Currently running an i72600k and 980 and am getting 40 fps when raiding. What would you recommend for a new pc that can handle shadowlands? I’m playing at 1440p.
Don’t want to overspend on a 3080 right now. and they’re not available anyway - Should I just stick with my current build or wait it out for something worth my money - not really looking to go over $2,000-2500 right now.
Is your 2600k overclocked?
If not, OC it, and wait for 4th generation Ryzen to come out.
All CPUs are pretty much technologically EOL at present and it would suck to buy into it right now.
If you need to buy something “to buy something” (trust me, I know this feel) upgrade other stuff like displays, peripherals, case, etc. to tide you over.
handle shadowlands with ray-tracing? Something like an i5-intel or Ryzen 3600 and Nvidia 2070 super. Without raytracing you can drop the GPU to an AMD 5700 or Nvidia 2060. The market will reset itself around xmas sale season with new parts, AMD prices on current tech, and availability. Really depends if you want it now or in three months.
Great perspective - I’ll try overclocking my 2600k - I already have an aftermarket fan on it at present.
you can adjust the following to make life easier on your GTX 980 via logical increments
Improve FPS with little to no impact on visuals:
Reduce Shadow Quality to High.
Reduce AA to MSAA x4.
These two settings have have a very minimal effect on your World of Warcraft experience, and turning them down will help improve FPS by as much as 25%-40%.
Improve FPS with a small impact on visuals:
After applying the above, you can follow the following steps to further improve your FPS:
Set AA to CMAA or FXAA.
Reduce Liquid Detail to High.
Reduce SSAO to High.
Reduce View distance to 7-8.
Reduce Environment Detail to 7-8.
Reduce Ground Clutter to 7-8.
You can gain an additional 25%-50% FPS (effectively doubling your framerates in extreme cases), but this comes at a cost, as there is a visual difference when changing these settings. That said, the visual difference is quite small, and World of Warcraft will still look very good, so the performance improvement is easily worth it.
Good advice.
I know it’s Logical Increments, not you, but at least on my system, there is no Liquid Detail = High. It goes from Ultra to Good. I think it’s a typo on their site - it should be:
Reduce Liquid Detail to Good.
Unless there is just something weird happening on my system…
Edit:
BTW, I know people are fond of saying there is little difference with the sliders at 7 or 10, but in my experience, that is not the case. There is little difference from 7-9 with VD and ED, but with VD and ED on 10 the eye candy is definitely better. I’ll keep them at 10, especially the first time through a new zone as long as my FPS isn’t tanking. My ground clutter is always on 10 because I like the rich environment.
It if works properly, the new Target FPS for SL will be nice. You set your target and if your FPS goes under that, it is supposed to dynamically adjust your settings. It didn’t work very well for me on PTR, but when/if it does, it would be great to be able to crank the settings and have it only reduce them when necessary.
Maybe something like this?
ABS Gladiator Gaming PC - Intel i9-9900K - GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER - G.SKILL TridentZ RGB 16GB DDR4 - 1TB SSD - Liquid Cooling 240mm
You can get it for $1649 at Newegg right now.
Great deal - Thinking i’m probably going to wait until later this year for some better deals.
This is the smart move if you’re not desperate for something today. I got an incredible deal last Black Friday (unit cost less than parts would have), plus all the new stuff is coming out.
Since you’ve got a 980, I’d hold off on buying anything right now. Play Shadowlands at reduced settings if you have to for the meantime. For your needs, you’re probably looking at a 3070 or even a 3060 at most. Besides, drivers aren’t fully optimised yet and NVIDIA is not exactly the most reliable when it comes to drivers for newly-released hardware (actually, even AMD is like that so it seems to be the norm when new GPUs come out).