How does your macbook run the game? Your graphics at least don't meet the minimum spec apparently.
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<shrug> I dunno - it just does. It doesn't run it *really* well or anything but it's playable..Comment
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Are the minimum specs on the website even accurate? I seem to remember bringing up the issue previously.Comment
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It'll run, but like crap, you'd have to switch everything to low, or off. Upgrade the GPU as soon as you can afford too. The motherboard has inbuilt GPU, is that normal to be given both? I've never built a system with both options. PSU is pretty poor too.Comment
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Thought it sounded too good to be true, have read some very unflattering things about the company too so might have a look elsewhere.
Is there anywhere you could recommend rep, for around the 400-450 mark? Don't really care too much about how good the components are, just that it will at least run the game (will probably be switching it out for the PS3 version anyway until I can afford upgrades)Comment
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FFXIV doesn't run great on most of our high end machines. My machine will run anything that's thrown at it over the last 3 years, everything set to high, full resoultions at 60fps, Resi 5, Batman: AA, Street Fighter IV etc. FFXIV most things are set to medium, low or even off, I'm lucky to hit 30fps. It's a real resource hog. For £400-450 you're unlikely to get anything decent, even if you build it yourself. They're that price for a reason, they're usually full of cheap nasty components that I wouldn't really recommend to anyone.
That isn't to say you won't get anything for that price range, it's just what you will get won't be very good.Last edited by Rep; 02-12-2010, 13:35.Comment
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It's my budget for the time being though. I'm not just after one for this though, that rig I linked to should at least handle my several years worth of PC gaming backlog without too much trouble. That card at least can handle something like Fallout 3 on highest settings with reasonable (30ish) fps.
Anyway, is there an alternative store you know of I can get one built for around that figure? I really don't fancy my chances with Dino PC.Comment
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Would this one fare any better then?
Little bit over budget but shouldn't be too much of a deal breaker.Comment
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That's a MicroATX board, so space could be a limitation in the future, and it doesn't support i7 Chipsets if you plan on upgrading that.
450w PSU, again that's pushing it and any future upgrades will probably need higher one. That pc specialist advert on the front of the case is abit nasty too.
You could do better for £520.Comment
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Well this is harder than I thought it would be. I know it's not a great budget but it's not mine so I have to roll with the punches so to speak.
I'd just go into PC World tomorrow and whack down a grand on the best looking rig there if I could
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lol PC World, I went in there once about six years ago, I've never been in one since.
I had a 5 minute mess around on that site, It won't let me post the page since I choose my on specs, so have a look around the websites for something like this
That came to £577 inc VAT, I'm sure you could find it cheaper.Processor (CPU) AMD PHENOM II X4 955 (3.20GHz/8MB CACHE/AM3) - BLACK EDITION
Motherboard ASUS® M4A78LT-M: mATX MAINBOARD, DDR3, USB 2.0, SATA 3.0Gb/s
Memory (RAM) 4GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 2GB)
Graphics Card 1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX460 SE GDDR5 PCI EXPRESS - DirectX® 11
2nd Graphics Card NONE
Memory - 1st Hard Disk 500GB SERIAL ATA 3-Gb/s HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (7,200rpm)
2nd Hard Disk NONE
RAID NONE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
2nd DVD/BLU-RAY Drive NONE
Memory Card Reader INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT
Power Supply 600W Quiet 80 PLUS Quad Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£59)Comment
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Cheers for that, will see what I can do.
Edit: How about this one? http://www.cyberpowersystem.co.uk/sy...ilent_Edition/
Reasonably priced and room for upgrading I'm sure.Last edited by Daragon; 02-12-2010, 15:03.Comment
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I don't know what I'm looking at, the website gives me a headache, that's some shocking poor design.Comment
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Does look a bit **** doesn't it. Honestly, I've looked around all the stores I can think of and I just can't find anything I'm happy with. Thought I'd settled on one until I noticed it had no OS included
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