WoW Benchmarks

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

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

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

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.

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.