Want to upgrade my cpu but the motherboard is holding me back...

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aHetsar

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Hey everyone! I play World of Warcraft and started to raid a couple of weeks ago and I've noticed that I lag ALOT when the fights start, also in big cities with a lot of players. I have everything set to low both inside of raiding and outside. Now WoW is mostly pushing your cpu I've read so I wanted to upgrade it if there's nothing wrong with my cpu that you know of(?).

Specs:
MSI B75MA-P45 motherboard
i5 3470 processor. Turbo mode enabled(3,5Ghz instead of 3,2Ghz)
Geforce GTX 760 2Gb Graphicscard
16gb of RAM
256Gb SSD
1TB Harddrive

I get 20fps~ in raids and 30-40 in cities like Dalaran (main city)
When I do smaller things like go out in the Broken isles which doesn't have that many people all at one place, I usually have 100-120fps.

I've looked into 1150 socket CPU's but then I have to buy a new motherboard aswell and my budget isn't that big unfortunately :(

Do you think I should just save up for a new CPU and Motherboard for the best results?
Is there something wrong with my fps?
Thank you in advance!
 
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logainofhades
Your CPU is still plenty, for WoW. That GTX 760's temp is a concern though. You could try uninstalling your current drivers, using DDU, and then reinstalling the latest. That card should be capable of more, than what it is giving you.

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aHetsar

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It's just that I can't seem to find a i7 3770k nor i5 3570k in my country. No company that I have found actually sell 1155 socket processors anymore :-/.

I checked what load all the components have when I play World of Warcraft and it seems like my gpu have 99% Load and 80-81*C while my CPU have 50%~ load and 70*C. Is my graphicscard realy that bad? Thought the gtx 760 would be able to do very good with WoW :??:
 
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Well then no, changing your CPU wont make any difference because your card is maxing out. I am surprised too, and according to this you should be able to play on Ultra settings http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=70&game=World%20of%20Warcraft&p_make=Intel&p_deriv=Core+i5-3470+3.2GHz&gc_make=Nvidia&gc_deriv=GeForce+GTX+760&ram=16&screenRes_width_FPS=1920&screenRes_height_FPS=1080&checkSubmit=#systemRequirements

Are the GPU clock and memory speeds running fully? Have you overclocked it at all? Seems odd, but depends what fps you expect to be normal.
 
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aHetsar

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While at 98-99%
GPU Core: 1254Mhz, GPU Core load 98% ,
GPU Memory: 3005Mhz, GPU Memory load 78%
GPU Shader: 2508Mhz

Played WoW for 5 minutes and I got these results.
This seems realy odd.
 
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aHetsar

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Dec 27, 2016
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I will look in to this, thank you for your help, will update in a bit!

Update:
So I cleared game cache and reinstalled my drivers for the gpu and it is a bit better, not by much at all. It takes more than 5 minutes to get to 80*C now and i get more stable fps but it still gets very hot and max out on clock and memory almost instantly. I'm starting to feel like my graphicscard have seen better days and maybe it's time to upgrade? In that case I have a friend selling a 1050ti 4gb very cheap. It's maybe the best thing to do, I do play other games aswell.
 
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