Hi,
Apologies for another CPU help thread. I want to upgrade my system in the autumn, but have a pretty tight budget of around £500 - depending on which route I go down, that might have to cover mb, graphics card and chip. I mostly use the computer for playing games incl. WoW, and a friend has told me that the reason I'm getting low frame rates in WoW is because its CPU limited and I should get a quad core. I've seen mixed thoughts on this, but guess quad core is generally the way to go for future games anyway?
My computer is currently a E8200 overclocked to 3ghz (novice at overclocking so was scared to go further, and it runs pretty hot on the stock cooler), a GTX260 and what I think is an Asus P5Q-Pro mb. And 4gb DDR2, running on Win 7.
Anyway, I was going to try to push to an i5 chip, but having looked at some of the posts here I've got confused and am wondering if a Q6600 or something similar might actually be a sufficient boost and I could then afford a better graphics card. Could anyone advise on what CPU would show the best improvement, on my budget, (bearing in mind I will probably need graphics card also out of the £500.)?
AshL
Apologies for another CPU help thread. I want to upgrade my system in the autumn, but have a pretty tight budget of around £500 - depending on which route I go down, that might have to cover mb, graphics card and chip. I mostly use the computer for playing games incl. WoW, and a friend has told me that the reason I'm getting low frame rates in WoW is because its CPU limited and I should get a quad core. I've seen mixed thoughts on this, but guess quad core is generally the way to go for future games anyway?
My computer is currently a E8200 overclocked to 3ghz (novice at overclocking so was scared to go further, and it runs pretty hot on the stock cooler), a GTX260 and what I think is an Asus P5Q-Pro mb. And 4gb DDR2, running on Win 7.
Anyway, I was going to try to push to an i5 chip, but having looked at some of the posts here I've got confused and am wondering if a Q6600 or something similar might actually be a sufficient boost and I could then afford a better graphics card. Could anyone advise on what CPU would show the best improvement, on my budget, (bearing in mind I will probably need graphics card also out of the £500.)?
AshL
