I7 6700k and 980 ti not enough to max wow?

[Riens]

Guys new CPU Intel Core i7-6950X, 6900K, 6850K and 6800K better for WoW ? Or wow engine shit and 6700k best choyce ?

[Ealyssa]

Orly?

You are at 117FPS in the least demanding situation possible. Far from your 144FPS bullshit... So we can also safely say that you lied to your bottom 60FPS to something like 40FPS. Which sound more like reality.

so : YERLY !

[zeropeorth]

Guys new CPU Intel Core i7-6950X, 6900K, 6850K and 6800K better for WoW ? Or wow engine shit and 6700k best choyce ?

You could run an ancient 2500k and play wow just fine, or that anniversary edition pentium g3258 or whatever it's number was with a 960 and be just fine. The new stuff is nice but not necessary. You'll not benefit at all from extra cores in this game, if you can find or tweak your own cpu to close to 5 Ghz, you'll have the best case scenario cpu wise; just hope blizzard improves cpu utilization and hopefully multithreaded capabilities going forward.

[Lathais]

Guys new CPU Intel Core i7-6950X, 6900K, 6850K and 6800K better for WoW ? Or wow engine shit and 6700k best choyce ?

Really, none of them will even be better than an i5-6600k. All the ones you listed have on the 6700k is more cores. All the 6700k has on the 6600k is hyperthreading and larger cache. WoW will not make use of more core, hyperthreading, or the larger cache. All that matters is individual cores IPC to WoW, and the 6600k will match any of those in that.

[Artorius]

The best CPU for WoW is theoretically an OC'd 5775C.

But anything with 2 cores and decent IPC is more than fine, even the Pentiums.

[Riens]

You could run an ancient 2500k and play wow just fine, or that anniversary edition pentium g3258 or whatever it's number was with a 960 and be just fine. The new stuff is nice but not necessary. You'll not benefit at all from extra cores in this game, if you can find or tweak your own cpu to close to 5 Ghz, you'll have the best case scenario cpu wise; just hope blizzard improves cpu utilization and hopefully multithreaded capabilities going forward.

Thank. On this moment i have i3-2320 (and 970 gpu). I think i5-6600k or i7-6700k best choyse for me and as far as I understand 6800,6850 etc waste of many for wow.

[WarTV]

this is normal when on max settings in an ashrans zerg. i run on a 4790k@4.4k , 1080gtx and a hyperx SSD. still have the same issue as urs. all other places / bgs are fine. its just the ashran zerg which seems normal to happen tbf.

[Pandamists]

Tldr: game engine is old, computers fine, mmos aren't super well optimized.

Sounds right?

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It's just the game, I have a I7 4790k @4.0ghz and a 980ti and when I was playing on 1080p with ssax4 I had the same issue. Garrison is fine I was sitting at 60 fps in it but in crowded stormshield areas I was lagging. There is absolutely nothing you can do about it, it sucks because you expect a lot from this kind of rig but it's just the game.

I bought a 3440x1440 monitor now and I dropped anti aliasing to an msaax4 and I'm running more or less the same fps as before but garrison is dropping me down to 50 most of the time when I'm in the middle of it.

On alpha/beta I was fine most of the time but when I was in val sharah near the emerald nightmare the red textures were killing my fps and I noticed they retextured the zone since then and it's better, Suramar city is killing fps aswell, Dala when crowded and
Azsuna. I noticed a great increase in fps if I dropped max view distance in azsuna and suramar. If I put it on 10 I get 30 fps and if I put it on 4 I get 70-90 fps. I will wait the game to be live to see how it is optimized.

For reference I get over 60 fps in witcher 3 costantly with high settings and hairworks off and over 80 always in farcry 4.

So even with a series higher gpu the issue remains. I hope they optimize the new zones better

[Deliverer]

Tldr: game engine is old, computers fine, mmos aren't super well optimized.

Sounds right?

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So even with a series higher gpu the issue remains. I hope they optimize the new zones better

I think the best would be oc your cpu if you didn't because for example mine is still at stock speed. I spend quite a lot on that 980ti superclocked from evga and I dubt a 1080/1070 will make a big difference if anything it's more a CPU issue but can't tell for sure.

[Akainakali]

I think the best would be oc your cpu if you didn't because for example mine is still at stock speed. I spend quite a lot on that 980ti superclocked from evga and I dubt a 1080/1070 will make a big difference if anything it's more a CPU issue but can't tell for sure.

Overclocking his CPU more, is unlikely to produce any benefit if the CPU isn't maxing out currently and most of the time it isn't even getting close to 100% utilization.]

It will just drive up his power bill.

[Pandamists]

I think the best would be oc your cpu if you didn't because for example mine is still at stock speed. I spend quite a lot on that 980ti superclocked from evga and I dubt a 1080/1070 will make a big difference if anything it's more a CPU issue but can't tell for sure.

Agreed, an oc may help but 4.2ghz should be enough for wow, probably bad optimization

[Cilraaz]

Overclocking his CPU more, is unlikely to produce any benefit if the CPU isn't maxing out currently and most of the time it isn't even getting close to 100% utilization.

This is a misunderstanding of core speed vs core utilization. While more and more of the engine is being offloaded to the GPU, there are still CPU-bound portions of the game, which is typically when minimum frame rates are achieved. Overclocking the CPU has been shown (MoP era, I believe) to give a 1-to-1 percentage boost to minimum frame rate. A 10% overclock would result in a 10% boost in minimum frame rate. Whether that "rule" exists after engine updates from WoD and Legion is unknown, though.

[Pandamists]

This is a misunderstanding of core speed vs core utilization. While more and more of the engine is being offloaded to the GPU, there are still CPU-bound portions of the game, which is typically when minimum frame rates are achieved. Overclocking the CPU has been shown (MoP era, I believe) to give a 1-to-1 percentage boost to minimum frame rate. A 10% overclock would result in a 10% boost in minimum frame rate. Whether that "rule" exists after engine updates from WoD and Legion is unknown, though.

Im going to give it a small oc to 4.5 this week will report back with frames! Thanks for all the help everyone should have come to the forum sooner!

[SoulForge]

You are at 117FPS in the least demanding situation possible. Far from your 144FPS bullshit... So we can also safely say that you lied to your bottom 60FPS to something like 40FPS. Which sound more like reality.

so : YERLY !

On top of the fact that he's zoomed in there is no one there in warspear for his server apparently. Looks dead. Try a busy location.

[Kagthul]

On top of the fact that he's zoomed in there is no one there in warspear for his server apparently. Looks dead. Try a busy location.

.. Seriously.. Warspear isnt that dead on my server at 4am.

[Deleted]

I am not sure if even the Nvidia 1080 can max WoW when using Render scaling at 200% plus maximum post processing AA on top, will have to see once more people get their hands on that.

[Mythbredor]

Well no, you woun't be running with max AA and Render scaling at 200% lol it hammers the GPU. I recently did some poking around and I came up with this. If you're blind I'm running a 970 and a 6700k 54FPS average and I dip sometimes, If I turn the viewdistance down so I'm not rendering so many darn trees it spikes way up. 100% render scale, MSAAx8. Interesting thing that one CPU core (CPU#7) got up to 88% but never hit 100% the other cores caught up to roughly 60%(Core 7# is a hyperthreaded core so it makes sense). The 970 is my bottleneck here obviously it hit 101.41% hehe.

Point here is if you aren't going crazy with your settings cut back a few things you can easily get 60 fps in wow with a 980ti and definitely a 1080.

http://imgur.com/a/bd7nW

[Artorius]

I am not sure if even the Nvidia 1080 can max WoW when using Render scaling at 200% plus maximum post processing AA on top, will have to see once more people get their hands on that.

Why should people care about ridiculously unrealistic settings? WoW was never really a game meant to be super eye-candy.

If you're just walking around then sure, maybe you'll be able to see the difference, but if you're doing any content half serious then you won't have time to bother with graphics.

[Deleted]

Why should people care about ridiculously unrealistic settings? WoW was never really a game meant to be super eye-candy.

If you're just walking around then sure, maybe you'll be able to see the difference, but if you're doing any content half serious then you won't have time to bother with graphics.

Thread is about maxing settings.

[Mythbredor]

Thread is about maxing settings.

With render scale at 200% in WoW which is unrealistic, if anyone slis 2 1080s maybe. Otherwise nope.