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Hello all,

I am wanting to upgrade my motherboard, CPU, and RAM. My budget is around $500. I find my entertainment in Blizzard games. Asking for help to get the absolute best for my buck until February 2018 especially for WoW. Please help. Here's what I have now for components:

PNY GTX 780ti
EVGA SuperNOVA 1000W P2
Crucial MX100 512GB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB
Asus Essence STX II
ASUS PCE-N15 Wireless Adapter
 
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logainofhades
Since you already have the board, I would just grab a 4790k, and 16gb of ddr3. Haswell vs Skylake/Kaby lake is not much, at all. WoW has improved multithreading performance, over the years. An i7 isn't totally necessary, but it does allow other things to run, more easily, when gaming. What CPU are you currently using?

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor ($334.49 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H5 Ultimate 76.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($56.49 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($99.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $490.97
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when...
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WoW can be a little CPU heavy so I'd opt for an i7 here, I'm choosing the locked 7700 as it fits in the budget and has a very respectable clockspeed of 3.6Ghz. Depending on when you want to begin the build I would keep an eye out for the Ryzen 7 benchmarks and see how it performs for its price.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-7700 3.6GHz Quad-Core Processor ($302.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B250-HD3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($94.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: G.Skill Aegis 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($88.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $486.86
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-03-01 10:53 EST-0500
 
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Thank you for replying.

I will not be ordering the components until Friday, March 31st. I want to stay with Intel, if I can help it. What kind of performance can I expect considering your suggestions and combining them what I have now that Legion is out?
 
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Understandable. In that case it couldn't hurt to check back with us a couple days before you order in case of a price shift allowing for a 7700K or something similar (or just saving money). Unfortunately I really can't dig up many benchmarks reviews for Legion with your GPU and a similar i7 to give you an idea.
 
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You really don't need an i7 for WoW. The extra threads an i7 brings to the table aren't going to be used, so there's no point in paying extra for it. And, to be honest, that's still true in a lot of games.

If you're looking at an Intel build, I would recommend at least one of the new Kaby Lake Hyper-Threaded Pentiums (i.e. G4620), although I think you'd be better off with an i5 (i.3. i5-7500). The i5 will give you about the same performance in WoW, while saving you ~$106 USD; the Pentium will save you another ~$104 USD. Another option would be to go for a Ryzen-based build. Unfortunately, while the performance would most likely match or exceed the i5 system, you're looking at spending about as much as that i7 system (although you'd still be able to do some overclocking with the B350 board).

The big question is...what is your current system? Because, quite frankly, if your current system is using a Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge core i5 (i5-2xxx or i5-3xxx), you're going to see little (if any) improvement in just about any game (& especially WoW) with a new system.
 
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Well, see, I've been wondering about the dual-core vs. quad-core in terms of WoW and any other Blizzard based game. I have an Asus Maximus VII Hero board, but no CPU, CPU cooler or RAM. I come from the experience of an i7-4790K. Should I just keep the Mobo I have and build similar?

I only spend a little time in the Adobe Suite Collection. Other than that, I miss WoW and other Blizzard games. So, I'm trying to build myself back into that.

Another thing I've read is that as far as RAM goes, I could get away with 8GB instead of the 16GB I once had because WoW isn't really going to recognize or put to much use past that.

I've read mixed reviews about WoW and other games using mostly single thread. I've read that it would utilize all four cores so I'm confused. If the single thread is true then the i3-7350k would seem like it would be the best for WoW stuff?

I want to try to avoid the bottleneck.
 
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Since you already have the board, I would just grab a 4790k, and 16gb of ddr3. Haswell vs Skylake/Kaby lake is not much, at all. WoW has improved multithreading performance, over the years. An i7 isn't totally necessary, but it does allow other things to run, more easily, when gaming. What CPU are you currently using?

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor ($334.49 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H5 Ultimate 76.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($56.49 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($99.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $490.97
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-03-01 13:17 EST-0500
 
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