Post your Rig and the settings you play on guys`

[Cascade]

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?

your running about the same that i am. and you can OC if you really want to mine is OC to 3.5ghz just from the turbo options on my MOBO people have said to get them up to 4.0 stable

your GPU is fine, and its probably the stantard version as they have other ones with every thing unlocked so its factory OCed

you can just look at the OC settings for the other cards and match them through the ATI setup

[Vix]

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?

Ya, there is fuss and for good reason. I just came back to correct myself. I did a benchmark test with my GPU moniter and it read 97% average between the two, but in game it seems to be around %50 on both. Sorry for assuming benchmark test would yield the same results. Really though, it is complete crap that they wont utalize the full potential of the cards.


SE is the special edition /super clocked, only an extra $20, and honestly not needed anymore. EVGA released a new bios to flash all GTX460's making them all Super clocked a couple weeks ago. They marketed it as a free upgrade, and was an easy 5 min self flashing program.

[Malakhim]

Ya, there is fuss and for good reason. I just came back to correct myself. I did a benchmark test with my GPU moniter and it read 97% average between the two, but in game it seems to be around %50 on both. Sorry for assuming benchmark test would yield the same results. Really though, it is complete crap that they wont utalize the full potential of the cards.


SE is the special edition /super clocked, only an extra $20, and honestly not needed anymore. EVGA released a new bios to flash all GTX460's making them all Super clocked a couple weeks ago. They marketed it as a free upgrade, and was an easy 5 min self flashing program.

How much of a superclock are we talking? I've been afraid to overclock mine since I heard the card vcouldn't do that much more...

[Visch]

http://www.ti83calculator.net/ti83.jpg

Yeeeah buddy.

[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"

Do you guys think the game will run better if I upgraded my cpu or graphics card?

[Vix]

How much of a superclock are we talking? I've been afraid to overclock mine since I heard the card vcouldn't do that much more...

Bumps them to:
Core 763
Shaders 1526
Memory 1900

Do you guys think the game will run better if I upgraded my cpu or graphics card?

CPU is actually pretty good. The biggest jump you would see is another video card, or a single really fast one. Just make sure your motherboard supports crossfire. Im pretty sure that gigabyte board you have is crossfire only, not SLI.

[Vix]

Just a heads up on my settings:
On a whim, I put the AA up to max and now the frames are even better.

I still have the character draw to 8 and shadows off. I run @1080p and 99% of the time am at 60fps. It now only drops to 45-50 for burst that last a few seconds. Durring those burst my GPU's activity jumps to high 70's. But when it goes back to 60fps, the GPU usage between the two card holds pretty solid around %50.

[GabbaGabba]

hey vix, do u use radeonpro at all? i have xfire set up but i can't get radeonpro to ever work, keeps crashing on startup

[GabbaGabba]

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?

yeh, you can take the 6950 and flash it to a 6970 which is free and bumps up the performance. but ur system should run ffxiv just fine. it just depends on how good u want ur game to look and how well u want it to run. you should be able to run everything on standard(character/background draw) and at 1080 with no slowdown unless ur in town or something

[AntonyB]

CASE: Sonata III
CPU: AMD 1090T x6 Black Edition 3.2GHz
MOBO: Asus Crosshair IV Formula
Memory: 8GB Kingston HyperX
Cooler: Stock
GPU: HD5770 1GB
HD: 1TB Samsung
PSU: EarthWatts 500w Stock w/ Case
Monitor: Philips 21.5"
Speakers: Cheap too :P
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit
Keyboard/Mouse: Just a cheap crappy 1 xD

Game Settings: 1600x900 Windowed, everything on standard, shadow lowest no AA.

Anyone know what kind of settings I could be running with this setup or does my Graphics Card limit me to much? My CPU/GPU/RAM are all at stock and not overclocked at all also.