Guild Wars 2

Hi I’m trying to upgrade my old eMachines EL1358G-51W. I was thinking that I would only need to replace the cpu, motherboard and power supply if need be but I’m not sure. I mainly wvw but I also farm nodes and dungeon run. Would I be better off buying a new desktop? if so what should i go for. My budget is $600 max.

My specs:

This build will blow your current one away.

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/sirsquishy/saved/P6P9TW

Start there for specs.

Also consider building your own, dont buy OEM for desktops unless you have to.

Thanks I’ll try out this build if no one else have one to share

Biggest problem with that idea, assuming I found the right original machine, is that case is a slim line case and not a mini tower which parts like most video cards and power supplies expect. So you better also think about a standard mini tower case as well.

Cool you played City of Heroes too? (silly question maybe lol) I played that game too. So I’m just better off building a new desktop then. If I’m impatient with build not saying I don’t. what pre build I should go if i decided to go that route.

I’m surprised your current PC even runs GW2!

I’d recommend spending the extra 100 USD and getting a GeForce GTX 960 or Radeon R9 380 (OR the non-rebranded card, if it’s cheaper).

1GB VRAM is on the really low end these days.
I have an old PC I occasionally use with a GTX 580 with 1.5GB VRAM, it still has plenty of horsepower, but in modern games easily runs into VRAM issues.

On low setting it runs ok lol but i play on my laptop mostly. Will they help with less lag in wvw?

Endymion.6509:

On low setting it runs ok lol but i play on my laptop mostly. Will they help with less lag in wvw?

Going from your Athlon to a i5-haswell CPU is going to be 100% faster ATLEAST.

Add in the GPU upgrade from your onboard graphics, and its an entirely different experience….you might cry when you experience it…for real.

Hell even a dual core haswell (G3258) is 100% faster then your Athlon, can be gotten cheaper and still give you a better (NOT BEST) experience.

If you have the cash, I would just buy all the parts you want and assemble it yourself. You will get a much better system for the price going that route.

As for the R9 300 series cards, Only the 270 is the 3rd gen rebrand, all the others are 2nd gen (meaning they all come from the R9 200 series). If you are buying a cheap/medium ranged GPU I would suggest one of 2 things.

1. Buy a GTX960
2. Buy a used R9 290 (same price as a new GTX960 if you look around on amazon/Ebay)

the 290 is a top end card (below the 980 above the 970) and that would be my choice if I was building right now. But If I felt the need to buy new I would buy a GTX960, even though its considerably slower, as it would deliver the needed GPU performance for the price.