X16, while the third runs at X4? Why would this be? Could I run a smaller, more easily obtained card in the third slot, considering it's only going to run at X4? How would I tell which slot is the X4 slot, and which are the X16 slots?
Please suggest a good Socket 775 intel chip in the $175-225 price range that would work well with FSX. I guess I want one in the 45nm variety? I don't know much about intel chips. I've always been an AMD guy. Thank you.
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