What Hardware Spec for WOW

mnc fear · 1 Jan 2011 at 04:49

My main machine is a PII 965, 4GB RAM and a 4890 which runs wow fine

The problem is my 2nd machine is a AM2 Sempy 3000, 4GB DDR 800 & a X1950 XTX

It runs like a bag of spanners and I need to upgrade it- what you lot think- GFX card or CPU first?

I get about 8fps in a City

Thanks for looking

tom91x91 · 1 Jan 2011 at 05:39

CPU definantly, runs great on dual for me, but it uses 3-6 aswell, esp in cities

Murray · 1 Jan 2011 at 08:30

i get like 20 fps in a city on my laptop and it only cost £300 lol

Jsbeer · 1 Jan 2011 at 13:04

Same here, I get 30 FPS in the city on a 3 year old PC that was mid-spec even then. Reducing multi-sampling, view distance and shadows will help it run well on almost any rig.

fastwunz · 1 Jan 2011 at 14:27

Yeh, shadows are your enemy. If you reduce them you can almost notice no difference at all and your FPS will fly

ExRayTed · 1 Jan 2011 at 15:24

If it was me I'd turn down all the settings,upgrade the cpu and the graphics card.Upgrading only one will introduce a bottleneck in the other.Also even though you have 4gb of ram,ddr is a very old standard nowadays.

HangTime · 1 Jan 2011 at 15:30

I think that was a typo, it will be DDR2 RAM (as it is AM2 platform and 800mhz is well beyond the capabilities of DDR).

Personally I would be looking for a CPU upgrade, that will be the bottleneck on a decent card like X1950XTX.

Obviously as mentioned you should be setting all the settings to minimum as your first port of call.

Murray · 1 Jan 2011 at 16:54

HangTime said:
I think that was a typo, it will be DDR2 RAM (as it is AM2 platform and 800mhz is well beyond the capabilities of DDR).

Personally I would be looking for a CPU upgrade, that will be the bottleneck on a decent card like X1950XTX.

Obviously as mentioned you should be setting all the settings to minimum as your first port of call.

agreed i have all on lowest and res is windowed mode with view distance on good and i get a steady 30-40 fps on my laptop which is decent enough for me.

Retroman09 · 1 Jan 2011 at 18:22

That's pretty good. I want to get mine looking pretty crisp as well now and I'm thinking of doing some upgrading myself. Im thinking of getting something like a I3 so I'm hoping this will make solid improvement as I'm positive the CPU is the bottleneck.

mnc fear · 1 Jan 2011 at 20:25

right thanks for the replies peeps

Gonna try turning down the settings and look at minor upgrades to both CPU and GFX as its my 2nd machine

Cheers