Benchmark is telling us something...

[Ghastly]

Replacing a cpu isn't something a lot of us could do
And it's not just any part..it's the cpu that stormblood is really asking a lot of

[dragonseth07]

Replacing a cpu isn't something a lot of us could do
And it's not just any part..it's the cpu that stormblood is really asking a lot of

It's certainly a better investment than buying a whole PS4...

[Jetstream_Fox]

It's certainly a better investment than buying a whole PS4...

Not necessarily, if they're going to struggle running 4.0 there is a huge possibility that anything new is likely going to be pushing their system to the breaking point. Also if you have a laptop you can't really upgrade the cpu as easily as you could as desktop, and if you're going to throw a new cpu into your rig, a new i7 you'll still be sitting at roughly 300-400 for it. Could get a later gen ya, but that's not something I would do.

[ToasterMan]

Not necessarily, if they're going to struggle running 4.0 there is a huge possibility that anything new is likely going to be pushing their system to the breaking point. Also if you have a laptop you can't really upgrade the cpu as easily as you could as desktop, and if you're going to throw a new cpu into your rig, a new i7 you'll still be sitting at roughly 300-400 for it. Could get a later gen ya, but that's not something I would do.

Yeah I'm with this too. I know you're just talking about CPU's here but I think with everyone that found out they needed to upgrade wouldn't need just a new a new CPU. They would need a graphics card, in which a decent one would run you about 200-400 dollars. If the machines are REALLY old, then they might need to get a new motherboard, new ram, etc. I spent about 1500 dollars building the computer I have right now and that was a little under 3 years ago. If it got to that point, I'd personally recommend just getting a PS4 if you don't care playing the game with high end hardware.

[Jetstream_Fox]

Yeah I'm with this too. I know you're just talking about CPU's here but I think with everyone that found out they needed to upgrade wouldn't need just a new a new CPU. They would need a graphics card, in which a decent one would run you about 200-400 dollars. If the machines are REALLY old, then they might need to get a new motherboard, new ram, etc. I spent about 1500 dollars building the computer I have right now and that was a little under 3 years ago. If it got to that point, I'd personally recommend just getting a PS4 if you don't care playing the game with high end hardware.

I've spent around 1800 on my pc and don't even use it for 14, since the only thing I've really noticed is it helps load times, graphically the game is pretty standard across the board since they don't have any hi res packs for the game. I have a pspro and it runs 14 just as well, and I would say is likely the better choice to run the game on.

Honestly I don't really see the need to use high end graphics on my pc either, it's great for show, but I started out on Quake, running the game low on graphics, forcing everyone to be blue or green in my settings so they pop out in the arena, made the game great. I'll even do that in Battlefield, think hiding in that dark corner is giving you an advantage? Let me tinker with my settings and that corner isn't so dark anymore lol.

[seraf]

For the price of a PS4 you could buy a motherboard, new cpu and ram. If those aren't the parts that are struggling in your system you could just buy a GPU instead for the same price or less than the cost of a new PS4 system that will be powerful enough to play FFXIV.

PS4 = $299.99
PS4 Pro = $399.99

CPU - $189.99
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...82E16819113436

Motherboard - $59.99
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...82E16813132977

RAM - $59.99
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...82E16820232512

Total: $309.97

Chances are your current GPU and Power Supply are still adequate enough unless it's a GPU that barely ever reached the minimum system requirements for ARR/SB to begin with and if that's the case there are affordable GPU's out there that are more than capable of running SB in the $90-$130 range. Re-use your case, PSU, system fans, hard drives, dvd drive to conserve money in the budget. Although a new case would only be $20-$30 more.

[Nixxe]

Replacing a cpu isn't something a lot of us could do
And it's not just any part..it's the cpu that stormblood is really asking a lot of

A good CPU is cheaper than a PS4.

[seraf]

A good CPU is cheaper than a PS4.

Pretty much any decent quad-core CPU released in the past 3-4 years should be fine and the new AMD Ryzen CPU's are in the budget friendly range. It's mostly the people on really old AMD CPU's and old intel i3's that seem to be getting the short straw here.

[ToasterMan]

Pretty much any decent quad-core CPU released in the past 3-4 years should be fine and the new AMD Ryzen CPU's are in the budget friendly range. It's mostly the people on really old AMD CPU's and old intel i3's that seem to be getting the short straw here.

Seems right. When I did the bench mark I got around a little over 14000 and like I said my computer is a little under 3 years old. I wasn't running it at max settings though. It's just that when I upgrade something, I want to be sure that what I have can play any game that I would want to play. I'm always concerned about future proofing too. I don't want to have to go back frequently for upgrades because I find myself constantly getting left behind.

[Averax]

Replacing a cpu isn't something a lot of us could do
And it's not just any part..it's the cpu that stormblood is really asking a lot of

It's actually very simple to replace them once you know how. The hardest, most grueling part of dealing with a CPU is the thermal paste. It gets -e v e r y w h e r e-

I built my own computer from scratch after some research on what parts i needed and how they interacted with each other. (Because who wants to pay all that markup for crap parts?)

To replace a CPU, you need to first get a CPU compatible with your motherboard (if you don't intend to replace the motherboard as well, that is), then you need to remove the CPU cooler, then you just unstick the lever, lift it up, pop out the old one, slide in the new one, secure the lever again, apply thermal paste, and put cpu cooler back in after cleaning off all old thermal paste with high percentage rubbing alcohol (re-using old paste is like asking for an air bubble to overheat your CPU). Then you just close up the shop.

You could also probably pay a guy 20 bucks to do it if you are not comfortable doing it yourself.