Question About Running 14

ok this is probably going to sound lame. My computer is about 5+ years old it's a dell dimension 4600 but it's very well upgraded let me post my system stats

p4 3ghz
2gh ram
nvidia 6800 ultra
sound blaster x-fi elite pro
250gb hdd

ok well this is the jest of the system, yes I know it's extremely old but I was wondering if there is a slim possibility that I would be able to play ffxiv on this machine? I also thought I could buy a new video card 1gb ati hd series agp cards for like 100$. Maybe if I get this card it would help me be able to play? Or is it a waste?
any type of feedback on this would be appreciated. Just can't afford to put down 500+ on a new computer unfortunatly for ffxiv

Not likely I'm afraid. Specs might change before release, but if that benchmarking test was any indication you don't have a chance :(

You will be lucky to get 10fps on Low. I suggest getting a new Power supply then upgrading to a newer card....If your PC has enough room for expansion that is. Probably be a good idea to buy 2 more GB of ram

have a 500 watt psu...I could do the ram and the latest video card...that would be like 200$

I pulled out most of the stuff from the system and installed new parts

that CPU isn't going to be strong enough to run XIV imo.

Where can I find the XIV Benchmark test?

:( yeah it's not dual core..

Possibly could go for an ATI 5750/5770,the 800 series might be out of your reach. Think they are about £100-120. Your CPU seems okay, i think the minimum is 2.9GHz per core to run XIV? I dont remember

Nevermind i thought it was a dual :(

here

Here ya go.

Oh ***. I have mad delay skillz.

You can play with that machine.

But the GeForce 6 is too slow for high, and the P4 3.0 is too slow for low for anything to be enjoyable.

You could easily find a CPU + MB + Memory set today for around $200-$300 and stuff it in your DELL case.

It's a temporary solution at least and would at least double your current performance.

I think you'll find, you got 'd

You call 10fps playing? lol.

"...for anything to be enjoyable."

I don't think it would even be that high. My laptop beats his computer in every way and I only got like a 2000 on the High quality benchmark.

XIV is going to be brutal on every laptop for at least 2-3 years.

My brand new laptop's graphics card sucks, Everything else is fine, I can't even open the Benchmark for FF14...guess I'll have to wait till the PS3 version comes out. I'm not spending $1200 on a pc that will run it so I can play the game for 2 years since I just bough this one back in Febuary.

For 750 USD you can get one that will run it on MINIMUM settings. This would not be a laptop though, it would be a desktop PC. Laptops are generally weaker unless you wanna spend 3k on one, even then the desktop you make for 3k would be better.

my PC specs...

AMD athlon 64 X2 dual core 3800+ 2.2GHz
3.25 GB of ram
GTX 285 Nvidia 1024MB

nothing wonderful but i can run 2 FFXI accounts with firefox itunes and kparser and i was thinking to myself im goin go have to upgrade to play FFXIV

It'll run, processor might choke your FPS a little though.

Should be sufficient...

...for running Tetra Master II. >.>;;