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Need help choosing some hardware

benagade1989

benagade1989

benagade1989

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Hi peeps,

So it's Christmas and I've decided to treat myself to a new graphics card.

Basically I have anywhere between £200 and £250 to spend...

Literally all I want is to be able to play World Of Warcraft of highest settings, and maybe the odd CS:Go and general gaming, nothing too intensive.

I hope these details help! :) My preference is Nvida:

Main Circuit Board

Board: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. P8H61 R2.0 Rev X.0x
Serial Number: 120801621103259
Bus Clock: 103 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 0508 08/10/2012

Display

AMD Radeon HD 6450
 
To play wow on max you do not need a £200-250 GPU. For a fraction over £250 you can pick up a GTX 970. For under £200 you could pick up a R9 290 which would give you all the performance you require.
 
depends on your CPU and RAM as well pal... what you running???

If i3 or so, get a new cpu as well and drop to something like a R9 280.. get a second hand i5 cheap
 
Chaps,

Thanks for your help, hope this clears things up:

Processor

3.20 gigahertz Intel Core i3-2100
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache
3072 kilobyte tertiary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (2 total)
Hyper-threaded (4 total)

Memory Modules

4052 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

Slot 'ChannelA-DIMM0' has 2048 MB (serial number 6B045D23)
Slot 'ChannelB-DIMM0' has 2048 MB (serial number 6B046723)
 
You will really need at least a i5 for WoW on high settings i'm afraid quite a cpu intensive game when in built up areas anyways as more players/NPC models on screen means the CPU has to send a lot more draw requests to the GPU increasing the CPU overhead! I would imagine any GPU you pop in there woul get instantly bottlenecked with your current CPU
 
Guys,

Thanks for all your help so far.

Apologies for my ignorance, but is there a reason why I wouldn't want to invest in an i7?

I understand that an i5, from what you say, will run WoW fine but would I benefit from spending a little more cash on an i7?

Thanks again.

Ben. :):):)
 
Simply because wow won't get any real benefit from 8 threads. Unless you intend on encoding or doing other core intensive tasks that can benefit from 8 threads, I would spend the savings on something else.
 
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benagade1989 said:
I understand that an i5, from what you say, will run WoW fine but would I benefit from spending a little more cash on an i7?
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I was in the same situation a couple of months ago and in the end after advice on here I bought an i5 clocked at 4.2 motherboard setup from OCuk and that paired up with a 750ti I run WoW on ultra and sit there in raids etc at 120-150fps +- few frames here or there @ 1080.

Runs BF4 very well, along with Elite: Dangerous and tbh every game I throw at it.

The only thing I am looking to change now is the GPU to either a 970 poss SLi, (which also means a motherboard change), or maybe a 980 and a G-Sync monitor all depends on cash in the new year.
 
I was under the impression that WoW is no longer so heavily biased in favour of the CPU and in many cases where the effects are all maxed and the view distance slider is all the way up you actually need a pretty decent graphics card as well. I don't believe that pairing a low-mid GPU with a decent CPU is a clear cut best choice.
 
mulpsmebeauty said:
I was under the impression that WoW is no longer so heavily biased in favour of the CPU and in many cases where the effects are all maxed and the view distance slider is all the way up you actually need a pretty decent graphics card as well. I don't believe that pairing a low-mid GPU with a decent CPU is a clear cut best choice.
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Just because they made graphic side prettier more demanding than before, it doesn't mean CPU would be less demanding because of it :p
 
True but it will alleviate the bottleneck somewhat. My 760 barely needed to clock up before to maintain 60. Now it does :p.

I do have my i7 though.
 
i5 2500k ~ £90 used

R9 280 £150 off OC website

=£240

Sorted

(Assuming the stuff fits e.g. the GPU fits the case lol), and PSU is decent
 
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