Post your Rig and the settings you play on guys`

[Hikozaemon]

4gb RAM (gonna upgrade to 8gb soon)
Raedeon HD5450 1gb (gonna spend 140ish$ soon for a much better performing card)
AMD Athlon II x2 255 3.10ghz (it gets the job done lol)
Windows 7 ( i hate translucent screens....)
1TB HD
Runs ff14 just fine medium/high settings... lol 320$ new closeout sale from cyber power.com, could easily spend 200$ to get good high settings running but im a cheapass


on a side note the motherboard is a rather suck one only 2 RAM expansion slots and max 8GB RAM capacity but thats more than enough.

Now if my COMCASTcraptastic internet service wouldnt flop from 100MBsec to 1-5 on a weekly basis id be happy.

[Diraco]

The funny thing about this is look at you CPU usage when it happens.. I think it might be you CPU, or definitely the hard drive, I want to get a couple SSD and put em in raid but I just cant justify spending that much money while the price per gb is so high.

Well I mentioned the athlon XP because although it was about 3X slower than the e8400 CPU and GPU, it didn't have the problem. I'm still using that same hard drive too, however I reformatted & reinstalled XP on the new system.

If you want to experiment with an SSD, just get a single 16G one and put XIV on it

[MiNuN]

@Point_Zero Looks like were in the same boat, from our first-time building it to our rig. So, ignore what others say, because you did what you did for yourself, not others. But, I built it with the intentions of long-last and playing games on highest settings. FFXIV came out at a good time (Reason I did not play FFXI was because of crap P.C.).

I run everything on highest possible without occlusion . I run on windows mode (1680x1050) though, because I can not handle full-screen or else it will get laggy.

P.C. Case: Thermaltake Level 10 VL30001N1Z Black Aluminum ATX Super Full Tower Gaming Station Computer Case

Mother Board: GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD7 LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Processor: Intel BX80613i7980X Core i7 980X Extreme Edition Processor

Heatsink: Prolimatech Megahalems Rev.B CPU Cooler, 2 X Scythe GentleTyphoon D1225C12B5AP-15 120mm Case Fan

R.A.M.: Patriot Gamer Series 12GB (3 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model PGS312G1600ELK

Video Card: GIGABYTE Radeon HD 5970

Hard-Disk Drive/Solid-State Drive:OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G 2.5" 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive ,WesternDigital RE4 WD2003FYYS 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive

Other Drives: Lite-On IHAS424-98 Internal DVD Writer

Power Supply: Corsair AX1200 1200W

O.S.: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

Wireless Card: Sabrent 802.11n Wireless PCI Controller Card (Stay away from this brand, their products fail at what they do, I just ordered a new wireless card and it is on its way)

Sound Card: Asus Xonar Essence STX Virtual 7.1 Channels

Security Software: VIPRE Antivirus Premium 3 Years

Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver 5 (3.5 grams) High-Density Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound

Keyboard: Logitech G19 Gaming Keyboard

Mouse: Microsoft 3HA-00001 SideWinder X8 Mouse

Mouse surface: RAZER Megasoma Professional Gaming Mouse Mat & RAZER Destructor Professional Gaming Mat

Monitor: Dell SP2309W 23-inch Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor

Speakers: Logitech Z-5500 505 Watts 5.1 Speaker

Headset: Logitech G35 Gaming Headphone

Printer: Brother MFC-795cw Inkjet AiO Printer Wireless

[Diraco]

DOS was the bomb.. still is i think

<troll mode ON>
MS-DOS was such garbage -- it set the industry back 20 years! If only someone had offered a cheap UNIX for the PC waaay back then
Of course, the best would have been if the Amiga took over, heh heh...
<>

I sure hope they put the servers back up soon, I'm going insannnneeee!!

[Point_Zero]

Well, my computer is just my "run of the mill" computer until PS3 release and even then it will still be my "run of the mill" daily use computer. Once PS3 release I'll be on Console...

MB: MSI 870A FUZION AM3 AMD 770 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Thuban 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Six-Core Desktop Processor HDT90ZFBGRBOX (3904 MHz mildly OC)
Memory: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-4GBRL (x2 for 8196)
OS Version: Professional (Build 7600)
Graphics Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
Graphics Card: MSI R5870 Lightning II Radeon HD 5870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card (soon to be xFire with identical card)
Windows Graphics Driver Version: 8.17.0010.1052
OpenGL Version: 4.0.10317 Compatibility Profile Context
Power: CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX 750W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Compatible with Core i7 Power ...
SSD: OCZ Vertex Turbo OCZSSD2-1VTXT120G 2.5" 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
Monitor: SAMSUNG TOC T260HD Rose Black 25.5" 5ms HDMI Widescreen HDTV Monitor 16:10 (dual soon)

currently benchmark at 4385 for FFXIV...would be higher in xFire Hyper Flood on OC with single card, overheats

Currently Windows 7 rates me as a 7.3/7.9 on performance...good enough for me

Wow Mhati that is a really nice system! Thanks for posting, your hard drive gives you 7.3 on WEI? that's nuts! I really need to update my hard drive /cry I am only getting a 5.9 on my hard drive. How much did you pay for your SSD? is that a Vertex 2? or is Vertex turbo something completely different? I wish I went for the ripjaws too Way better value for what you get. I had been out of the computer seen for a while when I built mine, so I was kinda learning all over again. BTW thank you for the reply!

[Point_Zero]

Awesome deal ^^ Cyberpower makes good stuff I was told. Yeah I think you only need more ram if you doing video editing and stuff like that. For gaming 4 is more than enough atm I think. Thanks for the post Hiko ^^

We dont have Comcast here, but Bell is sticking it to me good atm with this P2P throttling. /cry

[Point_Zero]

@Point_Zero Looks like were in the same boat, from our first-time building it to our rig. So, ignore what others say, because you did what you did for yourself, not others. But, I built it with the intentions of long-last and playing games on highest settings. FFXIV came out at a good time (Reason I did not play FFXI was because of crap P.C.).

I run everything on highest possible without occlusion . I run on windows mode (takes up about 80% of my screen?) though, because I can not handle full-screen or else it will get laggy.

P.C. Case: Thermaltake Level 10 VL30001N1Z Black Aluminum ATX Super Full Tower Gaming Station Computer Case

Mother Board: GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD7 LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Processor: Intel BX80613i7980X Core i7 980X Extreme Edition Processor

Heatsink: Prolimatech Megahalems Rev.B CPU Cooler, 2 X Scythe GentleTyphoon D1225C12B5AP-15 120mm Case Fan

R.A.M.: Patriot Gamer Series 12GB (3 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model PGS312G1600ELK

Video Card: GIGABYTE Radeon HD 5970

Hard-Disk Drive/Solid-State Drive:OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G 2.5" 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive ,WesternDigital RE4 WD2003FYYS 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive

Other Drives: Lite-On IHAS424-98 Internal DVD Writer

Power Supply: Corsair AX1200 1200W

O.S.: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

Wireless Card: Sabrent 802.11n Wireless PCI Controller Card (Stay away from this brand, their products fail at what they do, I just ordered a new wireless card and it is on its way)

Sound Card: Asus Xonar Essence STX Virtual 7.1 Channels

Security Software: VIPRE Antivirus Premium 3 Years

Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver 5 (3.5 grams) High-Density Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound

Keyboard: Logitech G19 Gaming Keyboard

Mouse: Microsoft 3HA-00001 SideWinder X8 Mouse

Mouse surface: RAZER Megasoma Professional Gaming Mouse Mat & RAZER Destructor Professional Gaming Mat

Monitor: Dell SP2309W 23-inch Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor

Speakers: Logitech Z-5500 505 Watts 5.1 Speaker

Headset: Logitech G35 Gaming Headphone

Printer: Brother MFC-795cw Inkjet AiO Printer Wireless

Hot Damn! Now this is a system! Puts mine to shame :P well not really, they both good in their own way. Yeah but yours is super dooper pew pew! Nice stuff man thanks for posting! Have you done benchmark? Do you find that your card runs really really hot in this game or your fan more than enough to take care of it? Do you have any other cooling methods for the video card? Oh and the AX1200 is just <3 I love it !!!

[myoozek]

I have:

Computing Engine: AMD Phenom X2 3.2GHZ CPU
RAM: 4GB DDR2
Storage: 5400RPM HDD
Video Engine: EVGA GTX460 768MB GPU
Play Resolution: 1680

Don't remember what I get on benchmark; I think it was just shy of 4000. I've opted to disable most graphical pleasantries like OO, AA and, etc. Fairly default settings (medium) with textures turned up a slight notch. I typically get about 30fps, as low as 22 in UlDah. Cut-scenes and story mode gameplay is real bad. So much so that I've opted to not do any until I upgrade.

Does anyone know if my CPU or RAM will bottleneck future GPU upgrades?
Does it make sense to secure a solid CPU (i7) and then upgrade GPU?

I kind of know the answers to these questions, but I'm curious as to anyone else's rational behind their reasoning.

(Narrow the scope of the following questions to FFXIV ONLY - if you can)
Why is CPU important?
Why is GPU important?
Why is RAM important?
Why is HDD important?

I think answering these questions can direct people's buying methods more effeciently than "Get this graphics card" or "Get this CPU", etc.

Thoughts?

[MiNuN]

Awesome deal ^^ Cyberpower makes good stuff I was told. Yeah I think you only need more ram if you doing video editing and stuff like that. For gaming 4 is more than enough atm I think. Thanks for the post Hiko ^^

We dont have Comcast here, but Bell is sticking it to me good atm with this P2P throttling. /cry

correct, my maximum usage for ram is only 3 point something

@ Point_Zero, There were days where I was curious about how hot my v.card gets when running FFXIV, so multiple times I touched the fins and I was surprised to know that it actually works my video card (its usually cold), it was slightly hotter than what we consider warm but not to the point it burns, FFXIV is definitely a beast to run. I was thinking about those higher-end cooling technology, like liquid-cooling but I decided that it takes up too much space and makes too much noise = hassle.

and thank you for your compliment, it does feel good to get a compliment after all the effort we put in to our rig.

[Point_Zero]

I was under the influence the 460 would be able to do better than that no? Im not too familiar with that CPU and RAM, but I am assuming there is a major bottleneck somewhere for that to happen. My question is on the benchmark were your low and hi res scored the same or close to? I really like your question it involves a lot of thought for me atm its 2am. I am going to head to bed and reply to it on the morn! Check back please I promise I will reply.