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DVA3098
Captain, MD-11
Joined on April 27 2006
50 State Club
Iron Dispatcher
Flying Colonel
Online Fifteen Century
Million Mile Club
Everett Millennium Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
"Roger, good copy...Big Ted out!"
Charlotte, NC
1,979 legs, 3,442.0 hours
1,887 legs,
3,222.1 hours online
1,803 legs,
3,093.8 hours ACARS
36 legs,
59.3 hours event
465 legs dispatched, 300.3
hours
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Posted onPost created on
May 29 2016 19:09 ET by Ted Crowley
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| I have a MSI X58 Pro-E Motherboard with a i7-Intel Core Processor. I want to upgrade my video card, but would like to know what a good one would be and that is compatible for my computer. Any help is greatly appreciated!
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DVA12719
Senior Captain, DC-8-61
OLP
Joined on July 26 2015
Piranha Club
50 State Club
Century Club
US Capital Club
Piston Prop Professional
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
"Let the FO land"
Boca Raton, FL
153 legs, 258.9 hours
32 legs,
43.1 hours online
145 legs,
252.0 hours ACARS
16 legs,
23.9 hours event
12 legs dispatched, 16.4
hours
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Posted onPost created on
May 29 2016 19:42 ET by Yisrael Wealcatch
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What video card do you have right now?
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DVA11021
Captain, B757-200
OLP
Joined on September 13 2012
B757 100 Club
Everett 250 Club
Triple Century Club
Online Triple Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
Milford, NH
375 legs, 620.5 hours
365 legs,
604.5 hours online
374 legs,
618.9 hours ACARS
21 legs,
51.4 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
May 29 2016 19:50 ET by Sean Zarella
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gtx 1080 if you can afford it,
But ! What are you planning to do? AAA games, just FS? how many displays you connecting?
I love my R9 390 8gb runs everything insane and my fs9 on 5 screens 45 fps ! no problems here,
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DVA9545
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP, 737-ATP
Joined on March 03 2011
50 State Club
Globetrotter
US Coastal Club
US Mountaineer Club
Million Mile Club
Events Double Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Toulouse 500 Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Online Twenty Century
DVA Fleet Master
"YUPIIIII"
Goiás Brazil
2,578 legs, 5,183.9 hours
2,405 legs,
4,903.2 hours online
2,570 legs,
5,154.3 hours ACARS
271 legs,
683.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
May 29 2016 19:58 ET by Thiago Braga
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gtx 1080 if you can afford it,
+1
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DVA11460
Captain, B747-400
OLP
Joined on April 22 2013
50 State Club
US Coastal Club
US Mountaineer Club
Everett 250 Club
Event Half Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Eight Century Club
Globetrotter
Online Eight Century
Arouca, Tunapuna-Piarco Trinidad and Tobago
831 legs, 1,484.3 hours
800 legs,
1,445.6 hours online
826 legs,
1,474.8 hours ACARS
62 legs,
137.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
May 29 2016 20:18 ET by Ifeaye Murray
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A GTX 1080 sounds a bit overkill to me but it all depends on what you intend on doing with the system
Ifeaye MurrayCaptain, B747-400
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DVA12719
Senior Captain, DC-8-61
OLP
Joined on July 26 2015
Piranha Club
50 State Club
Century Club
US Capital Club
Piston Prop Professional
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
"Let the FO land"
Boca Raton, FL
153 legs, 258.9 hours
32 legs,
43.1 hours online
145 legs,
252.0 hours ACARS
16 legs,
23.9 hours event
12 legs dispatched, 16.4
hours
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Posted onPost created on
May 29 2016 21:01 ET by Yisrael Wealcatch
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Unless he's playing extreme framerate games like Crysis 3 at 4K resolution, the GTX 1080 is complete overkill. For flight sim and moderate gaming, I'd go for a GTX 970...
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DVA11021
Captain, B757-200
OLP
Joined on September 13 2012
B757 100 Club
Everett 250 Club
Triple Century Club
Online Triple Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
Milford, NH
375 legs, 620.5 hours
365 legs,
604.5 hours online
374 legs,
618.9 hours ACARS
21 legs,
51.4 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
May 29 2016 22:00 ET by Sean Zarella
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Yisrael Wealcatch wrote:
Unless he's playing extreme framerate games like Crysis 3 at 4K resolution, the GTX 1080 is complete overkill. For flight sim and moderate gaming, I'd go for a GTX 970...
think of it,
The GTX 980 TI is what most people want, thats 800$ the TITAN X is overkill thats over 1000$ the gtx 1080 that is MORE powerful than the TITANx is 600$
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DVA3098
Captain, MD-11
Joined on April 27 2006
50 State Club
Iron Dispatcher
Flying Colonel
Online Fifteen Century
Million Mile Club
Everett Millennium Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
"Roger, good copy...Big Ted out!"
Charlotte, NC
1,979 legs, 3,442.0 hours
1,887 legs,
3,222.1 hours online
1,803 legs,
3,093.8 hours ACARS
36 legs,
59.3 hours event
465 legs dispatched, 300.3
hours
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Posted onPost created on
May 29 2016 22:18 ET by Ted Crowley
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| I have a nvidia 430 now. It's just flight sim running and I use two screens, one for game play the other for acars, vpilot, etc
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DVA12719
Senior Captain, DC-8-61
OLP
Joined on July 26 2015
Piranha Club
50 State Club
Century Club
US Capital Club
Piston Prop Professional
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
"Let the FO land"
Boca Raton, FL
153 legs, 258.9 hours
32 legs,
43.1 hours online
145 legs,
252.0 hours ACARS
16 legs,
23.9 hours event
12 legs dispatched, 16.4
hours
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Posted onPost created on
May 29 2016 22:44 ET by Yisrael Wealcatch
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Ted Crowley wrote:
I have a nvidia 430 now. It's just flight sim running and I use two screens, one for game play the other for acars, vpilot, etc
I'd go for the 970 then. If you really want to add more screens you can go for the 980ti, but it's totally unnecessary. You will get great performance regardless.
For reference, I use Intel 4000 integrated graphics on my i7 3770. I get about 30-40 frames per second at almost max settings using the Aerosoft Airbuses. Even a mid tier card wouldn't do much extra for me (maybe max settings at 60 fps).
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DVA11460
Captain, B747-400
OLP
Joined on April 22 2013
50 State Club
US Coastal Club
US Mountaineer Club
Everett 250 Club
Event Half Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Eight Century Club
Globetrotter
Online Eight Century
Arouca, Tunapuna-Piarco Trinidad and Tobago
831 legs, 1,484.3 hours
800 legs,
1,445.6 hours online
826 legs,
1,474.8 hours ACARS
62 legs,
137.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
May 30 2016 11:17 ET by Ifeaye Murray
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Last time I checked FSX was always more CPU intensive than GPU intensive so really and truly most good GPUs will give you good performance in FSX
Ifeaye MurrayCaptain, B747-400
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DVA12719
Senior Captain, DC-8-61
OLP
Joined on July 26 2015
Piranha Club
50 State Club
Century Club
US Capital Club
Piston Prop Professional
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
"Let the FO land"
Boca Raton, FL
153 legs, 258.9 hours
32 legs,
43.1 hours online
145 legs,
252.0 hours ACARS
16 legs,
23.9 hours event
12 legs dispatched, 16.4
hours
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Posted onPost created on
May 30 2016 12:51 ET by Yisrael Wealcatch
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Ifeaye Murray wrote:
Last time I checked FSX was always more CPU intensive than GPU intensive so really and truly most good GPUs will give you good performance in FSX
Correct. For better FSX performance, I would rather get an i7 4790K and overclock it to 4.2 GHz as opposed to buying a GTX 1080. About half the price too...
Prepar3d is a different story though. It's more GPU intensive so I would at least get a GTX 970 for that.
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DVA3098
Captain, MD-11
Joined on April 27 2006
50 State Club
Iron Dispatcher
Flying Colonel
Online Fifteen Century
Million Mile Club
Everett Millennium Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
"Roger, good copy...Big Ted out!"
Charlotte, NC
1,979 legs, 3,442.0 hours
1,887 legs,
3,222.1 hours online
1,803 legs,
3,093.8 hours ACARS
36 legs,
59.3 hours event
465 legs dispatched, 300.3
hours
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Posted onPost created on
May 30 2016 15:21 ET by Ted Crowley
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| Well, went with the 970, and everything is running awesome! Thanks for the help...now any suggestions on how to break the news to my newest upgrade to the wife??? lmao...
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DVA12719
Senior Captain, DC-8-61
OLP
Joined on July 26 2015
Piranha Club
50 State Club
Century Club
US Capital Club
Piston Prop Professional
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
"Let the FO land"
Boca Raton, FL
153 legs, 258.9 hours
32 legs,
43.1 hours online
145 legs,
252.0 hours ACARS
16 legs,
23.9 hours event
12 legs dispatched, 16.4
hours
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Posted onPost created on
May 30 2016 16:02 ET by Yisrael Wealcatch
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Ted Crowley wrote:
Well, went with the 970, and everything is running awesome! Thanks for the help...now any suggestions on how to break the news to my newest upgrade to the wife??? lmao...
Congrats! Um, just tell her she won't have to see you as often 
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DVA11021
Captain, B757-200
OLP
Joined on September 13 2012
B757 100 Club
Everett 250 Club
Triple Century Club
Online Triple Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
Milford, NH
375 legs, 620.5 hours
365 legs,
604.5 hours online
374 legs,
618.9 hours ACARS
21 legs,
51.4 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
May 30 2016 16:12 ET by Sean Zarella
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why only go .2 ghz with the 4790k? Crank her to 4.7 on water and youl see the difference!
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DVA12719
Senior Captain, DC-8-61
OLP
Joined on July 26 2015
Piranha Club
50 State Club
Century Club
US Capital Club
Piston Prop Professional
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
"Let the FO land"
Boca Raton, FL
153 legs, 258.9 hours
32 legs,
43.1 hours online
145 legs,
252.0 hours ACARS
16 legs,
23.9 hours event
12 legs dispatched, 16.4
hours
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Posted onPost created on
May 30 2016 18:44 ET by Yisrael Wealcatch
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Sean Zarella wrote:
why only go .2 ghz with the 4790k? Crank her to 4.7 on water and youl see the difference!
True, true.
What do you think of my future setup by the way? http://pcpartpicker.com/p/gM2NJx
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DVA9545
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP, 737-ATP
Joined on March 03 2011
50 State Club
Globetrotter
US Coastal Club
US Mountaineer Club
Million Mile Club
Events Double Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Toulouse 500 Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Online Twenty Century
DVA Fleet Master
"YUPIIIII"
Goiás Brazil
2,578 legs, 5,183.9 hours
2,405 legs,
4,903.2 hours online
2,570 legs,
5,154.3 hours ACARS
271 legs,
683.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
May 31 2016 00:02 ET by Thiago Braga
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Yisrael Wealcatch wrote:
Sean Zarella wrote:
why only go .2 ghz with the 4790k? Crank her to 4.7 on water and youl see the difference!
True, true.
What do you think of my future setup by the way? http://pcpartpicker.com/p/gM2NJx
Yisrael;
Great Setup. Let me ask what SIM are you using it? Because P3D use lots of your GPU.
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DVA12719
Senior Captain, DC-8-61
OLP
Joined on July 26 2015
Piranha Club
50 State Club
Century Club
US Capital Club
Piston Prop Professional
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
"Let the FO land"
Boca Raton, FL
153 legs, 258.9 hours
32 legs,
43.1 hours online
145 legs,
252.0 hours ACARS
16 legs,
23.9 hours event
12 legs dispatched, 16.4
hours
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Posted onPost created on
May 31 2016 06:57 ET by Yisrael Wealcatch
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Right now I'm using FSX, but when I get that new system, I want to get P3D. Maybe I'll get the GTX 1070 by then. It's only about $80 more than the 970 with a 1/3 increase in performance.
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