[Dev] Overtaxation of PC Hardware

[Elkwood]

Looks like in Q2 2012 we will get our first major hardware revisions since FFXIV was released. Intel plans to release IvyBridge Chipsets which are 8 Cores running at 3 Ghz on a 22nm platter, also included will be PCIE 3.0, which should increase the throughput from 500mb to 1GB from the video card to the PC, Also included as well is DDR3. analysts are stating that this should be a 30% increase in speed over current hardware.

Also apparently AMD plans to release the Bulldozer chipset near the end of 2011 or the beginning of 2012 which may provide similar performance increases, if not better as it is supposed to be 8/12/16 core processors.

Now if FFXIV runs abundantly laggy on this then idk wtf to do.

[Coldfire]

Well AMD already brings out their octocore 3.6Ghz CPU this fall afaik. And PCIe 2.1 has definately more than 500MB/s... think it was 8GB/s. The 500MB/s is per lane and the GPU slot usually has 16 of those lanes. The Problems with ffxiv come from the crazy high polygon count (no low spec models for faraway objects) and the bad (yes just bad) data loading mechanism.
So I have my doubts a faster CPU or NB will fix this. :/