graphics card/processor help!

[neorei]

"I'm not in the mood to eat ramen noodles for the next few weeks"

Then you say this.

The heck?

well there is future planning, 2.0 isn't here just yet.

[Aenarion]

Also, to whoever said that SSDs don't do much - I have a second generation OCZ Vertex from 2 1/2 years ago. After moving FFXIV to my SSD, I noticed significantly less stuttering as NPCs and PCs were loaded while I was entering towns, camps, etc. It really is worth moving your installation.

Oh, I do have it on an SSD, got two of them in my rig actually. It's just that I run the 14 client on my ssd equipped desktop while I also have a client on a laptop with traditional drive, and while there are noticeable differences, personally I don't really think it's that big of a deal. TBH I see more difference in between ssd/hdd during non-gaming applications.

[Aenarion]

Compared to normal HDDs SSDs are pretty cheap now :P
And the new ones work pretty well. But if you don't buy an Intel (they test them before shipping it seems) you should be prepared to have it replaced for a working one lol

Yea, not much you can do about it though when 1/4 of the world's hdd production capacity got wiped out overnight in a flood, though price should probably come back down here in the next couple months.

Also, I wouldn't go that far on non-Intel SSDs, they're no better or worse than your avg. pc components, though iirc Intel does have a much more rigorous testing process on their ssd models.

[Zephir]

I Play FFXIV on a Revodrive 1 (not the enterprise market version) (the OS disk)

Very very very fast, no instability and less performance degradation compared with SATA SSD.

BUT

You need to have a PCI E free slot