Guild Wars 2

Hey there i am building a system and i want it to run gw2 zergs very well. Please dont tell me about my parts i just want to know how it will run.

Cpu – i7 4790k
Gpu – EVGA Gtx 960 SSC 2 way SLI
Ram: 16gb Fury x 1800
Drive: SSD Kingston 120 gb
Mobo: Msi Sli z97 Krait edition

Cheers,
Malriand – Gw2

CPU is what will make the difference in GW2 and the 4790k is great.
EDIT: Some situations like World Bosses and some zerg fights will drop your FPS no matter or what, in general you’ll be able to have 60+ FPS all the time

I will tell you about your parts and say they look very nice.

Also I use an AMD 9590 fx, and doing a comparison test on…can’t remember the website now, you should be just fine running GW2. You’ll have very quick load times and can experience the beauty of the game very easily. For big Zerg fights you’ll need to tone down your settings a little bit, but mainly just the hi res player model one.

Also what is your monitor because that can make a difference in what settings to turn on and leave off, saving you some processing power and frame drop?

I got the regular i7 4790 (I’m just not an overclocker), GTX 720 (or is it 760? I forget as I’m at work and my gaming PC is at home), and the game runs beautifully. Massive zergs aren’t really much of a problem on high settings even with all the particle effects going on. FPS might drop below 60, but it’s not too bad. Looks great too.

I’ve just rebuilt my pc ~2 weeks ago (spec in signature) I’m already blown away by the performance and it’s not totally finished yet!

My old system (AMD AM2 5800 with 9500GT card) used to run at 20~40 frames in normal play and 1~4 frames during high population World Bosses. Load times could be as much kitten minutes for a high population Divinitys Reach (honestly, 5 minutes to load a map) and as much as 90 seconds just to load into an empty Queensdale) and all of this was with turned off or low graphics settings in game.

Now I’m seeing 60 to 95 fps during normal play (average around 70~80 for 90% of the time) World bosses go as low as 20~30 now. Div’ Reach now takes maybe 30 seconds if it’s full, and I can load Queensdale in as little as 6 seconds (waypointing around maps also takes a ~6 second load time)

And all this with the i7 onboard graphics (I know my sig says I already have the gtx960, didn’t want to have to change it when I can actually afford to buy it)
Obviously frame rates rely the in game settings, but with the 960 you should be able to have med/high settings and still see those kind of numbers, if not higher.

You may be able to allow the motherboard to control the OC (mine is set to auto/dynamic) so i’m not always running at 4.4GHz, but always inbetween 4~4.4 when playing.
Also you WILL need to throw the standard out of the box CPU cooler in the bin and invest in a decent cooler (which your spec list doesn’t show) My choice was Arctic Cooling i30 mainly because I’ve used and trusted AC for years now.
With this setup my average CPU temp is 30deg idle, 40~50deg gaming with a ~1 second load spike up to as much as 66deg (celcius) bearing in mind that I’m using the CPU graphics so my temps could actually be a little high compared to using a dedicated graphics card.

EDIT: CPU % usage; my old 2 core 2 thread system used up to 98% of its capable GHz, now I see between 23~30% with the 4 core 8 threads.

Fans, plenty of fans pulling fresh air in. I have four, 1CPU controlled, other three are self controlling arctic F12TC with the sensors stuffed behind the VRM/PCH heatsink (I believe) the more I game the hotter these get, the faster the fans suck, so right now while I sit here not gaming I can’t hear the fans, at all.

P.S. don’t be put off by the i5 is better than i7 argument people on here have, I personally think they are jealous that they only had i5 money (I’m joking but you know where I’m coming from)

Too Long, Didn’t Read??? What Belzebu said…

I run a very similar set as yours, but with lower ram (Only 8gb) and higher Vga (Gtx 970).

I’ve been running in max setting very smoothly and no problems at all. Even in teq, my dps go down to a minimum of ~25 fps, what is still fine enough for a ultra settings.

rich.3901

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Wouldn’t you want most of your fans facing out though?

Also to the op, yes invest in a water cooling system if you can, worth every penny for the extra overclock room and even just running normally.

I tried to build my PC cheaply but In the long run it was more expensive because I had to update sooner. Which honestly, your set up looks fine, just don’t skimp on the cooling.

I run that, works like a charm. Get enough people together though and it does slow down, but I have to think there’s some stuff on their side playing a part in that. Basically teq burn phases I’ll slow down a little, and 3 way clashes in WvW I can feel it coming before it does.

TheLastNobody.8319:

rich.3901

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Wouldn’t you want most of your fans facing out though?

Also to the op, yes invest in a water cooling system if you can, worth every penny for the extra overclock room and even just running normally.

I tried to build my PC cheaply but In the long run it was more expensive because I had to update sooner. Which honestly, your set up looks fine, just don’t skimp on the cooling.

With fans, you want one out for every 2 in, to keep air pressure up and circulating.

TheLastNobody.8319:

rich.3901

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Wouldn’t you want most of your fans facing out though?

No, personally I wouldn’t, not this time around. The last time I had that set up I ended up with a pc full of dust, hair and fluff.
This time i’ve fitted dust filters over the inlet fans and allow only the PSU to extract, allowing the air pressure to push the rest of the “excess” air out.

BrotherBelial.3094:

TheLastNobody.8319:

rich.3901

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Wouldn’t you want most of your fans facing out though?

Also to the op, yes invest in a water cooling system if you can, worth every penny for the extra overclock room and even just running normally.

I tried to build my PC cheaply but In the long run it was more expensive because I had to update sooner. Which honestly, your set up looks fine, just don’t skimp on the cooling.

With fans, you want one out for every 2 in, to keep air pressure up and circulating.

hm interesting, most sites I went on said you want as many fans to be going out, apart from ones far away from your motherboard/CPU. So if you don’t mind my asking, I have a Corsair h100i mounted to the top of my case, two fans below to push through and out the radiator, and two 200mm on top to pull. One 200 MM on the side going out, and the 120mm back one.

So all in all I have 6 fans near the MB and then an additional 3 up front, but those 3 primarily are fo the hard drives.

Any suggestions you have that can improve improve my cooling? Case is an NZXT phantom. My processor idles at 30-35 and at 100% only gets around 56 Celsius.

TheLastNobody.8319:

hm interesting, most sites I went on said you want as many fans to be going out, apart from ones far away from your motherboard/CPU. So if you don’t mind my asking, I have a Corsair h100i mounted to the top of my case, two fans below to push through and out the radiator, and two 200mm on top to pull.

Imagine the PC case just like an car engine. The engine sits in a “case” and is full of hot air. The fans on the car radiator pull cold air into this space cooling the radiator on the way, and allowing this fresh but warmer air to push the even hotter air out of the gaps (or out under the car in this case) otherwise the engine would be using the hot air created by the engine to cool itself down, which is counter productive to what you are asking the cooling system to do.
If I had gone for water cooling and not had the case that I have, I would have had the fans mounted on the inside of the radiator sucking cold air through the radiator and blowing it into the case. Now that sounds counterproductive does it not (kitten filter ftw) but if the rest of the fans are also sucking in cool air, it will get mixed and blown out as normal.

But saying all of that, my case, Bitfenix Outlaw in white, with 2 solid side panels (a factory F-up it should have side fans) has holes already in the back to pass the water pipes through and mount the radiator outside and away from the case, so I guess it could also come down to the kind of pc case you have.

rich.3901:

TheLastNobody.8319:

hm interesting, most sites I went on said you want as many fans to be going out, apart from ones far away from your motherboard/CPU. So if you don’t mind my asking, I have a Corsair h100i mounted to the top of my case, two fans below to push through and out the radiator, and two 200mm on top to pull.

Imagine the PC case just like an car engine. The engine sits in a “case” and is full of hot air. The fans on the car radiator pull cold air into this space cooling the radiator on the way, and allowing this fresh but warmer air to push the even hotter air out of the gaps (or out under the car in this case) otherwise the engine would be using the hot air created by the engine to cool itself down, which is counter productive to what you are asking the cooling system to do.
If I had gone for water cooling and not had the case that I have, I would have had the fans mounted on the inside of the radiator sucking cold air through the radiator and blowing it into the case. Now that sounds counterproductive does it not (kitten filter ftw) but if the rest of the fans are also sucking in cool air, it will get mixed and blown out as normal.

But saying all of that, my case, Bitfenix Outlaw in white, with 2 solid side panels (a factory F-up it should have side fans) has holes already in the back to pass the water pipes through and mount the radiator outside and away from the case, so I guess it could also come down to the kind of pc case you have.

Ty! I will reconsider my fan configuration taking in all this new advice, so far haven’t had any problems but never hurts to get more information. And yeah my case is a bit cramped for space. I have plenty of air circulation but it’s not like I have abundant room. Like I think my radiator you can fit the depth of 2 quarters through before it touches my high tower RAM

Also sorry op, sorta high jacked your topic!

Ah, we might have swayed the topic a bit banana shaped, but I think it’s all relevent, especially as we don’t know how much help they need, or indeed how much they know, or have taken into consideration the topic of keeping cool

rich.3901:

Ah, we might have swayed the topic a bit banana shaped, but I think it’s all relevent, especially as we don’t know how much help they need, or indeed how much they know, or have taken into consideration the topic of keeping cool

Indeed, many people over look case cooling. I’ve only got 3 Fans in my Corsair Spec 03 case. two in the front, and one on top. One High pressure fan over my HHD’s one at graphics card height, and one above the CPU to pull heat out. I’m planning on getting another 2 at some point, as heat is not a problem at the moment, I’m not in a rush to get them. but once I do, It will be another on the top to pull out, and one on the back pulling in, so the CPU is getting cool air all the time, and have an exhaust above it, so it’s not hanging around.

Hey all thanks for the replies! Looks like i will be fine however i do have the h60 cooler so if needed i can OC