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LeCard · **08-05-2013, 09:20 PM**

(08-05-2013, 08:56 PM)Freyar Wrote:
(08-05-2013, 07:30 PM)LeCard Wrote:
(08-05-2013, 06:09 PM)Freyar Wrote: -----
If you're looking to upgrade SOLELY for FFXIV, I'd run a few benchmarks, likely with MSI AfterburnerÂ running to see GPU/CPU usage (you can monitor CPU usage through Resource Monitor on Windows 7) and figure out what features cost more performance wise. Â Final Fantasy XIV seems to be very GPU intensive, and not that sensitive to CPU (as long as it isn't an old architecture.)

Thanks for the MSI, I think that answered my question. My CPU was running at 50% and my GPU was slamming 98%+ the entire time the benchmark was running. I suppose that is an easy view of where my bottleneck is. I may wait till I can afford a gen4 intell chip (which would include a MoBo upgrade being needed) for the processor.)

Right now I am scoring 4k on the benchmark(with everything running in the background at that.(at max settings)

One thing to note is that while everyone who is into benchmarking is running at "maximum" pre-sets, that doesn't mean we'll all be playing at maximum presets. For example, I'll turn on Occlusion Culling and disable FXAA (FXAA mainly for taste, I hate it's blur behavior), as well as turning on LOD (because it's far enough to not be an issue) to also boost performance a little.

hmm, good point. i am mostly doing the upgrade becuase I want too and not becuase i feel it needs it. I have been playing the beta with no problems(my room mate was even on his ps3 playing and I continually had to wait for him with load times, so it certainly isn't a need).

but onto the fun topic. I think this is about where I am looking at for a new card.
Card Link

let me know if you think this would give me the boost I am looking at or if I am over estimating the card and there is something better (for apprx. the same price)

system upgrade question

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