Atomic978

2 days away from my superclocked GTX 570 lol...

I got No difference in performance with this update. I was running the 10.11 and the 10.12 has changed nothing but the CCC. oh well. Still cant use my XFIRE.......:(

well at least now I will have a card to carry over to my next build. And then if I decide I need to go to sli the price for this card will be down..LOL.

im glad im switching back to nvidia. LOL

It was a tough choice. The standard 570 was only 20.00 cheaper. So I said what the heck. Get the superclock. I let you guys know the difference I get once I get it....

lol....Well just have to wait and see what happens when I get this beast of a card. Got it ordered and it will take 3 days to get here...Now I feel like a little kid at xmas. I am going to miss my crossfire LOL

ok here it is. This is what I just ordered. Thanks again for all the help in making my decision. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130595&cm_re=gtx_570-_-14-130-595-_-Product hope it does what I want it to. LOL.

Thanks Guys,, I guess I will take the plung and try out the 570 approach. A SDD will be in my near future as well. Heard nothing but positive things about that.

uh oh. I can get a GTX 570 EVGA cheaper then buying the 2 GTX 460. Do you think I will see a bigger difference with the 570 vs the 460 in sli..

Thx Pilotasso.. Our system is very simular in performance.. CPU: 7.3 mem: 7.3 GFX Aero: 7.3 Gaming: 7.3 My main things are that i would like to crank up some settings on some games a little more and get same performance. In Arma2 Benchmark I get around 45FPS on high Settings at 1920 x 1080... With everything on high in FC2 and BlackShark I get from 45 - 60 depending on situation. So with that said. I have been looking at allot of video cards this last week. Looking at the clock speeds and as well cooling. Reading review after review. Now my current set up is the 2 ATI HD4850 in crossfire. They are the 512mb GDDR3 video cards with DX 10. They still hold there own in all the games I play. I got a budget of around 450.00 for a upgrade. I think out of all the cards I looked at it seems that the MSI Cyclone GTX 460 1gb cards are the best bang for the buck. They will keep up with a GTX 480 and run cooler then most cards on the market with the non reference fan they have. I just did not want to waste money on a might increase if you know what I am talking about. If I were to change out my 4850s for the GTX 460 I would hope to notice the difference. I also looked at the same evga GTX 470 and just keep asking myself do I need the SLI or just revert to a single card. I know most games do not support the sli or xfire as of now but most of them will in the future. So I think it would be a safe bet to set up for it now. Thanks for all the info from you all. Time to get ready to place a order.

Yes that is why I think I am having such a hard time deciding. Not really ready for a entire new system. The q9400 that I have I know can overclock higher then I am running. Got a real huge cooler on it from alienware. Right now with a full load I don't think it really goes o er 50 according to CPUZ. My voltage is only at 1.27. I know my video cards right now can be improved. The HD 4850 in the crossfire configuration that I have performs well on most sims that i play. They are only 512mb cards ddr3 cards. That is why I have been looking to switch to a newer sli configuration. Those MSI cyclones look pretty good. The area 51 case that I have is huge. Allot of room and well vented.

So do you think it would be better for me to go with highest supported socket 775 CPU over upgrading my video cards at this point. With the hd 4850 in crossfire I do get good performance in most of my games. In ARMA2 benchmark on high settings I get around 43fps and it is smooth gameplay. I guess I could just get on card and the better CPU instead of getting a sli set up. I don't know. Lol.

Well in closing for the day I think I might have made up my mind but still keep asking myself do I really need SLI or Crossfire. I was looking at a MSI Cyclone GTX 460.. Thinking of getting 2 of them and running SLI. This card has had some great reviews all over that I could find and runs real cool compaired to most others out there. I can not find any reviews on the galaxy sli kit. I dont know if they are any good compared to the MSI. I am also thinking that I should wait and see if the cat 10.12 drivers affect my current set up before spending the money on new cards. I do not get bad performance on most of the games I play now. I am not using A10 as a reason to upgrade the graphics card. I am just thinking ahead as I will not be able to make a new build for a while and want to get the most out of this machine while I can. Thanks Again, If anybody has any other ideas please feel free to jump in. Thanks.

tell me about it. I have just got mine convinced that I need new video card or cards. No way am I going to get a TM Warthog anytime soon. LOL..

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130566&cm_re=gtx-_-14-130-566-_-Product http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121389&cm_re=gtx-_-14-121-389-_-Product http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814162064&cm_re=gtx-_-14-162-064-_-Product These are the 3 that I have narrowed it down to I think. The clock settings on these cards are better then a stock that I have been able to find and The bottom choice is actually a sli set up with 2 cards for a low price. I do not know much about Galaxy though for a brand name. I have had EVGA in the past and have had no problems. Decisions, Decisions..... Thanks for your guys input now I got to decide.

If I went with one card what would be the beat for my motherboard for less then 300.00 us.

Mostly just flight sims. Occasional MoH. Arma2. Both of those run better with the crossfire set up I have then with it disabled. Fc2. Black shark as well.

Well my screen now is an acer 23" hd monitor. I am running in hd with the hdmi cable. My res. Is 1980 x 1020 I think. Might be wrong. And running 1080p. I don't think it needs that much power but I love sims. And want to crank out more if I can.

Hello all. With all the new hardware out I was thinking of upgrading my video cards and wonder what you all think. First off this will more then likely be my last upgrade until my next build that probably won't be for another year or so. I currently have a Asus p5n-d mother board in my alienware. It came configured with 2 ATI HD 4850. Video cards running in crossfire. I thought the was weird seeing how the mother board has the 750i chipset. I am thinking of getting 2 Gtx 460 and run in sli. I know they will out perform my crossfire set up as they are newer and faster cards. But will my motherboard be up to par for the set up. I have 2 pci-e 16x slots. And they are 2.0 slots. My CPU is in sig. Thanks

http://support.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/ Go here and log in if you are registered. If not you will need to register first then fill out a request ticket.

They have also power supply testers all over that are not expensive that you can buy and it will tell you if your power supply is going bad.

I agree with building your own. But as I said I was in the process of building my machine when I got the deal on my alienware. They were in the process of moving over to Dell when they were selling off some machines they had already had assembled so I got a really good deal. As far as extra software there was none on mine when I got it. It was like a fresh install of windows with none of those damn 30 day trial things like you see on acres and dells. I feel the best thing about my alienware is the case design. It runs cool with allot of room. In fact on my next build I will probably just use my alienware case as I like it that much.

Hello. I thought I would add a comment on this. I usually do all my own builds at the time when I was going to do my last build alienware had a sale. This was just before Dell bought them out. I saved about 200.00 by buying the alienware vs building my own with the same components. That is why I bought instead of a new build. The quality of the build on my alienware is solid. The wire management and everything else is pure quality. The only thing that I have done to this machine was put another 4 gig of ram in so far. I was thinking of upgrading the video cards but I want to wait and see what the finished a10 runs like. My personal experience is if you got the time to research the hardware and want the experience build your own. You will not regret it. But if it does not interest you to do that then I would recommend an alienware.

Well I hope my processor will be enough to run this sim at least on medium settings. I currently have a INTEL 2.66GHZ Q9400 6M 750I It is running at 3.06 ghz per core though. I am not sure how it compares to a i7 but so far has worked great for all my other sims and games.

Actually I did not notice until now as I do not check this part of the forum on a regular basis. I will keep a eye on this more now that this is were they keep these types of post.