Personal rig:
- i5-3570k (4.2ghz) || CM hyper 212 evo || Asrock extreme 4 || Corsair (2 x 4gb 1600mhz) ram
- Samsung 840 (120gb) || WD blue 1tb || WD green 1tb
- Powercolor 7870xt || Silverstone strider 500w ||NZXT source 210
I just put a rig together for a friend of mine who all he does is play WoW on it. fx-6350, msi 970 board and paired with a 2gb 7850 and he loves it. Says he has no problems in LFR's or during his 10 man raids. All settings to ultra with I believe one or 2 of the settings turned down. Not sure which ones off the top of my head, but he never complains about frames or anything during raids. He was also on a budget and couldn't afford to go all the way intel.
IMO I feel like the 6300 or 6350 will be fine, yes WoW's old ass favors intel and nvidia and all that good jazz, but if on a budget you cant go wrong with that cpu
***not sure what his actual in game frames are, i can ask if the OP is curious
CPU: AMD Ryzen 3700X Cooler: CM Hyper 212 Evo GPU: Sapphire Vega 64 w/ Morpheus cooler
Mobo: MSI Gaming Pro Carbon WiFi ATX Ram: 4 x 16gb 3200 Gskill FlareX Case: Cosair Crystal 570X
PSU: Seasonic Focus Plus 850w SSD: OCZ Vertex 4 128gb, WD Blue 500gb Mouse: Logitech G600
I can agree to that.
- If you only care about wow performance, get i3 or i5.
- Do you do other demanding things besides gaming, like e.g. video editing, streaming while gaming, ...? - get the FX-63x0 or an i5 (but i5 is more expensive)
- For everthing else: doesn't matter.
Why do something simple, when there is a complicated way?
Ryzen 7 2700X | BeQuiet Dark Rock Pro 4 | 16GB DDR4-3200 | MSI X470 Gaming Pro | MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X 8G | 500GB / 750GB Crucial SSD
Fractal Define C | LG 32UK550 | Das Model S Professional Silent | CM Storm Xornet
Never going to log into this garbage forum again as long as calling obvious troll obvious troll is the easiest way to get banned.
Trolling should be.
Lets put it this way.
I'm running AMD FX-6300 at 3.5ghz. I run on Ultra with mutli-sampling x8, and ultra shadows. I have never dipped under 50 fps during 10man raids, I was raiding at 45 frames in 25man raids. Only place I struggle is in major cities.
Here is my setup.
AMD FX-6300
8gb of 1600mhz ram
ASRock 970 Extreme 3 mb
Evga Nvidia GTX 660 (4gb)
22" LCD Monitor at 1680 x 1050p
23" LED Monitor at 1920 x1080p
OCZ 650 PSU
I have absolutely no performance issues.
Never going to log into this garbage forum again as long as calling obvious troll obvious troll is the easiest way to get banned.
Trolling should be.
Yeah I think he has the ultra sampling turned down and maybe shadows one notch, but those arent super important to him either in his gameplay. I'm kind of curious what my friends frames look like during all that. I would like to think that a system setup like that wouldnt dip below 20 or 25 during the super intense parts, but I haven't played WoW in years and outside of just reading/lurking in the games,gaming and hardware forum over there, my knowledge on how it plays is pbbbbbbbbbt.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 3700X Cooler: CM Hyper 212 Evo GPU: Sapphire Vega 64 w/ Morpheus cooler
Mobo: MSI Gaming Pro Carbon WiFi ATX Ram: 4 x 16gb 3200 Gskill FlareX Case: Cosair Crystal 570X
PSU: Seasonic Focus Plus 850w SSD: OCZ Vertex 4 128gb, WD Blue 500gb Mouse: Logitech G600
Fluorescent - Fluo - currently retired, playing other stuff
i5-4670k @ 4.5 / Thermalright Silver Arrow Extreme / Gigabyte Z87X-D3H / 8GB DDR3-1600 RAM / Gigabyte GTX 760
Windows 7 is 1.3-1.4 GB, Windows 8 is probably more. Firefox/Chrome by themselves can easily eat 500 GB or more.
Its possible to make do with 4GB, but its better to get 6-8 GB if the budget allows.
"Probably" isn't meeting with reality. Not today. Win8 was specifically built for lower system resource usage (according to Microsoft dev blogs), how would you otherwise run it on tablets?!?! The reality is that Win8's memory requirements are significantly lower than Vista or 7, in normal cases even under XP.
Current memory usage (according to Windows' Task Manager) for me is 200MB for the OS itself and another 300MB for apps, most of it taken by Firefox (two tabs atm, this and MMOC frontpage, Flash plugin that loads frontpage adds is 80MB). Next biggest RAM usage (45MB) comes from dropbox client.
Total is 500MB used for the OS and apps, and 1.8GB cached.
Never going to log into this garbage forum again as long as calling obvious troll obvious troll is the easiest way to get banned.
Trolling should be.