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    Can the Asus G73JH-A1 handle Guild Wars 2?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by hax0rJimDuggan, Dec 22, 2013.

  1. hax0rJimDuggan

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    hax0rJimDuggan, Dec 22, 2013
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    Yes it can, medium should be fine.
     
    Undyingghost, Dec 22, 2013
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    I had a G73 during beta and when game was first released.

    The game has been optimized since then but imo you can play pve @ lower resolution and lower quality. If I remember
    correctly I would run 1600x900 @ low settings and get around 20-30fps in pve as long as the map wasnt too full. For events
    though it was pretty bad.

    Wvw was unplayable often in the low teens and even single digits when any action really happened.

    Didnt really play pvp back then so not sure what that would be like.
     
    AlwaysSearching, Dec 22, 2013
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    You might want to avoid mass pvp. Other than that, it should do fine at decent settings.
     
    EvoHavok, Dec 23, 2013
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    some OC of the GPU would help ;)
     
    sasuke256, Dec 23, 2013
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    You mean CPU? GW2 is a really heavy on the CPU, so any overclock should help.
     
    Undyingghost, Dec 23, 2013
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    Older quad i7's are still somewhat better than newer dual-cores.
     
    Jobine, Dec 23, 2013
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    especially if the game is properly multi-threaded :)
     
    sasuke256, Dec 23, 2013
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    LOL this is kind of off-topic, but I'd have to disagree with you. I used to own an ASUS G73JH with the i7-740QM and I can tell you that the low clock speed of the Clarksfield i7 really hurt it. For example, the 740QM Turbo Boosts to only 1.86 GHz on four cores while my Ivy Bridge 3630QM does 3.2 GHz, plus it is 20-30% faster clock-for-clock. So the much more aggressive Turbo coupled with the IPC improvement means that the Ivy Bridge and Haswell i7 really blow the Clarksfield i7 out of the water and even the newer i5 are faster: Mobile Processors - Benchmarklist - NotebookCheck.net Tech

    As far as gaming is concerned, titles such as GW2 that are bottlenecked by MHz rather than core count will definitely run faster on a higher-clocked i5 than a lower-clocked i7. The first-gen i7 had to sacrifice clock speed for core count compared to the i5, but nowadays we have the best of both worlds, with the i7 having double the cores while maintaining clock speeds as high as if not higher than the i5. :D
     
    octiceps, Dec 23, 2013
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