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Name: Titaniumx
Date: May 24, 2005 at 07:37:10 Pacific
Subject: World Of Warcraft Recommendations
OS: Win XP
CPU/Ram: 2.26ghz P4 512DDR
Comment:

I'm curious to see what everyone is running... I'm currently on the Arthas Server and at night it can be hectic as I get dropped 5-6 times a night..

I have a P4 2.26ghz, 512 DDR, geforce 4 mx440

I'm going to throw a gig stick of DDR and I'm looking to upgrade my Video card to something decent.. but i'm not looking to spend $350 on a 6800 geforce (I wish i could :P) What would help my gaming experience?


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Response Number 1
Name: Avun
Date: May 24, 2005 at 08:10:09 Pacific
Subject: World Of Warcraft Recommendations
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A new card for sure. You can find Radeon 9600 Pros for under a hundred dollars on newegg.com right now. They are vastly better then a MX440 and will cost around 80 dollars.

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Response Number 2
Name: jam
Date: May 24, 2005 at 09:31:08 Pacific
Subject: World Of Warcraft Recommendations
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See responses 6, 7 & 8:

http://www.computing.net/gaming/wwwboard/forum/4520.html

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Response Number 3
Name: heropsycho2177
Date: May 24, 2005 at 10:00:40 Pacific
Subject: World Of Warcraft Recommendations
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Yeah, a 9600 Pro or XT would be a good fit with your system. I don't see much point getting more card than that unless you're gonna upgrade your CPU, which at that point, you might as well go new motherboard with PCI-e anyway.

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Response Number 4
Name: marky81
Date: May 25, 2005 at 02:04:58 Pacific
Subject: World Of Warcraft Recommendations
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It's always a bit of a mixed bag with graphics cards, the spec I've got I've been running for a long time now, but the graphics card I've had for 3 to 4 years and its never let me down!

I can still run HL2, Doom 3 etc with high graphic quality and no slow down. *shrug* go figure.

AMD Athlon XP 1.8GHz
512MB RAM
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Nvidia nforce2 chipset w/ soundstorm
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Response Number 5
Name: Titaniumx
Date: May 29, 2005 at 18:46:15 Pacific
Subject: World Of Warcraft Recommendations
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THanks for all the comments i went ahead and am building a new comp..

3500+ AMD 64bit
Asus A8V Deluxe
1GB Kingston Hyperx ddr400
Geforce 6800gt

I think this should handle the game..


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Response Number 6
Name: howndawg
Date: June 16, 2005 at 07:02:45 Pacific
Subject: World Of Warcraft Recommendations
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If you're REALLY serious about playing World of Warcraft, I'd get even more than 1GB of RAM. I'd go with 1.5 or even 2GB of RAM for those intense Battleground raids. For regular grinding you could easily get away with 512MB, but as soon as you get into some serious PvP action, RAM is a must.

As for CPU and videocard, looks like you'll be just fine with those new specs =)

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