Hey, I want to run WoW at max with 60 FPS. What tweaks can I do to my system to improve this?
GPU: MSI 260 GTX Twin Frozr: (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...si%20260%20gtx)
CPU: Core 2 Duo @ 3.0 GHz (E8400)
4GB Ram (DDR2)
Hey, I want to run WoW at max with 60 FPS. What tweaks can I do to my system to improve this?
GPU: MSI 260 GTX Twin Frozr: (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...si%20260%20gtx)
CPU: Core 2 Duo @ 3.0 GHz (E8400)
4GB Ram (DDR2)
Replace everything unfortunately. Can't get much better than the E8400 on the LGA775 platform. You could upgrade the video card but it wouldn't do a whole lot unless you play stuff other than WoW, and even then it will eventually be bottlenecked by the P45 chipset and Core2.
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Core i5 750s are pretty damn good, and the 4.0 WoW engine does seem to take advantage of quad cores. As for quad core in gaming in general, anything built on the Unreal Engine is generally pretty good at multicore. For WoW, your 260 is plenty, and I'm fairly certain you'll see the biggest difference in moving from Core2Duo to i5/i7.
The biggest single thing you can do to increase your performance in wow is to give it as much processor as possible. SO getting an i5 quadcore and overclocking it to 4+ghz will have the largest impact of wow performance.
i5 quadcore is the best possible upgrade for WoW.
the difference between i5 and i7 for gaming is pretty useless.
specs
Intel Core i5-760@4.0GHz
CM Hyper 212 cpu cooler
GIGABYTE GA-P55A-UD3
Nvidia GTX 460
4GB DDR3 1600 ram
CM Storm Scout case
Upgrade in this order of importance:
1) CPU - i5 or cheap i7 and OC the crap out of it (depending on your cooling)
2) RAM - DDR3 1333mhz (or 1600mhz, difference is minimal)
3) GPU - For best-value GTX460 or HD6850 is the next step up...but GTX260 is already a damn good card, if you only play WoW then there is little reason to upgrade.
2) and 3) will result in small fps gains, your CPU upgrade will give you the biggest boost.
And I'm probably pushing the limit here....but if you can afford one, grab a 60-90gb SSD. No fps gains but now that I finally have an SSD, I would rather jump off somewhere high than play WoW from a regular HDD again :S
Last edited by Xuvial; 2010-11-20 at 09:57 AM.
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Gaming rig: i7 7700K, GTX 1080 Ti, 16GB DDR4, BenQ 144hz 1440p
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I'd suggest finding an Q9400 (any quad on s775 will do), get an aftermarket HS and overclock the shit out of it. Shouldn't cost ya too much.
No point buying LGA1156 or LGA1366 at this point when Sandy Bridge is coming in few months.
This is going to sound rather facetious, but get a Mac Pro. I have one from before the latest update and it still runs it at max with at least 60 fps. Heck, if you ran WoW at minimum settings, you could get about 100-120 fps out of a MacBook Air.
If you run WoW at minimum settings you technically could also play on an Athlon XP 3200+ Barton with 1 gig of ram on a Radeon 9500 Pro too. For free. Assuming you don't mind looking through dumpsters.
Don't forget Bulldozer.No point buying LGA1156 or LGA1366 at this point when Sandy Bridge is coming in few months.
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And the best part is, Bulldozer will support socket AM3! That alone is making me invest in an M4A89TD Pro + Phenom II x6 (1090T Black) instead of an X58A-UD3R + i7 950
I've always wondered why Intel's being such a bitch with new CPUs and sockets that basically say "oh, still using last year's socket? too bad, gtfo"...very annoying...
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Actually, it will not support AM3. Bulldozer will require an AM3+ socket. Unless they make specialized Bulldozers that run on AM3 like they made a few Phenom II's that ran on AM2 only..
AM3+ can take Phenom II's, I kinda wish they released the socket with the X6's. =/
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Eh thanks for the help guys, but I'll probably just hold off. I already get 60 FPS in most zones with shadows on high/4x AA/view distance on high and everything else on good. The only thing that causes concerns are zones like Nagrand which I only get 40-50 FPS on, and it is really spikey at that. I was just worried that many Cataclysm zones would be graphically intensive.
They are. Well, not "intensive", but lets just say that Nagrand doesn't stand a chance vs Uldum.
Also remember that in the old world, view distance is limited to a value lower than what your own graphical settings may have been set to. With 4.0.3a this limit will be removed. That gives more to render with view distance set to high/ultra.
I was running a E8400 and AMD 4890 (XFX) GPU, with my CPU OC'd at 3.6GHz. Ran perfectly fine for me at Ultra, with shadows on low and I believe 2x multisampling (1920x1080). Not the "60 FPS mark" everywhere, but I never had choppy gameplay, always ran smooth for me
I'm not saying that the MacBook will run it at 60fps. I'm saying it'll run between 100-120 fps, which, for what's essentially a netbook, is pretty good. I actually tried it in a 25-man setting and was getting 40-50 fps on average. While it's not what the OP was looking for, that's still ridiculous performance out of such a small machine that was intended for basically writing papers.