Guild Wars 2

I have this mobo:

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P6X58DE/

I’m currently running a Radeon 5970 GPU. Can the above take a 7990 or a Titan and, if so, could I see a significant FPS increase?

Other specs:
i7 980x @ 4ghz (cooled on air)
6 MB DDR3 @800mhz RAM (9-9-9-24)
C: drive 10K Velociraptor
D: 60gb SSD (Crucial C300 and this is where GW2 resides)
Corsair 1K PSU
Corsair Obsidian 700D case
Creative Titanium Fatal1ty Champion
Win7 64bit Pro SP1 OEM
Couple of optical drives
Couple of extra Apache 120mm fans

GW2 performs better on Nvidia cards

As I suggested earlier on the other thread go for Gtx780 instead of Titan same gpu but 350$ cheaper or go for 7990 if you dont mind possibility of Crossfire bugs/drivers. 7990 is better than both titan and 780 since its dual gpu. Your mobo will not cause any problems
Just putting the same link i put on the other thread for you to compare it.. (Pci-e 2.0 @16x equals to Pci-e 3.0 @8x) so it should be fine as long its not as low as 4xbandwidth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfXALgE7mVM

Flatley.1620:

I have this mobo:

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P6X58DE/

I’m currently running a Radeon 5970 GPU. Can the above take a 7990 or a Titan and, if so, could I see a significant FPS increase?

Other specs:
i7 980x @ 4ghz (cooled on air)
6 MB DDR3 @800mhz RAM (9-9-9-24)
C: drive 10K Velociraptor
D: 60gb SSD (Crucial C300 and this is where GW2 resides)
Corsair 1K PSU
Corsair Obsidian 700D case
Creative Titanium Fatal1ty Champion
Win7 64bit Pro SP1 OEM
Couple of optical drives
Couple of extra Apache 120mm fans

Either of those cards will work, neither would I recommend for Guild Wars 2 because they are overkill. If you plan on playing other games they will be good, but Guild Wars 2 is more CPU dependent in some areas than GPU dependent. You would see a huge FPS increase in areas of the game that are not large WvW battles or large dynamic events because those areas of the game are more CPU dependent than GPU dependent.

Ilithis Mithilander.3265:

Either of those cards will work, neither would I recommend for Guild Wars 2 because they are overkill. If you plan on playing other games they will be good, but Guild Wars 2 is more CPU dependent in some areas than GPU dependent. You would see a huge FPS increase in areas of the game that are not large WvW battles or large dynamic events because those areas of the game are more CPU dependent than GPU dependent.

Well, the thing is, my CPU is at 4ghz and before the 2nd July update everything ran fine. I’ve now had to change some of the settings but in LA, I can only move around @ a max of 7-12 fps with “best performance” selected.

Are you saying that 4ghz doesn’t cut it any more?

Flatley.1620:

Ilithis Mithilander.3265:

Either of those cards will work, neither would I recommend for Guild Wars 2 because they are overkill. If you plan on playing other games they will be good, but Guild Wars 2 is more CPU dependent in some areas than GPU dependent. You would see a huge FPS increase in areas of the game that are not large WvW battles or large dynamic events because those areas of the game are more CPU dependent than GPU dependent.

Well, the thing is, my CPU is at 4ghz and before the 2nd July update everything ran fine. I’ve now had to change some of the settings but in LA, I can only move around @ a max of 7-12 fps with “best performance” selected.

Are you saying that 4ghz doesn’t cut it any more?

Nope, I’m not saying that because that is new information you have brought to the thread. I am not familiar with the performance you were getting before, I was simply answering the question you posed. 4Ghz on an antiquated architecture like our own is not going to cut it for large WvW battles and large dynamic events. Our FPS will suffer more than those with an updated architecture, like ivy bridge and haswell.

However, your FPS that you stated is quite low for what your hardware spec is. Perhaps checking your thermals would be a good place to start.

Flatley.1620:

I have this mobo:

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P6X58DE/

I’m currently running a Radeon 5970 GPU. Can the above take a 7990 or a Titan and, if so, could I see a significant FPS increase?

Yes it will run those cards. Guild wars 2 isn’t really a fan of Crossfire but if you plan on getting the 7990 for other games as well then by all means, go for it. The Titan I believe is just slightly less powerful than the 7990 but is a single GPU so it wouldn’t be held back by what dual GPUs have such as not supported in every game, SLI and Crossfire.

Fuzzion.2504:

GW2 performs better on Nvidia cards

They run the same.

Though if you do get a new card, I want your 5970. ( ‘-’)

Ilithis Mithilander.3265:

Nope, I’m not saying that because that is new information you have brought to the thread. I am not familiar with the performance you were getting before, I was simply answering the question you posed. 4Ghz on an antiquated architecture like our own is not going to cut it for large WvW battles and large dynamic events. Our FPS will suffer more than those with an updated architecture, like ivy bridge and haswell.

However, your FPS that you stated is quite low for what your hardware spec is. Perhaps checking your thermals would be a good place to start.

I did a thermal check a few days back in response to Anet helping me out. At that time, my GPU was around mid-60’s both idle and in-game (odd, but there you are). So, I had my rig cleaned out with compressed air, and it’s now dust free and looks like it’s just been built.

My GPU thermals are now down to the low 50’s but I still have nasty FPS in build up areas like LA.

My CPU hasn’t had any heat issues. I’ve run Speccy, GPU temp, CPU-z, and an Unigine test which all tell me my rig is fine.

These FPS issues only happened since the 2nd July patch so my suspicion is that something in there is throttling my performance somehow but it’s not a common occurrence across the player base.

I have to admit to being a little bit stumped and that’s why I was looking into new GPU as an option.

An observation. What do you make of this? Firstly, I ramped every graphical option up to maximum and took a screen shot of the resultant FPS – in case the image is too small, it reads 25FPS. This was taken in a WvWvW area near the Asura gates and turned away from any structure:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/flatleythebard/images/flatley%20in%20best%20poss%20appearence%20turned%20away%20from%20buildings.jpg

Next, I left the graphics settings as is and turned back towards the gates and towards some structures. In case you can’t read it, the FPS is 9.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/flatleythebard/images/flatley%20in%20best%20poss%20appearence%20turned%20towards%20buildings.jpg

To me, it looks like some increase in bandwidth to display structures has increased. Would that be a fair point?

Cheers.

Flatley.1620:

An observation. What do you make of this? Firstly, I ramped every graphical option up to maximum and took a screen shot of the resultant FPS – in case the image is too small, it reads 25FPS. This was taken in a WvWvW area near the Asura gates and turned away from any structure:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/flatleythebard/images/flatley%20in%20best%20poss%20appearence%20turned%20away%20from%20buildings.jpg

Next, I left the graphics settings as is and turned back towards the gates and towards some structures. In case you can’t read it, the FPS is 9.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/flatleythebard/images/flatley%20in%20best%20poss%20appearence%20turned%20towards%20buildings.jpg

To me, it looks like some increase in bandwidth to display structures has increased. Would that be a fair point?

Cheers.

Likely to do with the fact you are practically staring at the ground in the first picture and away from everyone and everything that your computer has to render in the second screenshot.