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Oh and rusty just so you know that your psu has to have a minimum of 38amps on the 12v rail for the 570. Just thought I would let you know.

Sounds good rusty. I got mine from newegg but I live in the USA. So I would have no idea on shipping to the uk. I still think you will be happy with the results. I am.

Ok Tim, I was able to do the test as you requested and here is the results. First of all I have all my settings to high. With the exception of a few. Water I have on medium and civ traffic I have low. I went ahead and took off fullscreen so this is the results. Paused looking at the sun i was getting 140FPS. Looking straight ahead still paused I was getting 65FPS. Unpaused flying to first target area Avg FPS was around 55 - 60. This was tested using Beta4 build and the 64bit DCS. I have the latest Nvidia drivers installed and no sli as i only have one card at this time. Hope this is what you were looking for.

yes i will check it tonight but i always run in full screen. just saw the post but i am on my way out the door now so i will have to check it when i get home. any paticular mission or situation you would like me to do as a reference mission for you.

Yes I never had better performance with my crossfire set up i had. I had to HD 4850's They were only the 512mb cards. Everytime I had it on i was lucky to get 20fps. Now I have upgraded to a GTX 570 and it doubled my FPS. No other upgrade just the card and was really impressed with the difference. Now I have everything on high and my loweset fps so far that I have been able to notice is 25fps. Other then that it has been consitant at 50 - 75fps. Merry Xmas. Downloading beta 4 now.

Hey goldfinger. I have the saitek pro pedals. I have had them for over a year. It really depends on the type of carpet you got about the slideing issues. Mine do not slide allot but do a little. There are always little mods you can do to make sure they dont move. Now when flying BlackShark I rest my feet on the pedals all the time. I have a little dead zone set so I do not notice any difference when a take my feet off them and then put them back on. Also there is a wheel that adjusts the tension on the pedals. And finally I would say I use my pedals on a daily basis and have never had them jam up on me. Hope this helps.

Actually it did not cost any extra for the warranty. You can choos to buy extra but you don't have to. But then again I am not the luckiest guy in the world. I have actually had to use warranties in the past that if I would not of had them it would of cost me more. So i feel if a company is going to offer a lifetime warranty on there product it reflects on the quality of there product.

Merry Xmas to ED and all the people on this forum. Allot help around here when needed. My wife would like to say thanks as well for all the money that I spent to enjoy all of ED titles. Lol. Thanks again and happy new year.

Well I guess what drove me to Evga is there is a lifetime warranty where most others don't have. This card I got is still a reference card but factory overclocked. They also have a upgrade program as well. But to answer your question I think the gpu is the same on all brands. Still a Nvidia chipset.

I just got everything in the bios pretty much set to auto now. I had it oc but then dropped the oc before I installed the new card as I wanted to make sure that everything was solid.

for some reason I can not get my system to overclock anymore. Everytime I touch the ram settings or my FSB the comptuer wont boot. But that because the board I have is not really meant to overlock. I only get a 7.3 on my cpu and a 7.3 on ram and I have 8gi Corsair XMS2 DDR2 pc6400 at 800mhz. That kind of bothers me becuase I feel it should be higher. HEHEHE.

I also feel the reason for the huge increase of performance with my upgrade was because the motherboard has the 750i chipset and for some odd reason alienware has the crossfire setup instead of a sli set up on the gpus. But I could be wrong as this board is not the greatest out there as it has a big vdroop. But it works for me for now. I am going to build a new pc probably in the next 2 years. So this will last me until then. I am happy as long as I can fly my DCS sims. HHEHEHEHE. No new pc needed yet. On my next build I might try and get another one these cards and run them in SLI. Also on another note about the new video card. I was running the monitor on the card temps. Running A10 for about 1 hour with my fan settings on the card to auto. that is around 40% the card never got hotter then 58c. My ATI HD4850's if I left the fan speed to auto ran at 80c. After ramping the fans up to 70% the cards then idled at 45c then with full load got up to 80c. I must say that this might have been part of the biggest difference along with noice. This card is really quit to the old set up.

i dont think so as i see the same thing. That was the first thing I noticed as well with the new card. The HDR is kind of foggy. LOL. But At least I can have it on now. I was not able to have it on with my crossfire. It put my system to a crall of 15fps with the ATI HD4850 in crossfire. If I disabled the crossfire would let me run at 22 - 28fps with the HDR on. LOL. And that was with everything set to med or low. So as you can tell this new card is solid. It is factory overclocked and I know there is room to bump it up more but I can wait for that.

Not that it probably matters much but it also jumped my Windows Experiance Score up. Widows Graphics is now 7.7 Gaming Graphics is now 7.7 Was at 7.3 and 7.3 with my Crossfire set up.

Forgot to mention that all of these tests were performed on the 32bit DCS. (Love my Trackir LOL). I will run some tests on the 64bit later.

I think you will enjoy this card. I am. I got mine from Newegg as the price was good. The shipping was great. It came in 2 boxes with all the packing peanuts. They packed it well. If you order it now you get 3dmark 11 pro free. Full version. Plus Lifetime warrenty and upgrade program. HEHEHE. Like I stated yesterday. This one card is twice as fast as my HD4850 crossfire set up I was running. Noticed allot of things already. Ok Teej: I did the benchmark that you suggested. I cranked everything up to max. (was not sure about bushes though). I can not get 1900 x 1200 res. I have a acer monitor that is 23", So I did 1920 x 1080. at 1080p. 60h. I fired up the training mission Take off and Navigation. The results. Once the game started I touched nothing. Started the frame counter and then unpaused the mission. From the time I unpaused the mission till the view zoomed back I was getting 30fps. Once the view was all the way back it was at 25fps. Still touching nothing I waited and watched for spikes and there was none. It stayed right there. So before I decided to close the mission I decided to move head around and here is the best part. The head panning did not seem like it was getting 25fps it seemed faster. So I ran the test again and again to veryfy and it was the same everytime. So I decided to tweak the settings a little to see what I could get with good FPS and Good options checked. Here is the results. First the options. Textures & Scenes on HIGH. Vis range and water on Medium. Civ Traffic on low and Heat blurr is on. I got the MSAA on 8Q and the Fullscreen and HDR along with bushes to about 80%. I fired up smerch hunt. After view zoom back in cockpit and with plane taxing in front of my I was getting 55FPS as I was starting the plane. Through this entire mission with TGP on and using mavs noticed no real big drop in FPS. I stayed around 55 - 65 FPS the entire mission. From ramp to ramp. LOL. The thing I noticed about this card is that it is alot more stable then my others. I will try some other missions tonight. Some more that have allot going on. My rig is not the most powerfull out there so I do not expect to run everything on max anyways. I like where I got my options set now to the new card. It is not so much the FPS that matter to me its how smooth the game feels when in a battle. No stutters and so on. I like to have some eye candy and great time gound pounding. LOL. Take care guys.

Ok i am sitting waiting for my daughter. I love my iPhone. I also maxed out black shark along with fsx. Man this card just made a huge difference in performance. I am impressed. I was actually not expecting that big of a jump as to what I got. I think even a SSD HD. Would help. Best upgrade I did so far by far though. At least for DCS.

Sorry guys. Just got back and have one more quick trip I have to do in a moment. (pick up daughter) Once I get home I will do what was suggested and let you know the results. Teej. We might have a little different results as your processer is better then mine. I do have 8gig of ram of DDR2 ram. Corsair XMS2 pc6400. Toddog. The motherboard I have is the Asus P5N-D. not board of choice but it was already in my Alienware. It does have PCI-E 2.0 x16. My processer is a Intel Q9400 2.66 now overclocked to 3.2ghz. But like I said. I will be back in a few and try out simular bench for you guys and let you know what I get. If you have any other questions please feel free to ask.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product-geforce-gtx-570-us.html this is about accurate with the card I have as well. To find out more about the card I got it is the EVGA Superclocked GTX 570. It is a long card and it take up to slots.

Hello all, Well I said I would let you know how this turned out for me and here it is. I recently had 2 ATI HD4850 In crossfire. I just upgraded to a EVGA SC GTX 570. With this upgrade it doubled my FPS. I was able to turn everything up to high and sitting at sukhumi or batumi I have over 40FPS on the ramp. I was before getting only 18 - 25 with my crossfire setup. Now I tried Defend Camp Yankee and the same thing. It doubled my FPS from my crossfire set up I was running. Even with 4 A10's on the ramp it was smooth. I did not complete the mission all the way through I just started the plane up took off and flew to the engagement point. I am going to try out the complete mission tonight along with some others. With all my settings on high except for mirrors are off and water is on medium. I am getting 35 - 45fps on the ramp. I have haze on and running 1920 x 1080 desktop rez. 1080p HDMI. Now I also like to say that this card runs really cool as well. It has not gotten over 50c with the fan at 40%. That was with a full load running for 2 hours. I will do more test to try this out more. But I just wanted to let you all know if you are running a older ATI set up as I did and was thinking of a upgrade I would deffinately recommend this card. It is huge though so you need to have allot of room in the case for it. Also minnimum of 38a on a 12v rail. The card was around $370.00US but for the price I feel you are getting a steal for this card. Imagine running 2 in SLI. HEHEHE. Well thanks for letting me rant.

Hey mower. I just ran the install. Only thing is it reverted my Ccc back to the old one. Did not get a chance to try it out yet.

I just purchased a EVGA GTX 570 Superclocked. Wont be here till friday though. Got a great price on it. Hopefully it will put my current crossfire set up to shame. LOL... Congrats on the new purchase.

Well hello everyone. My name is Jeremy and I am living in Chicago, IL USA. I have been around since the flanker 2.51 days and have enjoyed every product that ED has created. I have been working on getting my private as time and money has allows me to. I currently have 10 hours in a cirrus sr 22 g3 turbo and 1 hour in a Cessna 182. My main job now is in manufacturing. Also was a Fedex driver for the last 3 years. Glad to meet you all and look forward to some online flights in the new a10 with you all.

I have the pro flight pedals as well and they work great.

sorry mustang did not mean to take it off topic