Does anybody have a link to a computer they’d recommend buying? I know many people build their own, but I’m extremely lazy. Need something that runs at 60 FPS on highest settings. Much appreciated.
Do you know anyone that can build one for you if you buy the parts? You would save money that way and get more bang for your buck.
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I do. He actually offered to do it for free. I just want to make sure I’ll have the correct parts before ordering everything.
this changes a lot with 8.1 weaker computers are going to get a decent performance bump.
Well I’m currently playing on a laptop so looking to upgrade to a desktop anyways. Thanks for the info though! I did not know about this.
If you have someone that can build it then I would suggest looking at a good motherboard, cpu, video card, and ram. You don’t need top of the line but right now there is a glut of video cards from all the blockchain farmers so you can get a nice card for decent money. Build off of the platform you want be it AMD or Intel and make sure to use a site that confirms the parts work with the chip set of environment you are building. You could even go to a place that builds custom pcs on line and get an idea of what parts work with what and then buy what you want on Newegg, Amazon, or go to a pc electronics store if you want to help local businesses. Building your own PC gives you the control over what you want, have fun and best of luck!
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If you do go that route, the following parts you will need:
- CPU/processor
** Cooling choice - Motherboard
- Memory
- Power supply
- Graphics card
- Case
- Harddrive/storage
Then any operating system/software you want installed.
Then from going to desktop from laptop:
- Monitor
- Mouse+keyboard
https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Chrisdredd18/saved/VfkJ7P#explain_wattage_dialog
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I recommend checking out Digital Storm computers. They are higher end but they also offer great PCs for all price ranges. I am like you, I don’t build my own PCs anymore. I will buy one and then upgrade it myself but I love custom liquid cooling etc. which I have no idea how to build.
Anyways, you basically select a PC and can choose the parts you want or keep it with the stuff it comes with. Can’t post links but do a search for Digital Storm computers. They have great customer service as well. Once you select your pc they test all the parts then build it and test again. I have gotten a couple of PCs from them.
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Go to pcpartspicker and look thru the completed builds and youll find something that will work in your price range. Building a PC is easy because I did it and I am a moron.
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WoW is terribly optimized, you’d struggle to get 60 FPS on most high end rigs when all the particle effects start flying around in raid.
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A few things to note: Wow actually does pretty well outside of cities with most modern hardware, you can easily get a Ryzen 7 that will crank out hundreds of frames in most content.
- Cities will struggle for awhile on almost all hardware until blizz takes advantage of DX12 and Vulkan to parallelize their workloads better. 8.1 is a step in the right direction assuming those changes ship.
- WoW doesn’t seem to use more advanced features (RTX need not apply) like extensive tessellation and more advanced shading techniques (I blame Intel). This means that most content won’t actually push a good graphics card hard on that front. What it does do is spam textures everywhere, this means that raids can stress video card memory if every body is going all out. I would suggest at least 6gb graphics card.
- Particle effects are going to hurt FPS regardless, this is just based on how these things are implemented.
- Get an SSD, SLAY THE LOADING SCREEN BOSS!
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Wasn’t there rumors about this being fixed sooner rather than later?
I thought there were CPU optimization fixes coming in 8.1.
There’s an article on Wowhead about it, but I’m not sure how good it will be.
I tested it, on my hardware I saw anywhere from a 10-30 FPS improvement in Boralus. But… the game crashed literally every time I exited or switched characters, hence I’m concerned they may disable it for now.
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I bought an omen with i7-7700. 16 gigs of ram and a gtx1070 video card. I have the graphics at 10 and i have never had a problem with uldir or bgs. If i lower the graphics it stays pegged at 200fps. I usually get between 80 to 150 fps depending on what is going on.
Exactly what sy said,
No matter how great your PC is, you are not going to get 60 - 144 FPS full time.
You will drop in some places because that’s how the engine works.
80people standing in one place means you are going to be around 40 if not 30 fps on the best PC in the world.
Thank god in 8.1 they are adding multi-threading, lets just hope.
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Be warned that the single-core limitation will really bottleneck you more than anything, regardless of what specs you decide on.
Today a walmart laptop with integrated graphics will get you 60fps in classic.
I’ve come to believe that perhaps more valuable than hitting 100% max frames at max settings – which has basically always been impossible for WoW – is being able to handle the occasional frame drop gracefully. By which I mean, nvidia’s g-sync or the AMD alternative are amazing features which you want on your video card and monitor. They basically make it so that even as the frame rate changes, you are less likely to notice or at least be jarred by it.