Guild Wars 2

My PC is getting old and I’m thinking with HoT coming out soon, it’s time to build anew.

The only issue is I’m not sure what specs I want to be using, I’m looking for a PC that can play GW2 on Ultra without Supersample retaining easily 60fps in “empty” zones and around 30 in the newer zones Teq, Jormag yada yada… Current resolution is 1366×768 but I am planning on getting a new 1080 monitor next year January ish time so…

I don’t think I really need to say this but Intel only, AMD is cheap and cheerful I know but not what I’m looking for.

My budget is £500-600 ( ~$770-~$920), I also don’t have a spare windows key but I’ve excluded this from the budget so no need to worry there.

If any of you guys/girls can help me out that’d be amazing been a long time since I built and I haven’t kept up to date with whats on the market these days.

60FPS on Ultra requires quite a build. Your best bet is to look at the price of the 6600K or 4690K as a baseline, and for the GPU a R9 280x or GTX760 or better(Look at benchmarks). But your budget might be limiting due to the CPU+Motherboard being nearly 50% of it.

The only setting that is going to pose issues is that character limit setting. Even on a top end rig, leaving that to highest setting causes issues with some world bosses (OOM crashes). so even if you do run on Ultra settings, I suggest setting that to High or Medium.

Yeah I don’t plan on running with maxed out character limit I don’t mind culling in PvE and I very rarely WvW but when I do I tend to turn down the Character model quality.

Edit: Forgot to say thanks I’ll have a look at the 6600k/4690k and what sort of GPU I can get. If my budget isnt big enough to get what I wan’t then I guess I’ll have to rather lower my expectations or try to get more money behind it.

If you are building with GW2 mainly in mind. Get the fastest CPU you can buy. For your budget that would be the 6600K or 4690K. Then Plan to overclock it to 4.4ghz+. The stock intel cooler can take those CPUs at about 4.2ghz before you need to move to a better cooling solution. You just need to make sure the Intake fan on that case is blowing across the cooler.

Even an older GPU, like a HD7790/R7-260x/R7-360x(the same card…), can get really good FPS for this game. On ultra you wont get 60FPS with those kinda cards but you can still get really good appearance for the money against those cards.

With a G3258 clocked at 4.2ghz and a HD5770, rolling medium to high game settings, I was getting 80-90FPS at 1080p with open areas. Zergs and such still yielded sub 20FPS.

Just to give you perspective

Ok, well I’ve been messing about doing a bit of digging,

The best I can seem to do in my budget is:
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/Splunksy/saved/4pqfrH

I may though it’d be a pain be able to stretch to:

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/Splunksy/saved/TMqfrH

Both with plans to overclock the CPU hence the non stock fan