Guild Wars 2

I would like to know how would the combination

CPU – AMD Athlon II X2 370K
Video Card – GeForce GT 610 2GB

work on guild wars 2, like what options/resolution I could run (medium, high etc.)

Also if you could compare it to my

Processor: AMD Athlon™ 7450 Dual-Core Processor
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 4300/4500 Series

how good is it compared to that?

NEVER buy a super low end graphics card, its totaly not worth it.
The 610 GT is the slowest and most usless card of the 600 series. GW2 will crawl with that card.
You want atleast a Nvidia 650 or AMD 7770 at the very lowest for any reasonable FPS with acceptable graphics settings.
Though i myself wouldnt recommend anything lower than a 650ti boost/ 7850.

The CPU isnt much better than what u got imo, atleast from the details iv found about it. And dual cores are not enough for GW2 by a long shot, even brand new top of the line 4 core and 8 core CPU have a had time.
CPU wise for somthing cheap u want to look at ether some AMD’s like the FX4300 or FX6300.

Bassicaly what ever performance u get now(if u can even run the game to start with), wont be any better with the new rig ur sugesting. Even a 20% increase FPS form what u get now will likely result in less than 1 FPS increase due to how slow it likely runs atm.

If ur looking for a bottom of the barrel cheap PC to run GW2 ..there isnt one.

Thank you for your answer.

Suprisingly, I run Guild Wars 2 currently with Medium settings. I am just annoyed that I randomly get fps drops every 60 – 240seconds-ish. And with that I get 20+ fps that I am satisfied with.
I apriciate your answer though I believe you are wrong due to the fact that you thought that I could not even run the game. :/

EDIT: I also appriciate you telling me 610 sucks.

Also i cant seem to help but watch this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHLjlR9OuCQ

Battlefield runs great on even lower than that CPU.

Battlefield isnt a mmo. Its load on the CPU is negligable compared to GW2.

You have to understand the complexities of how different types of games put load on different parts of a rig.
MMO’s and Civ Sim games put a huge load on the CPU.
FPS, RTS, Racing, Fighting etc are all ‘mainly’ GPU bound.

Feel free to check my post history and/or research online urself if u feel im wrong. No insult taken

Thank you for being so chill about my bad critisism.

Well, like most avid gamers, I do not play only GW2, mostly I do, but there are other games also.

I was wondering if this would work :

Radeon HD 6570 (could go higher)
AMD Athlon II X3 450

EDIT: I was thinking of updating the CPU to 4C and OC-ing it.

For medium-ish settings around 1280×1024 resolution with 30+ ish fps? I do not need mroe.

That CPU, 370K is an AMD A6-6xxx without the graphics part. While it’s roughly 60% faster than your current CPU, it’s still two cores and GW2 works a lot better with 3 or more cores. Plus it’s a different socket. The nVidia GT 610 is a joke, your current card is likely much faster.

The X3 450 is an older K10 CPU and is only 25% or so faster but it does have a third core so you should see more than a 25% gain you would get from a K10 based duel core like the 7450 running at the same clock rate as the X3 450 like the X2 260. Also enabling the extra core isn’t a guaranteed thing, sometimes it’s disabled for a good reason.

The HD 6570 should be much better than your card and I don’t think you would need more at that resolution and targeted frame rate. But still WvW and large events with lots of players are going to stress the CPU more than the video card so those events will still suffer somewhat.

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html
Check those links. My advice would be to get a CPU that scores 1400 or higher in the 1st link and 4000 or higheri n the second link. Then make sure its a 4core.

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

The above link try get a GPU above a score of 1500.

Behellagh.1468:

That CPU, 370K is an AMD A6-6xxx without the graphics part. While it’s roughly 60% faster than your current CPU, it’s still two cores and GW2 works a lot better with 3 or more cores. Plus it’s a different socket. The nVidia GT 610 is a joke, your current card is likely much faster.

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The X3 450 is an older K10 CPU and is only 25% or so faster but it does have a third core so you should see more than a 25% gain you would get from a K10 based duel core like the 7450 running at the same clock rate as the X3 450 like the X2 260. Also enabling the extra core isn’t a guaranteed thing, sometimes it’s disabled for a good reason.

The HD 6570 should be much better than your card and I don’t think you would need more at that resolution and targeted frame rate. But still WvW and large events with lots of players are going to stress the CPU more than the video card so those events will still suffer somewhat.

Thank you for your answer.
From what I understood, If I get the X3 450 and HD 6570 I’m going to be having 30 fps at medium-ish settings with fps drops in WvW and large events, that I am okay with.
Currently not even at ultra low I cannot handle wvw, spvp or even 15+ mobs around me, and that will be a great improvment for me.
Thanks.

SolarNova.1052:

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html
Check those links. My advice would be to get a CPU that scores 1400 or higher in the 1st link and 4000 or higheri n the second link. Then make sure its a 4core.

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

The above link try get a GPU above a score of 1500.

Thanks, but I think I already decided