Very basic technical question, would upgrading my systems graphics card make zones and objects and stuff load faster?
I have a 2017 iMac but it just has the stock graphics card, if I got an eGPU and like a radeon 6000s series or something would that mean I could have non stuttery graphics and actually load battlegrounds and Valdrakken and stuff properly?
Thanks!
how much ram and what storage drive do you have in there?
Current Specs:
3.6 GHZ Quade Core i7
12 GB 2400 MHz Ram
Radeon Pro 560 4GB
storage drive? SSD or the fusion drive?
to upgrade the ssd for that imac you gotta remove the screen… yikes
That’s basically an RX 460 mobile.
A faster GPU would help but honestly a whole new machine might be a better solution.
Something like this would be a noticeable upgrade for $600:
https://www.microcenter.com/product/649165/hp-victus-15-fb0121nr-156-gaming-laptop-computer-platinum-collection-silver
1tb SSD in it
Im not looking to run the game at max settings and have like 140fps or something in a raid. Just like medium settings so I can see whats on the floor in mythics and avoid getting killed by stupid nonsense.
From what I read about that model you can’t upgrade the video card and the 2017 iMac isn’t getting security updates anyone.
You can upgrade the ram, perhaps 16gb would be much better but make sure the ram works with the iMac.
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Yeah I can’t change out the GPU in the computer cause apple are buttholes and soldered it on, but I can get an external case + card and run it through thunderbolt which is like an apple recommended thing.
It’s crazy to me though that I could just buy a gaming laptop for the price of an enclosure and card…
I might even just see what sales are on boxing day and spec out a full PC or most of a PC and go from there with these as the core of the build:
[AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 3.4 GHz 8-Core Processor]
I read that the 5800X3D is really good for WoW for some reason, so that’s promising.
Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 6600 XT 8 GB Video Card
And then I’d just want a card that I wont have to replace in a two years and that can handle battle grounds and Mythics and stuff. Getting real tired of landing in Valdrakken and the zone popping in over 4 minutes of me standing in a single spot lmao
it’s nuts that only 5 or so years old you can’t get security support anymore for it.
I can still get updates, like its on the latest OS which was free; I just can’t upgrade a single piece of internal hardware which blows my mind cause Apple loses out on so much business from people moving to PC. Myself included, as I paid a lot for this thing and if I need to do video work or anything visual a cheaper gaming pc would be better equipped now.
Computer processors have to take a long haul to talk to memory. There’s more local memory on the 5800X3D (aka cpu cache).
If a game can sit in cache and has to make less trips to memory, performance can be much much better (ie games like WoW and Stellaris).
I know this is a little late, but the eGPUs can work ok. I am using a Sonnet Puck RX560 (mobile version of the video card) with my 2018 i3 7100 Mac mini. I am getting steady 75 fps on low settings.
I am building a PC now simply because there is no upgrade path - and while I have used the new M1s just not happy buying a system you use then discard when you replace. I have always been on the fence between the Mac and Windows (along with early days of Amiga / Commodore and Atari).