Guild Wars 2

Hey I’m thinking about getting a computer with
core i7 2.3ghz
8GB ram
Gforce GT650M

is that enough to run WvW fights of 50v50 and still maintain 60 frames per seconds while still using good graphics?

If not;
what would be the requirements to be able to maintain 50v50 fights with decent graphics.

Can anybody suggest me good parts that will do the job but still be relatively cheap?

Not possible.
GW2 isnt optimised enough to allow 50v50 zergs at 60fps no matter what computer u have currently.

Bambi Is Strong.6083:

Hey I’m thinking about getting a computer with
core i7 2.3ghz
8GB ram
Gforce GT650M

is that enough to run WvW fights of 50v50 and still maintain 60 frames per seconds while still using good graphics?

If not;
what would be the requirements to be able to maintain 50v50 fights with decent graphics.

Can anybody suggest me good parts that will do the job but still be relatively cheap?

The best any System can currently do with WvW with what you are asking, is about 25FPS. And thats with a 4th gen i7 OC’d to the teeth.

My i5 OC’d to 4.6 will survive 60 vs 60 zerg at 20FPS on medium settings (give or take on the settings).

I see then, what can I do for 30fps?

What ur asking for is bassicaly the best that is currently possible on GW2.

So more or less u want a i5 4670k + ~4.5ghz OC with somthing like a AMD 7870XT or GTX 760 GPU.
This should allow for High destail settings and as good as can be expected WvW performance.
So somthing like this.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2kFU9
With a case and storage drive.

Also I’ve read about this “single thread” thing I suppose I should be looking for a processor that benchmarks every well on single threads?

Yes, which is the 4670k or other high clocked haswell CPU.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

I think for WVW if you wanted 30 FPS in large conflict and on a laptop, you’d want a machine featuring an i7 3940XM or 4930XM or another Extreme Edition i7 processor from the Ivybridge and Haswell line because then you’d have the 3 GHz base clock and then the 3.7 GHz quad turbo, 3.8 dual and 3.9 single core turbo. Although some custom laptop builders offer overclocking on the Extreme Processors but the CPU alone starts at $1,049 dollars. I know Origin PC does this.

Mobile i7 processors clocked at 2.7 and 2.8 as well as 2.9 though could offer almost the same performance while being a third of the price tag.

But I doubt you’ll shell out the cash for a laptop with an Extreme Edition i7 when you could just get a desktop for similar or better performance for HMMM… $1,300, easily.

i5 2500K/2550K/3570K/4670K + overclock will do better for less.

The laptop CPUs I just described though before the i5 spot, that’s for people who want a desktop replacing laptop. Those kinds of machines would be armed with at least, SLI GTX 580M (GTX 675M), GTX 670MX SLI, 675MX SLI, 680M SLI, 770M SLI, and finally, 780M SLI, the fastest GPU solution on a mobile platform. Again though, these kinds of laptops cost a fortune and a half.

To play WvW with 40+ fps in zergs you need something like this.

That super computer is named Titan.
Fun fact: It’s powered by AMD processors.
It uses 18,688 AMD Opteron 6274 16-core CPUs,
and 18,688 Nvidia Tesla K20X GPUs.

Being realistic I think you’d need an intel i7 4960X clocked at 5.4 GHz with other respective parts to go with it to maintain 40+ FPS.