WoW Benchmarks

[barmax]

With 11+ million players, it would be nice to see benchmarks with WoW at full details and x4 multi-sampling?

Is it just too hard to setup a test? Mostly concerned with performance during panning at full detail.

Would like to upgrade to new mobo/cpu/gpu

Currently running
3.2GHz EE
2GB RAM
6800GT
WoW settings at 1280x1024 x4 and Low Detail. Happy with performance (about 45fps) but immediately drops as soon as I bump up some details.

 

[Maziar]

WOW isnt a very demanding game,a ATI HD 4670/NVIDIA 9600GT can handle it good.

 

[fullmetall]

Do you currently want AMD or Intel?

And whats the Budget?

Heres my Suggestions:
Intel

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231209&Tpk=PI%20Black%20DDR2%20800

PI Black G.Skills

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128380
Gigabyte P43.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116072
E5200

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161252
HIS 4670

AMD:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103300
7750

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161252
HIS 4670

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231209&Tpk=PI%20Black%20DDR2%20800
PI Black

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131340
Asus 770

 

[barmax]

Thanks for the replies. That helps alot. I do occasionally like to play UT or try other titles. Will definitely do Diablo3.

I used to be a big gamer and love gaming rigs, I'm a hardware junky on a medium budget.

I was thinking of getting one of the AMD Dragon platform bundles from newegg. I would also like an HDMI output because I would like to hook it up to an HDTV (if and when I get one)

I'm glad the 4870 is more than adequate to run WoW with all the sliders maxed. Hope I can find one with HDMI.

Also found a nice WoW hardware guide on gamespot which helped alot too.
http://www.gamespot.com/features/6202200/index.html

Wish List
AMD Phenom II X4 940 3.0GHz Black Edition Quad-core Processor
ASUS EAH4870 DK/HTDI/1GD5 Radeon HD 4870 Video Card
MSI DKA790GX AM2+/AM2 ATX AMD Motherboard

 

[fullmetall]

4870 sapphire 1gb Toxic is back

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102815
$224.99
HDTV out/ hdmi ports....

Or the regular 4870 sapphire
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102801
$189.99

 

[L1qu1d]

my friend plays the game on integrated graphics at 20-30 fps ( I think it maxxed)

 

[fullmetall]

And if your going to want something for Gaming,

Please look at this Combo,

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.165024
Best bang for the buck.

 

[Scotteq]

The problem using World of Warcraft - or any MMO, really - as a benchmark is that frame rates aren't necessarily intrinsic to *YOUR* computer. Other things happening in the game, server response time, network latency, etc etc etc, all have impact on performance and your experience as a participant. Go to a capital city during peak times, and frame rates are poor. Go back to the same exact spot at 4am, and you could get a bazillion FPS on the exact same computer. Go at 4PM, and you may have a 50 spellcasters having a party and dropping area of effect spells all over the place - reducing your frame rates to a crawl.

Now, using a single player FPS means you can reload the game, and run the exact same route, time and again, and get very similar results. Time of day doesn't matter. Network latency didn't matter. Server response time doesn't matter. What the bazillion other players around you are doing is totally irrelevant - because there are none. etc etc etc...

The lack of consistency and repeatability makes MMOs a very poor benchmark.


As pointed out, WoW isn't a particularly demanding game on your graphics. Any half decent card and half decent computer can run it very very well. If you're still having problems, then change servers to a low pop one and/or change servers to the one with the lowest ping. If you have social reasons for not doing that? Then there's not a lot you can do other than tough it out.

 

[barmax]

Set to High quality at a res of 1280x1024, I think I need something better than a 6800GT (AGP). it's just too slow and jittery at the med and high settings. At the Low setting the game is smooth. I did bump up spell detail and distance a couple of notches and still had acceptable performance. Nothing else though before I see a hit.

I fell like I'm missing out on the beauty of the game. 6800GT was a pretty decent card back in the day, I bought it for Doom3. It just can't cut it today.

On another hand, out of curiosity, I loaded up WoW on a Macbook Pro 15" from work and selected the 9600M GT GPU and it ran better than my trusty old tower with the 6800GT.

Still not at High Quality settings but better. I can run it on Medium setting with decent FPS.

 

[fullmetall]

Well, AMD has a really nice Combo deal for there amd x3 720be cpu. but, if you want Intel, i did make a suggestion up in an earlier post on a rig for you.