GEforce2 GTS or V5 5500 For Flight Sim..

[GEShields]

Just wondering which will give me the better picture? I play FS 2000 and Falcon 4.0 as well as other sims and am not a hardcore quake gamer etc...
They will both be fast so I am really not concerned about that...

P3-600@800
Abit BH-6(soon to be replaced by ASUS CUSL2)
128mb ram

So the cards will be running at default speed (no overclocking)

Greg

 

[Dark4ng3l]

the voodoo 5 fsaa would be good for flight sims and you dont need the massive fillrate because you will always be cpu limited.

 

[Deeko]

I'd also say the V5, because it has the superior FSAA.

 

[acroig]

Greg:

Just a word of warning. Since you overclock, be aware that the v5500 does not like a FSB higher than 130. I've tried both the AGP and PCI model on my rig (500e@715) and the card would lock up at anything over 130 FSB.

Alex

 

[GEShields]

Thanks Alex. That is why I am replacing my BH-6 also...and going with the CUSL2..so my AGP won't be overclocked...

 

[Nighthawk69]

I run F4 on a GF2 GTS with newest patches and so forth to fix CTD's.. works great.

 

[SuperGroove]

Yes, but my V5 5500 has much more crisp visuals than wimpy GeForce2 GTS

Paul

 

[RoboTECH]

for flight sims, there really isn't a decision to be made. the 5500 is the way to go

as far as the FSB is concerned, I've had 2 different 5500's, and both were able to do 133+ on my MSI BX Master. It'll do 133 quite readily as long as you can up I/O voltage and disable the win98 splash screen.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Another vote for the V5.

 

[Wingznut]

For flight sims? It's really a no-brainer. V5's FSAA is simply amazing in flight sims.

 

[Wingznut]

Btw, I picked up a CUSL-2 today... Very, very nice board. Beats the hell out of the Abit SE-6, which I just returned for the CUSL-2.

 

[RoboTECH]

Wing, you try o/c'ing it yet?

Darn thing posts @ default voltage no matter what you do (After a hard reboot)

very annoying. Caused me to return mine.

 

[Wingznut]

It overclocks much better than the SE-6 did. I couldn't get this P3-700e to run stable even at 840mhz, on the SE-6. I've got it running at 868mhz right now (which is the max I could get it on the CUV4X)... I haven't tried any higher, yet.

 

[RoboTECH]

oh Wing, the CUV4X sucks for overclocking too!

UGH!!!!!!!

I had both a CUV4X and a CUSL2 and they both bit the big one for overclocking. The CUV4X won't let you up the voltage past 10% over default, and the CUSL2 posts only @ default voltage

D'OH!!!!!!!

so I dumped them both. Blah.