Quote Originally Posted by worldofneil View Post
Due to a RAID-1 rebuild hampering performance, I actually recently moved my FFXIV install from my mechanical 7200RPM drives to my SSD and was actually surprised because the game seems to take the same amount of time to load (although to be fair I didn't ever think it was slow before).

Before someone suggests, no my SSD isn't rubbish (120GB Corsair Force 3 GT) and my Windows install (which is also on it) boots up insanely fast. Having just watched the FFXIV process's disk activity for 10 minutes, it doesn't actually seem to use much disk activity at all, so unless you're finding the game unbearably slow for loading, I wouldn't bother spending your money on an SSD just for it. If you're going to spend money on an SSD do it right and reinstall Windows on it

You said about might add more memory, but didn't say how much you have. Possibly you don't have a lot and Windows is writing to the pagefile (virtual memory when the real memory runs out) which is causing you speed issues in which case adding more memory would fix that.
I have 4 gigs at the moment and was thinking of going to 8 possible

and slynk i figured the CPU was an issue it was an all in one package i bought at staples but i just bought this CPU expecting it in a few days Intel Core i5-3570 Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 2500 BX80637i53570