The OFFICIAL FFXIV Benchmark & Beta Performance Thread

[Questionable]

What? I didn't read you require a SSD to play this game!! I have a brand new 7200 sata drive which is standard now a days...

[Khalil]

Anyone have issues with being in town, there's massive lag spikes, not constant lag but certain areas and view directions makes my system freeze up every few seconds.

This is why a i7 930 and 5870 - so W T F?

I've actually been getting the same thing happen and I have a Q9550 OC'd to 3.83ghz and a 5870 OC'd. However, it's only happened a couple times now. I'll check again today when I have time to login if it's the same.

[Akiyama]

Say it once, say it a million times. Shit's not properly optimized at all, and there's always gonna be crappy glitches running stuff like this. I remember beta testing a game that took CONSIDERABLY less to run, and shit would still get botchy/lag-spiky in towns and what not.

[shaddix]

What? I didn't read you require a SSD to play this game!! I have a brand new 7200 sata drive which is standard now a days...

Same thing happens to me that happens to you and whenever it does i get heavy hdd usage spike.

[Ferr]

Anyone have issues with being in town, there's massive lag spikes, not constant lag but certain areas and view directions makes my system freeze up every few seconds.

yeah I have this. Also textures of the city and lighting seems to keep changing quality while I aproach them, and trees apears "suddenly" in the outsides.

[Izzy]

yeah I have this. Also textures of the city and lighting seems to keep changing quality while I aproach them, and trees apears "suddenly" in the outsides.

That's normal.

[Ferr]

That's normal.

Nice, one performance problem less

[Toth]

Thank you guys for your help. First test with my new card: 3376

Now to see if I can optimize this baby.

[Kylewhataru]

My PSU has been crying like a bitch lately, it's making this low pitch sound when I'm in the middle of games, thought it was my GPU at first but I took it apart and stuck my ear in the case, and sound is definitely coming from the PSU.

It's a 750W PC Power & Cooling: http://www.xpcgear.com/s75q.html never gave me problems with my old c2d and 4870, but those components consume less power. A i7-930 @ 3.8Gh and a 5850 OC'd by 15% shouldn't bring a 750W PSU to it's knees, right? Besides that I only have 1 hard drive and a DVD drive connected, 3 case fans, so it's not like there's tons of stuff to power up.

Maybe the PSU is going bad, if I get one of those corsair 850W it should be silent running what I described above right? So far problems haven't manifested in performance hits, but I started noticing that noise on Saturday, and I spent all day fucking around trying to maximize my OC that day, so maybe I've reached this PSU's limits.

[Skyfoxx]

My PSU has been crying like a bitch lately, it's making this low pitch sound when I'm in the middle of games, thought it was my GPU at first but I took it apart and stuck my ear in the case, and sound is definitely coming from the PSU.

It's a 750W PC Power & Cooling: http://www.xpcgear.com/s75q.html never gave me problems with my old c2d and 4870, but those components consume less power. A i7-930 @ 3.8Gh and a 5850 OC'd by 15% shouldn't bring a 750W PSU to it's knees, right? Besides that I only have 1 hard drive and a DVD drive connected, 3 case fans, so it's not like there's tons of stuff to power up.

Maybe the PSU is going bad, if I get one of those corsair 850W it should be silent running what I described above right? So far problems haven't manifested in performance hits, but I started noticing that noise on Saturday, and I spent all day fucking around trying to maximize my OC that day, so maybe I've reached this PSU's limits.

Is the low pitch noise present even when taking the GPU/CPU to stock clocks?, Although I think it's very unlikely that 750W PSU itself is pushing its limits with a 5850 OCed by 15% and a i7 930. Basing this on having a GTX465 OCed by like 15% and a [email protected] 3 case fans and the CPU cooler (1 Water pump + 2 120mm Fans) on a 650W PSU and my PC is dead quiet (except when the GPU revs up ofcourse... xD).

It could be a matter of poor craftsmanship and not insufficient wattage. Corsair (based on my experience) builds quality components, and has great CS in case said components fail.

[thebest]

Low Score was about 6000 (irrelevant)
High Score:
4080

AMD Phenom IIx6 1055t OC @ 3.36
Galaxy GTX 470 OC 780Core

Do you guys think buying an after market cooler for my CPU and pushing it to 4ghz would offer that much improvement to my high score?

[Skyfoxx]

Low Score was about 6000 (irrelevant)
High Score:
4080

AMD Phenom IIx6 1055t OC @ 3.36
Galaxy GTX 470 OC 780Core

Do you guys think buying an after market cooler for my CPU and pushing it to 4ghz would offer that much improvement to my high score?

I highly doubt it, as Celeras mentioned earlier in the thread>>

Low-Res: CPU
High-Res: GPU

Although pushing your CPU higher would offer a marginal boost, your GPU will ultimately be responsible for big score swings on high settings.

On the first page of this thread there's someone with a 470 / 1055t @ 4.0Ghz, High Score of 4156.

[Kylewhataru]

Is the low pitch noise present even when taking the GPU/CPU to stock clocks?, Although I think it's very unlikely that 750W PSU itself is pushing its limits with a 5850 OCed by 15% and a i7 930. Basing this on having a GTX465 OCed by like 15% and a [email protected] 3 case fans and the CPU cooler (1 Water pump + 2 120mm Fans) on a 650W PSU and my PC is dead quiet (except when the GPU revs up ofcourse... xD).

It could be a matter of poor craftsmanship and not insufficient wattage. Corsair (based on my experience) builds quality components, and has great CS in case said components fail.

It isn't present at stock speeds no.

Probably just going out, gonna order a corsair.

[shaddix]

Low Score was about 6000 (irrelevant)
High Score:
4080

AMD Phenom IIx6 1055t OC @ 3.36
Galaxy GTX 470 OC 780Core

Do you guys think buying an after market cooler for my CPU and pushing it to 4ghz would offer that much improvement to my high score?

No..... but do it anyway! 4ghz go!

[Celeras]

Manually editing/exporting the SLI profile via the 256+ profile tool and adding 'ffxivgame.exe' as an entry with appropiate has gotten SLI functioning, unofficially.

[Kylewhataru]

I decided to ditch the 5850 and get a GTX480, what brand/model would you guys recommend for best overclockability? I don't plan on using an after market cooler.

And the PSU noise problem seems to be tied to the cpu OC, sucks but I had to reduce clock speeds on my cpu from 3.8 to 3.6, which allowed me to reduce voltage. With those settings the PSU does get a tad louder but no where near as annoying, also my load temps drop by 10C, kind of weird -200mhz makes that much of a difference.

[Celeras]

eVGA is the best brand all around, but zotac has the best aftermarket cooler preinstalled on their Zotac AMP version.

[Skyfoxx]

I decided to ditch the 5850 and get a GTX480, what brand/model would you guys recommend for best overclockability? I don't plan on using an after market cooler.

I'm under the impression that brands don't matter much for the 480, some companies offer longer warranties than others, that's about it. Asus (3 years), Galaxy (2 years), Palit (2 years), Zotac, eVGA, PNY have lifetime warranties, iirc.

I've only dealt with eVGA and they're pretty swift with replacements. A friend bought the SC version of the eVGA and I think it's not really worth the extra $20 just for a 25mhz difference <_>.

Here's a link for the reference eVGA GTX480:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-552-_-Product

[shaddix]

I decided to ditch the 5850 and get a GTX480

how come

[baroom]

Just built my upgraded PC
I7 930 - 4.1 GHZ
G skill ram 6 gb
120 gig SSD g skill
2X MSI 470 twin frozr II

Low : 7200
High :4600 (they need to make SLI work )