New Computer for FFXIV?

[JayCrusnik]

The first thing you want to be sure of before choosing the video card, is the resolution you are going to run on, what size monitor you have and it's native resolution. Anything 19" and below will run @ 1440x900 to lower these resolutions does not hurt the cards much, once you step up to 20"- 23" most run @ 1680x1050 this resolution will still be okay for the low end cards, if you step up to 24"-27" its @ 1920x1080 some are 1920x1200 you need to step it up a little mid range - high end cards are good. Now if you are going to run on 30" it will have a native resolution of 2560x1600 or like what i am running 3x 24" on eyefinity which runs on 5760x1080 w/o bezel compensation, with compensation its 5936x1080 then you'll want something really beefy. If u are going to run on HDTV 1080p most of them are based of 1920x1080 resolution as well. There is a sweet spot to video cards but sadly they are nowhere around the low end cards they are in the mid range.

forgot another tip if the video card only comes with a heat sink and no fan don't try to game on it =D specially not FFXIV