Guild Wars 2

Is this good for pvp & WvW in med to high settings at 1366 × 768? And what would be my average fps? Thanks in advance guys

i3 4130 3.4ghz
GTX 750 Ti 2gb
8gb ram kingston 1333 mhz (2×4gb ram)
Asus H81M – C

its really not bad for a budget build. Depending on your settings, you could get 90-100FPS in PvE where there are 20 or less players around out of combat, and 50-60FPS in combat. For WvW Zerg content you are looking between 18-25FPS on average.

And its because of your 1360×768 Res – Also, run 1360 NOT 1366, that extra 6 puts more strain on the CPU since its a weird resolution.

I would suggest looking into a high quality Motherboard, since you are buying an i3 you have SEVERAL upgrade options over the years before Haswell becomes obsolete. So if you decide to upgrade the CPU you should consider the ability to pop in a K series Cpu for Overclocking if you ever plan to go that route. The K Cpus require the Z series Chipset.

Thank you so much for the useful info I’ll post what mobo should I reconsider for the meantime..

so I did some research and kind of confuse which mobo’s are best: MSi, Gigabyte, or Asus and btw what would be my average fps also in major cities like Black Citadel because my previous pc gets 10-18 fps :/ (core 2 duo 2.4ghz & gt 630)..thanks again

MSI, Gigabyte, and Asus are all good manufactures, but the question is, what type of board are you budgeting for?
For the future upgrade path squishy mentioned, u would need a ‘Z87’ motherboard, not a B85, H81, H87, or Q87.
Which Z87 board u get is likely going to be down to ur budget, as it doesn’t seem like u will be wanting for more Sata, PCI, or PCi-E space.

Another deciding factor maybe aesthetics, if ur case as a side window u may want to choose a board that looks nice and matches the colour scheme of the parts u by.

Performance in towns will likely be anywhere as low as 20, up to ur max set FPS, likely maxed by V-Sync that being 60 unless u have a 120hz or 144hz monitor. In LA u’ll likely be around 20-30ish, whilst in other cities that are less populated u could easily sit at 45+.

Quetzalcoatl.7218:

so I did some research and kind of confuse which mobo’s are best: MSi, Gigabyte, or Asus and btw what would be my average fps also in major cities like Black Citadel because my previous pc gets 10-18 fps :/ (core 2 duo 2.4ghz & gt 630)..thanks again

As for your Motherboard choices I would recommend a decent Asus or MSI. I dont put value in ‘gaming’ Motherboards. But if you EVER plan on buying a K series CPU (such as an i5-4670K) You need a Z87 Chipset in your Motherboard, and its mostly ‘gaming’ motherboards that have them. You do not need advanced features like SLI/CrossFireX. So you could get a MicroATX or mITX based motherboard. You really have alot of choices on what you can do here.

Performance? it depends on the # of Players and NPCs that are around, and what your Character Limit and Quality in game settings are. I would say you can expect 60FPS for ‘normal’ areas of the game, and 45FPS for ‘in combat’ scenarios of the game. For Zergs you will be sitting between 18-25FPS in a ‘worst case’ if you set your system right.
But with a 1360×768 Res, optimal Graphical Settings, Proper Drivers installed, you can expect to see higher then the above numbers.

Point in case,
A desktop my wife plays on;

i3-2120@3.2Ghz
8GB DDR3 1333mhz
R7-260x
7.2K 2TB HDD
1600×900 LCD x3 (5040×900 for Eyefinity)
(really nothing that fancy about this system)

In game settings
All settings are High except;
FXAA – Off
Reflections – Sky
Sampling – Native
Shadows – low
Shaders – Medium
Post Processing – Low or Off (Off for Zergs)
Character Limit – Low
Character Quality – Medium
Enable LoD
Rest Options disabled.

PvE with 20 Players on the screen out of combat she floats between 95FPS and 110FPS (Queensdale), when Combat starts it drops between 55 and 65FPS
Doing Shadow Benemeth she gets 45-50FPS with the same player count above. When the World Boss Train is around, shes getting 18-20FPS (Fully Queued Map)

WvW – running around with our 10man group flipping camps shes constantly beween 65FPS and 95FPS. Fighting a 30 vs 20 vs 15 man zerg shes between 28FPS and 35FPS.

The main thing you have going for you with the above build? Your running a 4th Gen CPU, thats about 20% faster then my wifes CPU. You are running 1360×768 while shes running 1600×900 (sometimes 5060×900 – which halfs all her FPS numbers). So I would expect higher FPS on your build then hers based on what I know her’s does, and the age of her components.

Now that being said, on my i5-4670K clocked at 4.0Ghz I will get 175-210FPS in PvE. 80-110FPS out of combat with 50 Players around. 65-75FPS in combat. and in WvW roaming, 90FPS constantly, In a zerg of 60vs60vs30~ 28-35FPS.

SirSquishy has awesome advice going on here. I just wanted to pop in and say that’s an awesome budget gaming machine for what you’re wanting.

It’ll even handle some other games fairly well too.

Yeah really helps alot and yes this build can play modern games i’ve seen it benchmarked on youtube and i dont fancy ultra settings just med to high but i think i could run ultra because of my res thanks to u guys
I think i should go for an MSI Z87 mobo for future purposes like you guys said. Thanks for the time guys

Quetzalcoatl.7218:

Is this good for pvp & WvW in med to high settings at 1366 × 768? And what would be my average fps? Thanks in advance guys

i3 4130 3.4ghz
GTX 750 Ti 2gb
8gb ram kingston 1333 mhz (2×4gb ram)
Asus H81M – C

Oh man, just get few $ more and buy i5 2\3xxx(without K) and motherboard with b75 chipset. Good luck to you!

Whats the difference between h81 & b75?

Well, H81 is part of the 8-series chipsets that go together with Intel’s 4th Generation CPUs, those i3/5/7-4xxx ones, whereas B75 is 7-series for 3rd Gen (i3/5/7-3xxx). It’s a bit hard to compare those two, more of a fair comparison would be between H81, H87 and Z87 or B75, H77 and Z77.

Quetzalcoatl.7218:

Whats the difference between h81 & b75?

Main difference is the processor series supported, ivy bridge (3xxx) for B75 and haswell (4xxx) for H81

Other differences are in the number of sata ports/usb ports/pcie 2.0 channels, and a few other features like Intel Small Business Advantage, iSIPP.