Not sure what's bottlenecking my system

[Ninji]

Wow is very CPU based, and I doubt the graphics card is the bottleneck. When my other computer broke I had to replace the Radeon 9800 with a Radeon HD 3450 and I didn't notice any difference whatsoever in wow.

[sicness]

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Lmao, seriously stop it, Its kinda weird that when I was running vista, it was only using 1 gig of ram, and when I upgraded to 7, it is also using only 1 gig, I don't see vista being a memory hog.. and as I pointed out, 7 uses the same kernel as vista, so if vista was a poorly made OS then 7 would be, the people who complain about Vista are the people who use dell systems, with a celeron processor and 512MB of ram.

When Windows 7 was initially released it was the better overall system in terms of performance. Since then Windows Vista has had patches to fix it's performance issues but there were definitely performance issues related to gaming, which had absolutely nothing to do with the hardware of the system, making Windows 7 the preferred OS.

[denegaar]

Of course, you need an i7 minimum to play WoW with max settings.
Seriously, maybe you need to clean your computer.

[Cilraaz]

I said, I don't want to argue any more, plus "Vista was a fine OS for when I had it" that's what I'm trying to prove that its not a memory hog, but whatever I suck at proving stuff as it seems.

Vista got a bad reputation for initial release and a poor SP1 reception. Vista SP2 and 7 are roughly equivalent. Most people who are seeing improvements going from Vista to 7 are actually seeing an improvement going from a "dirty" installation (clogged registries, broken DLL links, etc) to a clean one. They likely would have seen the same improvement from doing a format and re-install of Vista SP2.

Of course, you need an i7 minimum to play WoW with max settings.
Seriously, maybe you need to clean your computer.

i7, no. That doesn't make an i3 a gaming chip, though.

[Mantús]

to all the whiners on this topic ( specially nabjay )

i play wow on i7 950 , 2x radeon hd 5970 ... suck on it losers

[XxJay247xX]

to all the whiners on this topic ( specially nabjay )

i play wow on i7 950 , 2x radeon hd 5970 ... suck on it losers

i got a better system than that, muahahah
So take that Nabtús!....

[Veyne]

I love how this turned into a Vista vs. 7 thread. Shut up. Seriously.

Anyway, my power saving features are cranked all the way down, my temperatures aren't running any higher than 50c-ish, and I still have the same issues even after a reformatting and fresh installs. Overall, the system does run better, but I never had to bother cranking my view distance down on my old AMD Athlon 64 from the prebuilt HP I bought several years ago under an emergency situation. I used an 8800gts graphics card for a while to before the fan stopped working.

[Mantús]

i got a better system than that, muahahah
So take that Nabtús!....

with 42" LEd and 5.1 system / wii + slim xbox 360 connected ???