Building a machine for WoW

Thanks everyone for all the great advice. I ordered my machine this afternoon.

The performance gained from the extra L3 made forced me to drop the idea of an i3 for WoW (even though I'm sure it would have been perfectly acceptable). In benchmarks the i7 didn't seem to outperform the i5 at matching ghz, and as I will almost solely play WoW on this machine, I have gone for the Titan Exodus ( i5 760 2.80GHz @ 4.00GHz). A helpful lad over the phone allowed me to order it with the MSI GTX460 1GB for a small extra fee. The MSI card seems a great choice given noise levels, and it has the ability to push the clock up to 800+mhz. I leave open the door to an SLI upgrade, should Cata show increased performance with it.

I also went for a c300 128mb SSD, which should *hopefully* get a good reaction from the SATAIII mboard support.

Hope I haven't made any mistakes

Thanks again.

Z
 
Zoroaster said:
Thanks everyone for all the great advice. I ordered my machine this afternoon.

The performance gained from the extra L3 made forced me to drop the idea of an i3 for WoW (even though I'm sure it would have been perfectly acceptable). In benchmarks the i7 didn't seem to outperform the i5 at matching ghz, and as I will almost solely play WoW on this machine, I have gone for the Titan Exodus ( i5 760 2.80GHz @ 4.00GHz). A helpful lad over the phone allowed me to order it with the MSI GTX460 1GB for a small extra fee. The MSI card seems a great choice given noise levels, and it has the ability to push the clock up to 800+mhz. I leave open the door to an SLI upgrade, should Cata show increased performance with it.

I also went for a c300 128mb SSD, which should *hopefully* get a good reaction from the SATAIII mboard support.

Hope I haven't made any mistakes

Thanks again.

Z
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You've made a very good choice, that's a fantastic pc for the price has some very good components and the cooler should keep it decent temps at that clock speed.To be honest if you are just gaming at high end levels then i5 is the most logical choice or a AMD 955 chip.

The GTX460 1024mb card is very nice too and handles all games fine plus getting a SSD for gaming is a very good decision....especially in games where you have large areas that need to load textures in the distance like the Stalker series or Fallout 3.(must get a SSD myself still in my i7 system.)

Enjoy your pc, i love my pre-built system that i got from here.:)
 
WoW IS a demanding game, especially in a raiding environment. I needed to endgame raid in 1920x1200 and Fraps it at 30FPS... not exactly an easy feat for a low end system

CPU, GPU and HDD Speed are all important. I read Blizzard are chucking in DX11 optimisation so a DX11 card would be useful ;)
 
Zoroaster said:
I'm hoping to ask for some advice toward building a new machine for Cataclysm. I've spent quite some time gathering information about the specific sensitivities of the game, but i'm still unsure how far to go when selecting certain components. I'm prepared to drop £1000-£1500 on the upgrades, but don't really want to spend money on gfx/cpu power that I wont ever use.

I've already got a 24"BenQ screen, SteelSeries7g keyb and Razr Deathadder. I'll be replacing the rest of my system. I also want an SSD for OS + WoW (+SC2).

My initial thought was to go for something like the Titan Onyx (i7 930 @ 4ghx) with the GTX 480.

But I've been advised that the GTX480 will probably give me no better performance than a GTX460 while under stress (raiding). It has also been suggested to me that I may not see a performance reduction if I chose an i5 750 @ 4ghz ... or even an i3 540 @ 4.2ghz. Some review websites have benchmarks in WoW, but mostly just using a flightpath, and are unlikely to be representative of AOEing 50 whelps on ONY25 with full spell effects (very CPU intensive).

There is obviously a massive price difference between an i7 + gtx 480, and in i3 + gtx 460.

What should I do troops? :confused:

I'm very computer literate, and capable of putting the system together myself if needed. Although the OCUK prebuilt systems seem great value for money, so I'm keen to look at getting one of those.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated ... thanks for your time.:)
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Its all about the redraw rate of your graphics card.

Nothing to do with the memory, DX version or anything else.

A card with awesome redraw rate = win in regards to WoW.
 
grudas said:
well it doesn't really "fit" into my head sadly :) waste of money.
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How?

If it's their favourite game and they've found their current PC isn't up to spec any more, and it's time to upgrade then so be it.

I'm sure he doesn't mean it's "just for WoW" and it'll do other stuff as well, but WoW being the main game he'll play.

My mate is going through the exact same thing, he's running a celeron @ 2.4GHz and 512mb of ram on a ATI 9600 pro right now! So when he turned around to me and asked me to build him a PC just for WoW... It's not that shocking :)
 
grudas said:
seriously? :/ a pc for WoW? just how addicted are u? do you buy a fricking dish for pizza? :/
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Errr, why not? :confused:

It's a damn sight more productive than sitting in a pub or club piling money into booze.

We all have stuff we enjoy, you also do not need to be addicted to have sufficient tools for the job.

LOLWHAT you bought your own golf clubs? Just how addicted are you OLLDOLOLOLDLSLD.
 
1 Glass of water
1 Lemon, half, small
2 wires

Should be fine for most areas, doubt you'll drop below 30fps unless you forget to change the water every now and again.
 
arknor said:
grab a 8800gts or whatever in the members market , profit ?
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Amazingly if you want to play the game with some AA at 1920x1080 on ultra, a G92 core 8800GT isn't anywhere near enough to get a smooth framerate in raids. If you really want to play the game on ultra, you have to spend the money to get to it.

My pc on ultra with the above settings gets 35fps in the capital city dalaran, even lower at peak times. I get a better framerate in crysis with the same settings then wow in dalaran at peak times with shadows on ultra and thats with an i7 system with a 5870 gcard.

Most of the people thinking "lols you can run wow on a gameboy" style garbage haven't played the game properly in the latest expansion which added massively taxing particle effects and the worse optimised shadows in any pc game by a country mile.
 
grudas said:
seriously? :/ a pc for WoW? just how addicted are u? do you buy a fricking dish for pizza? :/
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Me and 10 million others play it regularly, I'm sorry if that is not OK with you.

WoW is the only taxing application I use, so I think I'm right in designing my computer to play it well. I really appreciate the friendly advice I was given here too.

Any knife can cut meat if you press hard enough, but if all you eat is steak, go buy a steak knife.
 
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