Guild Wars 2

Samaul.6073:

Rolo.9248:

Your Wolfdale can’t feed your 560Ti data fast enough (I had a 580 on one at 3.66GHz and it just was bored silly whilst the CPU was completely taxed).

I have never noticed any cpu lag with my system. I think the primary drag is the 2x 1tb 7200 rpm hds in raid 0. SSDs FTW!

SSDs are only good for games where you don’t have to wait for everyone else to load the levels, in games such as shooters, there’s usually a 15 second wait after the host has loaded the level and connected to another person. SSDs are probably only useful at the moment for the performance savvy and enthusiasts, and until they get much cheaper many gamers will stick with your bog standard, trusty HDDs (not necessarily RAID 0, which sucks for gaming), plus the capacity too, there’s always a trade-off;

SSDs – Extreme Performance, Low-Medium Capacity, Not compatible with All Mobos, No Risk of Mechanical Damage, etc.
HDDs – Standard Performance, High-Extreme Capacity, Compatible with ALL Mobos, can break if dropped or vibrated when operating, however early prediction of data corruption is possible (with S.M.A.R.T) so you can go out and buy another HDD and transfer all your data across.

I guess it sort of balances out, after all warriors have some of the highest toughness statistics in the game, and good damage to top it off, I don’t like the fact that you have to keep swimming away with a speargun to keep my damage constant, but then again there are skills such as the skill with immobilising to stop the mobs from coming closer.

RAM frequency has very little effect on performance, after 1600MHz there’s no point going any further because RAM with higher frequencies tends to fail earlier than the normal 1333, and 1600, the only place where 2133Mhz comes into handy is benchmarks, plus it can potentially strain the CPU (higher CPU temps). The graphics card and CPU are the main things to consider, as in you pay more, you get more, I’m currently under-clocking my GTX 580 @ 405MHz GPU clock and 1250MHz Memory clock, and what I’ve found out is that if I go any lower than 1250MHz with my GTX 580 is that frame rates suffer terribly, the GPU clock doesn’t really affect FPS, however memory clocks are very important in Graphics cards, the faster the clock, the more frames can be processed in a second.

<1250MHz = <30 FPS
1250MHz = ~60 FPS
>1250MHz = >60 FPS