I don’t understand why I can’t run wow on a intel i5 650 but it will run on a i5 760? I just upgrade to this machine from an even older and slower CPU that DID run wow, yet this newer one won’t because its not a 760 but a 650? I also noticed a i7 880 will run wow which is a slower processor than my i5 650. What am I not understanding? Is there a way to make the i5 650 work?
Are you able to be even a little bit specific?
“Can’t run” is an open-ended statement. Does it fail to execute at all? Does it give an error? Does it actually execute but do something incorrectly?
Incidentally, the i7 880 is a faster chip than your i5 650. Its base clock speed may be lower, but it’s likely to only ever use that when all four cores are loaded up - something your i5 can’t even do due to not having that many cores. The 880s maximum boost clock is higher by a margin greater than its base clock is lower.
*ed: Also worth mentioning is that the i5 760 is a true quad core processor. So, assuming there isn’t anything else stopping it (which you haven’t mentioned) it’s entirely possible that WoW now requires four actual cores - not four logical ones. Though I don’t believe that to be the case, so I still suspect there’s another problem.
The instruction sets of the i5 650 are the same as the i7 920. So it should be able to run. It also says the i5 650 is 2 cores and 4 threads though, maybe you have too many programs running. I would try to run WoW with all your other launchers and programs closed.
Edit
Looking through Cpu-l, it seems like the i5 760 is 4 cores 4 threads, and the i7 880 is 4 cores 8 threads. All those other chips you mentioned also have double the L3 cache of the i5 650 and no igpu’s.
It uses the same lga 1156 socket as the i5 760. If all else fails, the i5 760 is like $20~$30 on ebay.
WoW runs fine on an i5 650. What’s the problem you’re running into specifically?