Who's upgrading their system for the ARR (Beta or Release) (Specs?)

[Zenaku]

1GB Vram should enough for single FHD monitor for most game now. HD7850 performance between GTX650TI to GTX660.

Ya i only have one Monitor for gaming i just need to upgrade from my 450 so i can play FFXIV little better. So GTX 650 or the 7850 is what i'm looking at now thanks

[LlenCoram]

Not upgrading, but will be getting an Oculus Rift on day one. Hopefully we can get some drivers for it!

[AdorraEloom]

EVGA has ALWAYS taken care of me and their customer service is awesome too.
Go to newegg and you can pair a MOBO and Video Card for a really good deal... it's time my friend, its time!! lol

I been doing some research today on pci-e 2.0 and pci-e 3.0, from what I researched I came to a conclusion that when running a single gtx 680 card on pci-e 2.0 board vs pci-e 3.0 board, the performance loss is only 1% to the card. The pci-e 3.0 boards shine when running the GTX 680 in SLI. Can any one confirm this info?

If its true than I would not need to change to a mother board that supports pci-e 3.0 as I'm only planning on using one gtx 680, not a big fan of SLI considering how little support ff14 V1.0 had towards SLI builds, ARR could very well have little SLI support as well.

[Zenaku]

7850 is pretty good for the price. If you're looking to spend like $100 more consider looking into the 660ti or even the 7950.

ya i made up my mind i be upgrading to a 660 i think it worth the money. But i be upgrading it sometime near ffxiv release if i see something better for lower i get it

[Kallera]

I'm not sure If I'll upgrade mine, it played 1.0 well enough:


Processor Brand: Intel
Processor Type: Intel CoreTM2 Quad CPU
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
RAM Size: 4 GB
Computer Memory Type: Not sure
Graphic Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

Can someone post any recommendations?

[vax]

I think the only thing i'll be upgrading is the Geforce 480 to a 680 one. I did my first upgrade back before on 2010 when FFXIV came out, and i'm doing it again with ARR with this little update .

[Dragonheart]

Ya i only have one Monitor for gaming i just need to upgrade from my 450 so i can play FFXIV little better. So GTX 650 or the 7850 is what i'm looking at now thanks

I'm doing a similiar upgrade

Current system (that i bought in august 2010 just for FFXIV):

I5 760 - GTX 460 1 gb - 8 GB DDR3 1666 Ram

I'm going to change my "old" GTX 460, with a new GTX 660 MSI Twin Frozr.

I hope that it will give a bit more life to my system for at least 2-3 more years

Btw a lot of ppl are changing their GTX 4xx series for a 6xx one..
This means that a lot of ppl upgraded their pc in 2010 for FFXIV launch xD

[DomonKasshu]

I upgraded my computer pretty recently.

Window's 7 64 Bit
NZXT Phantom White Case with all fans
ASUS P8Z77-V MOBO
16GB Corsair DDR3 RAM 1600mhz
Intel Core i7-2600 3.40 GHz (3.80 GHz Max Turbo)
Galaxy GeForce GTX 680 w/ 4GB GDDR5
WD 1TB 7200 RPM HD SATA
NZXT 80 Plus Gold 1000 Watt Power Supply
ASUS Bluray Optical Drive

[Yosho]

Windows 8
PhenomII X4 955 BE @3.2GHz
Kingston HyperX Genesis Blue 8GB DDR3 1600mhz
Gigabyte GTX 660ti windforce OC 2gb

I think i'll be ok for the most part tho I am looking to upgrade but not for ARR.

[Millerna]

Meh, my 5 year old machine was running FFXIV 1.0 just fine, no need to upgrade