Which would perform better for WoW?

[Brannax]

Hey guys, so I made some hardware changes recently, assuming it would make WoW run a little better. I won't go into details but I had some issues with hard drives and stuff but I've got all that sorted now.

I've reinstalled WoW and played it and was confused at performance issues. I don't remember if it's the same or better than what I was on with my old hardware.

What I have now is a Phenom X4 810 CPU at 2.6ghz.
What I USED to have was a Intel Core Duo E8600 at 3.33ghz.

The hardware that has changed the same include
6gbs of DDR2 RAM
Radeon HD 4870 GPU

Not sure if anything else is necessary to performance.

Does anyone know if it was worth it changing processors?

[chazus]

The E8600 will be better with WoW, particularly in raids. Not by a LOT, but better.

[vesseblah]

Does anyone know if it was worth it changing processors?

No. Five years old Intel C2D E8600 runs WoW and all other MMORPGs faster than four years old AMD Phenom x4 810. You switched from the fastest Intel dualcore into slowest AMD quadcore of roughly equal age, and MMOs don't care about number of cores as much as raw processing speed.

The E8600 will be better with WoW, particularly in raids. Not by a LOT, but better.

Dunno how much it shows in reality, but Anandtech's benchmark puts single core performance (Cinebench r10) of E8600 about 30% higher so it is quite a lot better. Phenom x4 800 series are faulty x4 900 chips with gimped cache.

[chazus]

Dunno how much it shows in reality

I based it off this which benchmarks 'general' gaming. So whatever is equal here, the intel will be better with WoW, effectively.

[Brannax]

What if I were to overclock the Phenom by a large margin? I know it can handle quite a bit according to my technician.

[BicycleMafioso]

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Between the two, the C2D should perform better because of its higher clock-speed.

[chazus]

It would help some. But the 8600 could be OC'd as well. But you have what you have so... get some good cooling and crank it up (after doing some research on how, and how much)