What to upgrade

[webhond]

Hi ,

Looking to upgrade my pc.

Im playing with this atm :

Motherboard : Asus M3a

Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+, 2500 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)

Adapter Description ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series

Adapter RAM 512.00 MB (536,870,912 bytes)

Resolution 1920 x 1080 x 59 hertz

4 gb of memory, got another 2 here to stick in. Seems like my motherboard has problems with 6 somehow.

My question : is wow more gpu or cpu depending.

playing 25 man raids atm below 10 fps and it fecks me up now, time to upgrade.

Dont suggest 500 euro upgrades since i dont have the money for that.

Looking to spend a 250 euro's on it, im sure i can find decent upgrades for that.

Just dont know what to choose or upgrade in the first place.

thanks in advance

 

[Valeria]

I have a similar build in my old PC, although I use an Ati Radeon 4800 series Graphics card in it
Still runs like a charm I use it when I'm at my bf's place

Don't know if WoW is more GPU or CPU dependant though, hope someone else can answer you on that one..

 

[webhond]

Well my wow uses 80 % + of processor 99 % of the time, and after looking that up, its more then normal.

A lot of people have that, and you can clear cache, do other things etc etc, and then its less for a while but

gets up to using most of it again and again, so after reading a lot of posts, i got clear with it. that this has to be normal

So i think, upgrading to a quadcore would do more then upgrading graphics card.

still i think, uupgrading both should be do-able aswell for 250 euros since a nice 1 gb graphics card costs about 100.

im sure i can get a mobo with a decent quadcore aswell for 150 ?

if someone knows more about the heavy cpu usage. and how to prevent it somehow, its highly appreciated.

 

[Valeria]

Here's what I got when I bought my old pc, so you can compare
It runs WoW/Raids just fine and I use addons such as ElvUI so my FPS is pretty smooth and constant.

Sapphire RADEON HD 4870 - Grafische adapter - Radeon HD 4870 - PCI Express 2.0 x16 - 512 MB GDDR5 - Digitale Visuele Interface (
Processor - 1 x Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 / 2.4 GHz ( 1066 MHz ) - LGA775 Socket - L2 8 MB ( 2 x 4MB (4MB per core-paar) ) - doos
ASUS P5Q SE - Moederbord - ATX - iP45 - LGA775 Socket - UDMA133, Serial ATA-300 - Gigabit Ethernet -
Kingston ValueRAM - Geheugen - 4 GB ( 2 x 2 GB ) - DIMM 240-pins - DDR2 - 800 MHz / PC2-6400 - CL5 - 1.8 V
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro PWM- Koeler voor processor - ( Socket 775 ) - koper
Product : Antec EarthWatts 650 - Voeding ( intern ) - ATX12V 2.2 - 100-240 Volt wisselstroom V - 650 Watt - actieve PFC - Europa

The Q6600 processor costed 178 euros, and this was an order from 2009 so they're alot cheaper now
I suggest you go with a quadcore, you won't regret it.

 

[WoWuser123]

World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm--Tom's Performance Guide : Welcome To The World...Of Warcraft: Cataclysm makes an interesting read if you want to know what hardware works best in wow.

 

[blaize9]

I'll post my beast specs when I get home, and give you some tips.

 

[webhond]

thanks for all the replies so far and the interesting link.

 

[Praga]

for GPU's Sapphire is my personal favorite brand for future reference I actually just bought a 7850 for my other computer, low power usage, quite, and doesn't get hot. Also pretty good price wise, but preformance the 7870 or 79xx blows it out of the water

 

[Valeria]

Same, I've used Sapphire in both pc's that I've built the past 3 years
I bought a Sapphire Radeon 5900 series for my current pc though, but I can't say I'm 100% happy with it because it glitches out the first time I start up my computer.
Weird thing is that once I reboot it the glitching is gone.. Not sure if it's the drivers or the GPU..

 

[webhond]

anyone some more thoughts on this?

Like to buy some upgrades this weekend

thanks all in advance for help given