Hi people,
Back many moons ago I had been a PC Gamer for a number of years spent a fair amount on a fairely decent rig (at the time) but once moving on to a more casual console gamer due to ending up a loner on PC I gave it away to my friend who now would like to upgrade the GPU.
See current specs below this must have been 6/7 years ago as you will tell by the specs!
Specs:
Q6600 (2.4Ghz)
Artic Freezer Pro 7
4GB DDR2 800Mhz OCZ Ram
PNY 8800 GT (XR8 Performance Edition)
Asus P5N32-E SLI
500GB Samsung HDD
OCZ 600w SLI Ready PSU
Antec 900 Case
He only plays the odd steam game and World of Warcraft on a 22inch Monitor and from upgrading he tells me he would like to be able to run WoW on Max Settings as smoothly as possible as currently depending on the situation he gets some slowdowns also adding to the fact he would be future proofing for the next expansion and future games.
Obviously the old spec could bottleneck lets say the top GPU so what would you guys recommend taking that into consideration to get the best possible performance for his needs but not purchasing something which couldn't be used to it's full potentional.
Another thing out of interest what RAM considering the motherboard it has could he upgrade to for some extra performance speed wise?
Thanks in advance all.
Back many moons ago I had been a PC Gamer for a number of years spent a fair amount on a fairely decent rig (at the time) but once moving on to a more casual console gamer due to ending up a loner on PC I gave it away to my friend who now would like to upgrade the GPU.
See current specs below this must have been 6/7 years ago as you will tell by the specs!
Specs:
Q6600 (2.4Ghz)
Artic Freezer Pro 7
4GB DDR2 800Mhz OCZ Ram
PNY 8800 GT (XR8 Performance Edition)
Asus P5N32-E SLI
500GB Samsung HDD
OCZ 600w SLI Ready PSU
Antec 900 Case
He only plays the odd steam game and World of Warcraft on a 22inch Monitor and from upgrading he tells me he would like to be able to run WoW on Max Settings as smoothly as possible as currently depending on the situation he gets some slowdowns also adding to the fact he would be future proofing for the next expansion and future games.
Obviously the old spec could bottleneck lets say the top GPU so what would you guys recommend taking that into consideration to get the best possible performance for his needs but not purchasing something which couldn't be used to it's full potentional.
Another thing out of interest what RAM considering the motherboard it has could he upgrade to for some extra performance speed wise?
Thanks in advance all.
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