I have been having trouble with fps issues for awhile now in raid. My computer is fairly good but I am looking to upgrade and wondering if it will make a difference in classic wow at all. I currently have a Intel(R) Core™ i7-9700 CPU @ 3.00GHz. I am looking to upgrade to a Intel® Core™ 14th Gen i9 14900KF (24-Core, 68MB Cache, 2.4GHz to 6.0GHz Thermal Velocity Boost) . Will I notice a boost in performance in raid from this or will it not matter due to how badly classic wow is optimized?
I don’t know the answer to your question but I’ll add that just about every time I have had an FPS issue it was solved by disabling an addon.
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I would suggest looking at the usage/temp to best identify where a bottleneck might be before deciding what to upgrade. If your CPU isn’t high usage/temp while raiding, it is likely not the issue. With video games, the bottleneck is usually GPU and that’s the part people spend the most money on (along with PSU to power it).
If WoW is the main reason you’re looking to upgrade your PC don’t go for that i9. Get a Ryzen 7800x 3D and save yourself hundreds of dollars for better performance.
This is wrong. WoW is a secure client-server MMO and most calculations are done serially on a single thread. In a raid setting the best way to increase your FPS is by having a CPU with good IPC and in WoW the size of the L3 cache is of great importance. The bottleneck is almost always going to be the CPU in WoW.
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