Guild Wars 2

Hello fellow GW2 players I come seeking your wisdom. I’m giving my current computer to my girlfriend because I’m such a good bf (lol) and I will be attempting to put together a new build in order to play GW2 with her. So I wanted your advice as to what graphics card would be a good pick.
My current pc is as follows.

AMD Phenom II x4
GA-770T-USB3
6gb of ram
Radeon HD 6850

Now with this I get around 40 to 60 fps during dungeons and exploring the world and about 30 fps during wvwvw.

Parts already purchased for the new build are.

i5 3570k Ivy Bridge
ASRock z77 extreme4
Corsair Vengeance 8gb

So what would be a good not too expensive graphics card for GW2 to go with the new build. I’m kind of in a budget so something around $300 or less would be good.

Thank you for any and all help. I appreciate it.

As long as you overclock your CPU to 4.5Ghz+ then you’ll get those desired frames in WvW battles. As for a graphics card, you can roll with a variety of cards and get the results you want. If you want to go big or go home:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133452
or you can get something a little more tame and still get the frames you want with a (best to worst) GTX 580, GTX 660Ti, GTX 570, GTX 560Ti 448 edition, and all the Radeon equivalents. You might be able to even get it with a GTX 560Ti or a GTX 660 and their Radeon equivalents.

I advise a 660ti or AMD 7950.

Both roughly same price, but iirc the 7950 is faster with the latets drivers.

So its down to personal preference ..Red ro Green team.

If you wanan go up on the cost then its a chocie between the Nvidia 670 and AMD 7950/7970. The 7970 is faster but a little more pricey.

If u really wanna go costly then get the 680 which is about the same as the AMD 7970.

Dont bother looking at the nvidia 690 or Aftermarket 7990 since SLI and GW2 dont mix well wiht dual gpu cards,, they work ..but 2x 680’s or 2x 7970’s would work better.

On ur budget ur probably looking at a choice between a Lower end Nvidia 670 and the AMD 7950. I would go with the 7950. Becuose you could get a good aftermarket modlel and OC the hell out of it. The 670 you would be limited to a cheaper make and likely couldnt OC it as much. End result being the 7950 would outperform it.

Make sure u buy a good aftermarket coolerl ike the Coolmaster Evo 212 or Noctua NH-D14 for your CPU and OC it as close to 4.5ghz or above as u can. FYI if u get/got the Noctua NH-D14 cooler, u will need ot change from Corsair to G.Skill RAM as most of corsairs RAM is to tall.

Well I guess the 7950 isn’t that expensive.

FYI.

If you go with the 7950, u will loose the ability to run PhysX nativly. since its a Nvidia thing.
If u play games with PhysX and still want it, then u can run it by using an old Nvidia graphics card(a 460 or 560ti would be good) along with the AMD 7950.
There is a custom patch that will install the drivers, files, and registry values needed to make it work.

ill be doing this myself if i end u going AMD when the new graphics cards are released.