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EHM-1465 Dominic:
Phil,

As you seem to know what's hot and what's not in this arena (and I'm not very current on hardware :P ), do you know anything about the GeForce 6600LE (I'm pretty sure that's it...) which is 'on sale' in PC World all over the place for about 70 quid? I'm thinking of upgrading my GeForce4 MX440 card and I'm looking for a relatively inexpensive AGP card... How does this one compare to the Sapphire you mention above??

Is it another overpriced turkey from the big name stores???

EHM-1703 Philip:
Dom,

I am not too good with Nvidia Stuff, but from the tech specs I guess the Geforce 6600 range and the ATI X1300 range are pretty similar. The Geforce 6800 and X1600 are pretty similar. In some games the ATI cards are better and in some the Geforce cards outperform. Have a look around at http://www.hardwaresecrets.com and look for reviews of the cards you are looking at, that should help you out a bit. One thing to remember, the ATI cards are newer models so there is no real direct comparison.

EHM-1465 Dominic:
Phil,

Thanks for your swift reply mate - I'll do a bit of research on that website before I get my cash out... :P

EHM-0948 Bruno:
I have a nVidia GeForce 6800 GT and it is very good in my opinion ...

The FS frame rate is awsome and it's not very expensive.

Regards,

EHM-0654 Murray:
@Dom: NO! No, no, no, no... (any more required?)

Avoid the LE cards as unto the plague. Think in terms of the difference between Pentium and Celeron...

If you're running AGP still (me too...) I can heartily recommend the GeForce 6800 GTX (the cut down GT, which is a cut down Ultra. You seem to know nVidia well enough that that progression should make sense...) They have good enough performance to keep FS2004 happy enough, and they shouldn't be all that expensive now (got mine a year ago when they were still over £100)

@All: I guess a lot of us are beginning to look at new hardware in advance of Vista/FSX. My feelings (as an AMD/nVidia advocate) are that you want to be thinking in terms of a PCI-E mobo with as new a socket as you can justify and SLI/Crossfire capable (I'm looking at AM2, nForce 590 chipset, almost certainly SLI capable - you Intel and/or ATI folks have similar hardware...) *BUT* until Vista ships there's very little point in populating a high-end mobo with a really big CPU (dual-core) and SLI GFX cards as very little is capable of pushing such things to their limits, plus it's piggin expensive to do this. I'm thinking in terms of "planned migration" as part of my on-going sim-pit project - my current big PC will get upgraded and "demoted" to running just FS in my sim-pit and I'll get a new laptop for my day-to-day computing.

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