Now my main question. Is it enought for GW2 to play on Full HD (1920 × 1080) smoothly ? I’m asking becouse I know people who have low frame rate on PC’s with i7, which is … weird for me.
Peace.
Everybody will recommend you better GPU… Just read this
If it you get R9 270X about 40-50$ less then go with it. Change i5 to i5 4670K + mobo to OC.
- CPU will last much longer than GPU it is worth to spend that much money.
If we look back.
i5 2300 vs i5 2500K
I5 2300 with 5870 and i5 2500K with 5850.
But now i5 2300 + R9 280X vs i5 2500K 4,5Ghz + R280X
Point maybe is better to have OC CPU better MB than just better GPU, why?
From i5 2*** to i5 4*** is no big difference gaming, but between 5870 and R9 290 it is HUGE!
After few years just OC CPU to 4,5Ghz like i5 2500K…. AND buy newGPU!
Well.. thanks for answer but my question was about something different. I asked about smooth game with this PC. For me – its good configuration. OC GTX 760 is enough so I dont see a reason to take something even better.
Yep GTX 760 is enough but like a said small difference between R9 270X but price is differenc… For that money you get i5 4670K OC to 4,4-4,5Ghz will give u in this game much better perfromance than stock i5 4440
Deffinatly get a K version of the CPU and a Z series motherboard to OC.
A 760 is fine for GW2.
GW2 is mainly limited by CPU grunt, hence why most people will always recommend a overclockable intel CPU and appropriate motherboard.
No rig can run Gw2 ‘smooth’ ill just put that out there for you. Even a rig like my own will fall below 30 FPS in WvW. So you really do need to put the money into the CPU if u want a ‘playable’ experiance, but even then, dont expect high FPS.
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Now my main question. Is it enought for GW2 to play on Full HD (1920 × 1080) smoothly ? I’m asking becouse I know people who have low frame rate on PC’s with i7, which is … weird for me.
Peace.
Well everything is faster than what you had. You moved from a dual core to a quad which helps with GW2 as well as 4 generations of CPU design which adds a nice boost as well. Overall per core you’re looking at 50-60% performance improvement so I’ll guess at least double the frame rate you currently have (due to having more than 2 cores). GPU side is also faster, almost twice as fast.
So the question revolves around your definition of “smoothly”, your current frame rate at 1920×1200 and where in the game you would like this “smoothly” to take place.
If you are looking for it in the middle of WvW zergs or boss events then I would say it would likely be tough to stay consistently above 30fps.
Yes at stock clocks lol my laptop, if I had a GTX 770M (then overclock it to 900 MHz core and more on the ram) would be playing guild wars 2 better than my AMD based desktop. The i7 3630QM reaches up to 3.2 GHz on quad overclock. It already handles zergs far better than my desktop at the same settings.
Now my main question. Is it enought for GW2 to play on Full HD (1920 × 1080) smoothly ? I’m asking becouse I know people who have low frame rate on PC’s with i7, which is … weird for me.
Peace.
Well everything is faster than what you had. You moved from a dual core to a quad which helps with GW2 as well as 4 generations of CPU design which adds a nice boost as well. Overall per core you’re looking at 50-60% performance improvement so I’ll guess at least double the frame rate you currently have (due to having more than 2 cores). GPU side is also faster, almost twice as fast.
So the question revolves around your definition of “smoothly”, your current frame rate at 1920×1200 and where in the game you would like this “smoothly” to take place.
If you are looking for it in the middle of WvW zergs or boss events then I would say it would likely be tough to stay consistently above 30fps.
What Behel said, moving from an E8400 to a Q9550 is a decent bump, even further so to an i7-920, but jumping to an i5 4670k would be truly a jump in performance. And since GW2 takes advantage of Intel’s per thread performance, you can bump an overclock rather nicely on the 4670k on top of having a good resell value.
Keep the GTX 760 vid card IMO, the only thing I would change would be the CPU to a 4670k. Will last much longer and has a tendency to overclock similar to the E8400.
