FFXIV Hardware Requirements

[laxninja]

k so after looking at the margins of price/performance while trying to maintain whats left of a budget think ima go with the 470. Anything I should be weary of or this good? (lol sry stingy about my 300 bucks)

[Kyrra]

k so after looking at the margins of price/performance while trying to maintain whats left of a budget think ima go with the 470. Anything I should be weary of or this good? (lol sry stingy about my 300 bucks)

the 470 supposedly gets really hot and is loud. See this:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3809/n...he-200-king/17

[alecrast]

k so after looking at the margins of price/performance while trying to maintain whats left of a budget think ima go with the 470. Anything I should be weary of or this good? (lol sry stingy about my 300 bucks)

You should ask Celeras. He has one.

[bluefan]

You should ask Celeras. He has one.

He'll say it's the better choice because it isn't as gimped as the 460...and that he has one, so it has to be the best bang for buck GPU.

The GTX 460 is a very good GPU from what I've read. Stock wise, they're in between the 5830 and 5850. But their beauty lies in how well they overclock, and how they scale nearly 100% with SLI. Every GTX 460 can reach and exceed 5850 performance by overclocking, and you don't need to worry about the temperature as they're very efficient when compared to the G100 lineup (470, 465 and 480).

[Kawfee]

You should ask Celeras. He has one.

The one i bought last night is no louder than the 8800 I replaced, and didn't seem to be abnormally hot in a way I would care about. When you say, "they run hot", in what way does that matter unless you're seriously overclocking it (I bet 90% don't). Obviously it stays "cool" enough to run fine else they wouldn't sell them.

[Amele]

The one i bought last night is no louder than the 8800 I replaced, and didn't seem to be abnormally hot in a way I would care about. When you say, "they run hot", in what way does that matter unless you're seriously overclocking it (I bet 90% don't). Obviously it stays "cool" enough to run fine else they wouldn't sell them.

runs hot matters for people who might have smaller cases, a GPU that idles in the 80C+ range (for ex.) is going to raise internal case temps which raises temps on all sorts of stuff. some people have worse cooling solutions than others too, and this could matter for them as well.

[Kais]

So uh. Does this mean I should wait a week or two to pony up for the i7-870 or is the i7 930 fine for like 80 bucks less?

[zakia]

can try one of these if heat is your worry :s
.... if u got a liquid cool system

ww w.evga.com/products/moreInfo.asp?pn=015-P3-1489-AR&family=GeForce%20400%20Series%20Family


ps: sry post not high enough for url Orz

[Metafox]

k so after looking at the margins of price/performance while trying to maintain whats left of a budget think ima go with the 470. Anything I should be weary of or this good? (lol sry stingy about my 300 bucks)

From my understanding, the story with the 470 is that an overclocked 470 is better than an overclocked 5870, but the 5870 is better at stock speeds. I'm not sure why that chart shows it the other way around. Also, for heat issues with the 470, you might want to look into this:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...7BBTkwCjCECjCE

It has an alternate cooling system so it runs significantly cooler than a regular 470. I don't have one yet, but it has very good reviews and few complaints.

[alecrast]

So uh. Does this mean I should wait a week or two to pony up for the i7-870 or is the i7 930 fine for like 80 bucks less?

The i7 930 is fine. You'll never notice the difference between those two CPUs.

[terranova]

Hahahah thats a Joke right?

OS 32bit/64bit Windows 7 (※1 )
CPU Intel ® Core ™ i7 2.66GHz
Main memory 4GB or more
Hard drive / SSD space Installation: at least 15GB of free space
Download: My Documents drive space of at least 6GB
Graphics Card NVIDIA ® GeForce ® GTX 460 (VRAM 768MB or more)
Sound card DirectSound ® compatible sound card (DirectX ® 9.0c or higher)
Communication environment Over broadband (always-required)
Screen Resolution More than 1280 × 720 32bit
DirectX ® DirectX 9.0c
Other Mouse, keyboard, game pad

LOL. All I have is 9800 GTX+

I certainly dont have 4GB(and can't get it anyway since I used XP)

Fuck that. I'm gonna pass on this.

[Kawfee]

There is 0 reason to be using Windows XP anymore.

[Pikarya]

There is 0 reason to be using Windows XP anymore.

^This, also the netbook excuse that 7 is "too bloat" is pretty much invalid at this point.

[Kyrra]

So how is a video card affected by resolution. I have 2 24" monitors, both running at 1920x1200. I plan on only gaming on one of the monitors and the other one will have a browser or something opened on it.

So if I were to get a video card to support these 2 monitors, what would I want in my video card? Will more memory help in supporting dual screens?

[bluefan]

Higher resolution will chew up your video RAM, yeah. 1GB model GPUs is what I would shoot for if you're gunning for the 1920x1200+ resolutions.

[Chio]

So how is a video card affected by resolution. I have 2 24" monitors, both running at 1920x1200. I plan on only gaming on one of the monitors and the other one will have a browser or something opened on it.

So if I were to get a video card to support these 2 monitors, what would I want in my video card? Will more memory help in supporting dual screens?

More memory should help with dual monitors. So SLI/CF probably the way to go, but as of now I have no idea if the final version of the game will support SLI/CF or not.

[shaddix]

it has to if they are pushing 3D surround. there's no single card that can do 3d on 3 displays at once

[Fade]

Quick question, I was thinking about purchasing the Intel X-25M 160GB SSD as I'm getting a good offer for one. ($300 brand new sealed retail version) Before I make the investment in an SSD, was just wondering if anyone would mind listing the benefits of having an SSD for FF14?

[Hazado]

Quick question, I was thinking about purchasing the Intel X-25M 160GB SSD as I'm getting a good offer for one. ($300 brand new sealed retail version) Before I make the investment in an SSD, was just wondering if anyone would mind listing the benefits of having an SSD for FF14?

It loads faster.

[Lovian]

it won't make it run faster just load zones faster and start up faster.