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Interesting. Are you still on Windows 7 or did you reinstall 8?
I’ve actually been swapping between the two very often and what I’ve noticed is windows 8 is a RAM kitten. It’s also as I mentioned completely useless when it comes to running games. Might as well be running games on a macbook. It would suck just as much. I was thinking of dual booting since I’m switching so often. If I do, when the new windows updates come out, (which are basically a reversion to windows 7. lol oh you so funny microsoft), I will test the game and update.
Oh yeah and I’m considering overclocking for that individual core speed increase. My idle temperature is 35 right now so I’m a bit worried but I might just try it anyways.
Considering we have the same processor and you have a better CPU cooler than my own, I can help you with overclocking and perhaps provide some tips for what I did to get my 4.1Ghz. With my high voltage setting, I see temperatures around 50-55 C in summer and a little lower in winter. Then under loads like Guild Wars 2, the cores being used see around 70-75 C. So 35C idle isn’t bad at stock everything.
If you could that’d be great, my skype is roxter.rocking
Talking there would be easier.
Taking a vacuum to your system is an absolutely TERRIBLE thing to do. Please, for the sake of your systems safety, never ever do it again.
Clear dust the smart and safe way – Pressurized Air. Blow the dust away, let it settle in your carpet, vacuum the carpet. While your computer is fine now vacuums are a big creator of static. Static is, of course, electricity. Depending on what the static jumps to you could brick a component, corrupt some data on your hard drives or even brick the system.
Remember, always practice safe computing.
Well thankfully nothing bad happened but thank you very much for the warning! I won’t be doing that again any time soon.
Interesting. Are you still on Windows 7 or did you reinstall 8?
I’ve actually been swapping between the two very often and what I’ve noticed is windows 8 is a RAM kitten. It’s also as I mentioned completely useless when it comes to running games. Might as well be running games on a macbook. It would suck just as much. I was thinking of dual booting since I’m switching so often. If I do, when the new windows updates come out, (which are basically a reversion to windows 7. lol oh you so funny microsoft), I will test the game and update.
Oh yeah and I’m considering overclocking for that individual core speed increase. My idle temperature is 35 right now so I’m a bit worried but I might just try it anyways.
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Well I just typed the entire thread out and then hit control enter so I have no idea what happened to it, but here we go again.
I had recently upgraded to windows 8 and bought guild wars 2. The first time I started up the game I had 20 fps and this seemed unrealistic to me for my PC specs.
I looked into this by first trying to run another game, called TERA. This game ran at 20 fps to.
I automatically assumed it was the operating system as I had been able to run TERA at 150fps on windows 7.
This being said. I reverted. 40 fps. Wow double my fps! (*not remotely impressive). Just what the kitten is happening I thought.
Well I’ve downloaded at least 300gb since I last ran tera so let’s start there. I wiped 300 gb of data from my computer and all my pc now had on it was guild wars 2, WoW, and TERA.
Then I defragmented like any smart person would do.
And then I wiped free space.
60 fps. I can run guild wars 2 smoothly but it still seems a little bit borderline.
NO PROBLEM TIME TO OPEN UP MY DESKTOP
~Holy jesus kittenting christ what the hell is inside my computer.
I kitten you not I took a vacuum and just vacuumed my entire computer. There was so much dust on my cpu fan that it didn’t have space to move. I HAD NO COOLING SYSTEM.
So now i had 65-70 fps on high settings! It looked so smooth and beautiful. BUT IM NOT SATISFIED.
TIME TO SPEND MONEY
I went to Canada Computers and bought myself an h80i and after spending 5 hours trying to figure out (yes actually 5 hours) how to get it to work, I INSTALLED IT!
I am now running the game at 80fps consistently never dropping below 60.
With what specs you ask? GARBAGE SPECS!
8gb of RAM (3.5 usable)
Intel Core i7 CPU 930 2.8GHz 2.79 GHz
GTX 470 Nvidia Graphics Card
Piece of kitten 6 year old HDD
That’s my story and I hope it helped someone out there, good luck fixing your FPS!