The Benchmark Thread

[Mirage]

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...

I think I'm marginally GPU limited with my 8800 GT card, actually :p, a friend of mine's got the same video card as me, but a much better CPU, he scores about 100 points more than me :p.
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Yeah, i actually lose only 100 points on the benchmark by going from no antialiasing to 4x :p.

Anyway yeah, RAM is good and all. I just really don't think you'd benefit much from more than 4 GB RAM unless you're multitasking way more than "most people". I mean I've currently got 1.5 GB free (though actually used by superfetch cache, but that doesn't count :p) and that's with photoshop using 500 MB. I never saw the FF14 client use more than 5-600 MB.
Of course, in a year or two, it might be a bit low with 4 GB.
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Just checked DDR2 prices around here. they start at 600 kr (108 australian dollars) plus shipping. That's for 2x 2GB