Wheres my inv SE!

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Originally Posted by Spy

I doubt they care how much money you spent on the game, or how long you've been with the game (I spent $800 on a pc...which is a lot of money for me and my family, as well as bought the CE and started from the beginning) it's just alpha anyway. I, myself would like to help test, but if I dont make it in, I'll just find other things to do while my future life-drainer is being perfected.

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Well said, Mini.

I, for one, have currently replaced my old life drainer with a new one: Rogue Galaxy. And boy, this is one serious life vampire. Heh, I love this game. :D

$7k on a PC you could of built a super PC now your stuck with a thow away laptop, man they saw you coming a mile away.

you should of spent less then half of that for a desktop. with a laptop you run the risk of having a meltdown with all that heat, the bus is weaker then a desktop so your not getting your money out of the pc's guts.

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Originally Posted by Bam

I spent over 7 thousand dollars in pc equipment just for ffxiv this past years waiting for this game to get fixed and I get no inv /wrist sad panda :(

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I have to ask what kinda of PC or what hardware for that much money you can buy a Alienware Laptop and desktop that would make Nasa pround for 7k.......><

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Originally Posted by Riv

Only a fool would spend that much on a PC.

You must have fallen for Aliencrap's advertising aimed for idiots. I swear they are as bad as Apple.

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Nobody is as Bad or gets away with more the Apple!

You spent all that money on a computer which will likely run the game completely fine, why the need to test? When people have 50buck laptops that need testing!

Well I'm still butthurt about not being selected, TBQH.

And spending 6k on a pc is stupid.

8000USD sounds pretty insane. For much less approx 6700USD, I could get a PC with these specs from komplett.no

Corsair Obsidian 800D Big Tower Sort
Corsair AX 1200W PSU
Intel® Core i7-3970X Extreme
Corsair H100 Hydro Series CPU Kjøler
ASUS P9X79 LE, Socket-2011, KUN PC-PROD
Kingston DDR3 HyperX 1600MHz 16GB
Kingston DDR3 HyperX 1600MHz 16GB
ASUS GeForce GTX 690 4GB PhysX CUDA x 2 SLi
Plextor Blu-Ray Writer PX-B950SA
Crucial m4 SSD 2.5" 512GB
Seagate Barracuda® 2TB
Logitech Gaming Keyboard G105
Logitech G600 MMO Gaming Mouse Black
Microsoft Windows 8 PRO 64bit

So I am really interested in the spec of the PCs the people who said they spend over 7000 ;)

What the hell are your specs Bam, lol

Why buy the most powerful rig possible though for 7k, when it'll only cost you 1-2k in 6 months? Seriously, by a rule i'd say always buy the 2nd most powerful rig or less. The price hike from 2nd to 1st is ridiculously greater than that of any other tier and stuff only stays best in technology for a very short time.

Only 3?

We have 4 desktop rigs that can play the game perfectly well, one laptop that can play 1.0 at max settings, and a laptop that can play at low settings so I could take it to school during breaks ~ a tri-monitor set up for one of them, and one of them hooked up to a 42" HDTV...and we didn't pay anywhere near $7k rofl

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Originally Posted by Altera

8000USD sounds pretty insane. For much less approx 6700USD, I could get a PC with these specs from komplett.no

Corsair Obsidian 800D Big Tower Sort
Corsair AX 1200W PSU
Intel® Core i7-3970X Extreme
Corsair H100 Hydro Series CPU Kjøler
ASUS P9X79 LE, Socket-2011, KUN PC-PROD
Kingston DDR3 HyperX 1600MHz 16GB
Kingston DDR3 HyperX 1600MHz 16GB
ASUS GeForce GTX 690 4GB PhysX CUDA x 2 SLi
Plextor Blu-Ray Writer PX-B950SA
Crucial m4 SSD 2.5" 512GB
Seagate Barracuda® 2TB
Logitech Gaming Keyboard G105
Logitech G600 MMO Gaming Mouse Black
Microsoft Windows 8 PRO 64bit

So I am really interested in the spec of the PCs the people who said they spend over 7000 ;)

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That to me is completely overkill. Like by the time you could tap into that your mobo and ram would be obsolete. Right?

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Originally Posted by Neptune

That to me is completely overkill. Like by the time you could tap into that your mobo and ram would be obsolete. Right?

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Yeah, which is why I never get the absolute highest components.
My Specs atm is:

i7 3930K 3,2-3,4ghz, Not overclocked
Asus P9X79 Pro motherboard
Corsair H100 CPU cooler
Corsair XMS3 16GB Ram 2000mhz
Corsair 750w PSU
Asus Radeon HD7970 1000mhz single card. I dont find crossfire worth the price as 2nd card isnt used 100%
Intel SSD 180GB
2 x 1GB Seagate Barracudas
Dell Ultrasharp U3011

Total price around 3000$. Most I have ever spent on a PC upgrade

And this PC should be useable for many years. And if it cant run ARR on maximum, then there as to be a problem client side and not the hardware XD

I think the more interesting topic here is you spending 7k on a pc. What do you do on it?

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Originally Posted by Bam

I spent over 7 thousand dollars in pc equipment just for ffxiv this past years waiting for this game to get fixed and I get no inv /wrist sad panda :(

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wow i spent $1.5k and ran 14 no problem . . .

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Originally Posted by Bam

I spent over 7 thousand dollars in pc equipment just for ffxiv this past years waiting for this game to get fixed and I get no inv /wrist sad panda :(

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Seriously...?

I bought a better video card for $300 and thought I was spending a little too much just for one game. I'm jealous of those with such massive amounts of disposable income~

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Originally Posted by EinSoFZ

I bought a better video card for $300 and thought I was spending a little too much just for one game. I'm jealous of those with such massive amounts of disposable income~

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With some parts ready (scrap from your old machine and replace the junk (stuff like PSU, Case, CPU/GPU, HDD, SSD)) you can get a very happy system ~500. Much more then 1500 and your computer better be doing the dishes for you or you are working in the graphics industry and want shit rendered asap.

(Non scrapping prices):
Can successfully hit very high / maxed on most (if not all) games successfully with ~1000 - 1500 with a whole new tower purchase (usually keyboard/mouse included but still probably wouldn't get a monitor)

I just built and overkill PC for 1500. If you get ANYTHING from alienware youre a sucker who likes flashy lights and alien heads. They literally use the same exact parts you can buy individually(minus the flashy eyesore of a case). For those asking why buy a 7k rig.. its not for playing games its for making them. If you bought it for playing games then you wasted your money. With a 7-8k$ rig you can do some hardcore 3d rendering and make some nice indie titles or mods if you like. No its not needed but thats why ppl buy rigs like that. (aside from epeen measuring anyway)

Hehehehehe :)

I think he did say that was the total cost he paid for three different systems total, not one. Still pretty pricey, but just thought I'd offer the clarification.

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Originally Posted by Bam

I spent over 7 thousand dollars in pc equipment just for ffxiv this past years waiting for this game to get fixed and I get no inv /wrist sad panda :(

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I know I already posted this, but...


http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...doubledare.jpg

If it ain't samuel L jackson IT AINT MEME.

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Originally Posted by Bam

I spent over 7 thousand dollars in pc equipment(

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Buy a plane ticket to Japan and ask Yoshida for an invite in person. It's only around $900.

Can't speak Japanese? Hire a private interpreter for ~$200 for the first hour and ~$50 for each additional hour.

As long as you're down there for a week, you can stay at the lovely Shibuya Granbell Hotel for six nights at ~$1500 in a premier double. (What kind of plebeian settles for a single?)

Of course, you should treat our favorite producer and director to a coffee while you solicit alpha access. I don't know anything about coffee shops and cafes in Tokyo, so play it safe and go to a Starbucks. $10 for both of you (add 5 for the interpreter).

Putting aside another $500 for food, local travel, tipping, impulse purchases and other expenditures, you're looking at $3110 alpha price tag.

In order to get the most out of the alpha, you could buy a 60" Samsung LED Smart HDTV and a self-built PC that can run Crysis on max settings at 1900x1200--no, I'm not going computer shopping for you.

Oh look. That's just over $7000. Well, what do you know.

I think i spent about 1300 myself, minus OS sense I already had it from a previous build. I say if you got money to just burn up mid-as-well do crazy stuff like this. Also don't forget to pickup some legendary gear/weapons off diablo III while your at it.

Oh also I don't know if you care, but you can easily discern your license plate from the reflection in the picture.

I thought this thread was about inventory.

Where's your inv...entory?

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Originally Posted by Punainen

Where's your inv...entory?

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Its in my backpack with my other stuff like bacon and cheese... I like the fact he put money as a reason to get one maybe he should have payed a black market guy in SE to get a stress test invite lol

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Originally Posted by ispano

If he spent 7k on that, he wasted money more than likely. My system was around 8k, but it wasn't built for gaming, although it works well at it. Almost half of that is the 2 CPUs.

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Yeah, I came here first thinking people were wondering how he spent 7k on a computer, and I was going to post that it is easy to do so. But if he bought an alienware? Wow, he could have saved a ton just doing it himself.

Two Xeons run 4k, it is easy to hit the 8k+ mark with a couple of those.

I can build a system worth 12 grand, so it is very easy to hit the mark, and I don't mind that he spent the money on the computer. He has the money, do what you want with it, but don't buy Alienware, geez, it is an embarrassment.

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Originally Posted by Bam

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e5...hebeast001.jpg this 1 of the 3 machines I got for ffxiv lol

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Hey I'm fine that you got what you wanted, and that you are happy with it. But I will say, please put some money into getting a monitor stand, it really does improve the experience. Also, a little bit too much red.

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Originally Posted by Daku_Naito

I can build a system worth 12 grand, so it is very easy to hit the mark, and I don't mind that he spent the money on the computer. He has the money, do what you want with it, but don't buy Alienware, geez, it is an embarrassment.

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I'm sure some people think alienware is somehow better than other computers lol. But they're really just paying that much for the case. I would be embarassed to have one too! I'll never buy a pre-built desktop ever again! Considering all the money I would save I said screw it and just attempted to put it together myself and it was easier than I thought. If you can read directions carefully and use a screwdriver you can do it. Don't be scared people. Save that money.

The manual that came with the motherboard tells you everything and I also used the newegg tutorial videos for help. Easy peasy.

I think my desktop upgrade that I did recently cost me under $300 ~_~;, took a few months to gather the parts but I hawked newegg constantly and waited for sales :x

New motherboard (old one had a wonky connection that caused BSODs...yay!)
New RAM - only 8GB but that's all I really need, and there's room to add more down the line.
Graphics card on discount - Radeon HD5770, was like $100 with sale + mail-in rebate (yay for sales!)
Windows 7 64bit OEM ver.... took me a long time before I willingly upgraded from xp ; ;

Spending $7k is an absolute waste, you can build a sweet unit for much much less.

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Originally Posted by Nix

I think my desktop upgrade that I did recently cost me under $300 ~_~;, took a few months to gather the parts but I hawked newegg constantly and waited for sales :x

New motherboard (old one had a wonky connection that caused BSODs...yay!)
New RAM - only 8GB but that's all I really need, and there's room to add more down the line.
Graphics card on discount - Radeon HD5770, was like $100 with sale + mail-in rebate (yay for sales!)
Windows 7 64bit OEM ver.... took me a long time before I willingly upgraded from xp ; ;

Spending $7k is an absolute waste, you can build a sweet unit for much much less.

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Windows 7 is pretty good imo. I think someone (Wynn?) said that he spent 7K across 3 different computers (so 3 badass computers ~2K).

I absolutely abhorred win7 when I upgraded but I was with xp for so many years and loved it to bits haha. After a while though I've really come to enjoy Win7, it's a lovely OS, still a little buggy but I have tamed it!
I wish so much that I could allow myself to spend thousands on a computer but I don't like to waste money on something that would soon be classed as obsolete D: >< . I just wait patiently for sales before I buy anything ; ; lol

I would have liked to stay on xp forever. :3

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Originally Posted by IloveYouPumpkin

I would have liked to stay on xp forever. :3

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Me too Q_Q, I still have the install disk... I don't have the heart to throw it away ; ; lol

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Originally Posted by Nix

I think my desktop upgrade that I did recently cost me under $300 ~_~;, took a few months to gather the parts but I hawked newegg constantly and waited for sales :x

New motherboard (old one had a wonky connection that caused BSODs...yay!)
New RAM - only 8GB but that's all I really need, and there's room to add more down the line.
Graphics card on discount - Radeon HD5770, was like $100 with sale + mail-in rebate (yay for sales!)
Windows 7 64bit OEM ver.... took me a long time before I willingly upgraded from xp ; ;

Spending $7k is an absolute waste, you can build a sweet unit for much much less.

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It depends on what you are doing. My setup is currently around 2500 bucks, and I am doing a huge mod to it that will add a few hundred in tools and sleeving. The point I was making is that it is easy to shell out huge bucks. As you spend more and more the price per performance goes down, but you still get it. You can get two Xeons for 4 grand and a 600 dollar motherboard and a 600 dollar case easy. Then go for very high end ram and get 128 gb and end of spending 2 grand just on ram. Not to even mention the grand spend on 1 tb of SSD storage or the 2 grand spend on a quadro card/2 gtx 690s. Then you have all the cooling to worry about.

I am fine with my system though. It didn't start out being so expensive but as you add monitors, an extra graphics card and a stand it does go up there. I am fixing to have a lot of fun actually creating my own cables for the system to look just perfect.

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Originally Posted by Daku_Naito

It depends on what you are doing. My setup is currently around 2500 bucks, and I am doing a huge mod to it that will add a few hundred in tools and sleeving. The point I was making is that it is easy to shell out huge bucks. As you spend more and more the price per performance goes down, but you still get it. You can get two Xeons for 4 grand and a 600 dollar motherboard and a 600 dollar case easy. Then go for very high end ram and get 128 gb and end of spending 2 grand just on ram. Not to even mention the grand spend on 1 tb of SSD storage or the 2 grand spend on a quadro card/2 gtx 690s. Then you have all the cooling to worry about.

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I am aware of this haha, me and my other half build PCs as a hobby and for friends^^;. You *can* spend crazy amounts of money, it's not hard... but it is often a waste to do so as average joe won't use the computer to its full potential.

my current setup was around $1500 retail for the parts. That being said I don't pay retail, so built it for around $960. For what I need out of a gaming PC it does the job very well and then some. Especially when I get bored and start running multiple games at the same time. XD

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Originally Posted by Nix

I absolutely abhorred win7 when I upgraded but I was with xp for so many years and loved it to bits haha. After a while though I've really come to enjoy Win7, it's a lovely OS, still a little buggy but I have tamed it!

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So much more secure than WinXP.

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Originally Posted by Faiyez

So much more secure than WinXP.

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I think so too^^.
I had just grown very used to XP over the years and didn't want to change, but I'm glad I did eventually^^

Have a great day!