Post your Rig and the settings you play on guys`

[Goldfighter]

Well depends which maker you like? Do you have any preference. I compelled to suggest Gigabyte, they seem to be making really solid boards as of late. Do you have a price range?

Whatevers dependable and isn't going to eat my wallet. lol

[Shikyo]

Get a cooler and OC that chip of yours.. its had an easy life for too long :P

IDK how can you point me in the direction i need to learn how i dont want to overboard just kick it up a lil with ocing, i've searched the web and cant find definitive info on how to oc my core 2 quad ; ; my mother board is a biostar G41D3 if i can get it to maybe 3.5ish ghz i'd be happy 8gb is the max ram for my mother board and i'm fine with that willing to upgrade the grafix card but this one works great a lil wet behind the ears with pc's

[Point_Zero]

There are really good sites on the internet that have all the information that you need. Here are a couple of them ^^

www.overclockers.com
and
www.overclock.net

All the info you need should be on both of those sites. Just make sure you do all the research first and know how to monitor your OC for heat and stability and such.

[Vix]

Power Button

Yes. This.

[Vix]

After a LOT of experimentation I finally have the chosen settings:
Max background draw detail.
Standard Character Detail
Lowest shadows(off in game)
Max texture settings.
8x AA

Just dropping my character detail to standard(8) boosted my fps from 45 around people in town, to 60 almost everywhere I go. Oddly the AA settings made my machine run smoother the higher they went till I hit the sweet spot of 8x. With the new SLI code I got, I found that 4x AA would drop my FPS to about 11 average. Weird, but whatever.
These settings on my rig let me run everywhere I go at 60fps pretty much constantly, with small dips in the 40's once in a while...but that only last a couple seconds at the most before it bumps back up to capped 60. Its really nice! I can now hold off on a new video card for an indefinite time w/out much fret.

Just to recap for folks who didn't catch my rig specs:
MSI P67A Mobo
i7 2600k (overclocked to 4.8 didn't do any improvement...so I run stock and the usage is still only around %30)
SLI EVGA GTX460 SE (These are the current bottleneck, GPU usage is around 97% on both cards)
8gigs Gskill Ripjaw DDR3 1600
Corsair H70 Liquid Cooling
Corsair 750w PSU

The machine runs around 43c-47c under gaming conditions on a rig thats on 24/7. 31c-34c Idle.
Eventually I will get a new Video card, but Im gonna wait at least a year...if not 2 before something comes out that will justify this new CPU, because right now, I'm barely putting it to work. These are really powerful chips that are way ahead of any GPU's on the market.


Edit: @1080p

[Malakhim]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a bunch of fuss over different internet boards about FFXIV not really doing SLI all that well?

Also Vix, is there any particular difference between the standard GTX 460 and GTX 460 SE in terms of improved performance?

[jstadragon]

Hey guys. My PC is a budget one and although it runs the game well, I was wondering what component(s) I could upgrade to get a smoother experience in the game.

CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX 750W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLU
AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition Callisto 3.1GHz Socket AM3 80W Dual-Core Processor
GIGABYTE GA-MA770-UD3 AM2+/AM2 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard
SAPPHIRE 100259-1GL Radeon HD 4870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card
OCZ Reaper HPC Edition 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5"

[Malakhim]

Hey guys. My PC is a budget one and although it runs the game well, I was wondering what component(s) I could upgrade to get a smoother experience in the game.

CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX 750W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLU
AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition Callisto 3.1GHz Socket AM3 80W Dual-Core Processor
GIGABYTE GA-MA770-UD3 AM2+/AM2 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard
SAPPHIRE 100259-1GL Radeon HD 4870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card
OCZ Reaper HPC Edition 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5"

Dude you're pretty much set with that set up. There are people who were doing just fine with a 4850 512 mb.

If you want a better experience, I'd say grab another 4870 and crossfire it if you can.

[AlexiaKidd]

I don't really know alot about PC's so someone is building me the following, they said it should run the game fine but seems you guys here know what your talking about so I'll post this here so you can see what I am getting, is it good enough to run FFXIV in high settings?

CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition 3.2GHz £60.10
CPU Cooler: Coolermaster Hyper TX3 £19.99
Operating System: No Operating System - I will £-69.00
install my own
Motherboard: Asus M4A87TD USB3 Included
Memory: 8.0GB Corsair DDR3 1600mhz XMS3 CL9 (4x £29.10
2GB)
Hard Drives: Corsair 60GB Force SSD £61.00
Second hard drive: 2TB S-ATAII 3.0Gb/s £66.99
Optical Drive: 22x DVD±RW DL S-ATA Lightscribe £5.80
Graphics card: NEW! ATI Radeon HD 6950 2GB £133.70
Sound card: Onboard 7.1 Audio Included
Case: Zalman Z9 Plus £20.50
PSU: 650W Corsair TX Ultra-Quiet £42.20
Warranty: 3 Year Bronze Warranty Included

Oh and he said something about the graphics card being upgradeable to one that is worth £100 more just with a simple firmware upgrade or something that he is also doing to make it better than it actually is, as they one above it is exactly the same just with some features locked out but it can be unlocked through software or something.

EDIT - Will this system be able to be overclocked or should I just leave it alone?

[Malakhim]

I don't really know alot about PC's so someone is building me the following, they said it should run the game fine but seems you guys here know what your talking about so I'll post this here so you can see what I am getting, is it good enough to run FFXI in high settings?

CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition £60.10
CPU Cooler: Coolermaster Hyper TX3 £19.99
Operating System: No Operating System - I will £-69.00
install my own
Motherboard: Asus M4A87TD USB3 Included
Memory: 8.0GB Corsair DDR3 1600mhz XMS3 CL9 (4x £29.10
2GB)
Hard Drives: Corsair 60GB Force SSD £61.00
Second hard drive: 2TB S-ATAII 3.0Gb/s £66.99
Optical Drive: 22x DVD±RW DL S-ATA Lightscribe £5.80
Graphics card: NEW! ATI Radeon HD 6950 2GB £133.70
Sound card: Onboard 7.1 Audio Included
Case: Zalman Z9 Plus £20.50
PSU: 650W Corsair TX Ultra-Quiet £42.20
Warranty: 3 Year Bronze Warranty Included

Oh and he said something about the graphics card being upgradeable to one that is worth £100 more just with a simple firmware upgrade or something that he is also doing to make it better than it actually is, as they one above it is exactly the same just with some features locked out but it can be unlocked through software or something.

I think you'll be able to get pretty close to max on FFXI with that set up. FFXI is pretty "high end" though.







...No seriously, that should destroy FFXIV.