FFXIV Only - Low Benchmark Score and Low FPS on decent settings. Puzzled.

[Bulwarkz]

So I've gathered a lot of informative knowledge from this thread and I'm putting everything in place. Nasomi you're suggesting with all of the hardware that I've listed, to scrap by modestly in FFXIV the GPU is the only absolute necessity? I may upgrade other things based upon all the advice, but the consensus seems to be the GPU being the biggest set back. Although I thought the dual core 3.2GHz CPU was nice ( since 3.2GHz sounds nice ), cpubenchmark really does have it's performance scored low for one reason or another.

[nasomi]

So I've gathered a lot of informative knowledge from this thread and I'm putting everything in place. Nasomi you're suggesting with all of the hardware that I've listed, to scrap by modestly in FFXIV the GPU is the only absolute necessity? I may upgrade other things based upon all the advice, but the consensus seems to be the GPU being the biggest set back. Although I thought the dual core 3.2GHz CPU was nice ( since 3.2GHz sounds nice ), cpubenchmark really does have it's performance scored low for one reason or another.

Necessity to upgrade the gpu? No. However if you are going to upgrade one, between the cpu and the gpu, the gpu will make a difference, where-as the cpu will not until you upgrade the gpu. So I would upgrade the gpu now, and maybe down hte line upgrade hte cpu if you want to push it further. To get playing on medium settings at a high resolution, you need to upgrade your gpu. To go farther than that to high settings, you'll need to upgrade your cpu as well, but don't just upgrade your cpu, it will not show you a perfomrance increase as you are configured.

[Hikozaemon]

So I've gathered a lot of informative knowledge from this thread and I'm putting everything in place. Nasomi you're suggesting with all of the hardware that I've listed, to scrap by modestly in FFXIV the GPU is the only absolute necessity? I may upgrade other things based upon all the advice, but the consensus seems to be the GPU being the biggest set back. Although I thought the dual core 3.2GHz CPU was nice ( since 3.2GHz sounds nice ), cpubenchmark really does have it's performance scored low for one reason or another.

all u need is a better graphics card period. though u most likely need a new power supply to support that graphics card.
you do not need better than a Dual core processor for this game its pointless.