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Anthony Belton-Ford 102141
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Anthony Belton-Ford 102141
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Right now I have....

 

Intel core 2 quad Q6600 2.4GHZ

2GB ram

ATI Radeon HD 3600 graphics card

 

What is the best thing to upgrade, maybe the graphics card? a 8800GT might be cheap now, and maybe clock the processer speed?

 

Any ideas?

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Shawn Goldsworthy 925085
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FSX or X-Plane? I run both w/ 2 GB ram Intel core 2 duo E6750 (2.66 ghz) and a 8800GT and it screams with X-Plane. I can't quite go to max with the sliders in FSX, but pretty close.

 

X-Plane and FSX will max out the CPU.....always (well one of the cores anyway) 2.4ghz is pretty solid though. Faster quad core CPU's start to get pricey.

 

The 8800GT's are getting harder to find now since they were replaced with the 9000 series last year but you can get the 9800GT's for $100 from Newegg.

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Anthony Belton-Ford 102141
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FSX or X-Plane? I run both w/ 2 GB ram Intel core 2 duo E6750 (2.66 ghz) and a 8800GT and it screams with X-Plane. I can't quite go to max with the sliders in FSX, but pretty close.

 

X-Plane and FSX will max out the CPU.....always (well one of the cores anyway) 2.4ghz is pretty solid though. Faster quad core CPU's start to get pricey.

 

The 8800GT's are getting harder to find now since they were replaced with the 9000 series last year but you can get the 9800GT's for $100 from Newegg.

 

Flight sim 2004

 

Hmm, I don't even know what cards would be compatible with my motherboard, it's all very confusing PCI-E express, eugh makes no sense.

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