Help with wow..

[Anthony89]

looking to max wow in ultra settings pc specs..
windows 7 64bit premium
q6600 stock, overclock in future will need help
gpu is geforce 210 fanless crap..looking to upgrade 100 euro or less...suggestion please???
motherboard is gigabyte ga p41 d3p lga 775
4gb ddr3..1333.pc 10600
monitor getting upgraded in two weeks to 22 or 24" res, 1920x1080/1366x768.
cpu cooler is akasa with blue led not sure model.. all help appreciated thanks

 

[Anthony89]

psu is antek true gamer 520w 80 plus bronze

 

[vrumor]

6770, 7770 check either of those. Either should max WoW. Depends on your PSU.

 

[po1nted]

Here is a post mentioning minimum ultra wow reqs:

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/topic/28512390/world-of-warcraft-minimum-ultra-requirements

 

[Kamab]

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-3.html

Any of those cards would be fine. I'd go with the 7750 just based off of low power consumption.

 

[Anthony89]

id like to go with an nvidia card possibly but is there any real difference??

 

[BenCo9]

http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0366598

http://www.zotacusa.com/geforce-gt-545-zt-50801-10p.html

Do not listen to these above posters, if You blow the money for a 7000 series Radeon I will shoot You in the foot. I'm about to upgrade from the above linked card to a 6850, A SIXTY EIGHT FIFTY to triple my GPU processing power from the Nvidia 545.

I'm telling You right now that I use that 545 and will submit Screenshots if you do not believe me, and I play Warcraft not only on Ultra, but I play it on Ultra at 1920x1080 with the Graphics GPI macro's the macro's that tell the game engine to go beyond Ultra. I raid 25 man's, Dragon Soul Hard Mode with my guild and never come off 60 FPS while sitting at roughly 55-65 degrees C under full load.

Top this off with the cherry on top? Sure. I play Crysis 2 at 16xQAA and Mass Effect 3 at 32xAA and Tera Online at Ultra settings, everything on Ultra Crysis/ME, and this card handles it, little choppy on the 25-35 FPS with Crysis 2 under AA conditions, turn it off and it runs at 45 FPS solidly.

I'm telling You telling You telling You, as a gamer who built a rig to play WoW on Ultra, I use that GPU and have no problem with it what so ever. DO NOT BUY a $350 7000 series RADEON LIKE THESE TOOLS ARE TELLING YOU TO. Spend the $100 on the 545, I spent $70 on mine at CompUSA. Build it yourself, do it.

Another reason I'm being this adamant here is this. The 545 has 1.5gb of Memory on it, these above cards are all at 1GB. I'm telling You that I see my Memory get used, and under game load, idle above 70% meaning it's using over 1GB. I've seen people with 580 GTX's with 1GB on memory have low FPS and screen tearing, they replace the 580 with a 2GB 580, same GPU, and it all goes away. That memory matters immensely. Also, I looked at the costs of their 7700 cards and I flipped for a second thinking they were talking about the 78/7900's so it wasn't as bad as I thought, I assumed they were saying buy a $350 card to Play Wow. Still though, You can get this 545 for $70 if You shop around like I did at CompUSA, and it will do everything.

 

[monu_08]

then go for gtx 560 ti or get 7850 or 7870 my choice go with 7850 for supperior gaming your cpu is good on if you overclock with this graphic and play many games on ultra

 

[vrumor]

http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0366598

http://www.zotacusa.com/geforce-gt-545-zt-50801-10p.html

Do not listen to these above posters, if You blow the money for a 7000 series Radeon I will shoot You in the foot. I'm about to upgrade from the above linked card to a 6850, A SIXTY EIGHT FIFTY to triple my GPU processing power from the Nvidia 545.

I'm telling You right now that I use that 545 and will submit Screenshots if you do not believe me, and I play Warcraft not only on Ultra, but I play it on Ultra at 1920x1080 with the Graphics GPI macro's the macro's that tell the game engine to go beyond Ultra. I raid 25 man's, Dragon Soul Hard Mode with my guild and never come off 60 FPS while sitting at roughly 55-65 degrees C under full load.

Top this off with the cherry on top? Sure. I play Crysis 2 at 16xQAA and Mass Effect 3 at 32xAA and Tera Online at Ultra settings, everything on Ultra Crysis/ME, and this card handles it, little choppy on the 25-35 FPS with Crysis 2 under AA conditions, turn it off and it runs at 45 FPS solidly.

I'm telling You telling You telling You, as a gamer who built a rig to play WoW on Ultra, I use that GPU and have no problem with it what so ever. DO NOT BUY a $350 7000 series RADEON LIKE THESE TOOLS ARE TELLING YOU TO. Spend the $100 on the 545, I spent $70 on mine at CompUSA. Build it yourself, do it.

Another reason I'm being this adamant here is this. The 545 has 1.5gb of Memory on it, these above cards are all at 1GB. I'm telling You that I see my Memory get used, and under game load, idle above 70% meaning it's using over 1GB. I've seen people with 580 GTX's with 1GB on memory have low FPS and screen tearing, they replace the 580 with a 2GB 580, same GPU, and it all goes away. That memory matters immensely. Also, I looked at the costs of their 7700 cards and I flipped for a second thinking they were talking about the 78/7900's so it wasn't as bad as I thought, I assumed they were saying buy a $350 card to Play Wow. Still though, You can get this 545 for $70 if You shop around like I did at CompUSA, and it will do everything.

Tools? Seriously the 545 is a garbage card. If you are getting those kinda frames at those settings are you gaming on a 1024x768 monitor? The 6770 and 7770 are cheap low end decently performing cards. Check out the hierarchy chart on vid cards the 545 is 3 or 4 tiers under the 7770 and isnt much less.

 

[monu_08]

if you still doubt 7850 check this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bqjAejObZE

 

[Sunius]

http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0366598

http://www.zotacusa.com/geforce-gt-545-zt-50801-10p.html

Do not listen to these above posters, if You blow the money for a 7000 series Radeon I will shoot You in the foot. I'm about to upgrade from the above linked card to a 6850, A SIXTY EIGHT FIFTY to triple my GPU processing power from the Nvidia 545.

I'm telling You right now that I use that 545 and will submit Screenshots if you do not believe me, and I play Warcraft not only on Ultra, but I play it on Ultra at 1920x1080 with the Graphics GPI macro's the macro's that tell the game engine to go beyond Ultra. I raid 25 man's, Dragon Soul Hard Mode with my guild and never come off 60 FPS while sitting at roughly 55-65 degrees C under full load.

Top this off with the cherry on top? Sure. I play Crysis 2 at 16xQAA and Mass Effect 3 at 32xAA and Tera Online at Ultra settings, everything on Ultra Crysis/ME, and this card handles it, little choppy on the 25-35 FPS with Crysis 2 under AA conditions, turn it off and it runs at 45 FPS solidly.

I'm telling You telling You telling You, as a gamer who built a rig to play WoW on Ultra, I use that GPU and have no problem with it what so ever. DO NOT BUY a $350 7000 series RADEON LIKE THESE TOOLS ARE TELLING YOU TO. Spend the $100 on the 545, I spent $70 on mine at CompUSA. Build it yourself, do it.

Another reason I'm being this adamant here is this. The 545 has 1.5gb of Memory on it, these above cards are all at 1GB. I'm telling You that I see my Memory get used, and under game load, idle above 70% meaning it's using over 1GB. I've seen people with 580 GTX's with 1GB on memory have low FPS and screen tearing, they replace the 580 with a 2GB 580, same GPU, and it all goes away. That memory matters immensely. Also, I looked at the costs of their 7700 cards and I flipped for a second thinking they were talking about the 78/7900's so it wasn't as bad as I thought, I assumed they were saying buy a $350 card to Play Wow. Still though, You can get this 545 for $70 if You shop around like I did at CompUSA, and it will do everything.

Right, because video card speed depends on the amount of memory and playing at 800x600 is the way to go. Suuuuuuure!

 

[monu_08]

so anthony89 u decide whether go for 7850 or other one your choice

 

[Anthony89]

costly cards guys lol iv a little over 100 euro to spend so im limited to what i buy alot of them cards are out of my price range im living in ireland so it has to be ebay because ireland sucks nowhere sells them...im thinking a hd 6850 or gtx 550ti i would like to stay with nvidia but if i have to i will buy another best bang for money guys...my brother is upgrading his gainward gtx 550ti gs and i can get his old card for like 30 euro would that card be able to max wow?? he is getting the gtx 580 and he has an i7...i can get his gtx 550ti gs very cheap not even 5 months old would that card do or would i need better,,, thanks guys best fourm i ever joined lol

 

[freddy1765]

Just use your brother's if you can get that from him really cheap. You can always buy a new one once you saved up some more money..
Check out this benchmark analysis for some FPS numbers in Cataclysm:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/world-of-warcraft-cataclysm-directx-11-performance,2793-5.html

 

[Kamab]

A gtx 550ti should be great for WoW.

 

[BenCo9]

Right, because video card speed depends on the amount of memory and playing at 800x600 is the way to go. Suuuuuuure!

Troll or what? Even posted the fact that I'm playing in 1080p.

 

[monu_08]

in real 6850 beats nvidia 550ti here look at http://www.hwcompare.com/9711/geforce-gtx-550-ti-vs-radeon-hd-6850/

 

[Sunius]

Troll or what? Even posted the fact that I'm playing in 1080p.

There's no way you're dropping below 60 fps on WoW and playing Crysis 2 on ultra with that card at 1080p. My GTX 560 Ti is 2.5 times as powerful, however, in WoW at raids I drop to 40s, and I can't run crysis 2 maxed out without dropping below 30 fps. So yea.. You're the troll.

 

[Anthony89]

well because im getting the 550ti at a decent price of 30 to 40 euro its in mint condition used...what frame rates would i be getting on it..the card is the golden sample 1gb 192bit its factory overclocked at 1000mhz i tnk...would an upgrade in the future to a 2500k sli with 2 of these what should i be expecting in fps and ultra?? thanks

 

[Sunius]

If you SLId them, you'd be easily maxing out WoW. Upgrading CPU will help a lot - that game is CPU hog. On single GTX 550 Ti I'd expect 40-60 fps in areas without action, and dropping to 25-30s in 25 man raids.

 

[monu_08]

then go for asus gtx 550ti it have great cooling aluminium pipes which take out heat superb technology

 

[freddy1765]

550 is fine bro, I've raided on a 5770 in Wrath and Cata, sure fps drops, but it's hardly unplayable. A constant 60 fps in an mmo is by no means necessary to enjoy the game.
I'm sure you'll run it fine on Ultra if you just turn down the Shadows graphics level to low or medium and run with 2 or 4 MSAA.

By the way, since he's your brother I'm sure he wouldn't mind if you borrowed the card for an hour to see if you like the performance before you paid him. You rarely get that kind of warranty when buying hardware!

 

[BenCo9]

There's no way you're dropping below 60 fps on WoW and playing Crysis 2 on ultra with that card at 1080p. My GTX 560 Ti is 2.5 times as powerful, however, in WoW at raids I drop to 40s, and I can't run crysis 2 maxed out without dropping below 30 fps. So yea.. You're the troll.

SS At raid: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-lw2CtFbtHMg/T7Z-lVzWsjI/AAAAAAAABGg/iC1VOQ8bbFA/s1280/WoWScrnShot_051812_121636.jpg

SS At Alt Tab: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-92RcbH7pl6E/T7Z-k3OAY0I/AAAAAAAABGY/Q5LObbmKjXM/s1280/Desktop.jpg

I use the GPI Macro's as well thus the custom under ground clutter for instance. Included the desktop so You could see immediate useage/temps as well. Imo man if Your using a 560 GTX and having those issue You've got background running, the reason I pulled up Task Manager was to show that I run an entirely bare bones system, even more so during gaming. That's probably the edge and why a card 2.5x less powerful than yours is producing a better image. I also run with a quad core, this does help whether Your willing to admit it or not. I don't open my mouth without knowing what I'm talking about, and I would appreciate at the very least a respectful tone, this isn't a gamin forum bud. Look at Your system, figure it out. I play that high, with that FPS on my card, I'm not superman with a magic wand, You can too.

 

[Sunius]

Are you trolling again? On those open settings you aren't at ultra. Texture resolution is set on fair, which is just above low on settings! (It goes low - fair - good - high - ultra). Texture filtering isn't maxed out either.

And no, I'm not running background processes. And what is GPI macros? I haven't ever heard of them, do they reduce graphics quality for better fps?

 

[BenCo9]

Are you trolling again? On those open settings you aren't at ultra. Texture resolution is set on fair, which is just above low on settings! (It goes low - fair - good - high - ultra). Texture filtering isn't maxed out either.

And no, I'm not running background processes. And what is GPI macros? I haven't ever heard of them, do they reduce graphics quality for better fps?

And this conversation is entirely over. You are entirely correct. My computer does not exist, it is a figment of my imagination.

Your entirely correct and Your graphics card is entirely superior to my imagined computer in every possible way.

I apologize for trying to save the OP $100 by keeping a card within his original budget. How dare I.

Enjoy.