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My FFXIV PC build.

25 July 2010

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Posted by Icecreammafia

The PC I ordered Friday night, tell me what you think.

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor

HDD: SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5"

DVD Drive: SAMSUNG 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 16X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 4X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA 24x DVD Burner

RAM: G.SKILL ECO Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)

GPU: XFX HD-587X-ZNFV Radeon HD 5870 (Cypress XT) 1GB 256-bit DDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

PSU: XFX Black Edition P1-750B-CAG9 750W ATX12V v2.2 / ESP12V v2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS SILVER Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply

Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-790XTA-UD4 AM3 AMD 790X SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard

Case: Corsair Obsidian Series 800D CC800DW Black Aluminum / Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case

CPU Cooler: CORSAIR Hydro H70 CWCH70 120mm High Performance CPU Cooler

Any thoughts? Throw 'em my way. : ]

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EDIT: Will have a new picture this week after the new case and cooler are in.

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Very very VERY similar to the PC i just built. I have an AMD X6 CPU and 4GB more RAM but thats pretty much the only differences. I scored 4400 on low and 4200 on high.

SSD it not worth investing in. For faster loading just get a 10000-15000 RPM HDD it will be cheaper and have much more space.

aj7418

27 July 2010 - 05:59 AM

I am due to recieve my PC in parts all from new egg in the next 1-2 days. I chose the I5 750 but the rest is very similar, same exact ram etc.

I bet you will bench over 5k if you overclock. Looks like a sweet build though!

As far as the SSD, I did choose to get a 40gig cheaper intel version (was around 115$), I'll let you know how well that works in a week or so.

veveaucent

27 July 2010 - 07:20 AM

I got the alienware Aurora so the case comes with CPU liquid cooling and an 850W power supply.
CPU
I have an overclocked Intel i5 Core 930 Quad 2.8GHz that's overclocked to 3.36GHz
RAM
2X3GB 1333MHz three channel RAM
HD
7200RPM 1TB HD
GPU
I have two, both the crossfire ATI Radeon 5870 1GB

Right now I'm getting 6100 on low 4500 on high, I'm pretty sure my hard drive is slowing things down, I may put a second one in and run it through RAID configuration so it can load the game from both drives simultaneously, the faster i can get the data from the HD to the CPU/GPU the more frames I can produce. What do you guys think

Skybreaker07

27 July 2010 - 09:10 AM

AMD 1055T especially on a 3.6ghz overclock do not come close to scaling the potential of an i5 760 (2.8) ghz overclocked to 3.6ghz. An i5 would score 10-15 more fps than an AMD hexacore (1055t). AMD have been proven to be unstable and show less FPS when overclocked highly. I would suggest you get an I5/I7 if you are gaming.

Skybreaker07

27 July 2010 - 09:13 AM

veveaucent, on 27 July 2010 - 08:20 AM, said:

I have no idea what you are worrying about, sounds like you are more obsessed with achieving the highest score as possible and you forgot that this is a flawed benchmarking device which uses a window instead of full screen. People in beta using laptops to test this game in are using default settings with a score of 200-2500 and report of little to no lag with 25-30 fps.