XPS 8500 GPU upgrade, World of Warcraft f

[Timooster]

Hello all,

I am fairly new to computer hardware upgrades, I am looking to upgrade my gpu on my XPS 8500 (2012). I'm also looking for information on what the right choice may be for my current situation. Let me give you my specs.

Dell XPS 8500
i5-3350 3.10 GHz (3rd gen)
8.00 GB RAM
AMD Radeon HD 7570
64bit os Windows 10
1 TB hard drive
460w power supply
HP 2511x 1920 x 1080 monitor

I do not have any graphic intensive games, I only play world of warcraft, blizzard games etc. I would like to record with fraps with out losing all my frame rate. WITHOUT fraps i play on good (medium) settings at 30-60 fps. Sometimes 70-90 depending on what im doing in the game. WITH fraps i play at the same settings at 25-30 fps, but it drops at various times to 15 fps and lags and creates very choppy game play and footage. Ive tried different fraps and in game graphic changes, but nothing seems to work. I was wondering what upgrades i would have to make in order to achieve my goal. Any information would be great i'd really appreciate it!

 

[clutchc]

I guess you better start by giving us a budget. But the best card you can safely use with that stock PSU's 385W (+12v) rail, would be the GTX 960.

 

[Timooster]

I guess you better start by giving us a budget. But the best card you can safely use with that stock PSU's 385W (+12v) rail, would be the GTX 960.

It's funny that you mentioned that because I just bought and installed a pny gtx 960 2gb, so far it has raised my fps to 70-80 on good settings, however fraps still caused some stutter and choppy footage. I wonder if a second hard drive for fraps recording would do the trick? Any thoughts from this point?

 

[clutchc]

Not really. I don't record with Fraps much anymore. But you shouldn't be having those low fps numbers with that CPU and GPU combo even recording... I wouldn't think. Do you have other stuff running in the background while you do that? How full is your tray? You might want to give CCleaner a run and see if it finds anything it can clean up.
https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download

 

[Riptorz]

I currently use a i7 6700k overclocked to 4.9ghz to play WoW. WoW depends on IPS and high clock speed more then core count and threads. I use 16gb of ddr4 3000mhz ram and a GTX 960 2gb (till i can get the GTX 1080 in SLI) and i run on average 150+ fps in stormwind, stormshield, and in mythic raids. My settings are at 2715x1517DSR high settings. During bursts my fps only drops to 98 was the lowest i've seen. Hope this helps

 

[Timooster]

So I started using shadow play instead of fraps with my current setup, and that seemed to be the trick. Running high settings with shadow play at 50fps or so. I heard that shadow play runs off your gpu instead of your cpu or something along those lines. So far so good! I appreciate everyone's input! Thanks for you help!

 

[Riptorz]

I also use shadowplay for everything recording/fps wise because fraps is just too much unless you have a decent processor.