Guild Wars 2

Hey all, I’m looking into building my first desktop for gaming specifically for WvW play. I’d like to keep the budget under 800 after shipping preferably in the 5-600 dollar range. It would be from scratch I’d need a case, operating system and all the other parts minus the mouse, keyboard, and monitor. I’d prefer if buy all from one site such as Newegg or Tigerdirect. On some of the sites I was looking into they are saying you can upgrade for free from Windows 7 to 8, I’m currently using Windows Vista at the moment and was curious on peoples opinions on Windows 8 if they’re using it over Vista and Windows 7.

I want the computer to run large WvW battles at 30 or higher FPS is the main thing.

The monitor I’m going to be using has 3d capabilities so if the computer could run under 3d settings that would be awesome but not required.

Link to monitor
http://www.amazon.com/LG-DM2350-Class-Cinema-Monitor/dp/B006CCXFF2/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t

newegg.com should be your one stop shop

Stick to Windows 7. Win8 will have bugs and issues when it comes out and will hamper ur gaming experiences.

That’s a tight budget for a 3d vision capable system, basically figure 3d vision will half your fps.

CPU seems to be the most important for GW2 (at least at the moment, who knows what optimization they will make)

good call building your own you will be able to build a fine rig for that price that should be able to keep consistent 30fps during large scale battles (not maxed of course)

My advice would be to create an account at overclock.net and ask the guys there to help build your rig for your budget…not that the GW2 community isnt capable but that community is the best for helping with new builders IMO

good luck!

Alright will do on the overclock.net thanks for the info everyone.

o also that monitor is a passive 3d monitor, so i dont think you would be using nvidia 3d vision for that (maybe nvidia 3dtv play?) check into tridef 3d for that particular model if you want to try it out.

Ah okay didn’t know, saw 3d figured I was good to go.