Seeking upgrade advice

[Tethrys]

Heres a guide on how to do it
-helpful information-

I appreciate the effort you put into typing out everything, and even giving me scenarios where it would help. The extra typing was worth it, imo

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the GPU , 7870 XT is at this point in time the best performing card in it's price segment. (and delivers very high end performance for it's value)
the nvidia equal would be something between a 660(Ti) but costs +- 50-100 $ more depending on the model.

edit: killora atleast you can make long quality posts, whenever i attempt those they end up as an undigestable wall of text that barely makes any sense )

[Toffie]

Edit: curses shroudster. I shouldn't have typed so much! :/.

I liked it, very informative for anyone wondering :P

[chazus]

As Killora said, overclocking gives benefits in stuff like 25 mans. For a real world example...

I got my 3570K and used the stock cooler. I could run at High at about 50-60fps stable most of the time, but 25 man stuff (LFR pretty much) I would see it dip down into the high 30s and 40s.

With a little overclock (That honestly took about 5 minutes of 'work' and running some Prime95 tests overnight for 2-3 days), I now get a pretty stable 55-60fps everywhere, anytime.

Of course, WoW is a bit long in the tooth, and the engine isn't optimized quite as well as it could be, you WILL see occasional spikes. But rare. Example would be the first 10 seconds of Lei Shen in LFR, and Hunter's Stampede. Blizzard says they're fixing it. It happens, and nothing is perfect, but right now my system (with a lesser video card) effectively plays WoW 'perfectly'