Flight simulator x needs a game rating of 4.0 or 5.0, so what video card would I buy?

Hate to tell you but there is far more than just video performance in that required figure. The best video card made won't get you a 5.0 if you plug it into a low cost machine. Otherwise known as a TURD, boat anchor or doorstop.. and a 5.0 machine is no slouch. Nor very cheap to build.

For an FYI

Here is an FYI... its NOT a gaming rig. Its my main computer I just partially rebuilt salvaging parts of my old computer.

Asus Motherboard P5D I think it was
Q8300 Quad core cpu
8 gig DDR-2 Ram
120 gig OCZ Agility SSD boot drive SATA

Two - SATA 1- Terrabye data drives (Hitachi)

SATA Blue ray burner

ATI video 512 meg PCI-express video card... (was less than $100) forget exact model.

Running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit version



I got these scores...

Processor 7.2
Memory 7.2
Graphic 5.7
Gaming Graphics 5.7
Primary HD 7.3

And with these a base score of 5.7 for the windows experience