Guild Wars 2

So I’m building a new minimal gaming rig. I’m sure that the computer would be able to play it but to what degree would it be able to is my main concern.

(I’m terrible at typing specs in an orderly fashion but I’ll try.)

3.3 six core AMD processor
8 GBs of DDR3 Ram
1 GB of DDR3 Graphics card
120 GB SSD
500 GB Internal Hard Drive
450 Watt power supply

Any other information needed to possibly get me an answer please feel free to ask.

One thing that jumps out to me from the information you gave is ‘1GB of DDR3 Graphics Card’. Afaik, most, if not all, lower end (media graphics) cards come with DDR3 RAM instead of GDDR5 RAM which is for medium to high end graphics cards. Which begs the question, what media graphics card are you looking at? Should be something alone the lines of GT 640.

If it is a media graphics card you’re looking at, then it won’t play GW2 very well. Depending on the card, lowest settings might be the best it could do, or if its a higher end media card, you might be able to pull medium settings out of it.

I recommend getting at least a GTX 650Ti to play GW2 at medium-high settings at 1920×1080 at 30+fps.

That’s plenty of RAM.

As long as that is a quality power supply, that would work, but if you’re looking to keep the computer for 5+ years, I would recommend bumping the wattage up some due to power supplies becoming more inefficient over time. Then, if you get a more powerful graphics card, I would definitely recommend getting at least a 550W power supply. If you plan on upgrading parts over the years, make sure you have enough extra wattage to cover those beefier parts. Also, if you plan on overclocking your processor/graphics card make sure to have enough extra power to do so.

Everything else looks alright. With your processor, WvW and a crowded LA might give you some grief with a lower frame rate than you want. However, everywhere else in the game you should be fine.

Well i understand why he must take such a low graphic cart… You are not going to run much with just 450 Watt.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127584

This is the particular graphics card, I do plan on upgrading in the future. I’m just looking for a temporary cheap fix to quickly get back to this game.

Maggthewook.7301:

So I’m building a new minimal gaming rig. I’m sure that the computer would be able to play it but to what degree would it be able to is my main concern.

(I’m terrible at typing specs in an orderly fashion but I’ll try.)

3.3 six core AMD processor
8 GBs of DDR3 Ram
1 GB of DDR3 Graphics card
120 GB SSD
500 GB Internal Hard Drive
450 Watt power supply

Any other information needed to possibly get me an answer please feel free to ask.

First your wasting money on a SSD that you could be using to add to performance. Bad choice of processors to game for this game I’m guessing its one of these
AMD FX 6100 6-Core Processor
AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition Thuban 3.3GHz,
Unless you already have the AMD motherboard I would buy a i3 3220 over the AMD processors and in that case I would get the fx 4170 and use 1866 MHz memory with it.
The 450 Watt PSU is not to low you could run a 7850 video card with it just fine IF your buying a quality powersupply and not a cheap overrated one. A quality 500/550 would give you more head room.
The video card I would not even think about buying you could add the $ for the SSD to that price and buy a good card. You can always add a SSD later as it will give you no in game performance increase. With that video card and settings to best performance I can see 30/40 FPS just playing the game and maby 15/20 in large events/WVW zergs. (but these could be unplayable also)
Whats everything costing you and are you reusing old parts if so what.

zerk.9701:

Maggthewook.7301:

So I’m building a new minimal gaming rig. I’m sure that the computer would be able to play it but to what degree would it be able to is my main concern.

(I’m terrible at typing specs in an orderly fashion but I’ll try.)

3.3 six core AMD processor
8 GBs of DDR3 Ram
1 GB of DDR3 Graphics card
120 GB SSD
500 GB Internal Hard Drive
450 Watt power supply

Any other information needed to possibly get me an answer please feel free to ask.

First your wasting money on a SSD that you could be using to add to performance. Bad choice of processors to game for this game I’m guessing its one of these
AMD FX 6100 6-Core Processor
AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition Thuban 3.3GHz,
Unless you already have the AMD motherboard I would buy a i3 3220 over the AMD processors and in that case I would get the fx 4170 and use 1866 MHz memory with it.
The 450 Watt PSU is not to low you could run a 7850 video card with it just fine IF your buying a quality powersupply and not a cheap overrated one. A quality 500/550 would give you more head room.
The video card I would not even think about buying you could add the $ for the SSD to that price and buy a good card. You can always add a SSD later as it will give you no in game performance increase. With that video card and settings to best performance I can see 30/40 FPS just playing the game and maby 15/20 in large events/WVW zergs. (but these could be unplayable also)
Whats everything costing you and are you reusing old parts if so what.

The full price for all of this is going to run me about 400 dollars. I understand the money is going to limit the full performance that I want. So, a SSD won’t really benefit much for gaming? I am fairly knowledgeable in computer but SSD is something I’m not well informed on.