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Greetings Peeps...

A little help, please. I have an older Dell workstation that still runs strong because it was overkill when new (dual 6-core Xeon CPU's, 64GB RAM, SSD's, etc.). I want to prep it for the new MS Flight Simulator being released later this year. The video card I currently have will be the biggest bottleneck to max gaming performance because it is strictly for OpenGL/CAD, not gaming. I know I'll need to replace it, but I haven't kept up-to-date on video card slots/types and compatibility. What gaming cards, ideally NVidia (not a big AMD fan...) would you recommend that would fit the workstation and provide solid gaming performance? I'd like a minimum of 4GB RAM on the card, and, ideally 6GB. Options?

Workstation: Dell Precision T7600
Current Card: NVidia Quadro 4000, 2GB, PCI-e x16

If you just want 1080p/60Hz and single monitor then a 1660 super or ti will be fine. Unless you really need it right now you could wait until closer to the release date. Nvidia have new cards coming out at the end of the year which might shuffle prices a bit.

Zozobra wrote:If you just want 1080p/60Hz and single monitor then a 1660 super or ti will be fine. Unless you really need it right now you could wait until closer to the release date. Nvidia have new cards coming out at the end of the year which might shuffle prices a bit.

I want to buy sooner rather than later. Later this year I might go all in on a new desktop.

I'm currently running dual 22" monitors @1920 x 1080, so I'm looking for something that will give solid performance while driving that setup...

Yeah what zozobra said. One level cheaper from that is the gtx 1060, still decent, one level ip from the 1660 ti is the RTX 2060. I have the RTX 2070, costs more but its been flawless.

Will you be gaming on just the one monitor or rendering to both?

Zozobra wrote:Will you be gaming on just the one monitor or rendering to both?

Both...