WoW Performance & Upgrades

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CyberTrip

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So, I'm looking at doing an upgrade to my system to make my WoW performance a little better. Eventually I will be going Core i7 but for now I just need something to give me a little more power. Anyways, I get about 40-60fps in WoW with my settings in Good at 1680x1050 res with 4x AA. When I'm in the highest settings at 2x AA I average 10-16fps. I would like to increase my framerate and I'm just not sure what do upgrade. I have the Athlon X2 4400+ and a GeForce 8600GTS 256MB w/ 4GB RAM on Vista x64. Seeing as WoW doesn't seem to be very CPU intensive I was thinking about going with a new GPU maybe a EVGA GeForce 250 or so. Something less than $200. I just need some opinions. Is my CPU the bottleneck or the GPU?
 
CyberTrip said:
So, I'm looking at doing an upgrade to my system to make my WoW performance a little better. Eventually I will be going Core i7 but for now I just need something to give me a little more power. Anyways, I get about 40-60fps in WoW with my settings in Good at 1680x1050 res with 4x AA. When I'm in the highest settings at 2x AA I average 10-16fps. I would like to increase my framerate and I'm just not sure what do upgrade. I have the Athlon X2 4400+ and a GeForce 8600GTS 256MB w/ 4GB RAM on Vista x64. Seeing as WoW doesn't seem to be very CPU intensive I was thinking about going with a new GPU maybe a EVGA GeForce 250 or so. Something less than $200. I just need some opinions. Is my CPU the bottleneck or the GPU?
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Where'd you hear it wasn't? It is WoW performance is mainly BASED on CPU performance.
 
NVM just read your post. Yeah get a new gfx card. Your card won't pull WoW at max settings.
 
As has been said already, WoW is based more on CPU than GPU. The FSB plays a very important role too. Just post on the tech support forums and a blue will tell you that.

So that is what I would upgrade first. CPU.
 
i ran TBC at same rez with max quality with an x1800XT 256 and opty 165. not sure whats holding you back
 
I just got a gtx260 (216) and that has pulled my frames up A LOT from my old 8600gt. Just get yourself one of these (pretty cheap nowadays, 160$?) and you should see a significant boost.
 
An X2 4400+ is not really the greatest CPU for wow. I was running an X2 5000+ @ 3.1ghz with an 8800gts 512. In shattrah with that card i would pull 15-25fps @ 1600x1200 4xAA and 16xAF. Swapping to a Phenom 9850 @ 3.0ghz with the same card, same settings i was netting 30-50fps in shattrah. That was back in TBC.

Swapping from the 9850 to a p2 940 @ 3.8 my framerates stayed much more stable than before. On my current rig WoW plays really well. The only setting I chose to turn down is draw distance, only because I don't need to see the entire zone at once.
 
Well, it appears that maybe I have a combination of CPU/GPU issue. Considering this is a pos Dell mobo and I probably shouldn't spend much money on it anyways I may just start building my new system.
 
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