Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I do not know much about cpu and graphic card compatibility.

I have Dell OptiPlex 790 – Core i5 2400 3.1 GHz. It’s a personal desktop.

I have 8 gigs of ram total.

Can you guys recommend few graphic cards that are compatible with i5 2400?

I am a casual player. Having minimum of 30 fps ~ ish with low settings. would be okay for me.

I’m currently thinking of Radeon HD 6450 as my graphic card. Is this okay?

Looking for anything under $100 and I am not willing to spend money on upgrading my cpu.

Thanks in advance, and hope to hear from some experts soon!

anything bassicaly.

Things are very compatable nowerdays. The only things that are not are obviose things like trying to put a AMD cpu into a motherboard designed for a Intel cpu.
or a Intel LGA 1155 cpu into a LGA 2011 board.
And ofc trying to PCI/PCIE v1 v2 v3 into the wrong corresponding slots.

but tbh u’d have to be a blithering idiot to do that :P

Anyway, what ever GPU u have atm make sure it is indeed ur current GPU that is causing any slow downs, as GW2 is very CPU intensive and it could just as easily be ur CPU. A program like EVGA PrecisionX has a good OSD (on screen display) that u can use to tell u ur GPU usuage and FPS. If ur FPS is low and ur GPU usuage is NOT 100%, then u know its not ur GPU slowing u down.

Take a gander at the link below and navigate to the high end video card chart.
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/index.php
get the highest scoring card u can