Graphics cards for WOW play

[OldMikey]

Looking for a budget priced Graphics card to play WOW. I'm running Vista on a Gateway GT5676 w/4G of RAM. It came with an ATI HD3200 DDR2. Any advice on an inexpensive upgrade?

 

[purple stain]

What is your budget?

Something like a 6570 should be able to play WoW on high settings with smooth fps(except in cities).With the 6570 you can use your current PSU without having to upgrade.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102934

 

[HugoStiglitz]

something like a 6850 or 6870 will do quite well.

$149.99 after MIR
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150561

 

[purple stain]

^I would think a 6850 would get bottlenecked by that processor...

The OP is running a first gen phenom quad core at 2.3ghz.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

What's budghet priced.....generally I'd say 6870 under $200 and 560 Ti factory OC'd over $200 ...... But WoW favors nVidia cards....see THG article here:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/world-of-warcraft-cataclysm-directx-11-performance,2793-5.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/world-of-warcraft-cataclysm-directx-11-performance,2793-3.html

 

[OldMikey]

Best answer selected by OldMikey.

 

[OldMikey]

What's budghet priced.....generally I'd say 6870 under $200 and 560 Ti factory OC'd over $200 ...... But WoW favors nVidia cards....see THG article here:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/world-of-warcraft-cataclysm-directx-11-performance,2793-5.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/world-of-warcraft-cataclysm-directx-11-performance,2793-3.html

Just what I was looking for---Thanx a million, Merry Christmas!!