Inexpensive video card

I've had my Asus GF 8800GTX since I built my pc (December 2007) and feel no need to upgrade. If and when I build a new pc with a faster CPU then I'll look at the market and see what's available. Some musings from several sources seem to think that massive upgrades of video cards make little difference as FsX cannot use their resources.
So I'd save your money and spend it on hard liquor instead!:icon29:
 
Since I have had FSX I have ran Nvidia 7600gt 256mb, 8800gt 512mb, gtx260 768mb, and now have an ATI 4890 1GB.

I am too cheap to worry about anything except price/performance and my current video card is the MSI 4890 OC that I bought for $170 a couple months ago.

The only difference I have found in FSX with upgrading from the 8800gt is I can turn up the eyecandy more and maintain the FPS I saw before in areas that the 8800gt slowed down in. Where fsx choked out before to 10 fps my system still does but now it looks better because I can have higher video card settings. The 8800gt video card was mostly not responsible for the major choke outs in FSX it was my Q9450 @ 3.6 ghz with 4 gig 1066mhz ram. Flying over busy airports with lots of traffic still can't happen on my system with more than 10fps, it just looks better now with the 4890 because it is at a higher resolution with light bloom and higher textures. :ernae:

FSX is designed for an 80+ thread system with unlimited bandwidth, IMO. It will be outdated before a computer is made that can run it as written.
 
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