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Aha! That's a definite answer! Thanks all!

Ah. I had not considered that possibility. Seems most likely. I've contacted the on management anyway as it's possibly someone who is still in the sim. Thanks for clearing this up for me. I didn't know where else to report it apart from the official forums.

Didn't know where else to report this, so came here. After logging in, less than 5 minutes ago, I got an official notification that can be seen in the attached image. A new scam? If so, do LL know about this? I should probably also mention that I'm using the Firestorm viewer. Don't know if it could be a viewer specific thing.

Thanks for this really helpful reply. Really cleared some stuff up. I'm definitely going for a 560 Ti. 2-4 years sounds perfect to me. As well as the better OpenGL support in Nvidia cards.

Thank you. I think that's easy enough for me to understand. I definitely think I will be going with the 560 Ti. I can't see how far LL could push SL in the next 3 years. TOUCH WOOD. Thanks for all your help! :-)

What do you mean "won't run on a 680"? So, just to sum up in very basic terms, will the 560 Ti last me in full SL settings with shadows and lighting on for at least 3 years?

Okay, so it's down to how Second Life progresses. I also see evidence of that with my, horribly old, 8600GT. It ran Second Life on Ultra settings 2 years ago with no issues. After some research, I have now figured that I can afford the 560 Ti. But, would this last me only 2 years roughly still? I could see myself upgrading again in 3 years - maybe. But 2 years would be too soon. I too added a 600w power supply to this system. So, it's future proof in that sense at least. The 680 is nearly £400 here in the UK. I'm certainly not in a position to pay that.

Explain what you mean by "for a while"? I think I could afford a GTX 560, but I think the Ti version is just a bit out of reach. What's the difference?

The 6100 is a 6 core, right? I got the 4 core cause I knew I would have no need for 6 cores. I think HD cards just refer to viewing things in HD. So that would apply to gaming too. I was going to go for a Nvidia 560, but now you've just reminded me that it's probably going to be useful to go with an ATI card. Need help!!!! Out of interest, do you use the lighting and shadows settings smoothly with your card and still achieve 75FPS?

Well this is the issue I'm having. I understand that AMD CPUs work better with ATI graphics. But I know more of Nvidia than I do ATI. ATI just has lots of confusing numbers. So would love some advice from a ATI expert as to which card to go for. ^^

I've recently put together a computer that I'm hoping will allow me to use Second Life at its current ultra settings with the, fairly new, lighting and shadows/depth of field settings enabled. I want to use these and still have a very reasonable frame rate. The last part of my new computer I need to choose is the graphics card. So I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice on what graphics card will allow me to achieve this. I don't want to spend more than £150. My computer specs are as follows: Mainboard : Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 Chipset : AMD 780 Processor : AMD FX 4100 @ 3.6GHz Physical Memory : 16384MB (4 x 4096 DDR3-SDRAM ) Hard Disk : Western Digital WD2000JD-55HBB0 ATA Device (200GB) Operating System : Windows 7 Ultimate Professional Media Center 6.01.7601 Service Pack 1 (64-bit) DirectX : Version 11.00