Guild Wars 2

I wanna buy a new laptop, and as a person who plays GW2, I’m looking for one that will work fine and will not over heat when playing GW2 on normal settings at least.
The Specs are:

- Asus N56VB-S4022H

- Intel® Core™ i5 3230M Processor, 2.6GHz – up to 3.2 GHz, 3MB Cache

- 4GB DDR3 1600MHz (1 × 4096 MB), Up to 8 GB

- 750GB (SATA) 7200rpm

- 15.6’’ Full HD (1920×1080) Wide View Angle LED Backlight

- NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 740M with 2GB DDR3 VRAM

- 6-Cells 5200 mAh 56 Whrs

- 2.7 kg (with 6 cell battery)

I found it quite good but I really need more opinions. What do you think?

Yes. Shouldn’t be an issue. Max out at 60+fps all the time; maybe not. I would recommend also upgrading to 8GB of RAM. Generally ASUS has put the extra RAM slot under the keyboard, if it is not along side the other piece of ram. Either way, it usually isn’t a big deal.

I’ve been gaming on Laptops since 2008; the portability is nice as I can travel quiet a bit during the year.

Xystus.3241:

Yes. Shouldn’t be an issue. Max out at 60+fps all the time; maybe not. I would recommend also upgrading to 8GB of RAM. Generally ASUS has put the extra RAM slot under the keyboard, if it is not along side the other piece of ram. Either way, it usually isn’t a big deal.

I’ve been gaming on Laptops since 2008; the portability is nice as I can travel quiet a bit during the year.

Do you suffer from heating issues? Because my friend has Asus as well and he has problems with games like Assassins’ Creed 3 and Crysis 3, but I don’t know if they have the same requirements as GW2.

GW2 can be demanding at times. Best thing to do is buy a cooling pad to put the laptop on. Heat will always be an issue with laptops; always keep some compressed air handy to clean out the vents.
Also, never place the laptop on any soft surfaces (like your bed). The sheets/blankets can easily block air intake vents and lead to overheating.

Look at something like this for a cooling pad.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834991161

I have owned ASUS in the past, while it got hot, never had a issue with overheating. My last one was an ASUS G50vt and it was a trooper. I recently bought a Sager and spec’ed it out to be on the higher end of gaming laptops. I believe ASUS uses a similar case design as this (2 rear vent ports) and it does a good job of keeping it cool.

Xystus.3241:

GW2 can be demanding at times. Best thing to do is buy a cooling pad to put the laptop on. Heat will always be an issue with laptops; always keep some compressed air handy to clean out the vents.
Also, never place the laptop on any soft surfaces (like your bed). The sheets/blankets can easily block air intake vents and lead to overheating.

Look at something like this for a cooling pad.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834991161

I have owned ASUS in the past, while it got hot, never had a issue with overheating. My last one was an ASUS G50vt and it was a trooper. I recently bought a Sager and spec’ed it out to be on the higher end of gaming laptops. I believe ASUS uses a similar case design as this (2 rear vent ports) and it does a good job of keeping it cool.

Thank you very much sir ^^ You helped me a lot

I’d love to have more opinions though, so please comment if you know anything about it :P

I am not familiar with the 740m since it is new but looking at the specs online I would think that you will get away with medium settings.
The problem with GW2 is that it is CPU bound and loves raw clocks. Your 3.2 ghz turbo i5 will be ok but it will slow down during large zergs and meta events.
I have never liked laptops for gaming but you will most likely be ok with that one considering it’s limitations.