Let me start this off by saying that I don't require super ultra settings with everything maxed out over the moon and back. What I want out of WoW is this:
1366x768 resolution (I have no intention of going to 1080p, I don't think my monitor even does it)
Ultra view distance
Ultra environment detail
Ultra particle density (spell effects)
And halfway decent texture quality, detail, character model skins, etc. etc., but by no means do I need pwn settings on those
Shadows, Sunshafts, Liquid Textures, and whatever that new thing they added for Mists (SHOA?) will all be turned off or set to lowest possible, as I don't really care about them
No AA (I don't even know what it does and can't tell any difference when it's turned on vs. turned off anyway)
Not sure what Multisampling does either, so I'll just put that one in the middle I guess
So in order to get this, I have 2 builds in mind. Both use 8gb RAM.
1. i3-3220 3.3ghz with GTX 560 Ti
Or
2. i5-3470 with HD 7770
I've been told that WoW is very much more a CPU intensive game will thus benefit more from the i5 with the lower-end GPU than the i3 with the better GPU.
So is this a viable build for getting decent fps (35-50 maybe?) under the graphical circumstances I mentioned? What kind of performance could I be looking at in Stormwind or in 5 mans? (I don't really raid, but I don't imagine the 10 man raids to be all that much heavier than the 5 man randoms, at least it wasn't an issue in Cata.)
Thanks in advance
---------- Post added 2012-12-15 at 12:04 AM ----------
Come on, 22 views and no replies? I know somebody out there has to know something about this, when I tried to show another build with an AMD I got multiple pages where everyone screamed at me to get an Intel, so I made an intel build and nobody's interested