World of Warcraft lag on FX-6300

xxnekrosisxx · May 15, 2013

Recently built my new pc and World of Warcraft is running below 30FPS in 25 man raids. I have most of the settings set to low or fair and it still is staying below 30, I thought buying the FX-6300 would help a lot with my problem but it only increased my fps by about 10. Is there anything I can do without a hardware upgrade? Is something wrong?
Specs are as follows
Graphics card:EVGA GTX 470
MoBo:asrock 970 extreme3
Processor: FX-6300 (overclocked to 3.8GHZ on the stock cooler

The rest is standard..hard drive, 4gb of ram. blah blah.

Please let me know if there's anything I can do

Supernova1138 · May 16, 2013

MMOs tend to be very CPU heavy unfortunately, most of them, including WoW are not very well multithreaded, and as such tend to favour Intel CPUs over AMD. When you get lots of players on screen, the CPU usage goes way up, and WoW will only use 1 or 2 cores effectively, so most of your CPU won't be used by the game.

Since I doubt you want to spend lots of money switching to Intel with a new CPU and motherboard, all you can really do is try to overclock your FX 6300 even further, assuming your motherboard can handle it. You'll also need an aftermarket CPU cooler if you want to push your overclock much further, the stock cooler isn't adequate for overclocking.

jesot · May 16, 2013

I've never had problems with my E8400. AMD CPUs seem to rely pretty heavily on applications being able to utilize 4 cores. WoW is pretty demanding on the CPU, but only utilizes one or two cores (as said above).

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