Guild Wars 2

Good luck with your new build on what you decide on

I have never seen a 570 or 580 run on a 500W PSU. Its impossible at full load without any type of lag.

Zalastra you also forgot about the motherboard using easily 140W-150W for that with the CPU, but then HDDs, Optical Drives, USB slots etc have to be added also. And obviously the GPU at full load.

There is eco cards that can run at the 400W mark at full load, but they are not great cards imho.

A 590 needs a 700W PSU with everything else. Yes the 670 is designed to run on lesser wattage, but not that much of a difference, once you factor in the other devices.

The higher wattage PSU comes into play later on also, with future upgrades etc. The lesser PSU’s like a 600W are more expensive for dedicated 12v rails for the GPU on them than a 800W that usually comes with it standard while offering more optionality later on. So best to spend the money on an 800W (1000W is for seriousness later on, I offered that as an option seeing as he wants to do more with it, like hosting a server etc then he has many options).

I get a lot of jute for doing 1-15 areas from the explore chest you get for finding everything. I may have been lucky though as I think it may be random on what mat you get.

Nerf Warrior and Bring back the Monks?

There is Second Edition 570s now Kabaal. They addressed the issue some producers had problems with, I think the first edition cards that were faulty where Asus, MSI and Zotac cards.

But I was just giving an example on how to save a bit of money, he doesn’t need to go for a 570 of course.

Not sure on crafting, I was maybe thinking since artificing makes tridents etc, that perhaps they can make breathers too. Not got far in Artificing to know that.

But a quick way to see if the stats stack on land is to swim and to check your stats to see if they increase or not, if they don’t then they must stack on land.

Don’t overclock please, its only for the show offs who think they are cool when they do it, without even realising that nothing fully supports 4ghz+ cores out there.

But on something I said in another thread, if you plan on getting more than 8GB ram, make sure the Windows OS you have (has to be 64bit also) can support more than 8GB. Windows 7 Home/Basic for instance only supports up to 8GB.

I know from Beetletun outside Divinity’s Reach (east end of Queensdale) is Mastiff dogs ready for charming, as is the Polar Bear in the Norn starting area (north west corner). Easiest ones to get, not sure if other home cities have any, not seen any in Lions Arch, Black Citadel or Rata Sum.

Yeah I would say Karma vendors also.

Not sure maybe someone can say but does artificers make them also?

lol GUILTY…..

oh wait me to

@Waar – no its not, depending on the card the power requirements goes up. A 680/690 needs around 550W some even 600W, then there is 140-150W per motherboard+CPU, then the small amount of wattage per other card or device. All adds up doesn’t it :P

The cards can run on lesser wattage while in desktop mode, but if run it full pelt and you don’t have the required wattage available the card will lag, and eventually fail if run too long like that (long as in 6 months+).

@Thechin

Your answered post above gives a good list, but you could save more money on getting less than a 670 instead, 570 will save you at least £70-£100. Which you can use elsewhere in your build.

Antec cases will take all types of PSU so don’t worry about that. But like I said to waar above the more you have the more power you will need, 800W will be good with a 570. 1000W will give you options to upgrade in the future without having to shell out a lot more, for example if you choose to get another 570 and SLI them (i.e. link them up to be essentially double the processing etc).

@Thechin – Yes cause it looks smoother by the amount of refreshing, your eyes will only see 30hz, but a screen showing something 4 times quicker will look smoother

The 300 case is a good standard case, but if you can afford it go for something a bit more sturdier, in the £80+ range.

In terms of the GPU you sure you need the 670? Cause you can get a 580 for just a bit less. Ok its not a series 6 card but it has a couple more features than the 670. Or simply consider the 660ti which is cheaper and still does a good job.

At the moment I have GW2 running on both PC’s I have, one with a dual 680 and 3.8ghz Octo-Core AMD CPU, and one with a 460 SE with a 3.4ghz Quad-Core Phenom II. The latter plays good at near high settings, the first can play at top settings, but not much of a difference.

So even going for a 560 or 570 will save you even more money. As long as you get a decent CPU, even a simple i5 will work with at least 2.8ghz per core, preferably a quad core (4 cores).

EDIT: Forgot to mention, if you do go for a 5 or 6 series GPU, you will need a nice case, cheaper cases tend not to be long, which makes fitting large GPUs a pain

Also you will need a power supply that has 2×6 pin and 2×8 pin for PCI-e cards, depending on the GPU you go for. A series 5 card needs 2×6 pin, a 660 and 670 needs 1×6 pin and 1×8 pin, a 680 and 690 will require in some cases 2×8 pins.

And the power requirements go up, to be safe go for either an 800W or 1000W power supply.

shambo.3842:

i run everything maxed out and have not had a single crash or black screen. im running an i5 2600k oc to 4.4gh, 8 gb of ram, gtx 560 superclocked. and the games installed on a ssd in raid 0. hope this helps if you decide to upgrade your pc.

I will cry for you if your Raid 0 fails one day :P (if one disk fails the rest fail)

120hz monitors have faster refresh rates but doesn’t affect the GPUs performance as such, so won’t affect FPS, as to show correctly at 1080p, a 120hz monitor has to show 24 frames 5 times a second.

A newer GPU and decent CPU will help gain you FPS in games etc.

For the OP,

Consider a simple Antec 1100 case, plenty of room in that, but the HAF 91x case someone mentioned is good also, but in my honest opinion is too ugly outside, too much artsy fartsy stuff :P

But if you have more money stashed away consider looking at Lian Li cases, expensive but well built and sturdy as hell, will give you muscles carrying it :P

EDIT: What Ceallach said with water cooling is good, but consider Liquid Cooling which is different, it doesn’t use large pumps like water cooling, and is easy to install, this is based on experience on using the Corsair H80 and H100 (double sized radiator that requires 2 120mm fan slots next to each other)

@Zalastra – I shant quote what you said, the quoting would end up 10 pages long :P

Physx is still majorly used, the upcoming Generals 2 that I have been working on will make use heavily of the hardware Physx chip on Nvidia cards, for AMD users they will lose on some things graphically but the game will use the havoc system also.

CUDA is great for water/fire effects among other things. Just Cause 2 was really the first game to use it extensively.

Physx has been the same, over the years it has been used in games, Sacred 2, Mirrors Edge, Alice Madness Returns, GRAW 2, Mafia II, Batman AA/AC, .. among others. Future titles that will use the hardware Physx chip – Metro Last Light, Borderlands 2, Hawken, Generals 2 (first in a set of new C&C games, including remakes — yep the Tiberium and Red Alert games will be remade too).

The only thing the CPU will be involved in between the Physx and CUDA chipset is just the transferring of the data from chipset to GPU. And any other stuff the game needs that doesn’t require a GPU, maths etc.

You say its little to do with the hardware itself in terms of Physx, but that is wrong if the game supports the hardware usage it will use it, but most developers will not do so because of AMD cards and they want a high rate of compatibility, but some have gone that bit further. And it makes an immense difference.

After just a quick search on youtube here is a comparison video of Alice-Madness Returns. A huge immense difference yes? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0UBtzKRUKI

Also to OP, consider buying from Ebuyer.co.uk at the moment they have good prices.

Zalastra.6290:

Sad that you put this nonsense next to your otherwise good advise. There are alternatives to physx and cuda that do exactly the same but are not limited to nvidia cards. AMD had their own alternative called havoc. But either way most developers will be using standardized technologies, namely opencl and directcompute, that work on both. Thing is though, they don’t work very well yet for games. Same goes for cuda and physx. Physx only ever worked good with a second dedicated physx card and then there have only been a handful of games that actually used physx to an extent that it would actually be worth having it.

Actually more and more games are using hardware Physx and CUDA, and havoc will be used of course also, but the main point is any Physx instructions used in a game works off better on an Nvidia card than an AMD which has to use the CPU to emulate it. Unless as you said the game supports Havoc.

Was a bit rude of you to say Nonsense, when you just instructed someone to get 16GB ram without warning them about the 64bit OS requirement (like I did). :P

Also the reason that amd cards have more stream processors is simply because they use a different architecture than nvidia’s cards. Simply put you can’t compare them 1 on 1 like that. You can only compare them

Actually there is a reason why they have more stream processors, of course they have different architecture thats common sense right there, but they had to since Nvidia bought the Physx brand and started putting them on their cards, the only thing AMD could do at that time was to include more stream processing to combat it.

In short there’s no real reason to choose one over the other besides price/performance or personal preference. Note that price/performance can easily differ from game to game so it could be worth to look at benchmarks of games that are relevant to you before deciding.

Many people are too engrossed between the companies, and become (dare I say it) fanboys, so they are one sighted on GPUs.. so you will always have people who will buy Nvidia or AMD only. For me I am giving my honest opinion on what is coming out the next couple of years (in terms of software) vs the hardware available, and at the moment Nvidia is trumping what AMD has to offer. So far that is.

Apoca.8206:

The worth of gems fluctuates with in-game economy data. Some days, gems go down to 21gems per 9s (I use 9s as my “base”, idk why), while just yesterday it went as high as 40 gems per 9s. Once more higher levels come in to the game and more money is being made, the worth of gems will probably go down a lot, or it might continue to go up. Not sure yet. On day one, though, in the pre-release, 9s was worth 24 gems, and it appears gems are getting cheaper.

Certainly makes buying 800 diamonds at £8.99 a waste of time, when I can get that for around a couple of gold.

8G = Digital Deluxe Edition just doesn’t seem right, when the upgrade in money terms = £21.50 (based on price of 800 diamonds).

Guess they mucked that up :P

Crusher.4708:

Nop. 1 Gem =/= 20-30 Silver. (idk what that graph is showing but it is not the price of 1 Gem)
For 1 Gold 40 Silver I get 510 Gems, so it is pretty easy to get them.

Wow I need to come to your realm :P

Cause you are telling me all it takes is 4 days of farming to get 8G to get over 2000 diamonds so people can upgrade normal retail to digital deluxe?

Does that sound right to you?

Especially when in my money £8.99 = 800 diamonds.

EDIT: You are right just checked lol That doesn’t seem right I think they may have bugged it lol

Myself im currently exploring all the low areas as the rewards are nice but random.

One thing to make is the Strawberries and Biscuits from cooking it gives 30 minutes of +10% Magic Find, great for finding some unique stuff out in the world, especially from looting and gathering and its low down in the cooking skill also (iirc 75 skill needed and level 15), to get that you need to make buttermilk biscuits (1 Glass of buttermilk, 1 Butter, 1 Bag of Flour, 1 Packet of Baking Powder), then to make the Strawberries and Biscuits (1 Buttermilk Biscuit, 1 Strawberry, 1 Bag of Sugar). And it stacks with any trinket gems you have equipped.

There is better later on like Yam Fritters at level 30 with 18%, and up at the top Chocolate Omnomberry Cream (yes thats what its called lol) with 40% Magic Find.

Obviously with this you get rare stuff easier and then in turn with Trading post going you can sell them, I got 5 rare dyes last night after using my first one including Hot Pink, yes the olde Hot Pink is back in fashion >.<

We have, and said no we hope not, but I think you are looking for someone who already has them to answer right?

Kailthir.6384:

They fixed that problem. You can trade gold coins for gems. And with the added feature of collectables, there is plenty of bank room.

Yeah at 20-30s at the moment per Diamond, but good luck collecting I think 800 of them to unlock the bank slot and bag slot (unless there is more bank slots at a higher cost).

And once people start earning more as they gain levels the demand goes up as does the price for the diamonds per gold. Then it will be more difficult.

A big hint, do not do Cooking and Huntsman, not so Huntsman friendly as you will need metal bars for items, and with the Trading Post and Mail being so sporadic its difficult to get or send from an alt at the moment.

If they follow suit from GW1 then they may release a campaign or two, introducing new classes each one, including a new area of the map and storylines.

Agreed it would suck to see Sunglasses in middle of Tyria lol

It would enrage a lot of RPers

Seems to be a bad texture file, but it could also be an optical illusion due to the ground effect looking like sand, but I lean towards the first reason.

Check another resolution and see if it is the same, if not then definitely the bad texture file. Cause the sky and mountains look fine :P

Kailthir.6384:

I hate the idea of spending 50+ bucks for a game and not being able to play it unless you continue to give them more money.

Good luck unlocking your bank slots and extra bag slot :P

Dem diamonds

I would stay away from Overclocking first off. It may be the latest fad with semi-professional IT specialists, but it can damage hardware and their lifespan reduced by doing this.

You don’t need an i7 yes, as the extra Mnemonics aren’t used yet, an i5 is fine as is a AM3+ CPU as long as either is 2.8ghz+ per core.

Also be wary of memory, if you plan on going above 4GB you will need a 64bit Windows to do this, and not all versions of Windows 7 or the future 8 will allow more than 8GB, so check up on this also if you plan on getting more than 8GB.

I would stick with Nvidia cards as they offer more hardware support, in terms of Physx and CUDA. AMD/ATI cards have more stream processing to help with the fact they don’t have hardware Physx or CUDA, so more work for your CPU.

Just need to look at the Map of Tyria, to see areas not yet used, that is a definite sign of future campaigns/expansions

Catholics need to goto church badly?

Understand you are upset and angry, but most MMO devs do this, so they can check and ban access to the bot/farmer at the same time.

It’s annoying yes, but it also protects your account in the state it was banned at.

Just be patient

Yeah I am similar, I used an old GW1 account I had before giving it to a friends sick nephew (plus I wasn’t playing GW1 anymore – had 3 campaigns and GWEN) then I rebought them just before 2012 and had to set up a NCsoft master account which I didn’t have to before (old days you could enter the key in the game :P).

So when I got GW2 I signed up with my old account details forgetting about the ncsoft account, so obviously I don’t get the HoM rewards etc. I put in a ticket for this.

But they do ask you for

Your name on the account
Address
CD-KEY/s
Last 4 digits on your CC if you purchased directly online
Character Name on the account
And email address

This is to prove it is you etc. Still not heard back from them, so had to start a new ticket re’ing the other ticket to get noticed. Live help has been no help as it was never on this week, only for people with billing issues.

Ahhh Ok good to know. Wasn’t sure if it was the same or not.

I don’t have the Deluxe or CE, but before on GW1 you had to type /bonus into the chat to receive items.

So not sure if its the same thing, but there is a FAQ I believe on the main site.

Yeah because the previous email would get it. You will need to talk to support.

@Drintar if that was what is happening, you could essentially gain access to any account. The old email is sent the link to say “did you wish to change your account” this way if someone did try it with your own account you have to say yes by clicking a link first.

@Drintar – I do believe the email is sent to the other email address which would mean someone who owns the email address they did not intend to register to will get it and may be able to reset the password etc.

Forgot the reference number >.<

120829-017005

As long as people buy their gold, they will always be around. Best thing is for people to play normally and don’t get greedy and not to pay them anything.

Has never been so slow or aggrevating.

My main problem was I used to have a previous GW1 account years ago which I gave away to a friend with a sick nephew (give him something to cheer up about – plus I did change information to theirs). Then recently got all 3 standalones and GWEN on December last year.

I forgot that I had to use a unique ncsoft for the 2nd time, so when I got GW2 last week I used my old email I used for the first GW1 account I had (I usually use that email for most things) so obviously it won’t tie up with my ncsoft master account.

Trying to get help for it has been nuts, what orginally started out as forgetting a character name (when the one I was trying was correct), to then realising I couldn’t log into GW with my old email, then realising oh it should be my ncsoft account…

Anyways cut a long story short wanted them to transfer this account to my ncsoft account to use the HoM stuff. But every time you want to go chat to them live as the web side of things is not progessing at all, they seem to be closed every bleeding day..

First it was Monday – Wednesday 12pm – 5pm, then Monday came… close, but open Tuesday to Wednesday, Tuesday came and bam closed all week, but only open for people discussing billing issues.

Any chance staff can actually do this for me, as it is getting rather annoying now :P