Low FPS in WoW

imperiects · Jul 5, 2014

I am trying to figure out why my FPS is so bad wen playing WoW. Every other game I play (BF3/4, Titanall, Dark Souls 2) perform flawlessly. I friend of mine just built a similar PC and he pull 70-130 fps in populated areas. I can only get that if I'm staring at a wall.

AMD FX8120
ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Killer
GTX 770
2x8Gb DDR 3 1600 corsair Vengeance
SDD/HDD Hybrid 1Tb

I have tried reducing the cores from 8 down to 2 (2 at a time) and it didn't help performance. I have all settings set to high performance.

bignastyid · Jul 5, 2014

What cpu is your friend running? My bet would be the 8120, as it is based on bulldozer(also known as faildozer). It has a very poor per core performance(the previous generation of Phenom IIs had better per core performance) and games like wow that only use 2 threads will suffer from this. Overclocking will help but the only cure is a new cpu(8320 or 8350, even a 6300 would be faster in wow). The other games can use more cores or aren't as cpu dependent so the problem is not as noticeable.

imperiects · Jul 5, 2014

My friend has the FX 6300.. Next Gen for AMD 6 core. I didn't think that it would be that much of a difference. He has 4Gb Ram, GTX 670 and FX 6300 on the same motherboard.

I was looking at swapping to an FX 6350. I figured the problem was the 8120. I am just not sure why.

Would I better off just getting the 8350 black edition or the 6350?

bignastyid · Jul 5, 2014

imperiects :

It has a very poor per core performance(the previous generation of Phenom IIs had better per core performance) and games like wow that only use 2 threads will suffer from this. In passmark benchmarks(which uses all cores) the 8120 scores 6599, the 6350 scores 7041, so even with 2 more cores the 8120 is slower. The cores of the 6350 are~20% faster than the 8120.

imperiects · Jul 5, 2014

Thanks. I will look I to getting a better CPU. I would go intel but it's out of my budget atm.

bignastyid · Jul 5, 2014

Given the $50 price difference between the 2 and the fact that most games don't use 8 cores yet. I'd get the 6350 and a cpu cooler and do a bit of overclocking.

imperiects · Jul 5, 2014

I use the Corsair H100. I had my 8120 overclocked to 4.2 but it was running a bit warm (not showing much performance increase) so i dropped it back down to stock.

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