FSX w/ 6750 and AMD 640

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poker_jake

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I'm trying to get my dads pc a new video card to run Flight Simulator X at higher settings. After seeing mine run it, it got him thinking of upgrades. He has an AMD Athlon II x4 640 3.0 ghz cpu with an AMD 4200 integrated video card. It runs FSX at about 35 fps at pretty low settings. How would a 6750 video card perform? I've told him to get 4gb of memory for a total of 8gb. He's trying to stay cheap near a $100 for video card only. I know FSX is a cpu heavy game so I'm a little weary of just sticking a video card in there if it's not going to help much. Also, hes got a Antec 500w psu we plan on sticking in there.
 
You might just want to swap out the processor for an i5 and see how that works. Otherwise, the 6750 would boost it, I just don't know by how much.
 
A $100 budget will not gain much performance for the FSX game based from the current setup. The first thing to do would be to get a better processor. It just doesn't have the cache memory for that kind of game.
 
for poker_jake, all athlons and phenoms are amd, i's are intel, so you can't put them on the same socket, simple, and a new mobo alone worth getting will take then entire budget, and an i5 worth it (2500k) is 220, over twice the budget

but the athlon x4 isn't prefered, but it is still a plenty capable processor, even without the cache as bassadict said it can still play anything fine, will maybe be a few (<10 i'd say) fps behind an equal phenom, but look on newegg for the 6770, with rebate they are generally close to 100, or this is on special

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...x-_-DesktopGraphicsVideoCards-_-14131397-L01B

but i just realized all this is pointless as he'll need a good powersupply as since he's on this currently i doubt he has a real power supply, a 60 buck corsair builder series cx600 should do fine and provide some overhead, he may also want to look into overclocking some on a side note.
 
I know about Intel CPU's, I don't know about AMD CPU's and obviously you can't use an Intel in an AMD mobo and vice versa. Thanks for the heads up anyway. He has an Antec 500w psu, as stated above. What's the best AMD CPU available that wont require a new mobo? How about the new Bulldozer cpu?
 
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Bulldozer isn't out yet, but the motherboards are, and they support AM3 CPU's as well. You would be looking for a 990FX/AM3+ motherboard and a Phenom II CPU for now, and an upgrade to Bulldozer when it is released.
 
Not for an AMD chip, as it's the wrong socket.

EDIT: Scratch that, I thought you were talking about your system.

You haven't said which motherboard your dad's pc has, but a phenom should work. However to get Bulldozer support will require an AM3+ Socket / 990FX/970 Chipset - AKA a new motherboard.
 
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