hifly 925 Posted January 8, 2014 Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 A long overdue PC upgrade is due very soon and I would really appreciate some not too technical advice from you wonderful folk. For the upgrade I have decided to go to a local independant PC shop who have given us excellent service over the years. I have taken the following spec from a commercial flight sim PC builder and given it to our supplier who gave me a better price. Processor 4.5GHz intel core i5 3570K Motherboard Asus P8Z77-V LX USB3 Video Card Ge Force GTX660 2GB Memory 8GB DDR3 RAM Optical drive 24X Sony DVD-RW Storage 1000GB Hard Disk OS Windows 7HP 64bit Cooler Akasa Nero 3 cooler PSU Cosair 600W I highlighted the video card as this is my real question. My existing card is a Ge Force GTX650, in discussion with their techie SSDs were mentioned and he suggested that I keep the 650 and instead of getting the 660 get a SSD dedicated to FSX. What would your advice be 660 or SSD? Thanks, Link to post Share on other sites
GHAO 0 Posted January 8, 2014 Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 You'll notice the loading times are vastly reduced with an SSD, though most people reckon it doesn't improve FPS that much... As for graphics card, haven't a clue But both are better than mine and I appear to cope plenty well enough! Link to post Share on other sites
brett 2,284 Posted January 8, 2014 Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 Does this help http://www.notebookcheck.net/Comparison-of-Graphic-Cards.130.0.html Remember that FSX is CPU dependent so that is the most important consideration. Get the best you get without having to overclock it. Your specs look really good. Link to post Share on other sites
Gunner 69 Posted January 8, 2014 Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 At the video card look more at what kind of memory it has. If its a 2Gb card, i presume its a DDR3 memory chip card. The ones with DDR5 are better (also more expensive). I don't think that the 660 will give you something extra , especially if your current card is a DDR5 card with 128 bits bus speed. Link to post Share on other sites
PCAviator 30 Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 Personally, I'd go for a GTX 670 Overclocked over the SSD upgrade. SSD will make initial loading faster, and it can help with rendering photoscenery quicker, but there is zero benefit with SSDs in actual frame rate in FSX. The hard drive just loads everything into memory and then FSX runs it from your system memory, so no frame rate benefit with an SSD, just faster initial load times. This has been tested quite extensively in fact in the past. With FSX, its CPU first, video card second as the two most important factors. Link to post Share on other sites
hifly 925 Posted January 14, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2014 Thanks for your replies one and all. Just one last question before I go ahead with this upgrade. The consensus is to get the best processor, if I keep my existing graphics card GTX650 and not get the GTX 660 2Gb that would save me £170. Would you recommend I spend that £170 on a better processor? Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites
needles 1,010 Posted January 16, 2014 Report Share Posted January 16, 2014 Definitely Geoff. FSX is very, very CPU hungry. Good luck. Link to post Share on other sites
hifly 925 Posted January 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2014 Thanks Brian, I'll be ordering it next week. Does mean a complete reinstall though. .However it means that I can use REX and some scenery. Cheers, Link to post Share on other sites
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