New graphics card

Question

djcevera

Trainee

Joined: Sep 27, 2004 Posts: 85

Asked Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:56 pm

hello everyone im starting to make my climb to fsx from fs9 i just purchased an nvidia geforce 7600 gs 512mb graphics card is there anyone out there using this card i would greatly apprieciate any setting hints you may have also should i go into bios and disable the on board card or did that take place when i installed the new graphics card?
my system now is amd athlon 64 3200 939 pin
2gb ram
new 80gb hd
and the new video card. getting around 8 fps with high settings will another gb increase this by much....thank you all for any tips and tricks im getting excited about finally be able to fly fsx seeing i bought it on the release date and was not able to use it... Surprised

Answer 1 · Sat Feb 24, 2007 3:19 am

Rodney Jacobs (GundamWZero)

Captain

Joined: Dec 29, 2006 Posts: 525 Location: Ft. Bliss, Texas

Answered Sat Feb 24, 2007 3:19 am

Although the 8800 cards are the ideal cards to get for FSX, your 7600 should do quite well once you tweaked with your settings a bit. You might want to check to see how much speed your CPU and RAM is putting out as well. A good card doesn't help much when your other critical componets are sub-standard.

Answer 2 · Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:42 pm

djcevera

Trainee

Joined: Sep 27, 2004 Posts: 85

Answered Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:42 pm

how do i check to see what speed my cpu and ram are putting out? i know the amd is a 2.6ghz and my ram is ddr 400 does that answere anything

Answer 3 · Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:45 pm

GoodisonBlue

First Officer

Joined: Nov 07, 2006 Posts: 318 Location: Liverpool, England

Answered Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:45 pm

djcevera wrote:

how do i check to see what speed my cpu and ram are putting out? i know the amd is a 2.6ghz and my ram is ddr 400 does that answere anything

Download this

http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/index.html?dir=&location=downandbuy&langx=en&a

Get the lite version, it's free and will give you loads of info about how your pc perfoms