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Low FPS 1080p playing World of Warcraft

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September 5, 2014 8:30:04 PM

Hello everyone. I need some help and tips about a low fps problem.

When i run World of Warcraft on Ultra, i sometimes get 100fps but mostly in citys and raids no more than 40.
My curent PC configuration is as follows:

CPU: i7 3770 LGA 1155 (not overclocked)
Graphic card: Sapphire Radeon R9 280x Dual-X
Rams: 2x Kingston 4GB (module name: Kingston ACR512X64D3U13C9G)
Mobo: Acer Aspire M3985
PSU: Thermaltake Berlin 630w 80plus
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1000DM003

I know that my mobo and the rams are just, random not for gaming.(recently ordered an SSD Samsung 840 Evo series 250GB. my case is nzxt h440.

What can i do to get more fps in the cases where i can go down to 15fps in the game. (World of Warcraft is known to not require that much cpu performances, but my fps still varries between 15fps and 100fps, mostly stays at 40 / 50)

I was also thinking of getting a new mobo and new rams. What do you think i should get for this config? Do you think any part of my system is curently bottlenecking my other parts?

CPU stays between 30% and 55% ( 30 degrees - 38 degrees celsius) => 86F - 100F
GPU stays between 35% and 70% ( 45 degrees - 61 degrees celsius) => 113F - 141.80F
Rams: 5000 MB - 5200 MB (60 - 62%)

none of them ever goes to 99%

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September 5, 2014 8:38:28 PM

WoW isn't optimized well for heavy parallelism, and cities and raids can actually be fairly CPU intensive due to the way that the game is structured. At this point, changing motherboards may require a new CPU as well, since the current Intel socket is 1150, but I'm not sure whether or not all the LGA 1155 stuff is EoL yet.
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September 5, 2014 8:40:26 PM

well, yea. but if it is so much CPU depending, why is my cpu never above 55% ? its not even going more than half of its capability to run the game.
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September 5, 2014 8:44:36 PM

Jijix said:
well, yea. but if it is so much CPU depending, why is my cpu never above 55% ? its not even going more than half of its capability to run the game.


viewtyjoe said:
WoW isn't optimized well for heavy parallelism, and cities and raids can actually be fairly CPU intensive due to the way that the game is structured.


An i7 is quad-core with hyper-threading, so you have eight logical processors. 55% utilization could mean 55% across all eight, or 100% on four and 40% on a fifth. Like I said, WoW isn't built to utilize multiple cores very well, so you're likely maxing out the one or two cores it runs on while you're in cities and raids, which would cause the lowered performance.
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September 5, 2014 8:48:01 PM

oh, now i get it :D . so the CPU is kinda bottlenecking my other components.

as for the new mobo, what would you recomend to run with that game? i'm also considering on going to 2k monitor. what mobo and cpu would be the best?
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September 5, 2014 8:52:34 PM

Get an i5 4690 or whatever the haswell refresh is and a good H97 board unless you're fond of overclocking and have at it. Probably looking at around $300-400 for the upgrade.
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September 5, 2014 8:54:02 PM

hmm...why i5? isn't that going to be ...like...a downgrade :D  ? i'm not that up to date with the CPUs and stuff
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September 5, 2014 9:37:11 PM

Jijix said:
hmm...why i5? isn't that going to be ...like...a downgrade :D  ? i'm not that up to date with the CPUs and stuff


Unless you do heavy multi-thread friendly work, four cores is usually more than enough for your needs. There's nothing stopping you from getting an i7, but as you've already seen, having an i7 doesn't automatically equal the best performance.
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