I recently purchased an ACER PREDATOR monitor, capable of running 1440p at 144hz, Im currently running a 2060 super, but was thinking of upgrading to a 2070 super. my cpu is an AMD Ryzen 5 5600g, i was thinking of just upgrading the gpu, i figured the cpu can handle this game, do you think the 2070 super is good for that type of gaming(1440p 144hz)? or should i try to replace the cpu as well. if i go with another video card it would be a 3070 or a 4070. any advice would help.
Lots of gpus launching at the end of the months. I’m waiting for testing then I will pick one out.
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i would wait, but the fan is going out on my 2060. i can hear a grinding sound like the bearing is going out. thats one of the reasons why im replacing it.
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Honestly when it comes to wow you really dont need anything huge.
Its like killing a fly with a sledgehammer LOL!
Here comes all the smart alecs that will claim they run wow at max settings on a 1050 and its all fine
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I feel like the tech support section may be able to give you better answers for this tbh
I would probably look at benchmarks.
This says about 120fps average at 1440p, though I don’t know where your CPU fits and which will be the bottle neck (small sample size, though): https://www.userbenchmark.com/PCGame/FPS-Estimates-World-of-Warcraft/3882/842105.0.0.0.0
But I’d say just look around at anandtech or whomever and see if you can find some comparable benchmarks. I think 144fps might be pushing it, but that’s only speculation.
You could get a 4070 super or a 7800xt and be fine in WoW at 1440p and 144hz.
Concentrate more on single core performance on your CPU than the GPU.
For example, I have a 3070 which is overclocked about 12%. I decided to try both a 6950xt and a 7800xt and I saw zero difference in performance at all in WoW. Both should have been 20-40% better on paper. Literally no difference.
I decided to overclock my 13600k and that’s when I saw a bump and was a lot happier with the performance. You want to stick with a 6 core CPU, anything more is a waste unless you also use it for work doing CPU intensvie tasks. You could get the 14600k or 13600k.
Remember that Youtube channels that run benchmarks don’t have a lot of games that will mimick WoW in terms of how things will perform. So you need to really dig around for what would help the most.
Also, I would advise against using Userbenchmark for anything, notoriously bad data and not accurate.
You can run WoW on a 970 or what was the line before the 980, the 650? You can run WoW on a 9800GT from like 20 years ago.
The GPU isn’t in question with WoW, it’s more so the CPU and you can run it on the most budget CPU you can get.
With WoW, you wanna worry about your router and modem, those should be up to date.
I had a dying GTX 1080 that couldn’t run any game that used extensive shaders, but it still worked. It still ran WoW on lowest settings. So I just played WoW on low until I got a new GPU.
You can play WoW on a literal dying GPU.
This is like the weirdest thing I have ever seen lol
You would be surprised at how many people are rocking 10 year old modems.
i run a 2060 super still am amazing card and i would ride it out at least another generation
i would have but the fan is dying on mine, so i need to replace it regardless before i burn my system up
IMO you won’t be happy with your performance with a 2060 or 2070 on a 1440p/144hz screen. Yea it’ll run fine, but if you are trying to hit your monitor refresh rate it’s going to struggle.
It depends on your goal.
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well i do find the 20s to be more stable and reliable than the newer cards
i would go with the 2070 in that case but thats just me
I’ll echo what other people have said, give it a few weeks! Lots of good stuff coming in the pipeline, that usually means that yesterday’s stuff is going to go on sale somewhere too.