Computer Spec Needed To Play Wow Full Settings

[Guest JamesLee]

How about making a PC of your own? Buy the parts sepertely and you can make a machine which will run wow a piece of piss for about £650

[Nicky]

my machine eats MC etc for breakfast.

3.6 P4

1gb ram,

2 geforce 7800s running in SLI

another 2gb ram on order.

rarely dips below 70fps even with all hellfire being let loose

[sprite]

I'm curious about my PC now. I work in the business so it's always upgradeable easily for me Just a case of when to do it.

Currently running...

Pentium 4 2.8Ghz

1gig RAM

Sapphire ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (got it for £80 so a nice deal there)

But my dilemma is that I'm still on a 478 board, so I don't want to spend too much on my current box.

(And don't even mention an AMD to me, not interested )

So would you say it's worth upgrading my chip now? In terms of WoW how much would it increase my performance? I could get a 3.4Ghz chip (800 Bus as opposed to 533), and of course always upgrade the graphics/RAM in the future if I want to...

But at some point, I'll get a new box, new board, LG775 chipset at least using the Extreme chips etc.

I suppose I'm asking what it's worth doing

Would WoW benefit more from 2gig RAM than a 3.4Ghz 800Bus chip? In general performance is ok, I average about 40-50fps I guess, but there are times it chugs right down to 15 which is painful...

[CrispinG]

15 is painful? I've played at 12 for the last 5 months.

[sprite]

Well, it's painful when you usually have things moving at a decent rate.

3fps difference isn't much

If I may ask - why 12? I'd get so frustrated I'd pack it in I'm sure

[moosegrinder]

12 fps aint that bad really. I only really noticed the difference and started wanting a new PC when I got more ram and it went up to 25-30 FPS inside buildings and caves.

[sprite]

Whenever I get down to about 12-15fps it's very choppy and nasty

[kitten]

And this is why I don't bother maxing my settings. Runs at a lovely 20+ fps even in Molten Core.