Post your Rig and the settings you play on guys`

[Point_Zero]

Hey I am doing research as to how people play this game! So I guess I want to hear what Rig you play on and the exact settings you play on, and don't lie I do not know why people tend to lie about how they play the game. I mean the settings they run it on. Lots of people say "I play this on Full man" meanwhile there is no way they possibly could. I guess I will begin. Oh please post FPS too. And FFXIV Benchmark Results. Screens are welcome. Thanks

CASE: Cooler Master HAF-X (942)
CPU: I7 2600k @ 4.8 GHZ 1.4 Vcore
MOBO: Gigabyte P67A-UD5-B2 *Stupid recall on my board lol I have to do that soon
Memory: Corsair Dominator GT 1866MHZ @ 8-8-8-24 1.64V
Cooler: Noctua NH-D14 (Beastly cooler)
GPU 2x Nvidia GTX 570 SLI @849/1698/2020 One MSI on EVGA both referance
HD: Western Digital Caviar Black SATAIII 6GB/S 640GB Raid 0 soon :*(
OPTICAL: LG 22X DVD/R
PSU: Corsair 950TX
Monitor: Benq XL2410T 120hz (Soon 2 more of these)
3D: Nvidia 3D Vision Kit (BTW FFXIV in 3D is absolutley stunning you have to see)
Headset: Logitech G35 7.1 Surround Headset
Mouse: Cooler Master Inferno
OS: Windows 7 Professional 64Bit
Keyboard: A white one I found at the bottom of someone's driveway LMFAO With no F10 key

I built this PC specially for FFXIV and I love it ^^ Was my first build too
The settings I run are the following now. Everything Maxed in FFXIV Config with Ambient Oclusion off, and Depth of Field off. General Draw quality at 10, and I overide the AA using my Nvidia Control Center and set it to 64X SLI. For some reason the SLI doesnt like the depth of field and slows it down soooooooo much. This is mostly because there is no real official SLI profile for FFXIV. There is one that came with the newest beta NVIDIA drivers, however the "famous SLI fix" still works better. I imagine its the Crysis profile cut and pasted over. DOF worked fine for me with one videocard. I get 60 Frames 98% of the time outside in the field, and I get 55-60 in Ul'dah depending on random stuff. I get the same results even when im on 3D mode which is weird I think. I was under the imfulence the vid card takes a bigger hit because it has to display to different frames. On the benchmark I got 8483 on Low resolution, and 7364 on high resolution. I wanna know what others results are too please, and their frames.

Hi Res Benchmark Results


Low Res Benchmark Results

[cdreamworld]

Wow, that's a frikkin rig! how much did all of this cost you?

[Point_Zero]

Wow, that's a frikkin rig! how much did all of this cost you?

ummm I say after the second video card which i bought a month and half after and the 3dvision close to 3k prolly a bit under.

[Mhati]

how do you generate that report?

[Diraco]

Nice setup, did you try to get the 2600K to 5GHz though?
My current system is a GTS250(810/2052/1250) with an e8400@4.2GHz, and 2G of PC2-9600, with a wd raptor 150. Its running XP-32. In crowded areas I drop down to 24fps, even when running with middle-quality settings and 1024x768

I'm thinking of upgrading my system with a setup similar to yours, so could you reply with some info:
When you enabled SLI, did you notice any additional increase in input latency, or micro-stuttering? Have vsync/triple-buffering enabled? What do you have your "Maximum pre-rendered frames" set to? Do you notice any (even tiny amount of) stuttering when characters models are being loaded from the HDD?

[Point_Zero]

Nice setup, did you try to get the 2600K to 5GHz though?
My current system is a GTS250(810/2052/1250) with an e8400@4.2GHz, and 2G of PC2-9600, with a wd raptor 150. Its running XP-32. In crowded areas I drop down to 24fps, even when running with middle-quality settings and 1024x768

I'm thinking of upgrading my system with a setup similar to yours, so could you reply with some info:
When you enabled SLI, did you notice any additional increase in input latency, or micro-stuttering? Have vsync/triple-buffering enabled? What do you have your "Maximum pre-rendered frames" set to? Do you notice any (even tiny amount of) stuttering when characters models are being loaded from the HDD?

Well, when I enabled SLI, it took maybe a day or two to get a right feel for it. I didnt notice any real additional increase in input latency or micro stuttering, to be honest I am kind of a noob with a lot of these settings Vsync I have off with the triple buffering too, well I don't exactly understand what they do. I have the maximum pre loaded frames set to 3 which was default. Do you suggest I change it? As far as your last question yeah there is a lot of stuttering when characters load in Uldah for about 4 seconds and then it goes away. I dont quite notice it on the road. I did get it to 5GHZ :P the minute I started to run prime95 my cores jumped up to about 90 instantly, which makes me think that I need to re apply my paste cause I do have a really good cooler and it should be a bit cooler at that point I think. However it might have to wait for me to move it into the basement because my ambient temperature is really high. At 4.8 things hover at about 80 under 100% load, but then again how often am I under 100% load... almost never. I never really break 30% during regular use for the most part I dont think. I could test some stuff for you when game comes back up because I would like to learn more about those features you mentioned.

[Prince_Myshkin]

Well, when I enabled SLI, it took maybe a day or two to get a right feel for it. I didnt notice any real additional increase in input latency or micro stuttering, to be honest I am kind of a noob with a lot of these settings Vsync I have off with the triple buffering too, well I don't exactly understand what they do. I have the maximum pre loaded frames set to 3 which was default. Do you suggest I change it? As far as your last question yeah there is a lot of stuttering when characters load in Uldah for about 4 seconds and then it goes away. I dont quite notice it on the road. I did get it to 5GHZ :P the minute I started to run prime95 my cores jumped up to about 90 instantly, which makes me think that I need to re apply my paste cause I do have a really good cooler and it should be a bit cooler at that point I think. However it might have to wait for me to move it into the basement because my ambient temperature is really high. At 4.8 things hover at about 80 under 100% load, but then again how often am I under 100% load... almost never. I never really break 30% during regular use for the most part I dont think. I could test some stuff for you when game comes back up because I would like to learn more about those features you mentioned.

I wouldn't expect to get temperatures under 80c while overclocking to 4.8ghz with the heatsink you are using (even though it is a good one.) I've come to a belief that the only way someone can overclock the i7 cpus at such high levels under 75c is to go with a water cooling system. Air just can't keep up.

This is my set up:
Intel i7 930 cpu
ASUS p6x58d premium motherboard
EVGA gtx 480 1536MG video card
Corsair Dominator DDR3 6GB (3x2g) ram
Antec TruePower 750 watt power supply
Antec 900 case
Corsair Hydro Series H50 CPU cooler
Western Digital Black SATA 1TB hard drive
Asus CD/DVD optical drive
Windows 7 Home Edition

I had my CPU overclocked to 4.0ghz and was getting ~81c on all cores on prime95. I also felt that I would never get those temperatures on any real programs, but after a few months of using my computer I ended up reaching mid 80s on BF2 Badcompany. This is largely due to living in southern AZ where it is starting to heat up and I have no ac. Still, for protection I stopped overclocking and I think I will maybe put it back to around 3.6-3.8.

In game, I can run with maxed settings at around 22fps I think. But if I lower the AA to 8x I think I'm getting around 30fps. I could probably take one more setting down and run the game really smoothly, but I like looking at the crisp textures.

Once the gtx 480 drops in price I may add another one with SLI and get a 1000 watt ps. Though I'm a little uncomfortable about being so energy greedy.

[MiNuN]

ASUS p6x58d premium motherboard.

Good choice with the MoBo, it was either this or the UD7 for me.

[Point_Zero]

I wouldn't expect to get temperatures under 80c while overclocking to 4.8ghz with the heatsink you are using (even though it is a good one.) I've come to a belief that the only way someone can overclock the i7 cpus at such high levels under 75c is to go with a water cooling system. Air just can't keep up.

This is my set up:
Intel i7 930 cpu
ASUS p6x58d premium motherboard
EVGA gtx 480 1536MG video card
Corsair Dominator DDR3 6GB (3x2g) ram
Antec TruePower 750 watt power supply
Antec 900 case
Corsair Hydro Series H50 CPU cooler
Western Digital Black SATA 1TB hard drive
Asus CD/DVD optical drive
Windows 7 Home Edition

I had my CPU overclocked to 4.0ghz and was getting ~81c on all cores on prime95. I also felt that I would never get those temperatures on any real programs, but after a few months of using my computer I ended up reaching mid 80s on BF2 Badcompany. This is largely due to living in southern AZ where it is starting to heat up and I have no ac. Still, for protection I stopped overclocking and I think I will maybe put it back to around 3.6-3.8.

In game, I can run with maxed settings at around 22fps I think. But if I lower the AA to 8x I think I'm getting around 30fps. I could probably take one more setting down and run the game really smoothly, but I like looking at the crisp textures.

Once the gtx 480 drops in price I may add another one with SLI and get a 1000 watt ps. Though I'm a little uncomfortable about being so energy greedy.

Yeah this game is really pretty! The difference between draw quality 8 and 10 is soo much imo its kind of hard to pass up lol. Well to be honest with you I havent tested my 4.8 while running FFXIV I kind of just did that on my off time lmao. I usually kept it around 4.5 and it would stay at 60 ish underload. Ambient temperature is what is killing me too atm, I can only imagine running a 480 in Arizona LOL! I live in Toronto which get really really hot during the summer, probably really close to Arizona because of the humidity I really dont know what I am going to do lol, my room is not exactly small by any means but if your plan FFXIV and even with you fan @ 72 I am still getting about 65 degrees in the winter. Which is not hot by any means in the winter. However it does make my room really uncomfortable, having my computer spew 65-70 degree are out the back and top of it for such long periods of time. I dont really use the air conditioning during the day in the summer because it just works it too much, unless it is 45 degrees celcius out anything belowe 35 I dont use air until the night. I can only imagine how a single 480 would generate heat in Arizona, let alone a second one :P Thanks for the post.

[BelgianRofl]

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