Possible Upgrade ?

pv123

pv123

pv123

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Hi guys,

Haven't been on the forum for a while since I've gone more casual and played PS4 for the last few years, but since WoW Classic is around the corner I got around to preparing my PC, the spec list is below and I haven't touched it since 2014, except for a 500GB SSD that I bought the other day.
The PC is running nice and cool, I haven't OC'ed anything and I can run WoW 1080P on pretty good settings without any issues or frame drops - this might obviously change when the 60 man raids come in.

So long story short, I'm pretty happy with the PC and the performance but would like to know if I can get away with a GPU upgrade + CPU OC or if I'll be bottlenecked by the CPU and should just upgrade everything when that time comes (for example Ryzen 3);

CPU: 3470K + hyper 212 cooler
GPU: 7950 Twin Frozr
Ram: 16GB
Mobo: Asrock Extreme Z77 P4
Storage: 120GB SSD + 500GB SSD + 1TB HDD
PSU: Corsair 650w

Thanks for the tips/opinions!
 
If it's specifically WoW you'll be playing, then your system should be more than sufficient. WoW can't take advantage of the multiple cores offered by newer CPUs, so it's all about the single threaded performance, which the Intel does well. The GPU is also fine for 1080p WoW.

For trying out newer releases and/or if you intend to upgrade your monitor, things get trickier to recommend. Something like Shadow of the Tomb Raider would overwhelm both the GPU and the CPU due to lack of cores/threads, so a full system upgrade would be necessary. However, there's a lot of slightly older stuff out there that'll go far easier on the CPU and be purely GPU limited, meaning an upgrade to something like an RX 580 would be a phenomenal boost.
 
Vexr said:
If it's specifically WoW you'll be playing, then your system should be more than sufficient. WoW can't take advantage of the multiple cores offered by newer CPUs, so it's all about the single threaded performance, which the Intel does well. The GPU is also fine for 1080p WoW.

For trying out newer releases and/or if you intend to upgrade your monitor, things get trickier to recommend. Something like Shadow of the Tomb Raider would overwhelm both the GPU and the CPU due to lack of cores/threads, so a full system upgrade would be necessary. However, there's a lot of slightly older stuff out there that'll go far easier on the CPU and be purely GPU limited, meaning an upgrade to something like an RX 580 would be a phenomenal boost.
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Thank you, makes sense, might think about getting an RX580, is that the best value GPU at the moment?

Cheers
 
pv123 said:
Thank you, makes sense, might think about getting an RX580, is that the best value GPU at the moment?

Cheers
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You're welcome. Yes I believe the RX 580 would be where to start looking on the AMD side of things. On the NVidia side, anything from a used GTX 970 upwards would be a very worthwhile upgrade and that card can be had for about £100.
 
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