graphics card/processor help!

[Lucifer]

Stop fantrolling.

Just saw on a newsletter: HD7970 will be available january 9th for ~500 bucks. Get that one and you're safe for the next few years xD

"Yawn"
Fantrolling? I'm not an "intel fanboy" or what ever you moronic kids come up with. I'm a tech junkie and AMD is pure garbage. Bulldozer is close to the performance the i5 can produce but it's still not as good (it is really cheap though). 32 NM on the i5, that means less heat and more room for overclocking. You can get the i5 to incredible speeds on air cooling!
All this factors in to this games performance. You WANT to run this game to as close to 60 FPS as possible.

Like I said before, I upgraded from a phenom 2, 955 BE quad core. The game ran terrible on it. Low FPS and Ul'dah...not a place you could step foot in.


OP, if you want to make your game run smoother, I would HIGHLY advise you switch to an i5. It would be more beneficial for everything you do on your PC, but more importantly; it will make FFXIV run very smoothly. I would also advise you overclock it to 4.0 ghz as it's extremely easy to do.