WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM?
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Nystul,Feb 6 2005, 05:52 PM Wrote:With the previously mentioned AV8 and 6800OC, add a Athlon64 3000+ (1800 Mhz), and 2x512MB PC3200. 

I don't have WoW, and I didn't have this gear when I was beta testing, so I can't comment there.  I really don't think the graphics card is holding you back at all though.  I run Farcry and Doom 3 single player pretty smoothly at 1600x1200 with very high settings for nearly all of the graphical options (AA is usually the thing that gets sacrificed if things do get choppy).  If we are only talking about graphics cards, I suspect that both of these games are more demanding than WoW, although WoW obviously puts a lot more characters on the screen at one time and kitty flights are just insane.

CPU (and mobo as needed to support it) would clearly be the place to start, if you scrap up the cash for a limited upgrade.  Would memory bandwidth be a bottleneck then?  It might be, but you would gain little or nothing by getting faster memory with your current mobo/CPU.  And a gig of memory is still a pretty expensive commodity.

If you're like me, you'll probably end up upgrading hardware and then getting hooked back on something like D2 or Deus Ex.
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I unlocked the extra pipelines in my card last night. Can't tell if it makes a difference, but I DID set AA to 8xS, Aniso to 16x, and Trilinear Filtering (basically all maxed), and was running around with virtually no graphical lag. So, I guess it made an improvement, even if the benchmarking software doesn't say it did (not that I measure performance by benchmarks; I just use them as a rough guideline). Now if I could just find my Arctic Silver, I could disassemble the card and apply some grease, hopefully making things cooler. Hell, maybe I'll even get a decent GPU / video card HSFU on the cheap to improve my OCing abilities. :) We'll see.

Oh, and I tested FarCry last night (with the above settings forced through the driver, and maxed settings (and I do mean MAXED) within FarCry itself). Ran smooth as ice and the graphics were astounding. So, yeah, I think unlocking those pipelines (12x1 Pixel to 16x1 Pixel, and 5x1 Vertex to 6x1 Vertex) gave me a boost. On the downside, I can't OC at ALL anymore, but maybe I can OC first, then re-unlock the pipelines. We'll see. Not like I could OC it much over where it was at stock anyway.

I should get my unemployment check this week, so with that I'll know whether or not I can afford the upgrade. :) I'll tell you how it goes if I can. :D
Roland *The Gunslinger*
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WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by nobbie - 02-04-2005, 02:02 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Caeles - 02-04-2005, 02:20 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Kevin - 02-04-2005, 04:26 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Drasca - 02-04-2005, 08:38 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Thecla - 02-04-2005, 08:42 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Drasca - 02-04-2005, 08:44 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by nobbie - 02-04-2005, 09:46 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Ruvanal - 02-04-2005, 10:50 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by nobbie - 02-04-2005, 10:56 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by nobbie - 02-04-2005, 01:53 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Roland - 02-04-2005, 02:38 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Malakar - 02-04-2005, 03:26 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Caeles - 02-04-2005, 09:50 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Boutros - 02-04-2005, 11:02 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Ruvanal - 02-04-2005, 11:37 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Nystul - 02-04-2005, 11:46 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Kevin - 02-04-2005, 11:54 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by mjdoom - 02-05-2005, 12:12 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Drasca - 02-05-2005, 12:28 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Yuen - 02-05-2005, 06:00 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by swirly - 02-05-2005, 08:53 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by nobbie - 02-05-2005, 11:08 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Quark - 02-05-2005, 01:17 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by nobbie - 02-05-2005, 02:45 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Leshy - 02-05-2005, 02:53 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by nobbie - 02-05-2005, 03:09 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Kevin - 02-05-2005, 03:17 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by nobbie - 02-05-2005, 04:17 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by nobbie - 02-05-2005, 04:26 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by nobbie - 02-05-2005, 05:29 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Tharn - 02-05-2005, 08:17 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by nobbie - 02-05-2005, 09:34 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Tharn - 02-05-2005, 10:42 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by nobbie - 02-06-2005, 09:19 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by nobbie - 02-06-2005, 12:15 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Roland - 02-06-2005, 03:48 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Roland - 02-06-2005, 04:19 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Kevin - 02-06-2005, 05:21 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Nystul - 02-06-2005, 05:21 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Roland - 02-06-2005, 05:36 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Nystul - 02-06-2005, 06:11 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Roland - 02-06-2005, 06:57 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Drasca - 02-06-2005, 09:53 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Roland - 02-06-2005, 10:17 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Nystul - 02-06-2005, 10:52 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Drasca - 02-07-2005, 01:50 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by nobbie - 02-07-2005, 07:03 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Drasca - 02-07-2005, 08:48 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Tharn - 02-07-2005, 09:05 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by nobbie - 02-07-2005, 09:56 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Roland - 02-07-2005, 02:21 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Roland - 02-07-2005, 02:27 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Roland - 02-08-2005, 01:11 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Roland - 02-09-2005, 05:09 AM

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