I’m not a expert just a hobby of mine. I had to rebuild recently myself. My old pc had 1090t 6 core 3.2 ghz 16g corsair dominator 2k mhz & a RX 570. Played at 6.
I built a new one; R9 3900X 32g corsair dominator platinum m.2 4.0 ssd & same old RX570 ocd to 1400mhz. Im at a solid 100FPS at 10.
I would say the more important things are SSD and good internet speed.
This right here is the issue. When people have a dozen cores and see CPU usage at low numbers like 8%, they don’t realize that 8.33% would be fully capped for single core. People get this misconception of how multicore work is done on a CPU and think that all of X code goes on this one core and all of Y code goes on this other core. That’s not how it works. Fragments of code get executed on whatever core is least loaded or coolest, thanks to the scheduler. This is why you should always pay more attention to total usage and know what multiples represent what thread counts. If you have an 8 thread CPU, then multiples of 12.5%, 12 thread=8.3% and so on.
WoW is very heavily single core still. It does offload async tasks to other cores, but as I always say, the GPU can’t be told to render a frame until the main game thread on the CPU is done with it’s work.
I’d have to double check, but I think all LUA addon code is run on the main game tick thread as well, so that’s why outdated/broken addons are famous for destroying frame rates.
I’m playing WoW with a R9 390 and the other parts are from around 2009-2010 so I can still run the game fine but according to blizz my computer won’t be supported next expansion.
Just wish I knew how to build computers and I’d upgrade. Too scared I’d screw something up ._.
I actually purchased the HP gaming rig for around $600 from walmart recently but wound up taking it back because nividia cards have this weird issues with graphic textures for some weird reason. Not everything but most graphics would seem to glitch out or whatever it is. Took it as a sign I wasn’t meant to have it. Regret it now.
Now I don’t have the funds and am kicking myself in the butt for not keeping that computer.
I run a laptop with a gtx 1050 and i5-8300H it runs fine at 5 (was at 7 where it was fine, but I turned it down to 5 just to safe). This msi laptop was $800 new 3 years ago. I don’t see a need to upgrade even though I could easily afford to upgrade if I wanted to.
I’m on an i3 10100 and a 1650 and I run the game on 8 with locked 60fps at 1080p. Frame rate never dips below 60 that I’ve seen and I’ve tried it in all SL content. I can run it on 10, but there’s a few case exceptions where the frame rate drops to around 50 when there’s a ton of particle overdraw going on.
At 8, temps always in the 50C range and the fan averages 10-15% speed. The gains in visual quality between 8 and 10 is negligible, so there’s no reason to tack on an extra 10C to the temps.
GPU’s are very and I mean VERY HARD to find right now. If you have access to a GPU Card BUY IT!
Like everyone has said Warcraft now relies more on GPU than CPU.
Hope it helped.
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I often have lots of other crap open while I play so I got an I-9
I have a toaster.
Well, I spent what money I had on a MSI GForce GT1050ti for $375 off Ebay. I know, I know. You’re gonna say I wasted my $$$. Well, turns out with the GT 1050 I had I could only run at 6 or 7 on WOW. Now with the 1050ti I run a 9 on WOW. It stays cool and the graphics are much better and very seldom any stutter in heavy play, such as tons of players all in one place. I just didn’t have the money to fork out almost $600 for what I really wanted. The 1050ti is worth the 375 and working just fine. I guess I could run at 10 but I’ve tried it and I don’t see any difference from 9, so I stay at 9. My Ryzen 5 3600 stays cool too. 16gis of RAM.
Grats that it helped improve WoW for you. I’m also thinking that I should dig out my 1050 ti sitting in storage and sell it on ebay.
And the 3600 is an excellent cpu for the money.
I’d argue that 8GB is the minimum, 16GB is the new “standard”, and 32GB is the overkill option.
Yeah that’s the best thing for you if you can only replace one. Your cpu needs upgrading more than your gpu for wow.
You are a very impulsive guy to pay that much for a 1050ti. I just looked on ebay and you could’ve gotten better ones like gtx 1650 or rx 580 for even cheaper, but oh well, I guess you must be rich or something.
I was just thinking the same thing, lol. I got a new laptop a week ago so the 1050ti is sitting in my pc. I don’t even think it was more than a year ago that I bought it for something like $120.
8gb is doable, but not comfortable and will cause a massive drop in performance with all the streaming in and out in ram. Pray to the gods that you don’t cap ram and start writing to the page file on a HDD if you’re still on one.
Ran world boss with 100+ players around on Ryzen 9 5900X, RTX 3080 and 32GB DDR4-3600 CL16. 25-30 FPS on 2560x1440 Level 10. My CPU isn’t 100% load and GPU is yawning at 90ish watts out of 340W. Server and network also affects performance.
I have a computer with a 1050 ti.
Honestly you need to customize and resolution scale must be around 100-120% top.
Always keeps a steady 60 fps. be in epic bgs or raids.
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The 11900k is actually a regression in most workloads over the 10900k because it’s 8c/16t vs the 10c/20t of the prior gen. AVX512 also doesn’t save intel here because nothing uses it for the most part given how hard it hits clock speeds.
That said the 11400 is apparently worth it for people that just game:
Not true anymore on any modern GPU that can use Dx12 mode. Hasn’t been true since 8.1 IIRC? I know people keep saying this but it’s really really not the case unless you have a GPU that forces you to use DX11 (Legacy) mode.
This was your best bang for the buck upgrade, FX CPUs… are power hungry disasters at this point and nobody should still be using them. Even the 11400 (non-k) is a massive upgrade over those chips. Your new CPU is a major upgrade. That said:
Explains how you can get the most from that 3000 series ryzen if you’re not already. Getting your Fclk as high as is stable and possible will give you a massive boost overall.
Windows 10
RTX 3080
i7-10700k
32gb RAM
With WoW and Chrome open, I am at 13.1/32 gb RAM usage.
World of Warcraft is using up 4223.7 MBs on it’s own.
Chrome with 1240.
8 GB is way too low for anything modern.