Build For WoW

[train]

i've done so much reading my head hurts. i'm 31 starting a new career, and wow is the last game i am playing. my current cpu is a amd phenom ii x6 1055t with a gtx 460. (i just updating the graphics card an option here and calling it a day?)

WoW is having a graphics update for the new expansion, and i want to have a computer that will own it in 25man raids...for the least amount of money. I've read my current cpu is terrible for it because the six cores are worthless for wow because it is single core based.

Would buying the i3 4130 and a quality motherboard and gpu be the way to go or is it an i5 or bust at this point? I play no other games so would wow really benefit from the quad core? i know the new amd fx six core is a great deal, but again wow doesn't benefit a lot from multicores.

Money isn't a problem, but i am not going to buy a i7 just to play wow that's a poor investment imo.

 

[train]

That is a decent enough board for overclocking and if I remember right has a really in-depth customization bios. Sounds like you've already got a moderately decent cooler on it. Get the ram replaced, (the board supports overclocking 1333 up to 2000) clean out the dust, and see what a moderate overclock does.

So first step, clean the dust out of the system, then clean the OS (or wipe) fix drivers. TEST the ram. Play your game if that alone gives you the performance you want cool. If not I'd honestly just try what the built in overclock on the motherboard gives you. Play game. If that's good enough don't fiddle. If not manually tweak. If you aren't happy after the manual tweak then look to upgrading, just remember that current top of the line systems will get you only moderately better performance and some of the issues with wow are just inherant to the game engine and internet connections.

i have a total of 8gigs ram, i have ran both a ram and hd test and found no errors....i bought drivermax this morning and installed all new drivers. i hope this fixes it. the os is honestly very clean, when i bought the computer it was a fresh install and nothing has been put on it (not a single pr0n site has been visited) and i haven't installed anything on it really.

the memory test i ran was just the windows memory diagnostic. is there a different one i should run? also is the gtx460 (1gb version) acceptable or is it worth it to spend 150.00 on a something like 650 ti boost? according to hw compare i wouldn't gain a whole lot...i guess the gtx460 was a pretty well built card?

 

[Maxor1]

The gtx469 should be fine..... now that you worked with your drivers are you still getting blue screens?

 

[WhiteSnake91]

yeah the gtx 460 was really good in its day and holds up ok today all these years later, just seems like yesterday I wanted to build a Phenom II 965 system with a gtx 460 😛

1333mhz ram is fine, you really don't gain anything from faster ram, although if you keep blue screening it could possibly BE bad ram. A pc shouldn't just blue screen like that out of no where =/ that can happen if people don't overclock right, but, your cpu is on stock

 

[train]

The blue screens happened maybe once a week and the screen never stayed up long enough for me to take a pic.

I maybe should have mentioned this earlier but when I bought it the PC was oc. I got an error one day months later that the oc failed. I chose to reset to default...happened after a blue screen

 

[train]

Anymore thoughts?

 

[train]

Anymore thoughts?

 

[ingtar33]

The blue screens happened maybe once a week and the screen never stayed up long enough for me to take a pic.

I maybe should have mentioned this earlier but when I bought it the PC was oc. I got an error one day months later that the oc failed. I chose to reset to default...happened after a blue screen

well, have you tried testing your ram with memtest86?

 

[Maxor1]

I would turn the graphics on wow down as low as they go, and run a raid. To see if you get the same slowing. If you do, its pretty much just your internet connection slowing things down. Based on the computer you have, you really shouldn't be able to have much improvement on the game. (small gains are possible but not worth the hundreds of dollars it would cost.). The other possible issue is that you have some intermittent hardware issue causing the blue screens (processor or ram error is possible but it also sounds intermittent enough no to be worth the hassle to track down unless is becomes more prevalent).

 

[logainofhades]

I play WoW without issue with the rig in my sig. I should be fine for next expansion too. Even an R9 270x with an i5 would be good for WoW.

 

[vmN]

Wow is very "friendly" for low-end builds.
Wow is optimized good and therefore can be played across most systems.
A IGP should be able to handle wow, maybe not in ultra, but you know what I'm saying.

 

[logainofhades]

Wow is very "friendly" for low-end builds.
Wow is optimized good and therefore can be played across most systems.
A IGP should be able to handle wow, maybe not in ultra, but you know what I'm saying.

Some of the newer IGP's can handle it, but will struggle in 40 man PVP and 25 man raid situations. Each expansion raises the min requirements considerably and blizzard has pretty much stated that the next one will be no different. I went from like 80fps on ultra to settling for 60fps on good to high with my crossfired HD 5850's. There is no way i could play on the same system I did back in Vanilla. Athlon 64 3000+ @ 2.5ghz and an FX 5200. :lol: