Originally Posted by
Omecle
The fact that getting more RAM is not much more expensive at all, and the fact that the general MMO community do not just run one program at any one time doesn't mean you only need 2-3GB of RAM. Seriously, I only have 4GB of RAM at the moment, but it'd cost me maybe $30AUD to buy another 4GB giving me 8GB total (this is only DDR2 but still...). That's like... not even close to being how much FFXIV itself will cost.
Even if you weren't playing FFXIV, I'd argue you should get 4GB or more RAM anyway. It helps greatly with multitasking and the general run of software. I'm not arguing that you must have 24GB of RAM to run this game, I'm arguing that by now you should really have 4GB or more. And you wonder why people always complain that their computer runs :bou::bou::bou::bou:ty a year after they bought it...
However, this benchmark seems a lot more GPU intensive than anything else.
Btw. ATI have nice cards at much better prices than NVIDIA. But ATI drivers are just so bad that I might just end up going NVIDIA next time...