Who's upgrading their system for the ARR (Beta or Release) (Specs?)

Not upgrading, I'll probably upgrade next once the consoles get established and PC high end benchmarks move as a result.

CPU: Intel Core i7-3770K OC'd to 4.5 GHz
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus
GPU: MSI GTX 680 2GB
Mobo: ASUS P8Z77-V
RAM: Corsair XMS3 8GB DDR3
SSD: Samsung 830 128GB + Samsung 470 128GB
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 320 GB
PSU: Corsair TX750 V2 750W
Case: Thermaltake Armor+ MX

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Originally Posted by Platinumstorm

Not upgrading, I'll probably upgrade next once the consoles get established and PC high end benchmarks move as a result.

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No idea how one would think one thing is supposed to affect the other at this point.

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Originally Posted by AdorraEloom

Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
I7 960 ~ 3.2Ghz (8 CPU's)
12G Ram (top of line cant remember name)
128G SSD (500G HDD raptor 10, 000 rpm for storage)
GTX 480 SC

My PC Should be ok for ARR, only thing I'm considering is upgrading my video card to the GTX 680.

Question I have is, would it be really noticeable in general upgrading from 480GTX to the 680GTX? I feel that the GTX 480 SC is still a pretty good card, I Have no problem playing any games on max on my PC still.

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680 Specs to be concerned with are above the 480's -- in short - Hell yes

Core Clock

1006MHz

700MHz



Boost Clock

1058MHz





CUDA Cores

1536

480



Effective Memory Clock

6008MHz

3696MHz



Memory Size

2GB

1536MB



Memory Interface

256-bit

384-bit

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Originally Posted by AdorraEloom

Question I have is, would it be really noticeable in general upgrading from 480GTX to the 680GTX? I feel that the GTX 480 SC is still a pretty good card, I Have no problem playing any games on max on my PC still.

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YES.

Not only would it blow the 480 out of the water performance-wise, but it would be MUCH more quiet, and less power hungry. The 480 is a monster of a card.

I might update my video card, but I'm not too concerned about it at the moment. Anyway, this is what I am running:

ANTEC LanBoy Air case with 6x 120mm fans
ASUS Crosshair V Formula - Thunderbolt mobo
AMD FX8150 8-core CPU (Bulldozer architecture)
-Overclocked to 4.3gHz
Corsair H80i liquid CPU cooler
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 RAM x16GB
HIS IceQ X Turbo Radeon HD6950 2GB DDR5
-GPU overclocked to 900mHz
-Memory overclocked to 1.325gHz
Corsair TX850W PSU
Corsair Force3 SSD (OS & installations)
4 mechanical 7200RPM HDDs totaling 6TB (storage)
Logitech G510 Gaming Keyboard

Well i havent bought my whole new system yet but i purchased a 3960x 2011 intel sandy bridge, and a rampage iV extreme mobo. Im pretty much gonna spend every penny i own and water cool every part of my new PC. Hopefully I'll be all ready by the time the game is actuall released. Up next im gonna buy two 4MB GTX 680's. Wish me luck everyone =)

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Originally Posted by SweDDishB

Well i havent bought my whole new system yet but i purchased a 3960x 2011 intel sandy bridge, and a rampage iV extreme mobo. Im pretty much gonna spend every penny i own and water cool every part of my new PC. Hopefully I'll be all ready by the time the game is actuall released. Up next im gonna buy two 4MB GTX 680's. Wish me luck everyone =)

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I'd avoid watercooling EVERYTHING. GPU/CPU sure. Chipset, maybe, depends how hot it gets. But RAM/HDD is pretty much for show only.

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Originally Posted by SinisterJoint

680 Specs to be concerned with are above the 480's -- in short - Hell yes

Core Clock

1006MHz

700MHz



Boost Clock

1058MHz





CUDA Cores

1536

480



Effective Memory Clock

6008MHz

3696MHz



Memory Size

2GB

1536MB



Memory Interface

256-bit

384-bit

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thanks for the feed back, my next question is there's like 10 versions of the 680, here are some links. Which do you think would be best bang for the buck.

http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX40688

http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX40697

http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX38610

Also evga or azus brand. So many choices!

Also my mother board is the P6X58D-E which only supports PCI-E 2.0 X 16, all the 680's support PCI-E 3.0, that being said I would be losing performance on the 680 card running it on a 2.0 board. I guess my question is would the losses be so small that it would still be worth it? or would it basically be a loss to the point where the 680 running on a 2.0 board be large enough that the 480 would be close in performance on the 2.0 board.

Added a second Video Card since 1.0 ended..

AMD Phenom II 965BE 3.4GHz
8GB RAM
Pissweak HDD (next upgrade)
HD5850 x2

Used to have these specs for beginning of playing XIV in July 2011.

I7 920 CPU
Asus P6T Deluxe II Motherboard
6 GB Ram
Asus 6950 Radeon
2 x 1TB Seagates Spindisks

At the end of 1.0 and currently:

Intel i7 3930K 3.4ghz
Asus P9X79 PRO Motherboard
Corsair H100 h2o cpu cooler
16 GB RAM, Corsair XMS3 2000mhz
Intel SSD 180GB + 2 x 1TB Seagates
Gigabyte GTX 690
Monitor: Dell Ultrasharp U3011
Keyboard: Logitech G105
Mouse: Logitech G600 MMO mouse
Controller: Snakebyte FFXIV controller. http://www.amazon.com/Snakebyte-Fina.../dp/B0046ZQ022
BEST controller I have ever used :D And I bought 3 of them for 6 £ each XDDD

So I am ready for ARR ;D