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.