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crzycanuck
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Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 7:53 pm 

Can any body recamend a good video card to get for playing flight sim 2004?
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Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 8:21 pm 

This post pretty well covers the subject here. If you have any questions all the members here are quite helpful.
http://flyawaysimulation.com/forum/topic/2166/video-card-shopping/


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Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 8:38 pm 

Thanks for the reply RADAR and the link, have been there and read somethings. the card I was thinking of is the ATI Radeon 9600XT have you herd anything about this card?
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Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 11:04 pm 

Just the Platinum one http://flyawaysimulation.com/forum/topic/2161/ati-radeon-x800-xt-platinum-edition/ but here are the places to check out the reviews.
Shop around the prices vary greatly.


http://www.tomshardware.com/

http://www.cnet.com/

XT800.

http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,117070,tk,prx,00.asp


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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:38 am 

Crzycanuck
I have ATI Radeon 9600xt . One of the results you would like to get from a card is a god frame rate. My is giving me all my needs.(45-55) But it is always the question of money. RadarMan has something better and I am sure he paid more. I paid a year ago in the web 185 us dollar and I believe you can get it now chipper. It is always a question what else you have
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Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 4:46 pm 

Oh ya. What card you have today? What frame rate you have today at the default flight (Seattle Tacoma)
If you have not an old hard drive. Your question is a very common question in the forum and so far most of the time RadarMen or TTT are the "answer men". I only can quoit him on that matter in link:
http://flyawaysimulation.com/forum/topic/2226/video-cards-for-sim-2004/
I don't think if there will be somebody in the forum who will give a direct recommendation what to buy (maybe what not) but some directions how to get the right answer. Personally if I would be you instead of upgrading to 1G I would invest in a better card than fx5200 and even a better card with 126m instead of a lower card with 256m
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