So i been looking at i5 prices and man i just cant afford it. Thinking of just getting a new AMD cpu that matches i5 i guess... but i am really sick of AMD. I dont wanna purchase 2nd hand parts either...
So i been looking at i5 prices and man i just cant afford it. Thinking of just getting a new AMD cpu that matches i5 i guess... but i am really sick of AMD. I dont wanna purchase 2nd hand parts either...
Well it should be 35 bucks cheaper. Usually 189.99.
i7-4770k - GTX 780 Ti - 16GB DDR3 Ripjaws - (2) HyperX 120s / Vertex 3 120
ASRock Extreme3 - Sennheiser Momentums - Xonar DG - EVGA Supernova 650G - Corsair H80i
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Umm, no. Not true. I have a AMD Phenon II x4 965 BE, stock clocked, and even in Cata could not hold 60 FPS in 25m raids. Video card is a Radeon 6850, so pretty good card. Now, my FPS was good in Cata, but could not hold 60+ reliably in raids as you state. MoP requirements have gone up and will be even less possible. This is on setting somewhere between medium and high btw. Can't remember exactly as it has been quite some time since I've played, but I remember setting it to medium and bumping a few things up slightly.
I dunno I made the jump from a athlonfx2 "dual core" last year to an i5-2500k and using the same video card geforce-520 series I saw maybe a 20fps improvement.
Popped a 550Ti in both machines a week later and gained another 30+ fps
So for the purposes of wow I could of easily kept the older machine for another couple of years, glad I didn't though doing 25m raids with all settings maxed including multisampling and still getting above 60fps is pretty sweet
(though I would love an option within wow to turn down the visibility of raid members spells before I have a seizure)
That is because a GT 520 is shit and it could not cope with the amount of instructions the 2500K was giving it. Chances are you would have seen pretty much the same FPS jump if you had just used the Intel HD integrated graphics.
That's some seriously flawed logic right there. You swap out 2 variables/devices and completely disregard they could be linked. It would be best to deliver the same statements next time with some data, especially gpu load. Your athlon was the bottleneck in the first setup probably, but when you replaced it with a 2500K your graphics card was holding the i5 back. That doesn't mean it didn't have any more potential.
Only 20 FPS increase? 20 FPS increase for anyone running under 60 already is huge not only. Also, you were running a 520 which is not even a gaming card, just a media card, so it's not surprising you were getting crap frames with it, you would even with an i5 overclocked to the extreme.