Whoa...system overload LOL.
Ok in baby steps.
Price isnt much of an issue to be honest, budget doesnt equate, neither does silly money, middle to upper market really, i do a lot of visual CAd work and only play FSx so thats the basic criteria.
I'm not stuck on either Nvidia or ATI, I'm currently running a Radeon X1950Pro so thats gives y'all some sort of benchmark, to be honest, anything new will be an improvement, but I'd rather have an educated improvement than a guessed one LOL.
The only thing I dont like is the Catalyst package, I always opt for the silent manual running one to reduce systems or packages running in the back ground. I've not tried nHancer yet.
One other question to throw in, not related to this quest but to overall graphics, what does FSx use, Direct3D or Open GL, I never seem to be able to alter either individually and have an effect on FSx, alter both the same and things happen ?.
MOBO, at some stage a new set up will be required, probably when TSx arrives, until then I'd like to squeak the best from this MOBO, Joe I dont know what revision it is, I'm using HWiNFO32 to gather the data, it says the Bios is Award Modual revision 6.00PG, now that means as much to me as boolean cut polys means to you guys I suspect ? LOL.
A awful lot of the PC is cut right back, I've always kept a clean house with respect to process's running and a clean registry at all times so I dont think I have much to gain in that quarter, RAM is all PC5300 DDRS Corsair VS1GB667D2, I'm told thats ok for the MOBO and anything faster ( DDR3 ) wont work.
Ok so the best bet so far looks like a Q6600 and maybe a 8800GTS or HD4870 ?.
I'll read all of the gratefully supplied links in a moment.
Kindest
Michael