Guild Wars 2

Hello,

im mainly WvW player and i want upgrade my PC soon, in this topic i want get some advices what i should upgrade first, i dont want buy whole new PC
My lovley PC looks like this

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955
GPU: ASUS Radeon 5770
Motherboard: MIS 870-G45
RAM: 2×2GB

im gonna add some RAM for sure, but what should i upgrade firstCPU or GPU

thanks for any advices, any examples would be appreciated

CPU. Considering this game is CPU intensive; I would look at that first.

For this game CPU.

That said there aren’t a lot of options with that motherboard that will provide a considerably better CPU. MSI website doesn’t list any of the FX- series CPUs because it’s only a socket AM3 not AM3+ motherboard. So the only place you can go is a faster Phenom II which is maybe 10-15%.

The alternative is swapping out the MB and CPU in which case I would recommend Intel, they are the better gaming CPU right now but their quads are a bit more pricey than AMD.

However if you are willing to accept that world boss events and WvW are not going to give you great frame rates and you tend to just do dungeons/fractals and PvE, then maybe a better video card is in order. Biggest unforeseen problem for upgraders is power supply. Is it enough to support a more power hungry video card?

as i wrote

“im mainly WvW player "

ofc if i change CPU then with motherboard, im gonna target i5-4670K, but i dont know how it gonna work with old Radeon

Fairly good deal for $360 http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.1444688

If the memory you have is 1.5 volt and not 1.65 you could just add 2 more sticks of what you have if not you would need new memory also. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231428

The 5770 video card will work with the new processor and motherboard.

The AMD 955 processor will overclock fairly easy to close to 3.8 with a decent aftermarket cooler but the bad thing is that would be like a 20% increase so if you get say 15FPS in big zergs you would only pick up about 3 FPS

If your not going to overclock the processor this would be decent.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116898
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157387

MrSsid.3618:

as i wrote

“im mainly WvW player "

ofc if i change CPU then with motherboard, im gonna target i5-4670K, but i dont know how it gonna work with old Radeon

What I said is true with Intel i5s as well. Frame rate is not ever going to be as good as you want.

And sure it’ll work with your HD 5770. In PvE the HD 5770 will now be the limiting factor with an i5. If you are thinking about overclocking an i5-4670K then you will need a 3rd party cooler. Expect to spend $30-50 for that.

so i can buy new i5 and OC it, i already have SilentiumPC Spartan Pro HE924

or maybe will wait one month more and then buy i7-4770K and in this time just run on OC Phenom
difficult choice

Aaaa … i5s and i7s are both quad cores. HT in the i7 can provide a bit of a performance boost but at a 40% premium in price. If you want absolute best possible performance and cost isn’t a problem then i7s are fine. In general PC gaming, when building a new PC, I think the extra money for an i7 over an i5 would be better spent on the video card side of the equation. But GW2 is a rather CPU intensive game when there are crowds of other players around you.

so first in this/next weekend i will clean my PC and OC Phenom, and second i will start saving money for i7, bet it will stay longer in my PC then i5 after upgrade