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[jdplat]

I am currently using a Mac to play warbirds and I am considering buying a used pc due to crumby framerates as well as the Mac soundbug.

I know very little about rating pc components. I was wondering if anyone could give me any advice about what kind of framerate I might expect with a system like this one:

3.0 ghz AMD processor

250 gts Nvidia 1gb graphics card

4gb ram

SLI motherboard

650 watt power supply

Current operating system is XP 32 bit, but I will get windows 7 for it if I decide to buy it. The man selling it is selling it for $400. I looked at it already, and everything was very clean. He says the the graphics card is new and everything else is very new.

Does anyone play with a similar configuration?

I wonder if this will allow me to use max settings and get above average framerates? How will this interact with the new game enigne.

The seller said he was getting somewhere around 200 framesrates with the game Flyboys. Is Flyboys 2006 the same game engine as the current Warbirds?

Thanks to anyone taking the time to reply to my questions.

jdplat

[panrd]

WBs and Flyboys are same engine. The CPU in that rig might be a little bit of a bottleneck for the VC, but shouldn't be a problem. You may have to go through a few driver versions with that card, some folks have had some problems with that. Up until 3 or so years ago I was running WBs on a 1.2 G AThlon, a 4600 Ti VC, with 384 mb RAM with very few problems(FPS from 50 to 100 depending on terrain). I'm confident that rig would still run WBs today.
Just an FYI wrt nVidia cards. If you suffer a bad drop in FPS you probably have a memory leak issue(nVidias seem prone to this, my exp.). The fix is to re-boot to be sure RAM is fully released.
Huge FPS numbers are for pi$$ing contests. There's really no benefit above 60 or so; your display will only render what ever its refresh frequency is.