Final Fantasy XIV

Get it, try it out, it's in beta now before the release in late august.

They don't try to reinvent the wheel or anything with this one, they've acknowledged that. They have instead taken some of the best aspects from a lot of MMO's (WoW, Rift, SWTOR, etc.) and combined them into one.

I tried SWTOR, I tried playing RIFT, and I played WoW hardcore for years. This is the first MMO that I've really gotten into since WoW. It looks very promising, and is much more complex an interesting than WoW ever was!

Ok, I'll give it a shot.

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I'm trying to run the benchmark thing just because. I have DX11 on this computer, yet it says I can't do it because I don't have DX9. Fun times.

Ok, got the Benchmark thing working. Not a bad score.

Signed up for Beta. Hope to get an invite. Would love to check it out and see if it is worth a shit. I may buy if it is.

Boom! E-peen!!!!!

Let me try that again at your resolution.

Damn, you still beat me.

5815 for my 1920x1080 attempt.

What hardware are you running?

core i5 3570k
8 Gig Mushkin Ram
nVidia Geforce GTX660
Mushkin SSD
Gigabyte Z77 Motherboard

Hmm. I don't get it. Maybe I don't have something configured correctly.

i7 3770k
32 Gig Corsair Vengeance
MSI GTX660
Samsung 840 SSD
Asus Z77 Sabertooth Mobo

I'll have to figure out what's bogging the system down.

He could have a 660TI or might have an EVGA card or something rather than MSI which might have a slightly higher core-clock. That would cause the small 200 point difference.

EVGA GTX 660 (Non Ti, Non Superclocked)
No overclock.

I did do an SSD specific install of Win 7. I turns off a lot of the crap that is not needed in the OS due to the speed of the SSD. That could be some of it.

How do you set that up?

btw EVGA GTX660 has a slightly higher core clock and boost clock than the MSI. Just sayin'

This is awesome.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1156654/sean ... -ssds-hdds

Rn through that. More than anything I have found that it turns off some shit that can extend the life of your SSD. There are some things that can improve performance in there though.

My setup looks like this:

Are you liquid-cooling your processor?

Yeah. Corsair H110. I tried OCing it to 4.5 ghz in the bios, but I'm not entirely sure that I did it right. I've never tried OCing anything before, so I have no idea if it was successful or not.

It certainly isn't needed.

I'll take a picture of my heatsink when I get home. The thing is god damn massive. It also keeps my processor at like 28F and I can't hear it so I'm pretty impressed by it.

I may not need it, but I have it. My system is whisper quiet.

i meant you don't need the overclock, not that you don't need the liquid cooling. you won't see any performance boost at all from it

I went with the Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo. Best bang for the buck out there. Half or more less than the big boy air coolers for only a degree or two of difference.

ignore the dust and horrible cabling

http://imgur.com/a/lUGBO

this thing was so fucking huge i didn't think it would fit in my case.

Brother and I will be playing this, you guys pick a server? I want to play on a non legacy server.