will this upgrade be enough?

[grongo2]

For the next year I'll mostly be playing MoP, SC2 heart of the swarm (whenever that is), Guild Wars 2, and GTAV whenever that comes out.

I have a Phenom II x4 BE 955 and 2 5870s.

I know they are betas, but my performance in the GW2 beta and MoP made me think I might need an upgrade. I'm thinking of a GTX 670. I fear is that is will my CPU bottleneck this and make it so I won't get butter-smooth 60fps (that's all I'm aiming for ) in MoP and GW2? Or will the card be a significant boost. I'd love to get 60fps in 25-mans as well, if that's even possible.

Also I am not interested in overclocking, I'd rather purchase the appropriate hardware...

If I sell the 5870s I can afford the 670 but I'm not really in the market for a complete overhaul which is why I'm asking if the 670 will be enough...

[inux94]

Your GPU's are still pretty beefy, I think it's your CPU that's holding your down, the CPU is still decent by today's standards though.

If you can give me a budget for a new CPU&Motherboard then I'll have a look.

[skrump]

chances are you just need to wipe your boot drive and put a fresh copy of windows on it.
I dunno what the Nvidia equivalent to the 5870's is but I know a 550Ti is more than enough to handle Mop beta on ultra

But yeah my secondary machine is a 2.60ghz dual core athlon64fx2 chips with 4gb of ram and a cheapo geforce 520, and even it does good (video card was the bottleneck)

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You don't really need to buy a gtx 670 to get that fps... I got a gtx 570 and running wow on 150 fps... you better upgrade other stuff...

[lockedout]

You don't really need to buy a gtx 670 to get that fps... I got a gtx 570 and running wow on 150 fps... you better upgrade other stuff...

150 fps at what resolution?
150 fps during 25 man raids?

[skrump]

150 fps at what resolution?
150 fps during 25 man raids?

I get 100fps with the 550ti in 25m raids on live, though I do keep the shadows turned down to a minimum, and particle density is only at 25% to avoid having a seizure.