PS3 vs PC

[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

[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.