Guild Wars 2

Well, As i have a lower end PC, I can tell you what your problem may be.

My specs: Intel I5 2500k @ 4.5 Ghz
Nvidia GTX 460 720/1800(stock)
Ram: OCZ Ripjaws X 8 GB CL8’s

HDD’s are junk, 7200 rpm simple HDD’s.

Mobo: MSI Z68-A GD-65

PSU: Kingwin Lazer gold 850W*sli planned eventually*

At any rate, with these parts, with maximum settings, I run 46-50 fps with no action, and dips into the 20’s with heavy fighting.

I underclocked the cpu to stock, fps stayed relatively the same, a decrease of 1-3.

re-overclocked that, overclocked GPU, gain of ~4 fps. The OC was 860/2000/1.025 V

Final Result: CPU speed has an effect, but with my system, my bottleneck is my video card, due to V-ram most likely.

Try turning down options one at a time until you see a spike in performance if you can’t deal with the lower fps.

Note: AMD’s are actually VERY good, just not very well utilized. Their hardware is much beefier than intel, but lacks the microcode of intel to utilize the power for anything but mass demand via :servers, video rendering, High multi-taskability.

On that note: In your case, it IS your CPU, as it is not being utilized to its fullest potential. Not much you can do about that unless you manufacture CPU’s :P

Good luck with your endevors!