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General Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: Furious on September 30, 2007, 06:20:19 pm
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Getting a low frame rate in WoW is aggravating ( anywhere from 8-16ish ) and I'm looking to push something a little higher.
PC: http://www.amazon.com/Presario-SR1710NX-Desktop-Sempron-Processor/dp/B000E1DD2M (http://www.amazon.com/Presario-SR1710NX-Desktop-Sempron-Processor/dp/B000E1DD2M)
Budget isn't too big of an issue, but I'd rather get more bang for the buck ( der? ), I don't need anything super-fantastic, just something to get rid of the POS it came with.
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Pick up an Nvidia 8600 they usually run less than $200 and perform very well.
You may also want to pick up some more ram.
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I bought a nVidia GeForce 8800 Ultra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_8_Series#Technical_Summary). I highly recommend it if you have way too much money lying around or you know somewhere you can buy it cheap. :P
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Pick up an Nvidia 8600 they usually run less than $200 and perform very well.
You may also want to pick up some more ram.
I had more ram the day I got the computer :P You think I'd be running around WoW with 256? O_O
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Build your own computer if budget isn't much of a problem.
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I'm using a 8800 GTS. It's done extremely well for me. I can run the newest games with the graphics cranked with no jumpiness whatsoever.
The rest of the beef is an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 and 2 GB of RAM, in case you care.
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I'm using a 8800 GTS. It's done extremely well for me. I can run the newest games with the graphics cranked with no jumpiness whatsoever.
The rest of the beef is an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 and 2 GB of RAM, in case you care.
He certainly doesn't need all that to play WoW... hell, my $400 Dell can run WoW without lag.
I would recommend just upgrading your video card. I'm currently running a 7600GT and it will run WoW fine without lag. It runs BF2 fine, and that game requires a lot more juice.
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He certainly doesn't need all that to play WoW... hell, my $400 Dell can run WoW without lag.
I would recommend just upgrading your video card. I'm currently running a 7600GT and it will run WoW fine without lag. It runs BF2 fine, and that game requires a lot more juice.
I know. It wasn't that expensive, though. The tower with the majority of the required parts was something like $1,100, which I think is pretty reasonable.
I wasn't recommending he go balls out on every component; I think it's wise to purchase things that are "better than average" (but not ridiculously awesome) if you plan to use it for a long time, though.
To be more precise, I was running Bioshock with the graphics cranked with absolutely no latency, and this was with BOINC running at full blast in the background.
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I can run BioShock also on default settings (medium or high) and it played fine. It depends on what you want to spend and what you want to do.
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I can run BioShock also on default settings (medium or high) and it played fine. It depends on what you want to spend and what you want to do.
No duh! :P
I'm not telling him to copy my specs. I'm throwing them out there.