What is lagging me the most during raids my cpu or gpu?

[zerr]

I get like 30 fps during raids which kinda kills the mood imo. Which of these do you guys think is causing it? I was originally thinking my cpu since wow is a cpu intensive game but many people have said it doesn't really make use of extra cores so im not too sure anymore.

cpu i3-4150 3.5GHZ
gpu hd 7850

[Pterodactylus]

What settings are you using? What resolution are you gaming at? How much RAM do you have?

[zerr]

What settings are you using? lowest for raids
What resolution are you gaming at? 1920x1080
How much RAM do you have? 8GB

[Pterodactylus]

What settings are you using? lowest for raids
What resolution are you gaming at? 1920x1080
How much RAM do you have? 8GB

What AA option do you have? I've got a $1200 rig but can cut my FPS from 60 to 30 depending on which AA I use.

I'd suspect that it's your GPU cramping your style as the i3 is a pretty decent CPU.

[Deleted]

If you are talking about raids then your cpu is holding you a little bit back cause its not high clocked. Besides that Blizzard games don't like amd gpu cards much

[Pterodactylus]

If you are talking about raids then your cpu is holding you a little bit back cause its not high clocked. Besides that Blizzard games don't like amd gpu cards much

That i3 is clocked to 3.5 Ghz, I was able to get 45 FPS in raids with my Q6600 and a 560ti. They'd benefit form both a new CPU and a GPU, but I would argue the GPU is the bigger of the problems.

[Nellah]

As the former owner of an HD 6950 (a pretty close approximate to the HD 7850) the GPU is probably the bottleneck. My wife raids on an i3-4130 + GTX 960 combo just fine. Not phenomenal framerates, but the i3 can keep up.