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Gaming and CPUs

For a perfect World of Warcraft experience you probably want a quad core CPU or at least a very fast dual core, a semi decent graphics card and more importantly from what I've read a fast hard drive or solid state drive, also 4GB ram would probably be ideal. If you have the above, then ideally it should run perfectly.

Although it's not graphically intensive it's always loading character models, armor, mounts etc so I've found it tends to slow down the frames per second a little at times... Or at least it did on my old system with [email protected], 4GB ram, and a HD 4870 1GB (not tried it on my new one) and I'm guessing my slow down was from my 2 year old hard drive.
 
World of Warcraft CPU benchmarks

WOW as you can see is a CPU intensive game and as above having a quad-core with high clock speed is of most benefit.

Would you be looking at overclocking your CPU?

What memory do you already have? and what graphics card? There's not much point in spending £250 on a CPU/mobo combo and having a poor graphics card either.

You mention your current graphics card is temporary? When would you be looking to get its replacement? and what is its potential replacement / budget?

Also importantly what PSU do you have and at what resolution do you game at?
 
If your RAM can run at 1.5v and you are happy to overclock then I would get a 2500k cpu together with P67 mobo, cpu will come in under budget so hopefully the mobo shouldn't be a problem.
 
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