In my desktop I’m running an i7-12700k w/ Rtx 3070 ti to run WoW on a 1080p 240Hz monitor. Last night was the first time I looked into the idea of overclocking components. Be for doing that though I looking at how much of my resources were being utilized. When it comes to the cpu at stock I’m seeing about 26% utilization while chilling in Oribos and the gpu is at 99-100% thanks to my addiction to turning up all the sliders.
That being said, is there really any point to overclock the cpu if the system only needs so little from it anyways? As for the gpu sound i overlock that?
Depends how high of an overclock you’re able to achieve.
A good overclock will be more noticeable when your fps dips in those special scenarios.
But if you’re averaging 100+ fps it won’t really matter to the average person
WoW isn’t exactly the best game to measure cpu performance especially multithreaded aspect. It can utilize it but it still likes to peg one or two cores
Unless you’re planning to push extremely hard into the overclocking it just isn’t worth it with modern hardware. Most everything these days (which includes both your CPU and GPU) will automatically ramp up as headroom allows - the difference is going to be that they will have a lower absolute limit than what you could potentially squeeze out manually.
Honestly, though, without going to extreme lengths with regards to cooling and potentially voltage regulation, you’re unlikely to notice any real difference outside of benchmarks - and even that’s only because it explicitly tells you. Last I checked most people don’t spend all their PC time “playing” 3D Mark, though I wouldn’t be at all surprised if there were people who do.
Honestly, I haven’t been looking. I can say the only time i ever experience a drop in fps below 60 is when i first walk thru the main entrance hall of oribos (not sure why)
But even in mass wpvp with everyone’s abilities going off i rarely have any sort of fps loss
Would also add that without adequately beefy cooling, overclocking can actually result in worse performance since your CPU or GPU will be butting up against thermal limits much more frequently for greater stretches of time, leading to throttling. Additionally, if your PSU is already close to the limit of what it can handle, the extra power consumption that comes with overclocking can be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.
This. WoW is it unique animal and it is a CPU intensive game. The game engine that blizzard uses was designed this way so even the crappiest graphics cards could run the game on high settings. It’s heavily CPU and RAM intensive and a lot less GPU intensive.
As to the OPs question? with the way WoW operates you will benefit much more by overclocking your RAM and tightening your RAM timings then he will doing anything to your CPU. When I was on lntel it was a night and day difference in smoothness in WoW when I manually tuned my Ram from 3800mhz CL16 to 4400mhz CL17
Take a look at this guy’s video he does a lot of intensive World of Warcraft testing and you will see that the biggest factor in frame rates with World of Warcraft his game cache and Ram tuning
Currently the biggest Beast of a CPU for World of Warcraft is the 5800x 3D
This doesn’t surprise me, software made by component vendors is frequently very bad. It’s like the automobile industry where software is treated as a checkmark to print on the box and contracted out to the lowest bidder.
