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Which CPU for WOW? (but not for me!)

Loosecannon

Loosecannon

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Ok this seems the best place to put this.

Building a comp for my little brother.

The only game he plays on his computer is WOW (hopefully this will one day change).

I am going AM2+

Do I opt for the 7750 (which I got myslef 2 weeks ago)

or go Phenom 2 940?


Would he see any benefit at all for the extra £140?
 
The 7750 will be fine - you won't get £140 of benefit from going down the Phenom route based on just playing WoW.

Obviously coupled with a reasonable graphics card though.
 
It will be having a Ati 4870 1Gb card...

I know it is overkill - but for the price of the special this week I couldn't see why not.

I know the CPU is getting slated a bit - so didnt know if it was worth another CPU in the AM2+ range.

920 is more tempting now - a little cheaper but still quad core if he comes to his senses and trying superior games.

That seem a better choice?
 
I've said this a few times now - But you cant beat the Price/Performance of the Phenom II 720 tri core.
 
Yes but AM3 chips work in AM2 motherboards :rolleyes:

AM3 is 938 pins. AM2 is 940 pins (or something like that). Either way, the AM3 has less pins and will fit into an AM2 socket.
 
If the official manufacturers site says that it works, then it works. I've read some good things about the Biostar motherboards so you should be fine with that :)

EDIT: He might even play other games :D
 
Zefan said:
Not at all. My ex girlfriend used to run it fine on a celeron leptop :p
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Not in a raid... WoW is only lightly threaded, 99% of its graphics engine sits on a single CPU core, and it will eat up as much power as you can give it. A high performance dual core generally offers the best performance for WoW.A high end graphics card will give great "peak" framerates when looking at the sky, but its the CPU that really limits the minimum framerates often observed in Dalaran, or at raids.

WoW has a very simple graphics engine of which a large percentage is running on the CPU rather than offloaded to the graphics card.
 
Corasik said:
Not in a raid... WoW is only lightly threaded, 99% of its graphics engine sits on a single CPU core, and it will eat up as much power as you can give it. A high performance dual core generally offers the best performance for WoW.A high end graphics card will give great "peak" framerates when looking at the sky, but its the CPU that really limits the minimum framerates often observed in Dalaran, or at raids.

WoW has a very simple graphics engine of which a large percentage is running on the CPU rather than offloaded to the graphics card.
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Absolutely true, I went from an Opteron 180 to a Q9550 and the difference is fantastic in WOW (not something I was expecting tbh) I then went from a 9600GT to a GTX 260 and got virtually no increased performance in WOW.

Get the best CPU he can afford.
 
As far as I know WoW only supports 2 threads (currently) so for ultimate performance you want the fastest DUAL core CPU money can buy.

It may change in the future but as things stand now any more than 2 cores is a waste in WoW.
 
But since the Tri-core will be close to the best Dual core performance in WoW, and far better in anything else; You may aswell get the Tri.
 
Corasik said:
Not in a raid... WoW is only lightly threaded, 99% of its graphics engine sits on a single CPU core, and it will eat up as much power as you can give it. A high performance dual core generally offers the best performance for WoW.A high end graphics card will give great "peak" framerates when looking at the sky, but its the CPU that really limits the minimum framerates often observed in Dalaran, or at raids.

WoW has a very simple graphics engine of which a large percentage is running on the CPU rather than offloaded to the graphics card.
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100% true, CPU>Graphics card for wow

4870 is overkill get the best dual core you can for ultimate wow experience...

Celeron laptop will give about 1fps in current raid content or dalaran
 
[Cas];13595248 said:
But since the Tri-core will be close to the best Dual core performance in WoW, and far better in anything else; You may aswell get the Tri.
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Depends if he's overclocking, most C2D's will clock to 4GHz fairly confortably not many quads aside from a pricey i7 will reach that.

A 4GHz C2D is better than a 3-3.5GHz Tri/Quad for WoW.
 
mmj_uk said:
Depends if he's overclocking, most C2D's will clock to 4GHz fairly confortably not many quads aside from a pricey i7 will reach that.

A 4GHz C2D is better than a 3-3.5GHz Tri/Quad for WoW.
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But lets be fair, that isn't going to get better performance out of WoW. I'd imagine a Tri would get the performance about as high as its going to go for WoW, surely?
 
It also depends on the res he's running at I guess. I could happily do 25-man BT raids on my socket 939 X2 4200 although the frames were around the mid 20's. I'd go for the tri-core as you're likely to get better overall performance out of it IMO.
 
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