You always need both.
Seek balance!
I thought the 11900k was out, and I was wrong.
Bleh.
Not anymore. It used to be.
GPU prices are right where they are supposed to be, unfortunately thereās just no supply.
Lol pretty much I have a 4k monitor and I had to upgrade my GPU just to run wow again. Folks have no clue what theyāre talking about. U can have the best cpu in the world but it wont matter in the slightest if u dont have something to compliment it.
GTX 1660 Super is $600+ on Amazon. RTX 2060 is not to be found right now for less than $800, up to $1000.
So yeahā¦
No.
Which is encouraging scalping. Sad state of affairs.
Wait until you have your new CPU up and running before deciding on a video card. I think you will be amazed at the difference. It should keep you happy until the 3060ās are back in stock.
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CPU upgrade would be easier to get right now because GPUs are hard to come by.
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Thereās something super wrong with your software. 8 is standard btw. 16 is extra. 32 is for content creators / enthusiasts.
^^^^This
Thatās my problem right now. I CANāT AFFORD A NEW GPU FOR AT LEAST 2 MONTHS. Then Iāll find something that works better than what I have now. Unless someone is willing to give me $550. Then Iāll gladly buy a new GPU. Shesh! 
GPU depends on CPU heads up
I was struggling with a lot of flickering textures for a long time. Even going through GeForce Experience and using their optimized settings for WoW. But then a few months back one of their driver updates seemed to finally resolve it. Although I do turn off ray tracing, because it is a resource hog that adds basically nothing.
So yeah, I donāt know enough to give real advice other than use GeForce Experience for optimized settings!
Thanks for that comment. Makes me feel better for the decision I made. 
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Recently I decided to re-build my last computer for my son (10). Long story short, it turned out my power supply had fried the old motherboard and was basically garbage.
So a new build took place. My sonās computer is way cooler than his old manās now!! Lucky dude!
Point of my story, the only parts from my old PC that I was able to salvage were the hard drives and my 1050ti video card! It was still alive!! Iāve installed and played WoW from his new rig (Ryzen 5 3600, 16gig ramā¦nothing crazy) and it runs beautifully! Much smoother than my old computer ever would have.
Letās be honest, replacing a video card right now is not only really expensive, but theyāre extremely difficult to even find outside of a pre-builtā¦at least here where I live they are 
Best of luck with your upgrades 
8gb ram was standard maybe 10 years ago. That will barely run windows and chrome now. 16gb is now the minimum and 32gb is the new standard.
Thanks for the comment. Iām looking forward to my new setup!
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I upgrade from 8GB ram to 16GB ram several months ago and Iām not really noticing much of a different. 8GB ram ran windows 10 with several browser open just fine.
Anyone try wow shadowlands on the i5 11500 with no GPU yetā¦in a raid?
EDIT - dang sorry folks didnāt realize this was a necro 
idk about the 1050ās cause I was a radeon guy for the better part of 15 years. But I got a whole new rig with a 1660ti in it for under 800 bucks. Iām only running it with an i5-9400f/8gig ddr4 and I go max settings and very rarely hit a blip that isnāt obvious server side lag. Now Iām only on 1080p so if your running a higher end monitor then things will be different for you. But yah I saw you went with a cpu upgrade and that would have been my suggestion even if gpuās werenāt stupid expensive right now.
lol ā¦ Stop spreading false information. I run win10, wow, 5+tabs, youtube/amazon music, Afterburner, and a few other little things on 8g of ram with little-to-no tangible bottle-knecking.