PS3 vs PC

[Kinyoto]

Both! Student loan bought my awesome PC and I've always had a PS3.

I'm not made out of money though, holla!

PSN ID: Kinyoto

[Dominec]

PC .. Since is the only way i can play it on my new korea made 2560x1440 RES monitor and at lease use my 2 new EVGA 670 FTW GPUs not that this game will need that power XD

[kazaran]

Decided to stick with the PC. Wan to get the best graphical experience out of it and a choice of interface, between controller or mouse and keyboard. THe PC version will have better use of the glorious shadowing ARR uses.

Was goig nto set up the ps3 in the bedroom, but Since I have a good gamign laptop, opted with that. THe I7 aand GT660 pro gpu will do a better job.

Plus my sugar daddy said so.

[ChiefCurrahee]

I'll play on both, I plan on buying the PS3 collectors version. (if they have one)

[Nez]

Lol and i almost believed the /380$ buildnto max out the game i'll believe it when i see the seperate pieces

[Pseudopsia]

No way a new $400 PC will max out the game, unless you like playing at less than 10 FPS.

It's good to check out Tom's Hardware System Builder Marathon
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...uter,3374.html

They don't include the price of windows, monitor, keyboard/mouse, controller.

[Nez]

Yea i didnt believe it myself, i seen someone post it earlier in the thread. My build from lastyear was about 950 to max out ffxiv

@raagnar i can open up my pS3 and repair it myself. Seeing as you know how to fix a pc id assume you do to?

But don't get me wrong i much more perfer playing it on a PC, and theres a chance i might get another.

[Pseudopsia]

Ya, that's about the right price for a really good PC. When building a gaming PC you should spend more on video card than on the CPU. Diminishing returns really kick in when going above a i5 3570k CPU for gaming.

[Nez]

Ya, that's about the right price for a really good PC. When building a gaming PC you should spend more on video card than the CPU. Going above a i5 3570k CPU becomes pointless for gaming.

Yea anything above i5 3570k cpu is overkill plus rendering wise i5 is better then i7 for gaming.

[Pseudopsia]

I changed my wording a bit to diminishing returns instead of pointless. I did purposely went for a hex core CPU since I know FFXIV 1.0 does somewhat take advantage of Multi Core CPUs, and like I said I'm made of money. However it's not great, it's like 15% more performance with 50% more cores. However, AMD piledriver CPUs don't seem to get the same benefit because of the low IPC(Instructions per cycle) combined with the poor threading of FFXIV.

Below is a screen shot that demonstrates the poor threading with old benchmark. Notice one logical core is maxed out. CPU is running at 4.5 Ghz with 2400 Mhz ram XMP profile.