What's a Good laptop that can run 14?

[Enfarious]

Depending on what you can recycle, you're looking at:

$100-250 for a motherboard
$180 for a video card
$150-200 for a processor
$40-80 RAM
$50-80 for power supply
$100 for case.

Motherboard, video card, and processor are the things most likely in need of a replacement, while the RAM, power supply, and case can usually be recycled.

Look around http://www.tomshardware.com/ for articles and comparisons. You'll want some mid-range hardware, no more than the prices I listed. I have a computer from a year and a half ago (was mid-range when I bought it, and I made it specifically for FFXIV) and it's still good enough to play everything on max settings.

What I have now:

MB: Gigabyte 890FXA-UD7
Video: ATI 5770
Ram: 8 GB
Processor: AMD Phenom II 945

The rest is all stuff I recycled (case, DVD drive, monitor, power supply, etc). It cost me $700 for all those parts.

What are your settings in CCC, and are you running in FS @what resolution?
I can't for the life of me get consistent 60fps @max settings course I play in 1080P windowed but still.
My rigs in my sig.

[Wolfie]

What are your settings in CCC, and are you running in FS @what resolution?
I can't for the life of me get consistent 60fps @max settings course I play in 1080P windowed but still.
My rigs in my sig.

I would hope you mean Vision Engine CC, because CCC has been deprecated for a long time.

Anyway I have the GPU Clock speed at 960 and graphics RAM at 1445 capped. What's letting me 'max out' FFXIV is disabling depth of field, ambient occlusion, and keeping shadow detail on standard. And that's because they're simply broken on account of a crappy, incomplete game engine.

The rest of my FFXIV settings are 1920x1080, 8x AA, 10 drawing quality, 5 background quality, etc.