I got the majority of the money back from when I had to bail my Dad out last year which is great but now I'm stuck thinking on what to spend the funds on because there are a number of things that I have been putting off. I've probably settled on PC parts which is why I'm in this thread but it hurts so much knowing that £500 does not go as far as it used to and there are just so many things that need upgrading thanks to FFXIV and the fact that this PC is now 11 years old (although I have upgraded the graphics card once already).
These are the FFXIV recommended specs:
Minimum System Requirements:
OS: Windows® 10 64 bit, Windows® 11 64 bit
Memory: 8GB
Available HDD/SSD space: 140GB or more on HDD
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 or higher, AMD Radeon RX 480 or higher
CPU: Intel® Core™i7-6700 or higher
Screen Resolution: 1280x720
Recommended System Requirements:
OS: Windows® 10 64 bit, Windows® 11 64 bit
CPU: Intel® Core™i7-9700 or higher
Memory: 16GB
Available HDD/SSD space: 140GB or more on SSD
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 or higher, AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT or higher
Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
And I'm guessing that this means I'll need to upgrade my CPU and GPU. For reference my CPU is a Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4670K CPU @ 3.40GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.4GHz and my GPU is a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB.
I know that replacing these with something more up to speed and with a little future proofing is going to eat up more than the £500 surplus I was given but I wanted to check with you more knowledgeable folk for ideas because I am not totally conversant on the minutia of PC part specifics.