It's been so busy this holiday season I barely had time to log on FFXI. I'm excited about the aftermath though. I finally decided to upgrade my PC, the new parts are below.
GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L
3.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E6850
eVGA 512-P3-N802-A1 GeForce 8800GT
Crucial Ballistix 2 GB (2x 1 GB) 1066 DDR2 (PC2 8500)
I only ended up spending $470 on all of this and I'm very pleased with the results. I can dualbox two versions of FFXI in Whitegate at 1880x1410 with the same FPS my old PC had doing one instance in 940x705. This is with high shadows, full animation, etc. compared to the minimalist settings I had before.
