Building a PC

[Galliano]

Ohh it is. Thankyou!

Mind you, to the others replying this won't be solely for FFXIV I would like to play other MMO's in the future which is why I was hoping to get a rather decent CPU and Motherboard.

Yeah your mobo and cpu are fine for sure, maybe slap a 3rd party heatsink on your cpu and overclock it (if you haven't already that is) after all; that's what the 'K' processors are for. I'd wait for nvidia to bring out a new range of cards which in turn will drive the price down for the old cards, then you'll be able to pick up something like a gtx 970 for a decent price.

[Ceodore]

My current system:

I5 3570 CPU
MSI 4gb GTX 960 GPU
8 GB Ram
ASUS P8Z77 Mother Board
GS800 Power Supply

Upgrade that has already been ordered, but waiting to install:

I7 3770 CPU

Everything on max settings runs at 60 FPS even in heavy content. Word of advice, do not let your GPU's stock fan controls stay. Adjust the fans to continuously run at lower settings instead of the stock controls setting the not run at casual settings. It's more wear and tear on a motor to have to start and stop a fan over and over as it hovers above and below the threshold than to let them run at a low setting continuously then speed them up when the load increases.

[Galliano]

Word of advice, do not let your GPU's stock fan controls stay. Adjust the fans to continuously run at lower settings instead of the stock controls setting the not run at casual settings. It's more wear and tear on a motor to have to start and stop a fan over and over as it hovers above and below the threshold than to let them run at a low setting continuously then speed them up when the load increases.

Good point, when I first ran my 570 it was getting towards 90 degrees C under load, I installed msi afterburner and set up a custom fan profile and now it's in the 70 region under load. My house also seems to be a dust bowl so I clean my gpu and cpu heatsink out every month or so just to keep the airflow optimal.

[KisaiTenshi]

Although with the 570, you'll still get really good performance with FFXIV, but that's mostly because of that CPU. FFXIV isn't that heavy on the GPU, so you shouldn't have to worry about upgrading your video card for some time.

Disagree. The 570 is passable for 1920x1080 @ 60fps with all settings on, anything else requires a better GPU. I have the 760 which is like 2% better and it's fine.
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

The only benefit you get from going from 570 to 660 or 760 is lower power/cooling requirements. The performance is otherwise an inconsequential difference.

FFXIV is GPU-heavy in that most iGPU and 100$/150$ GPU's are suffering, and if you don't get a constant 60fps in this game, you will have a hard time dodging AOE's, as the AOE's will lag somewhat. Crowded areas, no matter what GPU you have will always experience frame drops because it's a combination GPU, CPU and netcode that is responsible for that. Literately, too many objects try to pop-in at once, and the game makes poor decisions about what to cull due to too many moving objects (from your POV.) If you are farther away (eg Australia, Europe) then you're going to see netcode suffering.

Anything over the 5000 point on passmark is probably overkill for FFXIV. The 570/760 cards are around 250-300$ and the 960 is about 20% better for about 200-250$.