If Healbot was in charge…you wouldn’t like it either!
Maybe if her idea had a few more smilies? Anyway, never resort to a plan that involves ninja kites.
On a side note: I’m thinking of buying a new videocard when GWEN arrives. The options I’m faced with given my budget and current equipment: 1) Stay with my old Radeon 9800Pro cuz 15~40 frames is OK. 2) Buy the best AGP card available in my price range. 3) Rebuild entire system cuz nothing else will make Tyria look good-n-shiny. I’m curious what folks use in their systems since nobody benchmarks with GW…
Option 4: Beg for money and got with option 3.
Comment by Bargamer — July 1, 2007 @ 6:49 pm
Hi,
just to, ahem, help you decide: I recently got me a nice PCI-E system with a x1950 pro. It’s very mid-range, but it runs GW at a smooth 60 fps in any and all situations. You’ll never want to go back, and with PCI-E being the new standard, you’ll also be kind of future-proof.
hope that helped
Matt
Comment by Matt — July 1, 2007 @ 7:55 pm
The catch is the new PCI-E standard. Just to have that, I’m going to need a new MB –> CPU –> Memory. I have seen AGP versions of the X1950, which will probably be at a nice price in a few months. Unless I sell a whole lotta art before Fall, my upgrade budget is no more than $200.
Comment by labsenpai — July 1, 2007 @ 9:39 pm
The 7800GS is still the best AGP card around, can be had for as little as $165 at newegg.com.
The X1950XT/Pro can also be had for under $200 at newegg, but I’m an nvidiot, so sue me. :p
Comment by Arusha — July 2, 2007 @ 10:14 am
id rebuild if your still using AGP… that standard is slowly leaving the market… PCI-E is the way to go…
in saying that… get an intel core duo… with 1 gig RAM… your current harddrives should / can / will transfer to a new system… so you don’t have to go large with that either… for graphics… nvidia or radeon…
but with a budget in mind… it makes it harder…
Comment by Aphrael — July 2, 2007 @ 10:24 am
Thanks for the suggestions. I will probably do a complete upgrade and just try to get the best budget gear I can find when GWEN goes out. I just really hate looking at my growing pile of functioning-yet outdated computer parts (Voodoo2 SLI anyone?)
Now everyone can return to LOL-ing at Healbot…
Comment by labsenpai — July 2, 2007 @ 11:00 am
Yes, returning to that strip - looking at Healbot’s fate, that frog’s a lot scarier than she seems, eh?
Comment by Snow — July 2, 2007 @ 11:19 am
The Frog is the REAL “God of Secrets.” He knows everything before we do.
General Kroakyet: “Frogaddon will eat your flies!”
Comment by Talshina Canton — July 3, 2007 @ 6:38 am
Well to your original question about computers used to
play Guild Wars.
1) AMD Barton mobile PR3200+ with 1Gb of PC3200
DDR-SDRAM and ATi x800 256Mbyte AGP video card
would run GW just fine, no slow downs with
WinXP.
2) AMD Barton regular PR2500+ with 1Gb of PC2700
DDR-SDRAM and that same ATi x800 256Mbyte AGP
video card with WinXP… some slow dones
experienced including some short game pauses
at regular intervals.
3) AMD Opteron 148 at 2.75Ghz with 2Gb of PC4000
DDR-SDRAM, an nVidiot 7900GTO 512Mbyte PCIe
video card with WinXP… no slow downs during
game play but there is a noticeable load up
time during entries into towns sometimes.
Resolution of GW for all 3 systems is 1280 x 1024
with all 3D effects maximized inside GW for visual
quality.
I would suggest Healbot just buy an AGP video card
on eBay used based on the CPU. A top end K-7 Barton
seems to be able to feed enough data for most AGP
video cards. An ATi x850 video card should be fine
until you’ve saved up enough gold pieces for a
replacement when GW2 comes out. I would not suggest
you buy a new system until GW2 specs come out.
Just my 2 copper shillings. (O_O)b
BTW, my little guild loves your Healbot comic
XOXOX to Healbot from my guildies.
Comment by Bata Revo — July 6, 2007 @ 2:18 am
My system runs on an Athlon XP 2600 (Barton), with 1 gig of DDR SDRAM. I’m back to considering just a minimal upgrade (<$200) after pricing out a whole new rig. This means I could buy a nice Radeon 19XX card, or possibly a faster Athlon CPU (for max bus speed) and a 7600/1650 card. If my CPU won’t cripple the faster AGP card, I’ll probably go with the former via NewEgg. I’m not sure I want to buy a CPU off Ebay…
Comment by labsenpai — July 6, 2007 @ 3:12 pm
K, so i built a system 2 months ago that would probailly fix your puropses. cost me 1k. (no new monitor, mouse, KB, speakers or OS)
-AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ w/ 2×1MB Cache (Socket AM2)
-Asus M2A-VM w/ AMD 690G, DualDDR2 800, Audio, Gigabit Lan, PCI-E x16, DVI-HDCP
-X-Discovery Case w/ Side Window, Black
-Enermax Liberty Modular Power Supply, 400W
-Western Digital 250GB Caviar SE16 7200rpm SATA II w/ 16MB Cache
-LG Super Multi DVD Writer 18×18x10 DVD +/-RW Dual-Layer, Black (OEM)
-Sapphire ULTIMATE Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB PCI-E w/ Dual DVI, TV-Out
-Mushkin EM2-6400 Enhanced DDR2 SDRAM, 2GB (2×1gb)
cost was about $1100 Canadian.
Comment by BuG — July 25, 2007 @ 10:46 pm
I am running:
3.2 Dual Core Intel
2x 7900GS 256
2 Gig ram
Guild Wars is very pretty. So is MSFS (9 and 10).
Comment by Tiny Killer — July 29, 2007 @ 2:27 am