Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone, i’m thinking of buying a new computer to games, and looking for some opinions about what Spec is good to run Guild Wars 2 in Ultra, with 30 FPS on WvW Zergs, anyone can help me?

Sorry my bad english, thanks.

Anyone to help?

toudy.1057:

Anyone to help?

in WvW maintaining 30FPS on ultra is just not possible.

Your best bet is to do the following:

Get a recent generation intel quad core (or better), overclock it as close to 5ghz as you can, put the game on a new, fast SSD, and buy a mid-high end graphics card, like a 280x or a GTX 770.

That is the best bottleneck reduction you can hope to accomplish, but maintaining 30fps on ultra in WvW depends entirely on the size of the zerg, the number of spell effects, etc.

Limey.2769:

Your best bet is to do the following:

Get a recent generation intel quad core (or better), overclock it as close to 5ghz as you can, put the game on a new, fast SSD, and buy a mid-high end graphics card, like a 280x or a GTX 770.

That is the best bottleneck reduction you can hope to accomplish, but maintaining 30fps on ultra in WvW depends entirely on the size of the zerg, the number of spell effects, etc.

how would an SSD influence gameplay performance? Well – sure it may decrease loading time, but as far as I see that was about it…

Why would you not want an SSD they are dirt cheap right now $69 at Microcenter and if you buy the bundled processor and mother board from them they take $10 off the SSD that’s for a120GB drive that’s plenty for Windows and the game then run everything else a $49 1TB standard drive. OMG I’m glad I have a Microcenter here in Denver.

Wow I had to edit my post when I used the first SSD it put kitten in its place what is wrong with SSD Oh wait I think I know LOL!

Limey.2769:

Your best bet is to do the following:

Get a recent generation intel quad core (or better), overclock it as close to 5ghz as you can, put the game on a new, fast SSD, and buy a mid-high end graphics card, like a 280x or a GTX 770.

That is the best bottleneck reduction you can hope to accomplish, but maintaining 30fps on ultra in WvW depends entirely on the size of the zerg, the number of spell effects, etc.

This^

And the 2011v3 Haswell-E CPU’s are not any better at gaming then the 1150 Haswell-K Series. So you do not even need a top end Socket/CPU to get the best performance out of this game, just one of the 3rd or 4th gen unlocked cpus pushed as close to 5ghz as you can get.

sirsquishy.8531:

And the 2011v3 Haswell-E CPU’s are not any better at gaming then the 1150 Haswell-K Series. So you do not even need a top end Socket/CPU to get the best performance out of this game, just one of the 3rd or 4th gen unlocked cpus pushed as close to 5ghz as you can get.

The E chips were always better overclockers due to the soldered IHS (4.8 on a 4820k easy) rather than TIM and a slightly better binning process. However due to EU regulations on the use of heavy metals in electronics, Intel has stopped using the lead/tin solder they used on the sandy/ivy bridge-Es and have switched to using a highly conductive epoxy. The thermal performance is slightly better than the consumer grade TIM, but not enough to offset the extra heat more cores output which makes the new haswell E’s actually overclock slightly worse than their ivy predecessors temp wise.

dodgycookies.4562:

sirsquishy.8531:

And the 2011v3 Haswell-E CPU’s are not any better at gaming then the 1150 Haswell-K Series. So you do not even need a top end Socket/CPU to get the best performance out of this game, just one of the 3rd or 4th gen unlocked cpus pushed as close to 5ghz as you can get.

The E chips were always better overclockers due to the soldered IHS (4.8 on a 4820k easy) rather than TIM and a slightly better binning process. However due to EU regulations on the use of heavy metals in electronics, Intel has stopped using the lead/tin solder they used on the sandy/ivy bridge-Es and have switched to using a highly conductive epoxy. The thermal performance is slightly better than the consumer grade TIM, but not enough to offset the extra heat more cores output which makes the new haswell E’s actually overclock slightly worse than their ivy predecessors temp wise.

Oh did not know that they stopped with the solder, so they use an Epoxy on this now? Do you have a source for this :-)

Yes a metal based conductive epoxy similar to those used in aerospace industry. A lot closer to solder than the typical glue epoxy.

And in engineering terms, its properties can be categorized as a “solder” despite being an epoxy. And has more better thermal conductivity than the paste used in the mainstream 1150 chips but less than a pure metal solder.

Thermal conductivity for solders typically run from 40-60 W/mK while conductive epoxy can be as high as 30 W/mK. Compared to the typical less than 5 W/mK for a thermal grease.

It is not all bad though, it takes less heat to apply than traditional solder which is better for thermally sensitive chips especially as the die shrinks continue to happen.

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/intel-core-i7-5960x-de-lidded-haswell-e-uses-soldered-tim.html

First sentence, solder based on epoxy. ie conductive epoxy.

http://www.nag.co.za/2014/07/28/rumor-intels-haswell-e-chips-will-use-conductive-epoxy/

Second paragraph explains that euro regulations on heavy metals forced the change.