Think this hardware will run ARR smooth?

[Shougun]

Can I just install FFXIV on the SSD or would it be better to install windows OS on the SSD as well?? or doesn't matter too much for the OS?

You can put just FFXIV on a SSD. The OS doesnt need to be on there - I assume you have more then 2GB of ram? (I wouldn't dissuade you from putting your OS on the SSD either though).

I actually listened to your advice several months ago about the Ambient Occlusion setting on the FFXIV Config. I took it off and my game ran much better, but I have it active on the NVIDIA Control Panel instead, and it works much better on there. The FFXIV Config's was really bad.

! Glad that helped~ And the NVIDIA Controls are pretty cool you can do a lot to your game just through NVIDIA's configs (though remembering what you did just when a game starts to get pissed at you is sometimes frustrating lol)

[Reinheart]

You can put just FFXIV on a SSD. The OS doesnt need to be on there - I assume you have more then 2GB of ram?

Cool, thx - got 8GB of ram so should be good on that part