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?
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.
Processor P4@ 2.6 Ghz, FSB@535Mhz RAM 512MB's PC2700/32001 256 stick of each. Hard Disk Drives 1 40 GB HD 1 10 GB HD CD/DVD Drives CDRW52X
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.
"...but in my defense, it was dark, I was drunk, and it was delicious!"
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 120GB HDD SATA 12GB HDD IDE GeForce 4 Ti4600 128MB Nvidia nforce2 chipset w/ soundstorm Pioneer DVD/RW ABIT NF-7S Rev 2 Motherboard
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 =)
