A few weeks later of ordering and waiting for various parts and a few returns/exchanges/swaps, my new WoW build is complete :)!
`https://imgur.com/gallery/G61LpYR
It’s always been my goal to play WoW with all the sliders set to the max, including the max resolution scale and Anti-Aliasing, also maxed in the Geforce control panel and not have WoW’s framerates take a nosedive in a raid or in the new zones and also be able to hit my main panel’s 144hz refresh rate in most areas… So I think I achieved that and thensome >.> kinda overkill for WoW, and especially WoW Classic, but I’m at least ready for the future (WC4 and WoW 2 please!).
Thoughts?
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Replaced the 1080 Ti with a 2080 Ti!!! https://imgur.com/a/1BXROSZ
Looks amazing! Really like your setup and you’ll likely be good to play WoW forever on it.
I think my only question would be;
With a 32 inch monitor do you find it hard to see the whole screen? I’d imagine there would be a lot of eye travel.
I’ve had this monitor since my previous setup, and I’ve had no issues with wow or eye travel that I’ve noticed. most of the important things in wow anyways is in the center anyways with the addons that I use (i.e. weakauras, tellmewhen, etc), also the curve helps with the immersion/viewability.
It isn’t an 21:9 34" ultrawide, as those i’d imagine would require some eye travel, my 16:9 32" isn’t that far off from the standard 27" that most seem to game with these days.
There’s always Amazon with their easy returns… can try it out and if you don’t like it, return it with no questions asked (all automated anyways) or consequence \o/!
…I may or may not have done this with a piece or two in this build when I changed my mind *coughcase **coughmobocough *
I am not sure of the exact total I’ve spent, tbh I didn’t keep track as I just kept a general budget, and knew that I was going to recoup most of the costs…
All in all, I estimate that I spent around $1500, give or take a couple hundred, saved a bit as I already had the ram, the main monitor, and some miscellaneous parts and peripherals… The 1080 ti and the Ryzen 9 were the bigger expenses at around $500+ each, however when you take in consideration I am recouping/offsetting the cost by selling off my old parts on ebay (so far all the main components have been sold), by the end I’ll probably end up having spent ~$700 in total.
it can push the limits, ever max out the settings, particularly set it to 8x MSAA and resolution w/ 8x color depth and scale to 200% while on Ultra in Boralis?
But yeah nice that it has options to lower the quality as it’s a “MMO” after all, so good to cater to the most players and a wide variety of systems, everything from Enthusiast PC builds to Potato PCs…
Yeah, I guess what I mean is that the engine is by no means pushing any limits. There are several other open world games that have much better graphics engines in terms of pushing the limits of both of our hardware.
Did you set this up yourself or buy pre-built? Because I bought a pre-built a few months ago that looks eerily similar to this (especially the liquid cooling lines.)
For now I am enjoying the random rainbow wave effects… but I’ll eventually set a color theme… I was thinking a purple lighting theme, I like how purple looks… or maybe indigo as that looks awesome too. But that’s the nice thing about RGB, can set color themes and if you get bored of it, you can change it up for a new look or turn them off/on depending on your mood.
built myself and it’s an aio water cooler on the CPU, not much you can do with those since it’s ready to install out of the box, so they all virtually look the same, unlike a custom watercooling loop, where you get your own cpu block, tubing, fittings, pump, reservoir, radiator, etc and fill it with liquid yourself.
Same goes with the graphics card, came stock with its aio cooler.
