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Michael Neuhaus

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Hello,

I would like to get some feedback on a build I have come up with that I feel would be stable and powerful enough to run Guild Wars 2 on high graphics without lag in areas with many people. I have a Sentey Optimus II gaming case with 6 120mm fans and a hard drive cooler. At the moment these are the only things I have as I didn't want to purchase the hardware until I got some feedback.

The specs I was looking at running were these:

CPU: AMD FX-8350 Vishera w/ 8 cores at 4.0 GHz/4.2 GHz OverDrive
Motherboard: MSI 970 ATX Gaming Motherboard
Memory: 16 GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 MHz RAM
PSU: Sentey 600 Watt BXP 600 Power Supply (this works I tested it)
GPU: Asus R9 270X Stock OC at 1120 MHz and 2 GB VRAM
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo running dual 120MM High Performance PWM Fans

Would this be a powerful build? Intel just seems ridiculously more expensive for the same performance... My dad runs Guild wars with absolutely no lag on an AMD FX 6120 Processor (HP Envy h8-1414 PC).

Any advice or comments are appreciated... Thanks in advance!

Update: For the video card would an EVGA GTX 960superclocked to 1279 MHz and1342 MHz 4GB VRAM be better?
 
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I'd basically just switch the CPU for an Intel Core i5-4460 and drop the RAM to 8GB. That would give you better performance and save like $130 or something. I'd just save that money because a GTX 960 is more than powerful enough for GW2. i5 and GTX 960 are very power efficient and run relatively cool too, you wouldn't need an aftermarket CPU cooler.
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Louis At Skowhegan

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That will run whatever you want it to and at high settings.

I suggest searching through the builds at reddit.com/r/buildapc to see if someone has already tried what you are looking for at a similar or better price.
 
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Generally games don't use any more than 4 cores, Guild Wars 2 isn't any different as far as I know. That means an FX-9 8 core is going to give pretty much the same gaming performance as an FX-4 4 core.

This chart is only meant to be a rough guide but illustrates this well:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-5.html

The AMD 8 cores are in the same section as i3's and AMD 4 cores for games.


Also games don't tend to use any more than 4GB RAM so 8GB is plenty.


I'll have a quick look and put something together that would be cheaper and have far better performance.


EDIT: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,review-32901-4.html

There's another article which will show that the FX-9's aren't recommended for gaming.
 
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I'd basically just switch the CPU for an Intel Core i5-4460 and drop the RAM to 8GB. That would give you better performance and save like $130 or something. I'd just save that money because a GTX 960 is more than powerful enough for GW2. i5 and GTX 960 are very power efficient and run relatively cool too, you wouldn't need an aftermarket CPU cooler.
 
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