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***Chubu*** · (This post was last modified: 03-26-2012 05:06 PM by Chubu.)

Ok, so within the next 2-3 weeks i will be purchasing a new computer. This is what I am looking at so far and would like your comments and opinions.

CPU
Motherboard
Graphic card
RAM
Power Supply
SSD

I would also note that I want to use this setup with three monitors and I'm pretty sure that I can do that with this.

***Anton*** · (This post was last modified: 03-31-2012 06:28 AM by Anton.)

The GTX 680 just came out and is getting some killer reviews. It is also more efficient than past nVidia cards. I'd get one if I wasn't away from home at the moment. Also, there is a new motherboard chipset around the corner (Ivy Bridge). You might be best off waiting for that. In addition you don't need a CPU with 'HD Graphics', I think you could go up a clock speed for less price if you got one without, but you'd probably need to move to the X79 platform. Again, I'd wait for Ivy Bridge it's meant to be pretty awesome.

sanoss · 04-14-2012, 08:14 PM

my wife recently bought me an Nvidia GEforce GTX 560 Ti. I think it was expensive. how does this card measure up anton?

***Anton*** · 04-14-2012, 08:39 PM

The 560Ti is ok, it is at the lower end of the 500 series nVidia cards and the 600 series has just debuted. To give you some idea of performance differences with other current nVidia cards the 580 is ~32% faster than the 560Ti and the 680 is ~64% faster with lower power consumption.

Both of those cards cost a lot more than the 560Ti, so it depends on your budget / requirements. I currently run a 470 and find it to be adequate for most of my gaming needs (which at the moment consist of Mass Effect 3 & Star Wars:The Old Republic). I'm thinking of upgrading to a EVGA 4GB 680 when it is released, but I'm also waiting for a nice set of Ivy Bridge benchmarks before I take the plunge.

I am thinking about going back to FFXIV, have they updated their graphics engine yet? I actually built my current machine for FFXIV.

***Chubu*** · 04-14-2012, 09:22 PM

The engine shouldnt really change for us until 2.0 is up and running.

Would love to have you back, we have been farming ifrit recently Smile

sanoss · (This post was last modified: 04-15-2012 08:02 PM by sanoss.)

I'd come back and dabble if I could change to your server. However gw2 is just so amazing IMO that I don't think ffxiv will stack up to it. The combat system seems Awsome. It's nothing like gw1 thank goodness. But with the new vid card I can run skyrim at ultra settings. I don't think I'll have any issue with GW 2 or ffxiv