Guild Wars 2

Hi there, i’ve been deprived from playing the game at its fullest due to low computer specs.

I’m wrapping my head around upgrading my:
- Pentium® Dual-Core CPU E5300 @ 2.60Ghz
- DDR2 4Gb

to a:
- INTEL – G3240-3.1GHZ
- DDR3 8Gb 1.33Mhz CL9

for 175€ with motherboard included, while keeping my AMD Radeon HD 6670 and my Sata 7200rpm HDD.

With that 3 parts upgrade, will i see a significant boost in performance on GW2, at least enough to get out of the 5fps in world bosses and unplayable WvW? Or will it be so insignificant that i mind as well hold tight for a better upgrade?

Eventually i’m thinking on improving to a i5/7 down the road, considering that the board will be able to handle it.

Thanks in advance for your attention and help.

Ariete.6509:

Hi there, i’ve been deprived from playing the game at its fullest due to low computer specs.

I’m wrapping my head around upgrading my:
- Pentium® Dual-Core CPU E5300 @ 2.60Ghz
- DDR2 4Gb

to a:
- INTEL – G3240-3.1GHZ
- DDR3 8Gb 1.33Mhz CL9

for 175€ with motherboard included, while keeping my AMD Radeon HD 6670 and my Sata 7200rpm HDD.

With that 3 parts upgrade, will i see a significant boost in performance on GW2, at least enough to get out of the 5fps in world bosses and unplayable WvW? Or will it be so insignificant that i mind as well hold tight for a better upgrade?

Eventually i’m thinking on improving to a i5/7 down the road, considering that the board will be able to handle it.

Thanks in advance for your attention and help.

yes and no. the Dual cores are limited to 2 threads. You will get the ‘best’ performance out of either an i5 or i7. So areas like Zergs (WvW World Bosses) will have the low FPS at 18-24, while open world content should give you 80+ FPS.

BUT, since it seems you are on a budget, I would suggest a G3258 and a decent z97 motherboard with a Hyper 212evo and overclock the G3258 to 4.2-4.6Ghz. That will give you the best bang for the buck for that price range.

http://techreport.com/review/26735/overclocking-intel-pentium-g3258-anniversary-edition-processor/3

I’d consider myself a bit computer savvy but i was looking for something a bit less… ambitious, plus for what i’ve seen that motherboard alone is like 80% of my 175€ estimate, and the idea is to stay within a 150€ budget.

Although the question is whether pouring that ~150€ into my pc will get a noticeable bump in performance?

edit: or if in fact is better to save up some more and go for the 300€ + solution right away.

Ariete.6509:

I’d consider myself a bit computer savvy but i was looking for something a bit less… ambitious, plus for what i’ve seen that motherboard alone is like 80% of my 175€ estimate, and the idea is to stay within a 150€ budget.

Although the question is whether pouring that ~150€ into my pc will get a noticeable bump in performance?

edit: or if in fact is better to save up some more and go for the 300€ + solution right away.

that is always the issue with budget builds, you need to cut corners to save.

The nice thing about getting a decent motherboard now is you can pop in a i7-4690K over clock it to 4.6ghz and get 150%+ performance over your G3258 later on.

where if you buy a cheap motherboard now, you may not be able to do that down the road.

My honest opinion is to do some serious research on your motherboard. Look at everything, including the VRM/Mofset power design as that will be the determining factor of the quality of the board (the more phased power, usually the more expensive the board). If you do plan to OC you want nothing less then 6+1 phased power. Also more power phases means your CPU runs smoother too (wont pull as much voltage when it ramps up/down and it will idle at lower voltages as well).

For example, the only H97M board I know that has 6 power phases is the H97-Gaming3 – http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130787&cm_re=h97-gaming-_-13-130-787-_-Product

Basically your upgrade Ariete doubles CPU performance, so yes you will see a definite improvement.

And in WvW, turn Character Model Quality to lowest. It all but eliminates the games need to build other player models and uses only the generic model. One less thing to distract the CPU.