Guild Wars 2

Mallone.7905:

2) Get a reference GTX 780 rather than superclocked/signature/whatever. If you plan to liquid cool your rig, it’ll be cheaper and easier to get backplates and just overclock it yourself. The only exception to this rule would be EVGA Classifieds or MSI Lightnings if you have the cash. And yes, 780 over Titan unless you plan to use several monitors in SLI or play in 3D

I wouldn’t have the money to do a full liquid cool if I was to buy this PC I’m afraid. Would you still recommend I keep away from the Superclocked versions of these cards?

Mallone.7905:

3) 2133 MHz ***IS*** much better and noticeable than 1600 MHz when you have it set up right, and does help with some games in their performance. Especially if you have a solid amount of RAM to put them onto a ramdisk. Ever played GW2 straight from your RAM? It loads and plays like a dream.

Never played it straight from my RAM and I’ve never heard of this being done. Atm I’m stuck on 4GB RAM.

Mallone.7905:

4) 16GB vs 8GB is up to you… do you do lots of multitasking? Plan to use a ramdisk?

Yes and yes.

Mallone.7905:

If you’re like me and you want to play the latest games at high resolutions like 5760×1080 in 3D surround or 1920×1080 at 120Hz with seamless fps, heed my words. SLI is worth it.

Would you recommend getting 2x 4GB GTX 770 SLI or buy a single GTX 780 and wait until I can afford another to SLI them?

Thanks for the replies everyone, I appreciate it!

Sorry about the double-post.

I think I’m going to take off the sound card for now, taking Essence’s advice. Also, after a bit of looking around, I was thinking about getting 2x 4GB Superclocked GTX 770 SLI instead of a GTX 780 or GTX Titan.

Any more opinions are welcome, thanks for all the replies so far.

Essence Snow.3194:

There is a lot of wasted money there.
If your going to get that MB, you will be paying for the extras. One of those extras is a higher end onboard audio. You then add in a sound card which make one of the extras your paying for irrelevant.

The reason I’m getting a soundcard is because it will be hooked up to my home entertainment system and through a lot of research many people recommended to stay away from onboard and keep with a dedicated soundcard.

Essence Snow.3194:

Pretty much all of the z87 boards are going to perform (gaming) relatively the same, so I can’t really see paying for a pricier one unless you simply must have it for the asethetics.

I wanted space for upgrading and to be honest, I haven’t kept up with what’s being released PC-wise for the last two and a half years. This is my first PC build, the one I currently own was prebuild.

Essence Snow.3194:

Tbh this seems more of wanting peen spec rig vs wanting actual performance rig.

Going over the top a bit there? Why would I build a PC for peen? I’m just trying to get at least somewhat near the best I can. As I just said, this is my first build hence I asked a question regarding this PC. People can recommend things or say change this or change that.

Thanks.

Hmmm I’ll have to think on this then! I was gonna order it, now I’ve got a bit more to think about haha.

Thanks for the input and advice!

DJRiful.3749:

Unless you play on 4k resolution for 6GB.

Is this the only difference? :o

DJRiful.3749:

Get GTX780… and don’t look at me.. I’m just an early adopter.

Haha funny enough I was looking around and saw your forum signature and wondered if you’d reply here!

Are you sure on this? Is there a big difference between the 780 and Titan or not? What about the 3GB vs. 6GB?

Sorry I’ve never really gone into much focus on graphics cards!

Thanks!

Stormcrow.7513:

Why get a titan when you can get a 780 which has pretty much the same performance(oc) and is way way cheaper?

I suppose it’s just me being a perfectionist and disregarding things like this haha.

I could get the Titan overclocked, or would that be taking it too far?

Haha, sorry! This is just my second build and I wanted something that will show things how they’re meant to be shown!

I’m currently running on an AMD Phenom II x4 @ 3.5Ghz, 4GB RAM, GTX 570 and 1TB HDD with an Asus D1 soundcard. I wanted something MUCH more, so I put this together. I just didn’t wanna buy it and regret it.

Thanks for the input!

So, basically I’ve been building a new PC and I would like some views on this and if it’d be decent for GW 2 (WvW especially) and many other games like Crysis 3 and Metro, TERA.

Tower: Coolermaster Trooper Black Full Tower Gaming Case

Motherboard: Asus Maximus VI Hero, Intel Z87 Chipset, SLI and CrossFireX support

CPU: Intel Core i7 4770K, Haswell, 3.5GHz, Quad Core with HT, 8MB Cache – Overclocked @ 4.4Ghz

CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i Hydro

RAM: 16GB (2×8GB) Corsair Vengeance Pro Silver, 2133MHz

Graphics Card: 6GB EVGA GTX Titan SC, 876MHz GPU, 2688 Cores, 6008MHz GDDR5

PSU: 850W Corsair Pro HX. Modular, 80PLUS Gold, 90% Efficiency

SSD: 256GB Samsung 840 Pro, Read 540MB/s, Write 520MB/s

HDD: 1TB Seagate Barracuda, SATA 6Gb/s, 7200rpm, 64Mb Cache

Soundcard: Asus Xonar Essence STX, Audiophile Sound Card

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit

Just a note, the only reason I’m getting an 850W PSU is purely if I decide to add anything else in the future.

Thanks!

“Legendary items in the gem store.”

I made up my mind about this topic when I saw this.

No.