PS3 vs PC

[Nez]

Ya, that's about the right price for a really good PC. When building a gaming PC you should spend more on video card than the CPU. Going above a i5 3570k CPU becomes pointless for gaming.

Yea anything above i5 3570k cpu is overkill plus rendering wise i5 is better then i7 for gaming.

[Pseudopsia]

I changed my wording a bit to diminishing returns instead of pointless. I did purposely went for a hex core CPU since I know FFXIV 1.0 does somewhat take advantage of Multi Core CPUs, and like I said I'm made of money. However it's not great, it's like 15% more performance with 50% more cores. However, AMD piledriver CPUs don't seem to get the same benefit because of the low IPC(Instructions per cycle) combined with the poor threading of FFXIV.

Below is a screen shot that demonstrates the poor threading with old benchmark. Notice one logical core is maxed out. CPU is running at 4.5 Ghz with 2400 Mhz ram XMP profile.

[Nez]

What size is your monitor?

[Pseudopsia]

What size is your monitor?

27", I'm using Samsung S27A950D, which is a 1080p 120hz monitor. Note: This monitor isn't optimal for 3D with NVIDIA cards.

[Zelas]

Might play on PS3 sometimes, and on PC other times. :B

[ispano]

I changed my wording a bit to diminishing returns instead of pointless. I did purposely went for a hex core CPU since I know FFXIV 1.0 does somewhat take advantage of Multi Core CPUs, and like I said I'm made of money. However it's not great, it's like 15% more performance with %30 more cores. However, AMD piledriver CPUs don't seem to get the same benefit because of the low IPC(Instructions per cycle) combined with the poor threading of FFXIV.

Below is a screen shot that demonstrates the poor threading with old benchmark. Notice one logical core is maxed out. CPU is running at 4.5 Ghz with 2400 Mhz ram XMP profile.

Yeah most types of games are hard to multi thread well. They will usually max out a single core easily, but not so much on any others, although they do help to a limited degree. From what i've seen Quad is usually plenty, you just want the fastest single core speed you can get if at all possible. Unless of course you do other things with the PC.

Ugh, reminds me I need to upgrade my system to an SR-3

[Nez]

27", I'm using Samsung S27A950D, which is a 1080p 120hz monitor. Note: This monitor isn't optimal for 3D with NVIDIA cards.

Nice! I don't care for 3D thats overrated

[Pseudopsia]

Ugh, reminds me I need to upgrade my system to an SR-3

LOL, that's insane

I think you mean this:

[ispano]

LOL, that's insane

Currently Using an SR-2

Hope this still works, might load slow though.

[Pseudopsia]

That's a beast. My little Micro-ATX computer cowers before it. I'm curious what score you can get with old benchmark, you need to force benchmark to full screen to get accurate score because of multiple GPUs.