How is my build?

[Vladislav Andreev]

Well since I’ve been playing on my laptop for the past couple of months and I am unable to play on Medium settings on Guild Wars 2 without dropping my framerate to 15-20, I decided to start saving up to build my own rig. I am almost there to having all the money required, but I would like to know if this build is good? How will it run? What can I run? Any changes I need to make?

My laptop's specs are:

CPU: Intel Core i5 -3230m 2.6Ghz
GPU: Geforce 610M - 2GB
RAM: 6GB
HDD: 500GB

Will this build be a noticeable difference in gameplay?

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($229.98 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Pro3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($94.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($82.21 @ NCIX US)
Storage: Samsung 840 Pro Series 128GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($129.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 270X 2GB Video Card ($219.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Antec High Current Gamer 620W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($64.00 @ Amazon)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8 (OEM) (64-bit) (Purchased For $0.00)
Total: $881.14
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-12-28 22:43 EST-0500)

 

[AMD Radeon]

very good build
it is a revision of your build, with better price/performance parts selection

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($229.98 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Extreme4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($134.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Z Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2400 Memory ($76.50 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 840 Pro Series 128GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($129.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 270X 2GB Video Card ($219.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8 (OEM) (64-bit) (Purchased For $0.00)
Total: $901.42
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-12-28 23:11 EST-0500)

 

[realchaos]

You will notice a huge performance increasing coming from a 610M.
I changed some things to your build:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4440 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor ($184.87 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H87-D3H ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($100.24 @ Amazon)
Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($76.98 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($88.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 760 2GB Video Card ($239.99 @ Microcenter)
Case: Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: XFX 650W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ NCIX US)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8 (OEM) (64-bit) (Purchased For $0.00)
Total: $811.05
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-12-28 23:10 EST-0500)

-Opted for a locked processor with a H87 chipset motherboard. It's cheaper, but you can't overclock. However, you'll be impressed by the stock performance.
-Cheaper RAM, same performance.
-Cheaper SSD. The EVO and the Pro are both very fast, you won't notice the speed difference but the EVO is significantly cheaper.
-Stronger gpu.
-Cheaper psu, also slightly larger. The only con is that it's non-modular if that matters to you. If you want a semi-modular psu, grab the Antec one you had.

Also, if you don't have a HDD, I would suggest dropping the SSD for a HDD for storage purposes.

 

[Vladislav Andreev]

very good build
it is a revision of your build, with better price/performance parts selection

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($229.98 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Extreme4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($134.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Z Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2400 Memory ($76.50 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 840 Pro Series 128GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($129.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 270X 2GB Video Card ($219.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8 (OEM) (64-bit) (Purchased For $0.00)
Total: $901.42
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-12-28 23:11 EST-0500)

What is the difference between the Extreme and the Pro? Also, I thought that the Corsair CX series was their knock off design, just heard that somewhere.