Guild Wars 2

I have found all the parts I need to build a PC to play Guild Wars 2. I just need to make sure they are all compatible with each other. Here is the list:

Case: Cooler Master HAF 912 – Mid Tower Computer Case with High Airflow Design (RC-912-KKN1)

Motherboard: ASRock 880GM-LE FX AM3+ AMD 880G Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Processor: AMD FX-4300 FX-Series Four-Core Processor Edition, Black AM3 FD4300WMHKBOX

Vid Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 660 SUPERCLOCKED 2048MB GDDR5 DVI HDMI DP Graphics Card 02G-P4-2662-KR

Power Supply: Cooler Master eXtreme Power Plus 500w Power Supply (RS500-PCARD3-US)

RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8 GB ( 2 × 4 GB ) DDR3 1600 MHz (PC3 12800) 240-Pin DDR3 Memory Kit for Core i3, i5, i7 and Platforms SDRAM CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9

Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar Blue 500 GB SATA III 7200 RPM 16 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive – WD5000AAKX

Would all this make a working machine?

Just had a quick google at your chip choice – reviews weren’t too favourable:

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/pc-components/processors/amd-fx-4300-1117775/review

Unless AMD do something really radical, I’ll be sticking with Intel.

One other thing, I would probably get a more powerful PSU if you can shell out the moolah.

Your choice of GPU seems a good one – Bit-tech likes it:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2012/09/13/nvidia-geforce-gtx-660-2gb-review/11

Lastly, rather than just one HDD, you could consider an SSD – game and zone load times would be quite reduced.

Overall, and this is just my opinion – others more tech-savvy may disagree – I think your proposed rig will work but you may find yourself ramping down the settings; most MMO’s are CPU bound so the more GHz you can get out of ’em, the better.

Hope that helped

Flatley.1620:

Just had a quick google at your chip choice – reviews weren’t too favourable:

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/pc-components/processors/amd-fx-4300-1117775/review

Unless AMD do something really radical, I’ll be sticking with Intel.

One other thing, I would probably get a more powerful PSU if you can shell out the moolah.

Your choice of GPU seems a good one – Bit-tech likes it:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2012/09/13/nvidia-geforce-gtx-660-2gb-review/11

Lastly, rather than just one HDD, you could consider an SSD – game and zone load times would be quite reduced.

Overall, and this is just my opinion – others more tech-savvy may disagree – I think your proposed rig will work but you may find yourself ramping down the settings; most MMO’s are CPU bound so the more GHz you can get out of ’em, the better.

Hope that helped

Okay, thanks for the help. If anyone have any other suggestions, please don’t hesitate to give advice.

kboyrulez.7316:

Flatley.1620:

Just had a quick google at your chip choice – reviews weren’t too favourable:

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/pc-components/processors/amd-fx-4300-1117775/review

Unless AMD do something really radical, I’ll be sticking with Intel.

One other thing, I would probably get a more powerful PSU if you can shell out the moolah.

Your choice of GPU seems a good one – Bit-tech likes it:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2012/09/13/nvidia-geforce-gtx-660-2gb-review/11

Lastly, rather than just one HDD, you could consider an SSD – game and zone load times would be quite reduced.

Overall, and this is just my opinion – others more tech-savvy may disagree – I think your proposed rig will work but you may find yourself ramping down the settings; most MMO’s are CPU bound so the more GHz you can get out of ’em, the better.

Hope that helped

Okay, thanks for the help. If anyone have any other suggestions, please don’t hesitate to give advice.

The motherboard will probably need a BIOS flash to the latest P1.30
http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/880GM-LE%20FX/?cat=CPU
That is a very low quality power supply. 2X12V rails with 18 amps and only one 6 pin connector not even 80+ cert.
I hope this is not you and you are still going to buy a refurbished hard drive.
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/80854-will-this-run-gw2-wvw-zergs/

@zerk, so you suggest I change my PSU and hard drive? Well, I can see it with the PSU, but why the hard drive? Looks pretty good. An no, I’m not the person on that forums.

kboyrulez.7316:

@zerk, so you suggest I change my PSU and hard drive? Well, I can see it with the PSU, but why the hard drive? Looks pretty good. An no, I’m not the person on that forums.

The PSU is very low quality the hard drive is slow if it’s not the refurbished one you are ok.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139027 Better power supply.

@zerk, How can I tell if the hard drive is refurbished?

kboyrulez.7316:

@zerk, How can I tell if the hard drive is refurbished?

http://www.microcenter.com/product/375688/Caviar_Blue_500GB_7,200RPM_SATA_30Gb-s_35_Internal_Hard_Drive_WD5000AAKS_-_Refurbished

@zerk, All right, from what I’m looking at, the driver I chose is not refurbished, so that’s good.

Not knowing how much you are going to spend this is a really nice setup. All quality parts and would put the i5 3570 over the AMD 4300
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/FKRm