The nVidia 7800GTX is out, but again no 512MB version -- Single 7800 shows
about 25% increase in fps, without that 512MB I bet as soon as textures
overload it the same issues will happen as do with my ATI X800XT PE.

The 3DLabs units are nice, but will they work well with FS2004? They are
optimized for CAD/3D rendering so I don't know how well they'll perform for
games/sim like FS2004.

"jkb" <nospam@none> wrote in message
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>> I'll hope the X850XT PE 512MB does find the retail market -- but it has
> been
>> 5 months since it was shown to the world, so I assume it may just be
>> vaporware. In the future I plan to run 1990 x 1200, but not until I can
>> make 1600 x 1200 smooth -- it really is a shame nVidia can't get their
>> SLI
>> setup to work with FS2004 -- two 6800 Ultra OC 512MB cards would be nice
>> providing 1GB of video memory. I have thought about switching to a
>> single
>> 6800 Ultra OC 512MB as those are currently available.
>
> You could try the 3DLabs Realizm 800. It has 640MB of 512-bit memory.
> Dual-VPU. AFAIK, standard VC's only have 256-bit VRAM - double bandwidth.
> A
> separate geometry processor. Texture sizes up to 4000x4000. However - it
> seems to cost a lot and probably takes up a lot of case-space. Go here for
> more info: http://content.3dlabs.com/Datasheets/realizm800.pdf. It's
> pretty
> impressive.
>
> jkb
>
>