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X3 440 Rana and World of Warcraft

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I have an x3 440 rana chip that I overclocked to 3.6 ghx and a 5770 video card. When I play World of warcraft, the cpu meter in windows 7 never goes above 60% usage. I know that Wow is a CPU intensive game, but it doesnt seem like I am maxing out my cpu. Playing at 1920x1080 resoultion I get 20-25 fps with everything on ultra minus shadows. My question is...would it be better to upgrade the cpu or the video card and if I upgrade the video card, do you think that the cpu will bottleneck the system? ALso which video card would be a good choice.....tend to favor radeon cards over Nvidia. Thank you for all your help in advance and happy holidays!

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Umm my 6770 plays wow on ultra with a 6 core lol and since wow is dual core optimized and a 5770 is slightly worse than a 6770 i dont see a gpu upgrade for WoW
But best cheap upgrade would be a 7770 or a 650 GTX or GTX Ti, if not a Phenom II x4 965 which goes for under $100. I play at 1080p and im pretty sure my old Phenom I X4 9650 and 9800gt played wow on ultra with at least 25fps in SW
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Exactly should run fine, my only option since u monitored the cpu use, do the same to the gpu use. Maybe a RAM issue or too many background programs running, bad internet connection, when it comes to wow since its basically made so almost any pc can play its usually not a hardware issue, and really with ur specs

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more vram a video card has the better it'll perform in higher resolutions over 1080p basically

Motherboard model? as it may be the use of ddr2 with an am3 cpu on a am2/am2+/am3 motherboard, not to sure but maybe a $60 motherboard upgrade to an ASUS am3+ and some ddr3 may help over a cpu, gpu upgrade
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