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pieman109 said:
But, when higher resolutions are used and AA and AF are applied (as most ppl will do) the gpu will have a greater impact, hence my suggestion that before the OP parts with any money, overclock the cpu and gpu and see how he gets on. If performance isn't up to expectation, then start looking at firstly replacing the gpu then the cpu, but I can't see the cpu making that much of difference when compared to replacing the gpu:)
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No dispect mate, I understand what you are saying, and I would say the exact same thing, if it was for FPS game.

The truth is for most mmorpgs, when frame rate take a huge nose dive to 25fps or below, the GPU usage ain't anywhere close to 100% and the limitation lies with the CPU, mainly because of lots of mmorpgs (WOW included) don't 'really' use more than two cores of the CPU, and SB/i5/i7 tends to deliver higher frame rate, because of their CPUs architecture having higher IPC (instruction per clock). Yes WOW's graphic update has produced more work for the graphic cards to do, but the limitation remains that the game itself don't really make good use of the 3rd and 4th core, despite that the game itself is very CPU intensive.
 
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Marine-RX179 said:
No dispect mate, I understand what you are saying, and I would say the exact same thing, if it was for FPS game.

The truth is for most mmorpgs, when frame rate take a huge nose dive to 25fps or below, the GPU usage ain't anywhere close to 100% and the limitation lies with the CPU, mainly because of lots of mmorpgs (WOW included) don't 'really' use more than two cores of the CPU, and SB/i5/i7 tends to deliver higher frame rate, because of their CPUs architecture having higher IPC (instruction per clock). Yes WOW's graphic update has produced more work for the graphic cards to do, but the limitation remains that the game itself don't really make good use of the 3rd and 4th core, despite that the game itself is very CPU intensive.
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See what you mean mate, but me son plays WOW on the system below in me sig and has no probs at all. What I'm suggesting is that the op overclocks his components first, tries it out and see if hes happy with the performance increase (if any). Doesn't cost owt, and could save a bucketload if successful. if not, then he should just get the components (be they S/b, amd, etc) that'll do the job.:)
 
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