Culley44 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 hi guys just looking for some opinions,i have a choice of buying a 16 more gigs of ddr4 of 2666 which equals 32 gig total,or buy a second gtx 970 asus strix video card,i would like to say i use p3d,fsx-se and multiple first person shooters.by what i understand having 2 videocards doesn't actually give you 2x the vram,thanks for the thoughts. Brett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack the Swede in Spain Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 As FSX/P3D can only address 3+GB of ram, increasing your RAM is a waste of money. I doubt that a second GTX970 would do any difference from what you have today. Jack the Swede in Spain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 I have to agree. FSX uses not much over 1GB of RAM on the graphics card and of course can use no more than 4GB of VAS. Two video cards of say 2GB of RAM each=2GB of RAM I'm afraid but you already have more than enough on one card. Like Jack, I see no advantage in either addition, unless your other games are able to see and use SLI and are 64 bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Culley44 Posted June 2, 2015 Author Share Posted June 2, 2015 i know p3d now supports an sli profile or very soon will be,but it always comes right back to the darn vas problem.vas is really making it rough on the ones that run highend hardware,the only other game i play is gta v and trainz a new era.thanks jack and Nick for the comments, its appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack the Swede in Spain Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 About the VAS problem. It´s just aqnother "in" word as OOM and CTD was some time ago. I bet half of the people using the VAS word doesn´t even know what VAS is. I have never had any VAS problems!!! Jack the Swede in Spain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Instead of buying 2 GTX 970, I would take 1 GTX Titan or the coming soon GTX 980Ti Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Emms Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Aye the 980Ti cards are showing their heads in England now seem to be £550 and above but they do sound good. cheers Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Culley44 Posted June 2, 2015 Author Share Posted June 2, 2015 ya lain, i seen the gtx 980 ti, but i wanted to make use of the current asus gtx 970 strix i have,i may not get as much performance as i would like out of p3d, but several other games take advantage of sli,i believe the performance is faster than a single gtx 980, but not as fast as a 980ti,it will be a good in between for 2 years,i keep buying buying hardware and not flying lol, its time to fly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simson Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 That's really an interesting subject. Similar discussion is going on at avsim. One half of the people is believing their sli setup has given them a boost or more smoothness, the other half believes in a more powerful single card like Monsieur Bui or Mister Emms does. I don't know what to believe. I have just bought a GTX970 and am very excited. I hear "just 1 or 3 Gb vram will be used"... but on the other side one wants to buy a second Titan X... very confusing stuff. Probably it's best to wait some more time for more thrustful results and benchmarks or better and stable drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simson Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Aye the 980Ti cards... ...do sound good. cheers Iain Iain, these new cards are NO sound cards!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Culley44 Posted June 2, 2015 Author Share Posted June 2, 2015 more than a single card won't help fsx at all, but nvidia has a profile now for p3d, thats the reason i went with the 2 card solution, and the fact i already had one 970, i figured i might as well pair it with a brother and see how games run,will be my first sli experience Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 That's really an interesting subject. Similar discussion is going on at avsim. One half of the people is believing their sli setup has given them a boost or more smoothness, the other half believes in a more powerful single card like Monsieur Bui or Mister Emms does. I don't know what to believe. I have just bought a GTX970 and am very excited. I hear "just 1 or 3 Gb vram will be used"... but on the other side one wants to buy a second Titan X... very confusing stuff. Probably it's best to wait some more time for more thrustful results and benchmarks or better and stable drivers. When I talked about GTX Titan, I meant Titan Z the one with biggest GPU ever with 12 GB Vram built on 3 pci slots. Not to confuse with the Ti (ex 770 Ti or 980Ti) series which is a special tuning of the standard series Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rick66 Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 Brett, i would leave the ram at 16gig, W10 might take advantage of more ram under DX12 but that does not help FSX/P3d, SLI cards would help if you get P3d, or you could wait a few more months and get the new Broadwell i7 5775-C which is better than both ram and sli. Rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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