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If Guild Wars 2 was available tomorrow is your PC ready?
FullMetalAlc
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http://www.gw2pvpstrategy.com/2011/09/assuming-guild-wars-2-tomorrow-pc-ready/ Part 1
http://www.gw2pvpstrategy.com/2011/09/guild-wars-2-tomorrow-pc-ready-part-2/ Part 1
Come join us and read our article, a hypothetical look at what if Guild Wars 2 was available right now, how would we build a new PC or upgrade an existing one specificaly for Guild Wars 2that would provide some serious performance without going too crazy on the price tag. It's also pretty useful if your just looking to upgrade now to enjoy some of the current offerings like Dead Island, Warhammer 40k and in the near future Skyrim.
Hope you all enjoy and thanks!
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Well, I'm currently running a PC that has cost me in upwards of $2700, which includes one of the best GPUs on the market ~ the GTX 580. It'll play any game on the market at max settings including FFXIV with a solid 60fps or higher, so yeah I think I'm ready for GW2.
I noticed in part 2, that its recommended that you purchase an factory OC'd GPU. Honestly thats just wasting $20, because at least with EVGA and nVidia, you can use EVGA's Precision Tools and manually OC your card in about 5sec. And even still if you're not OCing at least a min of 80mhz more than its stock, you won't see a lick of difference in performance.
For example: The stock GTX 580 is 772mhz, and the OC ver is 792mhz and costs $20 more. Granted though, with a factory OC'd GPU, you can generally get a slightly higher manual OC over the standard, but still I don't see OCing such a high end GPU as necessary when the stock setting already destroy every game you throw at it!
Being that they Demo GW@ on the same set up that I currently have I should be ok.
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My pc would smack gw2 to the ground already 1 year ago. So yeah. Im rdy. W40k and other stuff runs smooth. GW2 was designed to play on weaker comps.
That article definitely isn't talking minimum system requirements, because I've seen a list of those, the mid-range, and the recommended. My system, sadly, falls right in the middle, so I won't be ownin' anyone in PvP, that's for sure. But if I had to have the computer they're describing in that article to PLAY.....I'd be screwed.
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I'm running bootcamp on a newer iMac..I'm ready
Anyone with a mid-level pc will be able to play gw2
My PC is ready, however my life isnt, uni starting monday, would seriously screw up the beggining of my last year in uni
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Oh I should be fine, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to be buying a new case and Power Supply and 2nd 6870 in the next few months...
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The point of the article is that if you were building a new PC from scratch today, or just upgrading a few components, what would make the most sense to purchase without spending an obscene amount and knowing that your hardware is good for a while. For example buy a cheapo processor and video card and you will be upgrading again in 6 months in the long run this isn't the most effective upgrade strategy. On the other end of the spectrum buy a $700 video card and watch it plumet in value in 1-2 years time(maybe even sooner) when a new midrange card for $300 surpasses it.
Personaly I wouldn't want to play Guild Wars 2 on minimum specs or any game for that matter(ever try Vanguard on minimum specs?), I want all the graphics turned up, etc. I think the article provides a good baseline for an intermediate system that would run Guild Wars 2 fairly well.
Lastly, the prices on some these components will just keep falling so this maybe the $99-$150 processor and video card, etc by the time Guild Wars 2 does release. Of course you'll be looking at better mid range alternatives, the price points usually don't change too much just the offerings.
Well, I don't know much about hardware stuff, my computer was made in 2009, but I think it's still good enough for GW2. The last 2 things I tried were Rift and Portal 2 they run fine on MAX settings, no lag or whatever. So hopefully I can play GW2 on it, at least with medium settings. x)
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my PC begs for GW2. id like to replace my GTX 285 soon, but it's not necessary.
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nVidia 8800GT
4G RAM
I know it's old and lame, but will I be able to play, does anyone know? And if not....is getting a several levels newer gfx card enough to help me out? That is assuming I can upgrade gfx cards that much with the mobo I have and the power supply.
The system specs I read put this card in the middle, like above minimum reqs, but below recommended. So....it SHOULD be okay, but I wonder how bad it will make the game look?
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i5-2500, 8 gig of RAM, GTX570, SSD.... yup, I'm ready. I built this PC a couple months ago because I was getting the itch and the market seems pretty stable. Probably could have gotten more power for the buck if I'd waited until launch day...but I think I'm going to be just fine.
Incidentally, if anyone's looking to build a new machine and can't decide on what case to get...the one I picked out turned out to be really awesome, especially for the price. I'd recommend checking it out. It's the Cooler Master CM690 II advanced case...comes with lots of spots for fans, a really smart layout, and even some cool extras like a bracket to support large video cards.
4Gb of RAM and a better gfx card (like 280 GTX or above) would help a lot.
There is probably some good quad core that should be cheap to get if your motherboard can support it.
I would wait for the game to be closer to release to get everything tho
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I don't really recommend an OC these days on brand new hardware anyway if you just want a game machine, stability is more important and unless your trying to squeeze out performance on old hardware it's really just for benchmark bragging. OC'ing is in and of itself a hobby and beyond the scope of this article. For some it would make sense and if you know what your doing and you want to push your system great, but it's not going take a a cheap piece of hardware and turn it into the $900 equivalent without some serious knowhow and extra equipment, watercooling, etc. and/or the component has some kind of unlock which makes it better like one of those ATI cards. You could end up spending more money to get a cheaper piece of hardware to OC properly and stable by having to buy the special components than it would cost to just buy something comparable stock.
The factory overclock is $20 more and will bump up your performance a bit over the stock( there are benchmarks out there to prove it) and garauntee that the card and heatsink/fan will support it, hence the recommendation. if you can do it yourself on stock components(not changing out the heatsink/voiding warranties with some manufacturers,etc.) with a cheaper model be my guest but like you said the difference is $20 which is not a lot in the grand scheme of it all when.
Lastly the artcle isn't about the GTX 580 so what you say maybe true for a GTX 580, since it's a high end $450+ card , it w as not taken into consideration/researched for the purposes of this article.
If you can run Rift maxed, you will be able to max out GW2. It isn't demanding, they built it that way. GW2 isn't exactly a great looking game texture wise, its just very good on the art.
I would definately recommend a video card upgrade, if nothing else. A video card makes a major improvement and is more important than a CPU upgrade to an extent as you can get by with an older CPU( as long as it's dual core at least) and newer video card and run many new titles at moderate settings, however an outdated CPU will bottleneck your system reducing the performance you get out of any newer video card, and cause slower load times, etc. 4 gb ram is fine if your OS is 32 bit, if your running 64 bit windows 7 then you would want to get 8 gb..fortuantely ram is cheap these days.
I don't know how your system would fair in it's current state but I would imagine it would require tweaking low/medium on textures, turning off shadows and lighting effects, foilage and viewing distance adjustment.
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Spend 150$ and buy a new video card and you'll be fine.
That 8800gt is like.. two or 3 generations old now.
460 GTX for 150$ or a 550 ti for simliar, maybe 180$.
Radeon 6850 or find a good sale like I did for 6870 - 150$
I always check Tigerdirect.com and newegg.com first.
Worst advice ever.... Its a mere gamble...
WE don't know anything yet about the how the graphics of GW2 will scale...
We don't know anyhting yet about how GW2 will handle Memmory use
We don't know if GW2 is programmed to effectively use more then 2 cores
We don't know how an SSD drive will impact loading times...
These guys are only telling you how to build a great PC with good bang for your Bugs.... but there is no relationship however to GW2's performance.
And never build your own PC when you don't know exactly what you're doing and you're not able to troubleshoot your hardware when there is anything wrong. In that case you are much better off buying a DELL, because even those have much much more warranty....
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