bottleneck performance?

[Judge_Xero]

If you don't mind me asking, have you run the Heavensward Benchmark and if so what score did you get? Thanks. Trying to build a budget gaming build for my GF to play FFXIV on and was wondering how the G3258 performs.

I built a rig with the G3258. It ran the game pretty good overclocked to 4.2Ghz but the CPU will be constantly pegged at 99% which makes the FPS bounce around quite a bit which makes some areas pretty choppy.

I'd recommend getting at least an i5 even if it means spending less on a GPU. Can always turn down settings with a cheaper GPU, but that little Dual Core can only work so hard. I doubt it will make much difference with DX11 either since both cores are already maxed on DX9.

Edited: unless someone can chime in on how an i3 would fare as I've never tried one on this game, as they're pretty good value as well.

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I did try Overclocking my ram to 2000Mhz from 1600Mhz which in turn gave me about a 5 FPS difference when looking across the market, but it also made my CPU hit 90% usage in those instances (compared to 74%ish)

So for those steady 60 FPS I guess it would take the advantage of the i7 hyper-threading + fast ram.

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Would be interesting to see a comparison of scores on some of these rigs from running a "winsat mem" test in an Admin CMD prompt.

4670k @ 4.0Ghz -> Memory 2000Mhz 9-11-11-27
> Running: System memory performance assessment ''
> Run Time 00:00:05.13
> Memory Performance 26033.07 MB/s
> Total Run Time 00:00:06.19

4670k @ Stock -> Memory 1600Mhz 8-9-9-21
> Running: Feature Enumeration ''
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: System memory performance assessment ''
> Run Time 00:00:05.13
> Memory Performance 22455.55 MB/s
> Total Run Time 00:00:06.41