Guild Wars 2

Hello

I have a laptop (Lenovo y50-70) that I use now for everything gaming, work, studies and so on but I think it would be much nicer to have a separate gaming pc because otherwise I need to switch between different operating systems which takes some time.

I don’t know a lot about a good game pc build, I don’t know much about amd vs intel. The only thing I want is a price around 600 euros, I know a very good site where I can buy good game pcs (I could build a pc on my own but these prices of the pcs they sell are very low already)

So if someone could give me some general advice would be greatly appreciated, otherwise the options this site has (dragoncomputers) are, they all are around 600euro:

- AMD FX 6300 6-Core 6×3.5Ghz Nvidia Geforce GTX970-4GB graphic card 500GB HDD 8GB DDR3 DVDRW

- AMD FX 8320 8-Core 8×3.2Ghz Nvidia Geforce GTX960 2GB graphic card 500GB SATA3 HDD 8GB DDR3 DVDRW

- Intel Core i5 4460 4-Core 4×3.2GHz Nvidia Geforce GTX 950 2GB graphic card razendsnelle 250GB SSD 8GB DDR3 DVDRW

- AMD FX-8350 8-Core 8×4.0GHz (turbo: 4.2Ghz) R9 380-2GB graphic card 500GB SATA3 HDD 8GB DDR3 DVDRW

- AMD FX-6300 6-Core 6×3.5GHz (turbo: 4.1Ghz) XFX 380X 4GB graphic card superfast 250GB SSD 8GB DDR3 DVDRW

greetings

Go intel. Better single-core performance than amd, which benefits GW2 the most.

Thanks a lot for the response.

So as you have mentioned I’ll go for an intel, if I add 20-30 euros I can buy better pcs with intel however I don’t know if there is a lot difference for gaming between different i5 processors.

I got the option between:

I5 4440, 4460 , 6600 and 6700.

Greetings

Go with Intel one.

ares.1032:

Thanks a lot for the response.

So as you have mentioned I’ll go for an intel, if I add 20-30 euros I can buy better pcs with intel however I don’t know if there is a lot difference for gaming between different i5 processors.

I got the option between:

I5 4440, 4460 , 6600 and 6700.

Greetings

6600

Do those PCs all have the same GPU?

You’d most likely be better off building your own computer though

i5 6600 – think the 6700 is a i7 which is of no great benefit over the 6600 with GW2.

Best would be to buy without a graphics card and plan on adding a RX 860/850/840 later. The i5 6600 will run GW2 without the extra card, but obviously with much poorer graphics quality.

What about the i5-5775c? The mysterious broadwell with iris pro 6200 integrated graphics? If i’m not mistaken it can handle gw2 in 1080p without extra graphics card and without need to gut the graphics quality as much if at all.

True, but everything comes down to price, imo.

The better the iGPU – and hence more costly the CPU – the longer you get to wait for a cost/benefit efficient dGPU upgrade. Giving the big bump in performance that is coming our way with dGPU over the next year or so I would tend to ignore iGPU performance with a mid-price range PC purchase. Different ball-game on a low-budget PC. Just an opinion of course.

while the 5775c and 5675c’s Iris Pro is a really good iGPU, the benefit of these 2 CPUs (and their e3 Xeon counterparts) is that they use the eDRAM as L4 cache, run lower clocks (3.3ghz~) and compete with a stock 4790K at a much much lower TDP.

But the issue with all the Broadwell Desktop chips, they are hard to find close to MSRP, cant find them locally unless you are very lucky, or you are paying the 500+ price tag just for the CPU. And then you are running on a 9 series Chipset with DMI2, PCIE v2 in the Chipset and other limitations then compared to the newer Skylake systems.

Its just almost not even worth considering Broadwell at all anymore.

@Ares, the best option from those you put is the 6600.

About broadwell, I have an i7 5775c.
The Iris pro will only work if playing at 720p at low, and even there the performance is far from desirable.
As a cpu + dgpu, it is a beast, and I use the igpu as the recorder: 1-2 fps drop recording at 1440p 60fps 25000kbps.
However, the 5675c is still as good and quite more cheaper.