Recommended System Specs

[TheGrandMom]

Re: Recommended System Specs

You do know that different people, different setups, get different results right? Two buddies of mine have that card and told me it ran hot because I am considering buying one myself. Sorry if I take 2 peoples advice that I know irl over yours.

[Freelancer]

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I hear that the 470 runs hot so make sure you are on top of cooling too. Sounds like it should run FFXIV to me.

That's an old wives tale.

Mine plays any game on highest settings @64-72c, goes through torture tests around 82c. and thats pretty standard in GPUs.

Only game it suffers with is FFXIV only because its not optimized yet.
(Beta2 ran @71c)
(Beta3 @81c)

It'll be just fine by release, but then again a single 470 is 330$ you can add 70$ and get 2 GTX460 instead, they run cool and when they work together in SLI they get performance up there with the GTX480.

[TheGrandMom]

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Feba is absolutely right, placement of your pc can affect your core temp. Unfortunately I have to put my pc in an area with little air flow. I've put 6 fans in my case with additional coolers. I don't have the option of placing it anywhere else in the room so I have to put up with a bit more noise. I will say that the extra fans are very quiet though, I can actually sleep with the pc on.

I really need to put my Lian Li server case up on Ebay or something. Took that down a while ago, I just don't have the time or energy anymore.

[Feba]

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I have four fans in my (rather large) case

Make sure that the hot air is actually being removed. All the fans in the world won't help if they're not pushing the air out of the case, and if the case is itself in hot air. I'm sure you're not stuffing your PC into a locked cabinet, but it does need some breathing room. I've heard of people that managed to get some very nice fans in their case, and still have heat problems because they didn't set them up very well; they had air moving, but it was still hot air.

[Nandito]

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Yeah, not sure where the extra 200 MB comes from, this computer was a hand-me-down.

BUT OH WELLL~ Hell no I'm not going to bother with it then; PS3 it is. Hell, I don't even know the first thing about properly upgrading. I should go hit the library...

[Neomage]

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You're running Vista with only 1(.2? Odd number...) GB? That's... wow, that's really low. Vista itself is currently taking up 300 MB(0.3 GB) on my computer right now, and that is just idling. Throw in Firefox, Steam and a few other misc. applications as well, and it's 500 MB. I'm not a computer expert, but I know there is no way you could run FFXIV on half a gig of RAM. So yeah... definitely going to need an upgrade there, probably to at least 3 GB.

That video card looks rather weak, too. The problem I see here is that it is unlikely that you can use a higher video card with your current power supply, since higher cards use a lot more power. Insufficient power to a graphics card can fry your computer(I had that happen...)

Might need a CPU upgrade as well, but I'm not certain of that. You might be able to run low settings with a 2.4 dual-core. Of course, a new CPU might need a new motherboard to go along with it...

[Nandito]

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These are my specs,

32bit Windows Vista
Intel Core 2 @ 2.40GHz, 2.39GHz
1.2GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 7300LE

And all I get out of the benchmark is a logo and empty score box. I'm not very computer savvy so I'unno... I'm thinking with a new graphics card and some more RAM, I can get SOMETHING to show up?

Probably better off sticking with my original plan, buying a PS3 and bypassing all the hassle.

[TheGrandMom]

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One thing I always recommend to people is a fan that vents on the top of the pc or at least the top rear. Heat rises so it really benefits to have one there. Also have an intake fan on the low end, this helps with air flow. Make sure the fans are at least 80mm though you might want to go with a 120 mm for 1 intake/1 exhaust/both. Really depends on the fan too and how much noise they make and how much you can put up with. Back in the day fans were damn noisy and my pc was nicknamed O'Hare (after the airport). And 2 fans are a starting point, you said you have 4 so check the sizes of the fans and placement first. If you are really concerned there are vga coolers, my son uses a Zalman one I believe.

[Neomage]

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I hear that the 470 runs hot so make sure you are on top of cooling too. Sounds like it should run FFXIV to me.

Hmm... good to know. I have four fans in my (rather large) case, so there should be good air movement, though I don't have anything fancy like a liquid cooling system. Would that be sufficient?

[TheGrandMom]

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I hear that the 470 runs hot so make sure you are on top of cooling too. Sounds like it should run FFXIV to me.

[Neomage]

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I'm looking at upgrading my CPU and GPU to run FFXIV better, since currently it can barely run the benchmark. Right now I have this:

Motherboard: ASUS 770 ATX
Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar 640 GB
RAM: G Skill 8 GB
CPU: AMD 3.1 GHz Dual-Core
GPU: nVidia 8800 GT
PSU: Zalman 750w
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium

Looking at upgrading to the following:

ASUS M4A77D AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz 125W Quad-Core Processor
EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470


Keeping everything else the same. That should work, shouldn't it? I built this computer about two and a half years ago, been running pretty good...

[Solymir]

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How this game runs right now is probably somewhat different than when the server load goes up. I would like to hear from everyone once open beta starts and we see how our computers are running then.

[TheGrandMom]

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So, I ran the official FFXIV benchmark on my PC yesterday and it failed miserably. My computer is far from a piece of crap and I got a 566 out of a possible 8000+. I forsee the high requirements of this game turning off a lot of casual gamers who don't want to have to buy a new computer just to run it.

I totally agree. I am updating my graphics card and frankly I don't even want to do that. I just built the damn thing earlier this year. If I needed more than that, I'd wait until the PS3 version was released.

[Acruvond]

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Strange...

Not sure if it is or not.

[Absentia]

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I had a reverse situation. I used the benchmark @ high settings (1920 x 1280) and got a 3200ish score and everything seemed to be running at around 40+ FPS.

I hop into the beta with things set on high (except for shadows) and my rig absolutely crapped out on me. It was unplayable and extremely choppy to where I couldn't even log myself out or do much of anything. I turned it down a bit more and it was still probably around 20FPS if that.

I do wonder though, is the menu tied into the game's framerate again, a la FFXI?