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Upgraded to GTX 770, not much of a difference?

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August 20, 2013 7:00:58 PM

I just upgraded to a GTX 770 Gigabyte 2GB from a GTX 650 TI BOOST 2GB. The 650 played Guild Wars 2 at high ( not ultra ) settings getting around 30 fps in the main town ( Lions Arch ). I set my graphics to ultra settings with the 770 and im pretty much getting around 40 fps in the same town. It doesn't seem much of a difference, is it supposed to be like this or is something wrong? Maybe I expected too much from this card? I'm playing on 1920 x 1080. Thanks in advance. Quick edit: I just ran the benchmark test for final fantasy XIV on maximum settings at 1920 x 1080. I got a score of 7713 ( 7000 being the max at extremely high eprformance ) I was hoping for a lot more, but does this sound about right?

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August 20, 2013 7:09:42 PM

What are the rest of your specs?
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August 20, 2013 7:12:03 PM

Guild Wars 2 and many other MMOs tend to be more CPU bound, so you might not see a huge boost with a better graphics card in those kinds of games. Try downloading MSI Afterburner and run it in the background, if your GPU usage is not constantly 99-100%, then you likely have a CPU bottleneck. You can use task manager to monitor CPU usage while playing, if one or more cores are maxed out, then you have a CPU bottleneck.
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August 20, 2013 7:13:03 PM

GW2 seems to have a lot of issues...a simple google check and I found lots of posts of people complaining it was CPU bound and a bad programmed game. What CPU are you running?
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August 20, 2013 7:15:40 PM

Thanatos Telos said:
What are the rest of your specs?


Hey I have a I5 3570k ( not OCed but i plan too eventually ) 8GB corsair vengeance RAM, Corsair CX 600 watt, a kinda old samsung HDD, some kinda ASRock motherboard sorry dont remember but I read it was good in a review ( cost around 90-100 )
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August 20, 2013 7:49:03 PM

You might not notice much of a difference because, today, culling no longer occurs in pve. Now everyone is being displayed on your screen, so you take a performance hit.

Also, gw2 is very cpu-bound.
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August 20, 2013 9:51:27 PM

Koambat_Karl said:
Thanatos Telos said:
What are the rest of your specs?


Hey I have a I5 3570k ( not OCed but i plan too eventually ) 8GB corsair vengeance RAM, Corsair CX 600 watt, a kinda old samsung HDD, some kinda ASRock motherboard sorry dont remember but I read it was good in a review ( cost around 90-100 )


fudoka711 said:
You might not notice much of a difference because, today, culling no longer occurs in pve. Now everyone is being displayed on your screen, so you take a performance hit.

Also, gw2 is very cpu-bound.

damn i just noticed that. well i'm pretty much running at same performance as before just with maxed graphics.
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