Guild Wars 2

Okay so I don’t know much about upgrading or building my own rig, I was just wondering if anyone could help with suggestions of what components to upgrade to run GW2 better, I know I don’t have the best PC at the moment. This is from my dxdiag. Thanks if anyone can help.

System Manufacturer: Compaq-Presario
System Model: AY030AA-ABA CQ5320F
Processor: AMD Athlon™ II X2 240 Processor (2 CPUs), ~2.8GHz
Memory: 4096MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 4096MB RAM
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 6670

the 1st one ..dont bother with ..its AMD and the GPU is crap.

The 2nd one isnt to bad though. Should handle GW2 ok. More so if u OC the cpu. The one thing i will sy about the 2nd one is that you wont be able ot run high on the graphics ..since the 650 is not a gaming GPU .its a high end media GPU .. the Nvidia gaming gpu’s start at x60 ..i.e 460, 560 and 660 and up

Well tbh, its all rather dated/slow. And any 1 part upgrade will requir other parts upgraded aswell.
Im guessing the ram is DDR2 ?

Anyway i recommend the following.

CPU upgrade:
2550k + Mothebroard + DDR3 RAM

GPU upgrade:
Nvidia 560ti

Question then arises is. Can the rest of your parts fit together with the newer components. It looks to me your current rig is prebuilt. So you need to know how big is ur current powersupply. What mothebroards types does you box allow ? (ATX, M-ATX, E-ATX?) Are you HDD’s and optical dirves Sata or IDE ?

Its a compaq presario case custom fitted with little intention of upgrade-ability. Might as well get another case/psu too if you’re building one yourself.

If you are not comfortable building a new machine yourself, buy another prebuilt one and upgrade it’s video card.

Yea I kinda figured as much, how well do you think either one of these computers would handle the game?

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/CyberPowerPC+-+Gamer+Ultra+Desktop+-+8GB+Memory+-+1TB+Hard+Drive/6897999.p?id=1218811215113&skuId=6897999&st=Cyber_Sale_Computers_100928&cp=1&lp=5

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/iBuyPower+-+Desktop+-+8GB+Memory+-+500GB+Hard+Drive/6979905.p?id=1218818468032&skuId=6979905&st=Cyber_Sale_Computers_100928&cp=1&lp=10

K thanks for the help