Upgrade advice

Anrasp · 8 Mar 2013 at 00:50

This is my current build

Intel Pentium Dual-Core Processor E2200 2.2GHz 800MHz 1MB LGA775
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Fan For Intel CPU
Western Digital WD5000AAKS 500GB SATA2 7200rpm 16MB Hard Drive
GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L Core 2 Quad/ Intel P35/ DDR2-1066
Thermaltake Tsunami VA3000BNA Aluminum No Power Supply Case
Palit nVidia GeForce 9600GT Sonic 512MB 700MHz 2DVI/Display
Seasonic S12 SS-550HT Energy+ 550W SLI EPS Power Supply
OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400 Reaper HPC Dual Channel kit (4-4-4-15)

I currently only play World of Warcraft but it's getting pretty laggy especially in encounters where there is a lot of **** on the ground.

If I were to swap my card with the following .. would it be ok ?

1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7850 OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ Nexuiz, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showd (GX-100-GI) £129.95

Thanks

dacads · 8 Mar 2013 at 01:54

Performance would be bottlenecked by the CPU. A small investment into a Core 2 Quad such as the Q8300 might be worth considering

Avenged7Fold · 8 Mar 2013 at 04:42

Sell your ram and add that to your GPU budget. Then use it to buy this:

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A8-5600K Black Edition 3.60GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD560KWOHJBOX) £83.99
1 x Adata XPG Xtreme v1.0 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C10 2133MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AX3U2133XC4G10-2X) £44.99
1 x ASRock FM2A55M-DGS AMD A55 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £41.99
Total : £181.76 (includes shipping : £9.00).

Bottlenecks and problems solved, giving you an overall much needed upgrade!

Doomedspeed · 8 Mar 2013 at 06:00

as said that 7850 will be seriously bottlenecked by your rig.

What is your overall budget?

You could go for a Pentium/i3 + 7850 or the cheaper A8 (as above). Both will be a vast improvement.

marc2003 · 8 Mar 2013 at 08:09

if it's only for that one game i'd pick up a used q6600 and used GTX460 or 6850/6870. should be under budget and that board should easily clock the q6600 past 3ghz.

Doomedspeed · 8 Mar 2013 at 08:38

marc2003 said:
if it's only for that one game i'd pick up a used q6600 and used GTX460 or 6850/6870. should be under budget and that board should easily clock the q6600 past 3ghz.

Good plan. Both of them should be under the price of that 7850.

pastymuncher · 8 Mar 2013 at 13:06

You could set that E2200 free by overclocking it, though it is rather long in the tooth these days. The E2000 series were overclocking demons and i have has a 1.6Ghz E2140 to 3.6Ghz and a 2Ghz E2180 also to 3.6Ghz. World of Warcraft really needs a fast cpu.

Anrasp · 8 Mar 2013 at 22:45

pastymuncher said:
You could set that E2200 free by overclocking it, though it is rather long in the tooth these days. The E2000 series were overclocking demons and i have has a 1.6Ghz E2140 to 3.6Ghz and a 2Ghz E2180 also to 3.6Ghz. World of Warcraft really needs a fast cpu.

@ all thanks for your feedback. @pastymuncher so will lag improve if i overclock the E2200 ?

marc2003 · 9 Mar 2013 at 08:58

you've got nothing to lose by trying. the rest of your kit is just fine. i used to have that exact same mobo and had an e2180 (2Ghz stock) to 3Ghz with minimal fuss. i couldn't get anything like the clocks pastymuncher reached though.

it was a long time ago so i can't remember the exact options you need to tinker with but basically all you need to do is make sure the ram is set to 1:1 with the FSB and boost the vcore voltage a bit. maybe someone more knowledgeable can chime in. if they don't and you need more help, search the overclocking section or start your own thread.

pastymuncher · 9 Mar 2013 at 13:45

It can only help and it's free to try. I get stuttering in busy areas with the rig in my siggy.