This Christmas, Gitr broke down and built a brand new system and got gift cards to buy a new LCD monitor. What transpired is nothing short of a gaming revolution. WoW is an all new experience now. If you are playing on an old computer, trust me, I feel you. I was running at 1024×768 resolution with the shortest vision and nearly everything turned off. Entering Ramparts, frame rates dropped to a measly 4fps, which makes both tanking and healing exceedingly difficult.
On Wednesday, the new computer got built with a fresh install of Windows XP on a new SATA drive and got all of the WoW patches loaded for some evening playtime. Here’s the current system build, resulting in 35-72fps (depending on the location and party size) with everything at max and my new 1680×1050 resolution:
- 2.66MHz Intel Core2 Duo with 1033FSB
- ASUS SLI-ready motherboard
- 2GB 800 DDR2 RAM
- 160GB Western Digital SATA HD
- ASUS Silent nVidia GeForce 8600GT 512MB
- Envision 22″ Widescreen LCD with DVI-D cable
I’ll move to SLI, 4GB RAM and additional hard drives when the time comes and then top out with a Core 2 Extreme when the prices match what I just paid for this chip. So… using my wife’s bonus, we got all of this stuff in time for my week off of work (don’t worry, I have money coming in this week to replenish her bonus), got a desk, rearranged the office, and took down all of the Christmas decorations. It’s been quite a week, so it’s time to start posting again. BTW, Ding 68!
thats not a bad price I think I will wait till I am in Germany till I buy a new Desk. it is nice though.
Haha, I have a better one.. Ever go to the dragon on Hellfire Ramparts and see him appear, and then the screen locks up, and then it kicks back and it’s dead?
Nice.
PvPing is infinitely more enjoyable too, if you haven’t tried it yet, you’ll be like “Wow. I’m killing. Everything.”
60-70 Arathi Basin and I went like, 12-2 as a 60 Rogue.
Before hand, I would have been like, 1-12, maybe. Lol.
D:
PVP will be when I hit 69… is there a 61-69 bracket? I can’t PvP with Paladr now that he’s a lowly 50. That would suck supremely. He was the targeted favorite of hunter pets as it was. ๐
That is an amazingly bad Ramparts experience. I feel for you. I’ve only had things like that from lag, not computer suck. One time, though, I hearthed to Shat, got to the elevator, ran all the way across the main room, and reached the Flight Master before my avatar appeared. He was just a shadow the whole way because the HD was churning like crazy to load the NPCs and scenery.
Lol, I love when that happens.
Or when WoW just fails anddoesn’t load my character’s skin, so it’s just a shadow being.
My Dell sucked, supremely, radeon 6700, I think, 512 ram, 38 GB HDD, lol.
Just terrible.