How does the GeForce GT 430 work for second life?

[Eric Castanea]

I have an Nnidia 8500gt now - it is a workwhile upgrade?

 

Thanks

[Cinnamon Lohner]

Thought that number sounded familiar.  I've got a GT 430 in my older XP system.  Didn't buy it for performance.  Got it because it has low power consumption and a small enough profile to fit into the available slot.  And the old card, which happened to be a 8500GT was dying!  The 430 has better specs than the 8500 but certainly is not a high end card.

It works good for me.  I use that system as a backup to my newer Win7 system.  If I'm doing some heavy graphics lifting on the Win7, I'll use the XP to stay in SL and offload processing.  It runs SL at High graphics in a single window without stress and will run two viewers set to Medium without a problem.  And just to complete the analysis, I'm only running the latest version of V3 (not beta).  I gave up chasing the TPV's because I'm lazy and got tired of managing multiple viewer cache issues.

--Cinn

[Eric Castanea]

Thank you! They are cheap enough that I can pull the trigger on one then.

Eric