Guild Wars 2

Get the i5 instead of the i3. GW2 is very CPU dependent when there are a lot of characters on screen at once, e.g WvW zergs

onevstheworld.2419:

Get the i5 instead of the i3. GW2 is very CPU dependent when there are a lot of characters on screen at once, e.g WvW zergs

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Switch out that GTX 950 for a GTX 1050 / 1050 Ti. the 1xxx cards are about the same price as the 950 and perform better. The 1050’s will serve you better in the long run.

ArmoredVehicle.2849:

Switch out that GTX 950 for a GTX 1050 / 1050 Ti. the 1xxx cards are about the same price as the 950 and perform better. The 1050’s will serve you better in the long run.

ty, tbh i realized that 1050 is cheap just today , ty

Yea, get the 1050; no reason to get the 950. You should be good, at least, for Gw2. You can also stick with the i3; it’s very good for its price as an i5 almost doubles it. But this changes if you want to play newer games. A better CPU would help if you plan in doing lots of WvW, but the crappy programming is far more of a bottleneck than anyone’s hardware.

Also, I would drop it to 8gb unless you do something that requires more of it, that is, you can actually prove that your computer uses that much memory. Yes, ram isn’t that expensive but since you are on a budget, I would save the money and use the money towards getting yourself an i5. Or an SSD— you’ll probably appreciate it more often. The load time reduction is great and I actually visit Lion’s Arch now.

Personally, I don’t run much though but even when I record Gw2 I don’t even reach 8gb of usage on Windows 10, even with Chrome sometimes eating up memory in the background when I forget to turn it off.

In any case , upping your processor or getting 1 SSD would do much more than getting 16 gb of ram as opposed to 8.

edit: I didn’t realize “a Solid State Drive” was a bad word now.